Sexual Addiction Therapists in New York, NY
Life long secrets? Sexual abuse? Relationship issues, interested in trying the Gottman Method? Sex & Porn addiction? Youth sexual behavior problems? Shame spiral, depression, anxiety? You’re desperate for relief but nothing helps. Abuse nightmares & flashbacks are spinning out of control. You’re concerned about your spouse or child's sexuality- but don’t know how to help. How do you get your relationship back on track? Do you stay or leave your marriage? Feeling hopeless & lonely? Longing for peace? These are specialty areas I have successfully helped clients with for 24 years, in addition to my work with anxiety and mood disorders.
Life long secrets? Sexual abuse? Relationship issues, interested in trying the Gottman Method? Sex & Porn addiction? Youth sexual behavior problems? Shame spiral, depression, anxiety? You’re desperate for relief but nothing helps. Abuse nightmares & flashbacks are spinning out of control. You’re concerned about your spouse or child's sexuality- but don’t know how to help. How do you get your relationship back on track? Do you stay or leave your marriage? Feeling hopeless & lonely? Longing for peace? These are specialty areas I have successfully helped clients with for 24 years, in addition to my work with anxiety and mood disorders.
Alessandro Hillel
Licensed Psychoanalyst, MA, LP, SCPsyA, NCPsyA
2 Endorsed
New York, NY 10016
Waitlist for new clients
Sexual Addiction Therapist & CSAT candidate.
I am also a Nationally Certified Psychoanalyst, Certified Gestalt Therapist, and CSAT Candidate - ( Sexual Addiction Therapist - Candidate). In my practice, I utilize a modern psychoanalytic approach to delve into unconscious patterns and conflicts. I aim to support you gain insight, foster personal growth and healing.
Sexual Addiction Therapist & CSAT candidate.
I am also a Nationally Certified Psychoanalyst, Certified Gestalt Therapist, and CSAT Candidate - ( Sexual Addiction Therapist - Candidate). In my practice, I utilize a modern psychoanalytic approach to delve into unconscious patterns and conflicts. I aim to support you gain insight, foster personal growth and healing.
While I have extensive experience helping clients with depression, anxiety, trauma & other painful conditions, I also offer specialized treatment for those seeking healing & recovery from sexual addiction/compulsivity, love & romance addiction, attachment disorders & other problematic behavior patterns involving relationships.
Drawing upon a solid foundation of postgraduate psychoanalytic education & other clinical training, my therapeutic approach is determined by your own individual needs & specific situation. When appropriate, I combine an interactive, psychodynamic orientation with such diverse methodologies as cognitive-behavioral, EMDR, 12-Step recovery & Inner Child work.
While I have extensive experience helping clients with depression, anxiety, trauma & other painful conditions, I also offer specialized treatment for those seeking healing & recovery from sexual addiction/compulsivity, love & romance addiction, attachment disorders & other problematic behavior patterns involving relationships.
Drawing upon a solid foundation of postgraduate psychoanalytic education & other clinical training, my therapeutic approach is determined by your own individual needs & specific situation. When appropriate, I combine an interactive, psychodynamic orientation with such diverse methodologies as cognitive-behavioral, EMDR, 12-Step recovery & Inner Child work.
As an AASECT Certified Sex Therapist as well as a Certified Sex Addiction Therapist- Supervisor, I am dedicated to helping you identify and overcome any intimacy challenges within the sex therapy realm, including sex/love addiction. This encompasses behaviors such as desire discrepency, successive unfulfilling relationships, affairs, excessive internet porn usage and intimacy anorexia. I also am a Certified Partner of Sex Addicts Specialist, and through a trauma based model, am able to help the Partner work through their own painful experience of loving and being involved with someone with out of control sexual compulsivity.
As an AASECT Certified Sex Therapist as well as a Certified Sex Addiction Therapist- Supervisor, I am dedicated to helping you identify and overcome any intimacy challenges within the sex therapy realm, including sex/love addiction. This encompasses behaviors such as desire discrepency, successive unfulfilling relationships, affairs, excessive internet porn usage and intimacy anorexia. I also am a Certified Partner of Sex Addicts Specialist, and through a trauma based model, am able to help the Partner work through their own painful experience of loving and being involved with someone with out of control sexual compulsivity.
