Dear Mark:

Sexual addiction is primarily a psychological problem requiring cognitive therapy and sometimes medication. The Church is not a mental health facility, but does provide Church-sponsored agencies, such as Catholic Charities, that offer psychological services. There are also priests and religious who have credentials in psychology or psychiatry that offer their services.

Those who are sexually addicted need to find a good Catholic Support group, like the one we have on our website, and if needed, a psychologist or psychiatrist (preferably one who is a loyal and obedient Catholic).

On the moral and spiritual aspect of addiction, the Church provides pastoral counseling and the Sacrament of Confession and the Sacrament of the Eucharist. These two sacraments are healing sacraments that can go a long ways in helping people to recover from addictions.

The Church also provides sacramentals -- such as blessed objects, holy water, and if needed, the Rite of Exorcism. The Church also provides devotions such as Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament and devotions to patron saints who attend to those addicted.

The Church understands the nature of addiction as it applies to the culpability of the sin. That can be found in the Catechism:

1860 Unintentional ignorance can diminish or even remove the imputability of a grave offense. But no one is deemed to be ignorant of the principles of the moral law, which are written in the conscience of every man. The promptings of feelings and passions can also diminish the voluntary and free character of the offense, as can external pressures or pathological disorders. Sin committed through malice, by deliberate choice of evil, is the gravest.

2352b To form an equitable judgment about the subjects' moral responsibility and to guide pastoral action, one must take into account the affective immaturity, force of acquired habit, conditions of anxiety or other psychological or social factors that lessen, if not even reduce to a minimum, moral culpability.

1735 Imputability and responsibility for an action can be diminished or even nullified by ignorance, inadvertence, duress, fear, habit, inordinate attachments, and other psychological or social factors.

The Church lends it understanding and pastoral support, and when possible, offers agencies who can perform psychological services.

I do not know if this answers your question.

God bless,
Bro. Ignatius Mary