Guest Post by Reseacher, Ann-Marie Coen Shame has been labelled and categorised in many ways in the literature. For me, as a psychotherapist and researcher, it’s most significant aspect is that it is overwhelmingly painful and therefore avoided. For my MSc dissertation in psychotherapy last year,...
[caption id="attachment_305" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Photo by Dawid Zawiła on Unsplash[/caption] In recent years, social anxiety has garnered significant attention, and rightly so. Social anxiety can be a debilitating experience for a lot of people. It can impact our ability to have meaningful social connections, form sexual...
A common reason for people coming to therapy is fear they are watching a lot of porn and masturbating too much. The amount people say they are masturbating can vary from a few times a day to a few times per week. They will describe feeling...
In my first blog, I’m talking about why compulsive sexual behaviour is not a sex or porn addiction. Given the plethora of information available online, this might come as a surprise. However, the only recognised diagnostic criteria we have for problematic sex and porn use is...
