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New Book by Alexandra Katehakis!

Erotic Intelligence  Igniting Hot, Healthy Sex While in Recovery from Sex Addiction by Alexandra Katehakis on HCI Books available now at Amazon.com

"Erotic Intelligence celebrates recovery from sex addiction to healthy sexuality. It’s a breath of fresh air."
--John Bradshaw, author of  Reclaiming Virtue: How We Can Develop the Moral Intelligence to Do the Right Thing at the Right Time for the Right Reason

 

 

 

 

Recovering sex addicts, their partners, and therapists frequently say they need a practical guide to recovery dating. They want to discover intimate couple-ship, and experience lustful sex and a joyful life. And they want to build a spiritual, supportive relationship.  Alexandra Katehakis wrote Erotic Intelligence: Igniting Hot, Healthy Sex While in Recovery From Sex Addiction toprovide specific steps for sexually sober sex addicts and their partners.
If you are in a committed relationship, this book explains how to reengage with your partner, get past the addiction awkwardness, and attain a sexual connection like you’ve never had before. You’ll read first-person accounts of men and women in sexual recovery sharing how their lives were damaged by addiction and then revitalized by these clinically proven practices.  Married or single, straight or gay, you’ll benefit from innovative thinking about what constitutes healthy sex after recovery from sexual addiction.
 

"Addicted to Sex"

Case Study Published in Psychotherapy Networker Magazine March/April 2010

Effective work with sex addicts must address deep-seated attachment wounds. With Commentary by Joe Kort.

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

"Supervision of the Treatment of Sexual Addiction: Attending to Counter-Transference Issues"

by Alexandra Katehakis, MFT, CSAT-S, CST

Published in Family Therapy Magazine Jan/Feb 2010

A discussion about the importance of transference and countertransference issues that might arise between supervisee and client, and even between supervisee and supervisor, in the context of sex addiction treatment.

 

 

 

 

 
 

Affective Neuroscience and the Treatment of Sexual Addiction by Alex Katehakis!

Published in: Sexual Addiction & Compulsivity, Volume 16, Issue 1 January 2009

Abstract

Affective neuroscience illuminates the neuropsychobiological impact of traumatic early childhood attachment patterns on the affective, cognitive, and behavioral development of sexual addicts and their partners. It also guides therapists to access patients' blunted right hemisphere through awareness of their bodily states and, thereby, to remediate patients' hobbled capacities for establishing genuine relationships, achieving insight, and regulating emotions independently. By enriching the current cognitive-behavioral, task-oriented treatment with attention to the neurobiological causes, and costs, of sexual addiction, we create a recovery protocol that helps patients progress beyond sexual sobriety to achieve previously unattainable interpersonal connection, self-reflection, and internally regulated affective states.
 

Read Alex's article in "The Meadows" Newsletter...

 

Frontiers - Volume 26 Issue 20 - By Michael Liberatore

Sex is a part of gay culture, and lots of it can be a way of measuring a gay man’s success. So how do we know when we move from “stud” to “addict” status?

But as gay men, aren’t we socialized differently regarding how much sex is too much sex? If we compare ourselves to the average straight male, don’t we all seem a bit compulsive?

“It’s tricky for gay men,” explains Alexandra Katehakis, MFT, of the Center for Healthy Sex in Beverly Hills. “Anonymous sex is part of gay culture. It’s up to the individual to decide if they feel their behavior is addictive. By that, I mean are they entrenched in secrets and lies…or have they tried to curb their activities, and found it impossible? If they can’t stop—if their lives have become unmanageable, then they need to consider their behavior as addictive.”

Katehakis treats gay men, lesbians, and straight males and females at the Center for Healthy Sex. Each orientation must be treated differently.

“My female clients, whether straight or lesbian, tend to have a sex and love addiction,” she says. “The men are often less codependent; they are more hunt-driven, and sex is less personal and emotional.”

Katehakis employs a broad spectrum of therapists at the Center for Healthy Sex, which she believes is important. “Currently, we have a gay male counselor, a lesbian counselor, and straight counselors, though I don’t automatically assume gay men prefer a gay male therapist,” she explains. “I also conduct group therapy, and the group is a mixed men’s group—straight and gay.”

I wonder aloud if this is a recipe for disaster.

“Not at all,” Katehakis says emphatically. “The straight men are very interested in the lives of gay clients, and vice-versa. Their early sobriety plans look quite different. For example, a gay man’s plan might say ‘I will not have sex with a man whose name I don’t know’ or ‘I will have sex in a bed’. The men, no matter what their orientation, respect and support each other. It’s really quite beautiful to watch. There are no boundaries crossed, yet it’s clear that they love each other.”

Sex addiction is a problem affecting people of all backgrounds. CHS welcomes people of all sexual orientations, races, ages, etc.
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