Sexual Addiction Therapists in Saint Albans, VT
I like to start by building trust and finding out what goals you want to set for yourself. A safe, encouraging atmosphere with no authoritarian or shaming attitudes is important. Humor is useful with couples, families or teens. Role-plays are a fun way to practice new relationship skills.
I like to start by building trust and finding out what goals you want to set for yourself. A safe, encouraging atmosphere with no authoritarian or shaming attitudes is important. Humor is useful with couples, families or teens. Role-plays are a fun way to practice new relationship skills.
Thomas Mock
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LICSW, ACSW, BCD
Verified Verified
Saint Albans, VT 05478
Not accepting new clients
Choosing a therapist for yourself or loved one can be a difficult task. A true "Master" of the healing arts is one who has spent years learning, practicing, and refining their skills as a healer. Individuals, couples and families first entering into the therapeutic relationship often feel overwhelmed, confused, anxious and vulnerable. They need to feel safe by knowing that they are truly being heard and respected. They also need to trust that their therapist has sufficient experience to patiently guide them thru the process of self discovery on their path to wellness and feeling whole, perhaps for the first time in their life.
Choosing a therapist for yourself or loved one can be a difficult task. A true "Master" of the healing arts is one who has spent years learning, practicing, and refining their skills as a healer. Individuals, couples and families first entering into the therapeutic relationship often feel overwhelmed, confused, anxious and vulnerable. They need to feel safe by knowing that they are truly being heard and respected. They also need to trust that their therapist has sufficient experience to patiently guide them thru the process of self discovery on their path to wellness and feeling whole, perhaps for the first time in their life.
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Certified Sex Addiction Therapist (CSAT) helping men struggling with sexual addiction and/or porn addiction stop their compulsive sexual behavior and live healthy productive lives.
I offer personally tailored sexual addiction coaching program designed to help you stop problematic sexual behavior while healing the underlying issues that cause the acting out behavior.
Certified Sex Addiction Therapist (CSAT) helping men struggling with sexual addiction and/or porn addiction stop their compulsive sexual behavior and live healthy productive lives.
I offer personally tailored sexual addiction coaching program designed to help you stop problematic sexual behavior while healing the underlying issues that cause the acting out behavior.
Tina M. Cline - Csat
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, PhD(c), LISW, CSAT, EMDR
Verified Verified
2 Endorsed
Serves Area
As an experienced sex-positive therapist and Certified Sex Addiction Therapist (CSAT), I specialize in sexual addiction recovery and partner betrayal trauma.
Welcome. I'm glad you're here. Are you preoccupied with sexual thoughts throughout the day that seem impossible to control? Do you find yourself spending too much time pursuing sexual desires and fantasies - to the detriment of your relationships and other important areas of your life? If you are struggling with compulsive sexual behaviors, or if you are the partner of someone who is, please know that it can get better and I can help.
As an experienced sex-positive therapist and Certified Sex Addiction Therapist (CSAT), I specialize in sexual addiction recovery and partner betrayal trauma.
Welcome. I'm glad you're here. Are you preoccupied with sexual thoughts throughout the day that seem impossible to control? Do you find yourself spending too much time pursuing sexual desires and fantasies - to the detriment of your relationships and other important areas of your life? If you are struggling with compulsive sexual behaviors, or if you are the partner of someone who is, please know that it can get better and I can help.
There’s a part of your life that’s missing, and you don’t know how to get it back. Every relationship seems destined to fall apart as soon as it reaches the point of physical intimacy. You want so badly to be able to enjoy sexual experiences, but something is standing in your way. Even self-pleasure is no longer enjoyable. And with each disappointing encounter, the problem only seems to get worse. You worry about it constantly. “What’s wrong with me?” you ask yourself repeatedly. Any attempts at finding a solution have been useless. You wonder if you’ll ever be able to experience the most basic of human desires. You feel stuck.
There’s a part of your life that’s missing, and you don’t know how to get it back. Every relationship seems destined to fall apart as soon as it reaches the point of physical intimacy. You want so badly to be able to enjoy sexual experiences, but something is standing in your way. Even self-pleasure is no longer enjoyable. And with each disappointing encounter, the problem only seems to get worse. You worry about it constantly. “What’s wrong with me?” you ask yourself repeatedly. Any attempts at finding a solution have been useless. You wonder if you’ll ever be able to experience the most basic of human desires. You feel stuck.