If you are experiencing betrayal trauma, challenges with sexual addiction, painful relationship patterns stemming from love addiction, enmeshment issues impeding healthy adult relationships, or looking to work on self-esteem issues and heal from codependent patterns that leave you feeling depleted and unfulfilled, hope and healing are possible!
Karen integrates her expertise as a certified sex addiction therapist, an experienced EMDR Practitioner (member of EMDRIA), and Attachment Focused EMDR therapist. She also utilizes Sensorimotor Psychotherapy where the body is a key component of talk therapy, as well as Pia Mellody's Post Induction Therapy, an Inner Child model for healing childhood trauma.
If you are experiencing betrayal trauma, challenges with sexual addiction, painful relationship patterns stemming from love addiction, enmeshment issues impeding healthy adult relationships, or looking to work on self-esteem issues and heal from codependent patterns that leave you feeling depleted and unfulfilled, hope and healing are possible!
Karen integrates her expertise as a certified sex addiction therapist, an experienced EMDR Practitioner (member of EMDRIA), and Attachment Focused EMDR therapist. She also utilizes Sensorimotor Psychotherapy where the body is a key component of talk therapy, as well as Pia Mellody's Post Induction Therapy, an Inner Child model for healing childhood trauma.
Over the past 25 years, I have found many opportunities to integrate my training as a verbal psychotherapist, art therapist and yoga teacher. To achieve your therapeutic goals we can incorporate a combination of these modalities, or limit ourselves to one or two depending upon your interest. I describe my approach to therapy as an integration of psychodynamic (insight oriented) and cognitive behavioral therapies. Via psychodynamic work, we get to know ourselves and understand why we make the choices we do. With Cognitive Behavioral Therapy we identify action-oriented solutions in an effort to act ourselves into right thinking.
Over the past 25 years, I have found many opportunities to integrate my training as a verbal psychotherapist, art therapist and yoga teacher. To achieve your therapeutic goals we can incorporate a combination of these modalities, or limit ourselves to one or two depending upon your interest. I describe my approach to therapy as an integration of psychodynamic (insight oriented) and cognitive behavioral therapies. Via psychodynamic work, we get to know ourselves and understand why we make the choices we do. With Cognitive Behavioral Therapy we identify action-oriented solutions in an effort to act ourselves into right thinking.
I take a collaborative approach to therapy that centers on helping you understand your experience in the “here and now” and getting in touch with your feelings. My therapeutic style is patient, warm, supportive, and empowering, and draws from Gestalt Therapy and Mindfulness techniques. I strive to create an environment where you feel comfortable sharing anything on your mind while processing your emotions. My aim is to work together to gain awareness, make choices, and activate those choices to help you overcome your challenges.
I take a collaborative approach to therapy that centers on helping you understand your experience in the “here and now” and getting in touch with your feelings. My therapeutic style is patient, warm, supportive, and empowering, and draws from Gestalt Therapy and Mindfulness techniques. I strive to create an environment where you feel comfortable sharing anything on your mind while processing your emotions. My aim is to work together to gain awareness, make choices, and activate those choices to help you overcome your challenges.
You work in a high-visibility role where expectations are high and mistakes feel costly. Pornography started as a private way to cope with stress when you were young, but over time as stress increased, it’s created complications.
Your partner discovered the pornography and feels deeply affected, or its use has begun to interfere with your professional life. Now you're juggling stress across work and home, trying to protect your reputation, while also struggling with shame, guilt, and urges that no longer feel under control.
You work in a high-visibility role where expectations are high and mistakes feel costly. Pornography started as a private way to cope with stress when you were young, but over time as stress increased, it’s created complications.
Your partner discovered the pornography and feels deeply affected, or its use has begun to interfere with your professional life. Now you're juggling stress across work and home, trying to protect your reputation, while also struggling with shame, guilt, and urges that no longer feel under control.
I have over thirty years of clinical experience and I strongly believe in the resiliency of the human spirit; the ability for a person to heal and grow given the right kind of nurturing and support. I have witnessed this countless times in many different settings in my professional life. My experience has largely been, though not exclusively, working with men as I have worked in the field of HIV/AIDS for a number of years. I focused on men’s' issues in my graduate work and that, in combination with years of practice, have allowed me a particular insight with regard to working with men and their presenting issues in therapy.
