Sex and Porn Addiction Therapy
Secure telehealth in California
If pornography or compulsive sexual behavior is damaging your life or relationship, you are not alone. Many people who struggle with sex or porn addiction appear functional on the outside while privately feeling out of control with their sexual behavior.
At Integrated Therapy and Recovery, we specialize in helping individuals and couples recover from compulsive sexual behaviors, rebuild trust, and develop healthy intimacy.
We provide:
Individual therapy for sex and porn addiction
Men’s recovery groups
Couples therapy for betrayal trauma
Structured recovery and virtual intensive outpatient programs
Healing is possible. With the right support, many people find lasting recovery and rebuild relationships stronger than before. Connect with a therapist via telehealth anywhere in California.
What is Sex or Porn Addiction?
Sex addiction—sometimes referred to as compulsive sexual behavior—involves persistent sexual thoughts, urges, or behaviors that feel difficult to control and continue despite negative consequences.
This may include:
Excessive pornography use
Compulsive masturbation
Anonymous sexual encounters
Escalating risky sexual behaviors
Spending large amounts of time pursuing sexual activities
Over time, these behaviors often begin to affect:
Relationships
Work Performance
Emotional Wellbeing
Personal Integrity
Many clients describe feeling trapped in a cycle of shame, secrecy, and repeated attempts to stop.
Signs You May Be Struggling With Porn or Sex Addiction
People often seek therapy when they notice patterns such as:
Repeated attempts to stop pornography use without success
Increasing time spent viewing pornography or sexual content
Escalating behaviors or seeking more extreme content
Lying or hiding sexual behavior from partners
Feeling guilt, shame, or loss of control
Sexual behavior interfering with work, family, or personal goals
If these experiences feel familiar, specialized therapy can help break the cycle and build healthier coping strategies.
The Impact on Relationships
Sex addiction rarely affects only the individual. Partners often experience betrayal trauma, which may include:
shock and confusion
loss of trust
intrusive thoughts
anxiety or hypervigilance
difficulty feeling emotionally safe
We work with both individuals and partners to support healing on all sides of the relationship.
We offer: Individual therapy for the betrayed partner | Couples therapy for rebuilding trust | Structured disclosure and recovery planning
Our Approach to Sex Addiction Recovery
Sex addiction recovery requires more than simply trying to “stop the behavior.” Our specialized treatment model includes:
Individual Therapy
Clients explore the underlying drivers of compulsive sexual behaviors and develop practical recovery tools. Together with your therapist you will explore underlying emotional wounds, trauma, attachment patterns, and shame and secrecy.
Sex Addiction Groups for Men
Group therapy plays a powerful role in breaking secrecy and building accountability. Facing the Shadow - Men's Recovery Group is a group of up to 8 men who meet weekly to work through the 7 Tasks of Recovery from Sexual Addiction.
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Tools to Stop
Participants will gain tools that can stop their unwanted compulsive behaviors so they can reclaim their lives and win back the trust of their loved ones. Over the course of the group participants will dismantle their addiction one piece at a time. Stopping sexual compulsivity is the first step to healing how the brain has been damaged by pornography and sexual acting out.
Reduce Shame
Many men think that if only they felt enough shame they would stop their behavior. But, that is simply not true. Paradoxically, it is the experience of acceptance in the midst of failure that leads to long lasting change. By taking risks to share honestly in a group those struggling with addiction can reduce the toxic shame that leads them to act out.
Accountability
Inside every person who struggles with addiction is a lobbyist whose special interest is the addiction. The lobbyist works against the individual's best interest in the form of distorted thinking patterns. The group setting exposes the lobbyist and the distorted thinking patterns that keep the addiction in place.
Foundational Change
For most, addiction grew out of our first group experience: our family. Like the grooves in river beds our family experiences washed over us and created deep grooves in our being. Some of the grooves may have been helpful but other grooves led us to addiction. Fortunate for us the part of the brain that deals with emotional/relational intelligence can be reshaped. Because we were shaped in a group experience it is through a group experience we can be reshaped.
Facing the Shadow Intensive
Facing the Shadow Intensive is designed to get to a freedom plan in weeks rather than months. The intensive is the equivalent of 3 months of traditional therapy but done in 4-6 weeks. The 7 Tasks of Recovery frames the six 1.5 hour sessions (or 9 1hr sessions) so that you can find freedom and integrity without delay.
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Tools to Stop
You will gain tools that can stop unwanted compulsive behaviors so you can reclaim your life and win back the trust of loved ones. Through the intensive you will learn to dismantle your addiction one piece at a time. Stopping sexual compulsivity is the first step to healing how the brain has been damaged by pornography and sexual acting out.
A Plan to Replace
Many people think that if they only stop the compulsive behavior that their life will automatically change. That is partially true. The key to long-lasting recovery and freedom is to be as thoughtful on how you will replace your destructive behaviors as stopping them.
Set A Solid Foundation for Core Change
Often it is broken thinking that perpetuates the destructive cycles. Broken thinking can even sabotage the recovery process itself. It is critical to identify and get in front of any self sabotage. In the Facing the Shadow Intensive you will identify broken thinking patterns and replace them with life producing thinking. We will also identify any wounds from the past or other experiences that may need to be resolved for deep change to take place.
Virtual Intensive Outpatient: Sex Addiction
Our Virtual Intensive Outpatient Program (VIOP) offers a higher level of care for individuals who need more support than weekly therapy, while still maintaining their daily responsibilities at home, work, or school.
VIOP can serve as a step-up level of care when weekly therapy is not enough, or as a step-down option following more intensive treatment.
VIOP is a structured, evidence-based treatment program that includes a combination of group therapy, individual sessions, and skills-based work delivered through secure telehealth.
Porn Addiction Groups for Teens
The Teen Recovery Program is a 10-12week program for young men that involves weekly group meetings, individual sessions and a parent seminar. Teens will cover the 7 tasks of Recovery from Pornography or Sexual Addiction.
Couples Betrayal Recovery Therapy
Betrayal can be one of the most heart-wrenching and disorienting experiences for a partner or spouse. When a relationship has been impacted, couples therapy focuses on rebuilding trust, improving communication, addressing betrayal trauma, restoring emotional and sexual intimacy.
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