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Treating Sex Addiction Through Trauma Work with Kirk McDermott, LPC, CSAT
Season 2 · Episode 3

Treating Sex Addiction Through Trauma Work with Kirk McDermott, LPC, CSAT

Treating Sex Addiction Through Trauma Work with Kirk McDermott, LPC, CSAT

Never Perfect · Dr. Beth

January 18, 20221h 16m

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Show Notes

In this episode, Beth interviews Kirk McDermott, a Certified Sex Addiction Therapist, about his approach to helping individuals with sex and porn addiction using a trauma based approach. Kirk has found that many individuals don’t recognize their trauma when it is chronic and sometimes subtle, rather than acute. Kirk often uses EMDR in his work with addicts to help them recover from trauma rather than merely numbing it with sex and pornography. They also discuss how technology exposes young kids and adolescents to pornography at a young age, which increases their chance of becoming addicted. 

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