I have over thirty years of clinical experience and I strongly believe in the resiliency of the human spirit; the ability for a person to heal and grow given the right kind of nurturing and support. I have witnessed this countless times in many different settings in my professional life. My experience has largely been, though not exclusively, working with men as I have worked in the field of HIV/AIDS for a number of years. I focused on men’s' issues in my graduate work and that, in combination with years of practice, have allowed me a particular insight with regard to working with men and their presenting issues in therapy.
Sugar Daddy/ "Seeking Arrangements" Treatment
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW-R, SOTS
New York, NY 10022
My preeminent expert status had "The Adam Friedland Show” put me on 1st episode of 2nd season re: sexual addiction behaviors, I was interviewed by Rolling Stone Magazine on "virtual companions".
I'm James Foley LCSW., my clinical skill is helping you stop Seeking Arrangements, Secret Benefits, SugarDaddyMeet, WhatsYourPrice, infidelity, prostitution use, to have you correct self deceptive thinking that enables Sex addiction / infidelity, and put an end to these destructive actions for good. I have thirty years of clinical experience exclusively in sexual misbehaviors and use all that superior experience/insight/ skills/ knowledge to help preserve the life you love from behaviors that in the end will with certainty, leave you isolated, broke, and feeling foolish of how much you traded these illusionary experiences for
My preeminent expert status had "The Adam Friedland Show” put me on 1st episode of 2nd season re: sexual addiction behaviors, I was interviewed by Rolling Stone Magazine on "virtual companions".
I'm James Foley LCSW., my clinical skill is helping you stop Seeking Arrangements, Secret Benefits, SugarDaddyMeet, WhatsYourPrice, infidelity, prostitution use, to have you correct self deceptive thinking that enables Sex addiction / infidelity, and put an end to these destructive actions for good. I have thirty years of clinical experience exclusively in sexual misbehaviors and use all that superior experience/insight/ skills/ knowledge to help preserve the life you love from behaviors that in the end will with certainty, leave you isolated, broke, and feeling foolish of how much you traded these illusionary experiences for
Do you find sex and relationships challenging to navigate? If feelings and needs were never discussed in your home growing up, you might not feel safe expressing them now. As a result, trust and empathy may be difficult for you.
Are you struggling with significant changes or transitions and feeling stuck? Is it difficult to feel optimistic? To understand where you are right now, it’s necessary to look back at where you came from. Our work helps you discover how, without realizing it, past connections (with family, teachers, friends, etc.) impact relationships in the present.
Do you find sex and relationships challenging to navigate? If feelings and needs were never discussed in your home growing up, you might not feel safe expressing them now. As a result, trust and empathy may be difficult for you.
Are you struggling with significant changes or transitions and feeling stuck? Is it difficult to feel optimistic? To understand where you are right now, it’s necessary to look back at where you came from. Our work helps you discover how, without realizing it, past connections (with family, teachers, friends, etc.) impact relationships in the present.
Of course, sexual sobriety is crucial for therapeutic progress, but I have found that healing the childhood neglect and abuse that--without exception--underlie the development of a sexual addiction is also essential if the individual is to have the truly transformative recovery he or she deserves.
Healing from sexual addiction requires addiction remediation as well as trauma-based healing and treatment. Abuse and neglect in the early years of the developing sex addict must be addressed if an ongoing, robust recovery is to be achieved and maintained. Shame reduction is essential, so group treatment is especially helpful.
Of course, sexual sobriety is crucial for therapeutic progress, but I have found that healing the childhood neglect and abuse that--without exception--underlie the development of a sexual addiction is also essential if the individual is to have the truly transformative recovery he or she deserves.
Healing from sexual addiction requires addiction remediation as well as trauma-based healing and treatment. Abuse and neglect in the early years of the developing sex addict must be addressed if an ongoing, robust recovery is to be achieved and maintained. Shame reduction is essential, so group treatment is especially helpful.
Do you feel that your life isn't going your way, or that you're faced with challenges or changes that overwhelm you? I feel privileged to help create a safe space where you can at your pace, discover yourself, express yourself, and learn if there are ways in which you might be sabotaging yourself. Feeling at odds with ourselves is really what jams us up the most, and more often than not, unwittingly. Ourselves, regarding feelings, memories, needs, and wishes. Also, life phases, goals, issues of trust in relationships or lack of relationships, illness, work and creativity sometimes seem daunting.
