About the Book

Treating Compulsive Sexual Behaviour and Its Impact on Relationships: A Clinical Guide

A trauma-informed and integrative clinical guide for professionals working with individuals, couples, and groups affected by Compulsive Sexual Behaviour (CSB).

Compulsive Sexual Behaviour (CSB) can have a profound impact on individuals, intimate relationships, and family systems. Yet clinicians often report feeling underprepared when working with the complexity of secrecy, shame, betrayal trauma, attachment wounds, and relational rupture that frequently accompany these presentations.

This book offers a comprehensive and clinically grounded framework for understanding and treating CSB within the context of both individual and relational therapy.

Drawing from trauma-informed, attachment-based, psychodynamic, relational, and behavioural perspectives, the book integrates theory with practical therapeutic application.

Through clinical discussion, case material, reflective exercises, and structured workbook tools, the text supports clinicians in developing a deeper understanding of:

the development and maintenance of CSB
shame and secrecy dynamics
attachment and trauma
betrayal trauma and partner impact
emotional regulation and compulsive coping
accountability and relational repair
empathy development
recovery and relapse prevention

A Practical Clinical Resource

The book is designed not only as a theoretical text, but as a practical resource for therapeutic work.

Each chapter includes structured clinical exercises and reflective workbook components intended for use in:

individual therapy
couples therapy
group psychotherapy
psychoeducational settings
supervision and training environments

In addition, downloadable worksheets and clinical resources are available to support ongoing therapeutic practice and client work.

Who the Book Is For

This book is written for:

psychotherapists and counsellors
psychosexual and relationship therapists
addiction specialists
supervisors and group facilitators
trainees and students
professionals working with betrayal trauma and relational recovery

Clinical Approach

The book takes a non-shaming and integrative approach while maintaining clear accountability regarding behaviour and relational impact.

Rather than reducing CSB to a single explanatory model, the text explores the interaction between:

trauma
attachment
emotional regulation
shame
relational patterns
and behavioural reinforcement systems

The emphasis throughout is on helping clinicians work with greater depth, precision, compassion, and therapeutic structure.

About the Author

Dr Robert Hudson is a UKCP-registered psychotherapist, psychosexual and relationship therapist, EMDR trauma therapist, Certified Sex Addiction Therapist and Supervisor (CSAT-S), researcher, lecturer, and clinical supervisor.

He specialises in working with individuals, couples, and groups affected by Compulsive Sexual Behaviour (CSB), betrayal trauma, and relational recovery.

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