Sex Compulsion/Out of Control Sexual Behaviours

When is it time to get help?

When the behaviors of sex compulsion or OSCB cause distress in your life or in your relationships, then it’s time to seek help.

Sex compulsion/OCSB treatment methods

Individual psychotherapy and a support system, which can include 12 step group therapy, are typically used to treat OCSB. Approaching a professional for psychotherapy or an assessment may feel embarrassing but is an essential first step.

Support groups outside of Insight are also available since other individuals suffer from the same condition. Apart from group therapy, there are other treatment methods that can help. We also have specialists with training in working with “sex addiction” that is an integrated and comprehensive model for addressing these issues.

• 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.
• 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.
• Solution focused therapy views people as inherently strong and resilient, and capable of creating change and discovering solutions to their everyday problem.
• 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.
• Family systems therapy looks at the family as one emotional unit. This therapeutic approach looks at the relationships within the family and the structure as a whole.