5 Ways to Relieve Everyday Stress

5 Ways to Relieve Everyday Stress

Everyday Stress is like a disease that affects human health or way of living, a lot of activities carried in daily life sometimes cause stress. Stress has made many lose focus and not concentrate on something important to them in life. These are the five things you need to take care of to deal with […]

Why Do People Have Sex Addiction?

Why Do People Have Sex Addiction?

Sex is a healthy and pleasurable activity. But sex addiction is a self-destructive behavior that can have a devastating effect on the victim, often leading to the breakdown of marriage or relationship. It may also impact the victim’s career or work negatively. Although sex addiction is still a subject of debate among psychiatrists and medical […]

Can Sex Addict Victims Get PTSD?

Can Sex Addict Victims Get PTSD?

Sex addiction can be very dangerous and have a significantly negative impact in the life of the victim and that of his or her partner.  Like alcohol and drug addiction, it affects the victim’s mental health, safety and quality of life. Sex addiction is a kind of behavior characterized by an unusual sex drive or […]

How COVID and the Lockdown is Wreaking Havoc on Relationships

How COVID and the Lockdown is Wreaking Havoc on Relationships – Sometime in March 2020, while the majority of people were still coming to terms with news of the novel virus and the rapid spread from China to so many other countries, and its possible devastating effect on the health of individuals, the economy of […]

What You Can Do if the Stay-At-Home Order is Affecting Your Relationship

What You Can Do if the Stay-At-Home Order is Affecting Your Relationship – The compulsory stay-at-home order by the government of various countries was heralded by empty streets, empty parks, closed ice cream shops, abandoned walk-ways, closed museums, zoo’s e.t.c. Cities slowly looked like a scene from the horror movie “A Quiet Place”, with so […]

4 Types of Intimacy

Intimacy is important both to humans and animals because we are sociable creatures, who survive on personal relationships with others. The word intimacy always portrays images of romantic relationships, however, the word can also happen in personal friendships, parent-child relationships, and siblinghood. Intimacy gives a sense of security and comfort. It demonstrates the love between […]

What is Relationship Therapy?

What is Relationship Therapy? Relationship intimacy therapy is a type of conversation therapy designed to assist individuals and couples tackle health, psychological, personal, or interpersonal factors impacting their intimacy in the relationship. The objective of intimate therapy is to enable people to rise above physical and emotional struggles to have a satisfying intimate relationship. Relationship […]

What is PTSD?

PSTD is an acronym that means Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. It is a mental health disorder characterized by the inability to recover from experiencing or witnessing a terrifying event. This psychiatric condition is triggered by terrifying events, causing flashbacks, nightmares and uncontrollable thoughts about the event. Many at times, people who go through or witness traumatic […]

Does My Teenager Need Counseling?

Does My Teenager Need Counseling?

Does My Teenager Need Counseling? Social media has made its positive and negative impact on the mind of teenagers. Most teenagers have access to what others are doing these days through social media apps, and most times, this leads to either physical or mental competitions. As humans, what we see and interact with daily affects […]

Effective Therapy After Addiction Recovery For Addicts & Their Partners

Substance Abuse and 12 step member trauma counseling and therapy in Seattle, Kirkland, Bellevue and Mercer Island WA

Effective Therapy After Addiction Recovery For Addicts & for Their Partners Written by Rebecca Waterston, MA, LMHCA, CDPT, CSAT-Candidate The struggle to become sober from substances such as drugs or alcohol, or to become clean from process additions such as gambling, sex addiction and social media or gaming addiction has been talked about at length. […]