Sexual Offending Behaviours

When is it time to get help?

If you are having thoughts or feelings about the problematic behaviours listed above, or if you’ve already acted on your urges, it is time to get help. Insights Psychologists and AASECT sex therapists are comfortable working with these issues as well as assessing these issues from a forensic lens (see forensic risk assessments under our assessment section).

Sexual offending behaviours treatment methods

There are advancements in treatment for sexual offenders or those with an urge to offend. Your therapist can determine the best course of action for your particular circumstance. Typical treatments include:

• Behaviour therapy tends to view human beings and behaviour with the assumption that humans are a product of their sociocultural conditioning and environment, looking at the current problems and the factors influencing them and emphasizes behaviour changes more than the underlying unconscious processes.
• Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is an evidence-based approach to treatment that focuses on how people’s thoughts, emotions, and beliefs influence their behaviour and how they perceive themselves.
• Sex therapy is the treatment of sexual dysfunction and also includes working with concerns about sexual feelings and intimacy, less common alternative sexual practices, kink, gender issues, sexual offending issues, or work on optimizing or exploring new experiences. Sex therapy can also include distressing sexual behaviour, sexual abuse, and trauma.
• Solution focused therapy views people as inherently strong and resilient, and capable of creating change and discovering solutions to their everyday problem.