Do you feel that your life isn't going your way, or that you're faced with challenges or changes that overwhelm you? I feel privileged to help create a safe space where you can at your pace, discover yourself, express yourself, and learn if there are ways in which you might be sabotaging yourself. Feeling at odds with ourselves is really what jams us up the most, and more often than not, unwittingly. Ourselves, regarding feelings, memories, needs, and wishes. Also, life phases, goals, issues of trust in relationships or lack of relationships, illness, work and creativity sometimes seem daunting.
ADDICTION RECOVERY THERAPIST. If you, or someone you love, is in recovery or struggling with Sex or Love Addiction, Porn Addiction or Alcoholism/Chemical Dependency, you need a therapist who understands these issues. I have many years of experience doing individual, couples and group therapy with adults who are in the early to middle stages of recovery, as well as those who have achieved long term sobriety. I also help those of you dealing with the trauma of being a partner/spouse of an addict.
ADDICTION RECOVERY THERAPIST. If you, or someone you love, is in recovery or struggling with Sex or Love Addiction, Porn Addiction or Alcoholism/Chemical Dependency, you need a therapist who understands these issues. I have many years of experience doing individual, couples and group therapy with adults who are in the early to middle stages of recovery, as well as those who have achieved long term sobriety. I also help those of you dealing with the trauma of being a partner/spouse of an addict.
As a specialist, my primary focus is working with those who struggle with Relationships, Intimacy and Avoidant Behaviors related to: Adult Childhood Trauma, Codependency, Addiction (including; excessive behaviors related to Sex, Porn and Apps) and those who struggle with impulsive behaviors (including ADHD). Using a trauma-based model, I am able to help you work through the difficulties around feeling a sense of fulfillment within yourself and/or relationships. Together, we will create a plan with personalized coping skills and tools to lead you toward creating deeper, more meaningful connections while managing anxiety.
As a specialist, my primary focus is working with those who struggle with Relationships, Intimacy and Avoidant Behaviors related to: Adult Childhood Trauma, Codependency, Addiction (including; excessive behaviors related to Sex, Porn and Apps) and those who struggle with impulsive behaviors (including ADHD). Using a trauma-based model, I am able to help you work through the difficulties around feeling a sense of fulfillment within yourself and/or relationships. Together, we will create a plan with personalized coping skills and tools to lead you toward creating deeper, more meaningful connections while managing anxiety.
My clients are adults of all genders and sexual orientation.Sex positive, I am knowledgeable and familiar with LGBTQAI issues as well as non-heteronormative sexuality, including kink, BDSM, polyamory, and fetishes. I have expertise and specialized training in treating alcohol and substance use disorders, sexual compulsivity, PTSD, depression, anxiety, and personality disorders. I utilize a varied range of treatment modalities, including EMDR. I have worked in the field for 15 years and I'm a Certified Sex Addiction Therapist. I worked with the Fire Department of New York Counseling Service Unit, where I started the day before 9/11.
My clients are adults of all genders and sexual orientation.Sex positive, I am knowledgeable and familiar with LGBTQAI issues as well as non-heteronormative sexuality, including kink, BDSM, polyamory, and fetishes. I have expertise and specialized training in treating alcohol and substance use disorders, sexual compulsivity, PTSD, depression, anxiety, and personality disorders. I utilize a varied range of treatment modalities, including EMDR. I have worked in the field for 15 years and I'm a Certified Sex Addiction Therapist. I worked with the Fire Department of New York Counseling Service Unit, where I started the day before 9/11.
The most rewarding thing I do is help people create more intimacy & vulnerability with themselves and others. One of my main focuses is helping clients embrace their relationships in healthier ways. I enjoy working with clients who have blocks that are keeping them from desired romantic relationships. Together we can address underlying stresses from trauma or current triggers and work through them, developing new coping skills along the way. I believe individuals understand their strengths and limitations best, and so my task will be in helping to deepen awareness.
The most rewarding thing I do is help people create more intimacy & vulnerability with themselves and others. One of my main focuses is helping clients embrace their relationships in healthier ways. I enjoy working with clients who have blocks that are keeping them from desired romantic relationships. Together we can address underlying stresses from trauma or current triggers and work through them, developing new coping skills along the way. I believe individuals understand their strengths and limitations best, and so my task will be in helping to deepen awareness.