Christene Lozano (Certified Sex Therapist)
Marriage & Family Therapist, MS, LMFT, CST, CSAT
Verified Verified
2 Endorsed
Online Only
If you are struggling with sexual concerns, you have come to the right place. Some sexual concerns may include: low/high sexual desire, desire discrepancy, a sexless relationship, sexual difficulties (e.g. painful sex, early/delayed ejaculation), sexual trauma, rebuilding emotional and sexual intimacy, and unhealthy relationship patterns. Or perhaps you are struggling with compulsive sexual behaviors. You have realized that your sexual thoughts and behaviors are getting out of control, or you have discovered that your partner is compulsively using sex or porn. You are feeling understandably betrayed, angry, hurt, and overwhelmed.
If you are struggling with sexual concerns, you have come to the right place. Some sexual concerns may include: low/high sexual desire, desire discrepancy, a sexless relationship, sexual difficulties (e.g. painful sex, early/delayed ejaculation), sexual trauma, rebuilding emotional and sexual intimacy, and unhealthy relationship patterns. Or perhaps you are struggling with compulsive sexual behaviors. You have realized that your sexual thoughts and behaviors are getting out of control, or you have discovered that your partner is compulsively using sex or porn. You are feeling understandably betrayed, angry, hurt, and overwhelmed.
Bella Vida Therapy with Molly Papp
Marriage & Family Therapist, LMFT, CSAT, MS, MPH
Verified Verified
2 Endorsed
Serves Area
You deserve to live 'la bella vida:' a beautiful life. But sometimes life doesn’t always feel beautiful. If it's hard to get close to people, you have been shockingly betrayed, or you feel you have an unhealthy relationship with sex, I can help you. You are not alone. I will be your advocate and guide. I currently can hold teletherapy sessions in California and Vermont. I'm sex positive, trauma-informed and try to offer a safe, supportive place for processing so my clients can move forward in their lives with grace and self-respect.
You deserve to live 'la bella vida:' a beautiful life. But sometimes life doesn’t always feel beautiful. If it's hard to get close to people, you have been shockingly betrayed, or you feel you have an unhealthy relationship with sex, I can help you. You are not alone. I will be your advocate and guide. I currently can hold teletherapy sessions in California and Vermont. I'm sex positive, trauma-informed and try to offer a safe, supportive place for processing so my clients can move forward in their lives with grace and self-respect.
Are you or your child finding it difficult to manage life changes, cope with stress, face depression, tackle anxiety, address trauma, or combat addiction? Do these issues profoundly affect your relationships, career, and daily life? Rest assured, I'm committed to providing support and guiding you toward realizing the love and happiness you deserve.
Are you or your child finding it difficult to manage life changes, cope with stress, face depression, tackle anxiety, address trauma, or combat addiction? Do these issues profoundly affect your relationships, career, and daily life? Rest assured, I'm committed to providing support and guiding you toward realizing the love and happiness you deserve.
Hey, I’m Adrian White, a seasoned licensed clinician with over a decade of professional experience. My focus lies in aiding men aged 14-65, grappling with life's trials such as finding purpose, anxiety, depression, and major transitions like divorce or loss. Furthermore, I extend my services to couples dealing with trust issues, lack of intimacy, and communication problems. Through my strength-based, person-centered approach, I foster healing, personal growth, and stronger relationships. Together I am confident that we can reach your goals.
Hey, I’m Adrian White, a seasoned licensed clinician with over a decade of professional experience. My focus lies in aiding men aged 14-65, grappling with life's trials such as finding purpose, anxiety, depression, and major transitions like divorce or loss. Furthermore, I extend my services to couples dealing with trust issues, lack of intimacy, and communication problems. Through my strength-based, person-centered approach, I foster healing, personal growth, and stronger relationships. Together I am confident that we can reach your goals.
Justin Dragos
Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor, MA, LCMHC
Verified Verified
Burlington, VT 05401
I have experience with a diversity of issues including anxiety, depression and relationship concerns. I am a trained depth psychotherapist (Jungian-oriented), and am concerned with addressing symptoms at their root cause. I balance this approach by offering avenues of relief from symptoms in the present. Easing the burden of suffering in the here-and-now allows us to engage more fully with the work of addressing original causes, and thereby contributes to long-term resolution.
