I'm often asked by first time callers about my success rate. In any words, when a sexual addict (and his wife if he's married) works with me, does he really  recover? And to be honest, it's hard to say, because true recovery is not just shake-and-bake-better behaviors, but a changed heart that increasingly reflects God over the span of a lifetime.

Callers also ask me which approach to recovery is best. What about SA? Celebrate Recovery? What about this type of therapy versus another? Well, here's the scoop - I don't think  a perfect formula exists. But I do believe that recovery occurs only in Christ, and the Holy Spirit, who indwells us, is the primary agent of our recovery. So in any event, make God the center of your recovery approach and your life.

Take a look at Merton's thought on the Christian life, which applies equally to Christian recovery and the problem of sex addiction:

" The spirit of man must first subject itself to grace and then it can bring the flesh in subjection both to grace and to itself. 'If by the Spirit you mortify the deeds of the flesh, you shall live' (Romans 8:13)...Those, then, who put their passions to death not with the poison of their own ambition but with the clean blade of the will of God will live in the silence of true interior peace, for their lives are hidden with Christ in God. Such is the meek 'violence' of those who take Heaven by storm." 
                                                                                                                                                 p. 96-97, No Man Is an Island

My prayer is that every child of God, whether addicted or not, learns that God the Father, God the Son, and God the Spirit is the one true source of recovery that lasts.