I’m Dr. Tera Jansen, an AASECT certified sex therapist and psychologist. I provide individual and couples therapy across a variety of sexual health and gender concerns, as well as general mental health and relational issues. With over a decade of experience, I have developed a deep belief in our capacity for change and growth. At its most basic, my guiding goal in therapy is to aid others in finding, engaging with, and expressing their most authentic selves. Operating from a point of authenticity and self-truth can often create a clearer guide in navigating fears and hurts, making decisions, and building meaningful relationships.
I’m Dr. Tera Jansen, an AASECT certified sex therapist and psychologist. I provide individual and couples therapy across a variety of sexual health and gender concerns, as well as general mental health and relational issues. With over a decade of experience, I have developed a deep belief in our capacity for change and growth. At its most basic, my guiding goal in therapy is to aid others in finding, engaging with, and expressing their most authentic selves. Operating from a point of authenticity and self-truth can often create a clearer guide in navigating fears and hurts, making decisions, and building meaningful relationships.
I am a licensed therapist who specializes in treating sexual addiction, problematic sexual behaviors, betrayal trauma and couples therapy for relationship restoration.
Are you overwhelmed with emotional pain and feeling betrayed after discovering your partner's secret sex life? Are you engulfed with shame, anxiety, and depression because you cannot stop your problematic sexual behaviors? If you are experiencing these complex life issues and are filled with emotional turmoil, you do not have to deal with these issues alone and I am here to help.
I am a licensed therapist who specializes in treating sexual addiction, problematic sexual behaviors, betrayal trauma and couples therapy for relationship restoration.
Are you overwhelmed with emotional pain and feeling betrayed after discovering your partner's secret sex life? Are you engulfed with shame, anxiety, and depression because you cannot stop your problematic sexual behaviors? If you are experiencing these complex life issues and are filled with emotional turmoil, you do not have to deal with these issues alone and I am here to help.
I am a licensed therapist who specializes in treating sexual addiction, problematic sexual behaviors, betrayal trauma and couples therapy for relationship restoration.
Are you overwhelmed with emotional pain and feeling betrayed after discovering your partner's secret sex life? Are you engulfed with shame, anxiety, and depression because you cannot stop your problematic sexual behaviors? If you are experiencing these complex life issues and are filled with emotional turmoil, you do not have to deal with these issues alone and I am here to help.
I am a licensed therapist who specializes in treating sexual addiction, problematic sexual behaviors, betrayal trauma and couples therapy for relationship restoration.
Are you overwhelmed with emotional pain and feeling betrayed after discovering your partner's secret sex life? Are you engulfed with shame, anxiety, and depression because you cannot stop your problematic sexual behaviors? If you are experiencing these complex life issues and are filled with emotional turmoil, you do not have to deal with these issues alone and I am here to help.
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Sexual Addiction Therapists
When should someone seek treatment for sex addiction?
People should seek treatment for sex addiction if they cannot control their sexual thoughts or behaviours to the point that it disrupts their ability to function in daily life, for example by threatening their finances, career, or relationships. This may include spending an excessive amount of time obsessing over sex, planning sex, watching pornography, or masturbating, as well as consistently engaging in risky sexual activities, using sex to escape distressing feelings, or attempting yet failing to control sexual behavior.
What are the most common treatment options for sex addiction?
Psychotherapy is the most common treatment for sex addiction; therapy helps patients better understand their compulsive thoughts and behaviors and develop strategies to manage their desires. Therapy may be supplemented by medications, such as antidepressants, mood stabilizers, anti-androgens, and the alcohol and substance use medication Naltrexone, as well as support groups, such as 12-step programs.
How long does therapy take for sex addiction?
Recovering from compulsive behavior takes time and effort. There’s no precise timeline for treatment, but research suggests 12 therapy sessions may be enough to see change. Treatment for sexual compulsions requires honesty in therapy, a commitment to understanding triggers and developing coping skills, and potential lifestyle changes such as cutting out alcohol or drugs.
What if sex addiction is left untreated?
Compulsive sexual behavior can have serious repercussions if left unaddressed. For example, if sexual obsessions consume the vast majority of a person’s time, they may lose their job. If they can’t stop paying for sex, their finances may suffer. If they’re dishonest in their relationships, their partner may leave them. If they consistently feel shame, they may struggle with anxiety, depression, or loneliness. Therapy can help people develop the tools to manage sexual thoughts and behaviors that feel uncontrollable.