I have experience with a diversity of issues including anxiety, depression and relationship concerns. I am a trained depth psychotherapist (Jungian-oriented), and am concerned with addressing symptoms at their root cause. I balance this approach by offering avenues of relief from symptoms in the present. Easing the burden of suffering in the here-and-now allows us to engage more fully with the work of addressing original causes, and thereby contributes to long-term resolution.
I see clients from age 16 thru life. As a nurse, I use a holistic approach employing a variety of techniques and tools including hypnosis, Spiritual guidance, aromatherapy, nutritional counseling and energy healing. I am also an addictions specialist and work with recovering adults. A full description of my specialties is on my website including relationship, life transitions, women's issues and life crises.
I see clients from age 16 thru life. As a nurse, I use a holistic approach employing a variety of techniques and tools including hypnosis, Spiritual guidance, aromatherapy, nutritional counseling and energy healing. I am also an addictions specialist and work with recovering adults. A full description of my specialties is on my website including relationship, life transitions, women's issues and life crises.
I assist and support individuals and couples to live from the deepest places, to make meaning in their lives, and to improve functioning within self, and between self and others. I offer possibility.
I have been in the private practice of psychotherapy since 1977. Clients sometimes come to me when therapy with other therapists has not worked. I am willing to go as deeply as you are within the safety of clear ethical boundaries.
I value difference and work to hold and accept and work with differences, whether they be personal, sexual, racial or cultural.
I assist and support individuals and couples to live from the deepest places, to make meaning in their lives, and to improve functioning within self, and between self and others. I offer possibility.
I have been in the private practice of psychotherapy since 1977. Clients sometimes come to me when therapy with other therapists has not worked. I am willing to go as deeply as you are within the safety of clear ethical boundaries.
I value difference and work to hold and accept and work with differences, whether they be personal, sexual, racial or cultural.
I believe that each client is their own best expert, and has come to counseling because they have hit a log jam or bump in the road. Often times they have unresolved issues in their past that have been triggered by current issues that have the same theme. Also, some clients come to counseling due to current situations that are more short-term. My counseling style is very respectful, collaborative, going at a pace that meets the client's needs. Validation of the client's strengths, feelings and stressors is key to helping them transcend traumas and negative experience of the past and present.
I believe that each client is their own best expert, and has come to counseling because they have hit a log jam or bump in the road. Often times they have unresolved issues in their past that have been triggered by current issues that have the same theme. Also, some clients come to counseling due to current situations that are more short-term. My counseling style is very respectful, collaborative, going at a pace that meets the client's needs. Validation of the client's strengths, feelings and stressors is key to helping them transcend traumas and negative experience of the past and present.
Andrew Even Seguel
Licensed Professional Counselor, MS, LPC, LCMHC, CCSCC
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Online Only
I am here to help! Requesting professional assistance is an important decision, so I want to assure you of my experience and my approach. Please review my qualifications, style, and other pertinent information here and on my website. I also offer a free, 30-minute session for new clients for the purpose of getting to know each other and determining whether we are a good fit. Finding the right counselor can be a sensitive and challenging process. This free consult is my way of taking the pressure out of the experience. Thank you for considering me as your counselor, and I hope to have the privilege of working with you!
I am here to help! Requesting professional assistance is an important decision, so I want to assure you of my experience and my approach. Please review my qualifications, style, and other pertinent information here and on my website. I also offer a free, 30-minute session for new clients for the purpose of getting to know each other and determining whether we are a good fit. Finding the right counselor can be a sensitive and challenging process. This free consult is my way of taking the pressure out of the experience. Thank you for considering me as your counselor, and I hope to have the privilege of working with you!
A Yale, Dartmouth and Lehigh trained Psychologist, Dr. Karyn Gunnet-Shoval is licensed in New Hampshire, Vermont and New York. She completed her Doctoral Fellowship in Clinical Psychology at Yale University (2015) where she won a Leadership Award for Outstanding Contributions. She then completed her Post-Doctoral Fellowships at Harvard University (Research) and Dartmouth-Hitchcock (Clinical). Prior to starting her private practice, she was an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Dartmouth.
