Love Addiction and Dependency Counseling
Is it LOVE or an addictive relationship?
Do you lose your sense of self in a relationship?
Do you cycle quickly from one intense relationship to another?
Are you in constant anxiety of losing or disconnecting from a partner?
Do you feel deep emptiness, mistrust, jealousy, or insecurity when you are alone?
Are you seeking your self-esteem, validation, or reassurance through your relationship or through sex?
Have you lost or neglected friends and family for a relationship?
The feeling of LOVE, or being “high” on love, can be a powerful drug. The “fix”, however, is another person, leading to an alteration of mood and a dependency on regaining or retaining that mood. The presence of the other person is not comforting through intimacy and connection, but rather for the ways in which he/she represents or symbolizes the internally held images and expectations of love, romance, and coupling. Love addiction also occurs when sexual attraction, desire, and arousal is confused with intimacy and closeness. Often, this may be the result of unresolved attachment losses and fears of abandonment. In a culture that continues to reinforce simplified images of love and romance, glorifies self-destructive, intense, and risky relationship behaviors, and neglects the attachment need of children and adults, many people find themselves trapped in a spiral of unhealthy relationships or risky sexual encounters to sooth internal fears and loneliness, leading to lives of unrealistic expectations, anxiety, and identity confusion.
Break the cycle of attachment loss and unhealthy dependency for yourself or a loved one. There is hope!
It is not necessary to “hit bottom” in order to start recovery.
Call now! For immediate support and information on the loving and respectful way of getting you or your loved-one and your family on the path of recovery.
GLOW Counseling can help on a variety of anxiety and addiction issues including sex therapy, couples counseling, and psycho-sexual education along with:
- Addiction recovery therapy
- Anxiety and stress disorders
- Avoidance and isolation
- Body image
- Depression treatment
- Disability, or chronic pain
- Fear and Phobias
- Grief and loss counseling
- Relationship and sexuality issues
- Overcoming childhood sexual or emotional abuse
- Performance anxiety
- Panic attacks
- PTSD & EMDR treatment
- Sex therapy and sexuality issues
- Shame and guilt
- Social phobias
- Trauma and abuse history
- Worry and stress reduction