Female Sex & Love Addiction Books
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No Stones: Women Redeemed from Sexual Addiction
“No Stones,” was the first book for Female Sex & Love Addicts. Marnie writes from a “graced-based” Christian perspective. This book has a comprehensive approach to recovery for female sex and love/romance addicts. Very in-depth and compassionately written for women who have any kind of struggle in the area of sexuality or relationships.
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Women, Sex, and Addiction: A Search for Love & Power by Charlotte Kasl
This classic book describes the distinct dynamics underlying female sex & love addiction, how women often use sex & romance much like an alcohol uses alcohol – to attain a sense of personal power as well as to escape from pain, ultimately to feel in control. Kasl outlines how women how they can learn to experience their sexuality as a source for love and positive power and sex as an expression that honors the soul as well as the body.
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Ready to Heal: Helping Women Heal from Addictive Relationships
As the title says, this books is about identifying why relationships are unhealthy, and what makes unhealthy relationships attractive. It outlines addictive behavior patterns as well as the link between childhood relationships and later choices.
When love hurts, you may wonder about your choice of romantic partners or risky sexual behaviors. Perhaps, like many others, you’re experiencing the raw pain of an addictive relationship―the kind that’s painful to be in, yet seemingly impossible to leave. A profound sense of emptiness can result. Repeatedly, you may feel pain, anger, and confusion rather than what you truly desire: closeness, warmth, and security. You may feel broken. The more you search for the comfort of closeness and safety, the deeper you sink into the quicksand of despair. As you read through the pages in this book, you will discover what happens when love and sex―our most primitive human needs―becomes a drug.
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Facing Love Addiction by Pia Mellody
Change the way you love, breakup with toxic relationships, end the shame spiral, and discover the key to secure, nurturing, and lasting connections.
Are you stuck in the cycle of “failed” relationships and are constantly worried you are unlovable or will never find true love? Do you find yourself overly needy or unable to communicate your needs properly in your relationships…always anxious when you are apart from your partner? Has your relationship with your parents negatively impacted your romantic relationships? If so, you may be stuck in a cycle of love addiction.
Weaving together attachment theory, vulnerability, codependency, and generational trauma, this groundbreaking bestseller unravels the intricate dynamics of toxic relationships and shows us how to let go of toxic love. Pia Mellody combines more than 15 years treating addictions at the Meadows Treatment Center in Arizona, to help cure fears of abandonment and intimacy and curb harmful, self-victimizing patterns and modes of detachment.
Wherever you are in your love journey, this book will allow you to break dysfunctional and addictive patterns in relationships and definitively alter the way you view your partners, and yourself. Stop letting fear and self-doubt hold you back from the love you deserve—it could be right in front of you.
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Sex & Love Addicts Anonymous Basic Text
The Basic Text of S.L.A.A., this book provides insight into the problem of sex and love addiction, information on working the 12 steps of S.L.A.A., the history of Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous, personal stories of addiction and recovery from members of the program and much more. Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Discovery of the Illness of Sex and Love Addiction: A Personal History (Rich's Story); Chapter 2: The Beginning of Recovery and of Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous; Chapter 3: Living with a Sex and Love Addict (Kate's Story); Chapter 4: The Twelve Step Program; a Path to Sexual and Emotional Sobriety; Chapter 5: The Withdrawal Experience; Chapter 6: Finding and Starting to Work with Other Sex and Love Addicts; Chapter 7: Starting an S.L.A.A. Group; Chapter 8: Building Partnerships: Personal Stories of Addiction and Recovery.
Our Team of Specialists Working with Female Sex & Love Addiction
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Tonya Camacho, LCPC, CSAT
Tonya has been an LCPC for xx years, working in alcohol/drug addiction treatment centers. Tonya works with sex/porn addiction, substance abuse, and drug addiction, as well as betrayed partners.
In 2024, Tonya became a CSAT (Certified Sex Addiction Therapist), through the International Institute of Trauma & Addiction Professionals (IITAP).
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Melissa McAuley, LSW, CSAT-Candidate, APSATS Multidimensional Partners Treatment Model (MPTM), EMDR, & ERCEM (Early Recovery Couples Empathy Model) Trained
Melissa cut her teeth as a Social Worker working in alcohol/drug addiction treatment center for several years. Since 2023, She has specialized in working with sex/porn addiction, betrayed partners of sex addicts, as well as substance abuse and drug addiction.
Melissa is nearing completion CSAT (Certified Sex Addiction Therapist), training through the International Institute of Trauma & Addiction Professionals (IITAP). In 2024, She completed the APSATS (Association of Partners of Sex Addiction Trauma Specialists) training to learn to incorporate the Multidimensional Partner Trauma Model into her work with betrayed partners of sex and porn addicts. Likewise in 2023, she completed the ERCEM (Early Recovery Couples Empathy Model) to help Sex Addicts develop empathy for their betrayed spouses and do so early in recovery.
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Alan Moreland, LMFT, CSAT-Supervisor, CMAT-Financial Disorders & Tech Addiction, EMDR Certified, & ERCEM CSAT-Candidate, EMDR Trained, & ERCEM Trained (Early Recovery Couples Empathy Model)
As a Marriage & Family Therapist, Alan has worked with sex/porn addicts, betrayed partners, and couples for over a decade. Alan brings a rare mix of direct yet compassionate care
Alan became a CSAT (Certified Sex Addiction Therapist), through the International Institute of Trauma & Addiction Professionals (IITAP), with Patrick Carnes, Rob Weiss, Ken Adams, and other leaders in the field of sex addiction treatment.
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Leslie "Les" Perrera, AMFT, CSAT-Candidate, EMDR Trained, & ERCEM (Early Recovery Couples Empathy Model) Trained
Les is an Associate Marriage & Family Therapist. Les specializes in working with sex/porn addiction, substance abuse, trauma, as well as couples.
Les is nearing completion of the rigorous CSAT (Certified Sex Addiction Therapist), training through the International Institute of Trauma & Addiction Professionals (IITAP). In 2023, he completed the ERCEM (Early Recovery Couples Empathy Model) to help Sex Addicts develop empathy for their betrayed spouses and do so early in recovery.
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Josh Williamson, LCPC, EMDR Trained
Josh is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor with well over 15 years of counseling experience.
Josh’s diverse working with people who are having personal struggles that are common in life’s journey: addiction, trauma, depression, anxiety, anger management problems, parenting issues, and with kids, adults and families involved

