Many people that struggle with various sexual dysfunctions (i.e., erectile dysfunction) struggle with underlying sex addictions. Sex and pornography addictions are complicated process addictions; they come in many forms and have many origins. Some are cross addictions with other substances like alcohol, cocaine and marijuana. Much like a food addict must learn to have a healthy relationship to food and eating once he or she is in recovery, so too does someone with a sex addiction need to learn to have a healthy relationship to sex and sexuality. Most all addictions are coping mechanisms people use to try to escape discomfort, pain or trauma. Your therapist will not only help you on your road to sobriety but they will help you get to the root of the underlying pain or trauma so that you can heal the origins and not simply band-aid the unwanted behaviors. Your therapist understands the shame that sexual addictions often bring up for our clients. She will take a caring, compassionate stance while working from evidence-based training to help you achieve the change you desire. We will help you stop living a double life and attain true recovery; not merely sobriety or abstinence.
Treatment Specializations:
- Individual Sex Therapy
- Couples Counseling/ Conflict Resolution
- Sex/Porn Addiction Treatment (using Patrick Carnes’ CSAT model and The Recovery Start Kit)
- Love Addiction Treatment (based on Pia Mellody’s therapeutic approach)
- Sexual Dysfunctions (Rapid or Retarded Ejaculation; Vulvadynia, Vaginismus)
- Loss of Sexual Desire/ Low Libido
- Sexual Trauma/ PTSD
- Sexual Anorexia
- Sexual Phobias
- Erectile Dysfunction
- Couples Sex Therapy
- Adolescent Gaming and Porn Addiction
- EMDR (eye-movement desensitization and reprocessing)
- Alternative Family Planning/ Infertility
- Surrogacy; IVF and AI Topical Specialty
- Family Planning using Sperm and/or Egg Donation
- Gay and Lesbian Individual, Couples and Family Therapy
- “Coming Out” Issues/ Overcoming Internalized Homophobia
- Depression and Anxiety
- Major Life Adjustment Issues (Divorce, Move/Relocation, Loss of Job; New Career; Birth or Adoption)
- Grief/Loss (of loved one or the loss of a previous romantic relationship or miscarriage/stillbirth)