Author: Shane Adamson

Moderation: Building a Healthy Lifestyle

Moderation: Building a Healthy Lifestyle As a therapist, you get asked all sorts of questions: Are video games healthy for my son? I joined a yoga, lyra, and kickboxing class,...

Negotiating Togetherness & Separateness in Romantic Relationships

For those of you who have ever been in a relationship where you believed yourself or your partner to be “co-dependent,” it is far more likely that your relationship problems...

Betrayal Trauma Counseling: LifeSTAR Dallas

Sex addiction counseling is not just for the sex addict.  A spouse who discovers her spouse has had secret sexual behaviors can be very overwhelmed.  One spouse described her discovery...

After Betrayal from Infidelity, How to Help Him, Her, and the Marriage Recover

Betrayal can come in many different forms:  a secret relationship, an emotional affair, virtual infidelity through chronic pornography use, sexting, or sexual video chats. Some partners who stray into secret...

Signs You May Have a Sex Addiction

As people grow and learn more about themselves and the world around them, they are introduced to a variety of things that they will both like and dislike. Sometimes when...

When Sex Becomes a Drug

Although some argue that sex addiction does not exist,  over the past two decades there have been increasing numbers of empirically reviewed articles that offer support that sex can become...

Understanding Emotional Abuse in Marriage

An estimated 40 to 50 percent of marriages end in divorce.  The ability to communicate respectfully and when conflict does occur the ability to work through these hard moments back...

How to Know When It’s Time to Get Marriage Counseling

You may not really know when your marriage is in need of help. A classic dynamic in marriage is when one spouse wants to talk through the hard parts of...

How to Know When You Need Help for Sex Addiction

It is completely natural to be sexually attracted to others in your life. It’s human nature and absolutely healthy.  If your appetite for sex is becoming a debilitating factor in...

The Science of Influencing a Child’s Behavior

How to Get Your Child to Do More of What You Want – and Less of What You Don’t Want Most people can at least recognize Ivan Pavlov’s name and...