Treatments
Treatments
Healing addiction and wounds of the past
Sexual Addiction
Sex and pornography addiction can involve a great deal of shame and cause pain and rupture in relationships. Often, people with sexual addiction continue compulsive behaviors in spite of the pain they carry and that the behavior causes. Understanding how these compulsive behaviors became part of your life and how they are providing an escape or “how they are working” allows you to change how you show up for yourself and those around you.
Developmental Trauma
Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD, is a condition caused by being in an extremely terrifying or stressful event or witnessing it. For example, children can develop PTSD from being abused, or witnessing abuse in their households; adults can develop PTSD through domestic violence or witnessing another person being abused.
For many of us, these situations create traumatic memories, but not full blown PTSD…
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
CPTSD
Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (CPTSD) is a newer term that has been developed to address the additional symptoms that occur in addition to PTSD symptoms in people when their trauma…
Betrayal Trauma
The lies, the secrets, that sickening feeling when you finally knew what was happening. For many partners there are feelings of not being good enough, attractive enough or sexy enough…
Sexual Trauma
Overcoming Trauma
Relationship Recovery
Sexual Addiction
Sex and pornography addiction can involve a great deal of shame, and cause a lot of pain and hurt in relationships. Individuals typically progress in the addiction without being fully aware of how out of control their behaviors have become.
Overcoming Trauma
Some people think of trauma and war time Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) or sexual assault come to mind. These are definitely traumatic events and fit the trauma definition. But there are really two “classes” of trauma and the impact they have on each of us can be very different.
Relationship Recovery
Many couples argue over the “things” of life and miss out on the deeper issues of feeling heard, feeling understood, trusting and feeling known by your significant other. When we have these present in the relationship, the “things” of life are small and the safety and security we feel in the relationship help us to work through the small things with understanding and patience.