Step Two Of Twelve Steps of Recovery
By Kevin Leapley, MA, LPC, CSAT on Wednesday, July 29th, 2015 in Sexual Addiction. No Comments
By Kevin Leapley, MA, LPC, CSAT on Wednesday, July 29th, 2015 in Sexual Addiction. No Comments
Step 2 – “Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.” In Step One, sexual addiction therapists encourage clients to first admitted that we were, we are now, and we will remain powerless over lust and that our lives have become completely unmanageable because of it. We cannot […]
By Kevin Leapley, MA, LPC, CSAT on Friday, July 24th, 2015 in Sexual Addiction. No Comments
STEP ONE – “We admitted that we were powerless over lust — that our lives had become unmanageable.” The following questions are suggested as a guide in working this step. Most of the work is in thinking about the answers, dredging up the pertinent recollections, and making notes, so that I can write it out. This […]
By Kevin Leapley, MA, LPC, CSAT on Saturday, July 11th, 2015 in Anxiety Counseling. No Comments
Many people have childhood memories of a soft blanket that they carried for comfort or being hugged by a mother wearing a soft and furry nightgown. The use of touch for self-soothing is often forgotten and yet we are always touching something. Our skin is covered with sensitive nerves that caring signals of feelings to […]
By Kevin Leapley, MA, LPC, CSAT on Friday, July 3rd, 2015 in Anxiety Counseling. No Comments
We can learn to self-sooth through the use of certain sounds. Listen to beautiful or soothing music, or to CD of the ocean or other sounds of nature can be very relaxing. For some people, having a baseball game on the radio while they work can be very self-soothing. For others, sitting by a waterfall can provide […]
By Kevin Leapley, MA, LPC, CSAT on Saturday, June 27th, 2015 in Anxiety Counseling. No Comments
What better gift did God provide than our vision? A large percentage of our brain has been set aside solely for our sense of vision. What we see can have a very powerful affect upon how we feel about ourselves, others, and our world (both positively and negatively). So, it is an important tool for […]
By Kevin Leapley, MA, LPC, CSAT on Saturday, June 20th, 2015 in Anxiety Counseling. No Comments
The symptoms of anxiety disorder are generally characterized by consistent, extreme, and unfounded fear, worry, or dismay. For example, a person with anxiety disorder may feel anxious about life with no specific reason. He or she may simply have an underlying fear but not be able to share what that fear is attributed. The person […]
By Kevin Leapley, MA, LPC, CSAT on Thursday, June 18th, 2015 in Depression. No Comments
Depression is a mood disorder that causes a consistent feeling of sadness and loss of interest. It affects how a person feels, thinks and behaves and can lead to a variety of emotional and physical problems. At any point in time, 3 to 5 percent of people suffer from major depression; the lifetime risk is […]
By Kevin Leapley, MA, LPC, CSAT on Friday, June 12th, 2015 in Sexual Addiction. No Comments
Sexual Addiction Triggers When working with men that struggle with sexual addiction, I often will discuss their triggers that precede the last acting out behaviors. The triggers usually fall into the acronym B-L-A-S-T-E-D. The more the sex addict can understand his real need rather than the need for sex, the more he can replace unhealthy […]
By Kevin Leapley, MA, LPC, CSAT on Sunday, May 31st, 2015 in Sexual Addiction. No Comments
Love Addiction consists of three components: Romance, Relationship and Sexual Addiction. Signs and Characteristics of Love Addiction: Lack of nurturing and attention when young Feeling isolated, detached from parents and family Compartmentalization of relationships from other areas of life Outer facade of “having it all together” to hide internal disintegration Mistake intensity for intimacy (drama […]
By Kevin Leapley, MA, LPC, CSAT on Sunday, May 24th, 2015 in Sexual Addiction. No Comments
We have recently added a sexual addiction questionnaire to our website to assist visitors in their assessment of whether they may have sexual addiction. This screening measure is not designed to make a diagnosis of a sexual addiction or take the place of a professional diagnosis or consultation. We have gathered 25 different questions that […]