A Yale, Dartmouth and Lehigh trained Psychologist, Dr. Karyn Gunnet-Shoval is licensed in New Hampshire, Vermont and New York. She completed her Doctoral Fellowship in Clinical Psychology at Yale University (2015) where she won a Leadership Award for Outstanding Contributions. She then completed her Post-Doctoral Fellowships at Harvard University (Research) and Dartmouth-Hitchcock (Clinical). Prior to starting her private practice, she was an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Dartmouth.
Here at Appreciate the Trees Therapy we utilize nature's healing abilities to help steer you in the direction you're looking for while creating healthy strategies to assist with decreasing anxiety, depression, and/or other concerns that you may be experiencing. We will disconnect from technology and immerse ourselves into the trees, in order to rejuvenate our inner self. Taking the first step can be scary so come challenge yourself outside your comfort zone while thinking about yourself from within.
Here at Appreciate the Trees Therapy we utilize nature's healing abilities to help steer you in the direction you're looking for while creating healthy strategies to assist with decreasing anxiety, depression, and/or other concerns that you may be experiencing. We will disconnect from technology and immerse ourselves into the trees, in order to rejuvenate our inner self. Taking the first step can be scary so come challenge yourself outside your comfort zone while thinking about yourself from within.
Tricia Brock
Licensed Psychoanalyst, MFA, LP, NCPsyA
Verified Verified
5 Endorsed
Burlington, VT 05401
Therapy offers a safe holding space to explore oneself, to grow, to carefully unpack what is at the root of every discomfort in living—worry, fear, regret, anger—new frustrations and old ones. Finding the right words to name our internal conflicts reveals how we attempt to master the past by repeating our patterns in the present. Bringing this struggle into full awareness offers a fresh opportunity to work our issues and outgrown ways of relating toward final resolution. Such reflection and the articulation of inner experience imparts more freedom and equanimity to our choices, and opens us up to feel more passionate and alive.
Therapy offers a safe holding space to explore oneself, to grow, to carefully unpack what is at the root of every discomfort in living—worry, fear, regret, anger—new frustrations and old ones. Finding the right words to name our internal conflicts reveals how we attempt to master the past by repeating our patterns in the present. Bringing this struggle into full awareness offers a fresh opportunity to work our issues and outgrown ways of relating toward final resolution. Such reflection and the articulation of inner experience imparts more freedom and equanimity to our choices, and opens us up to feel more passionate and alive.
Brian Ashley, MA, PLC
Psychologist, MA
Verified Verified
9 Endorsed
Williston, VT 05495
Waitlist for new clients
My work as a therapist is to help people live fulfilling lives in which they enjoy satisfying relationships, do their best work, and develop a deeper awareness and curiosity about their inner emotional experiences. When we accept our suffering as valuable information to be learned from instead of eliminated we access our capacity for real change. This kind of transformation breaks us free from defensive patterns and pulls us to love, support, and forgive ourselves and others. Our ability to feel our emotions fully is a healing process that directly relates to our power to change, to our health, and to our effectiveness in life.
My work as a therapist is to help people live fulfilling lives in which they enjoy satisfying relationships, do their best work, and develop a deeper awareness and curiosity about their inner emotional experiences. When we accept our suffering as valuable information to be learned from instead of eliminated we access our capacity for real change. This kind of transformation breaks us free from defensive patterns and pulls us to love, support, and forgive ourselves and others. Our ability to feel our emotions fully is a healing process that directly relates to our power to change, to our health, and to our effectiveness in life.
Are you limited by not knowing your true self or do you have troubles communicating with others? Do you question your role in a relationship, or have you thought: “How can I openly communicate with my partner about my needs, wants, and desires?” Finding and understanding the “true you” while relating to others is a difficult process to do alone. As relationship and a certified sex therapist, I specialize in treating relationship and sexual issues, helping individuals and couples navigate these challenges. Together, therapy can help you develop resiliency and new tools to connect with yourself and others.
Are you limited by not knowing your true self or do you have troubles communicating with others? Do you question your role in a relationship, or have you thought: “How can I openly communicate with my partner about my needs, wants, and desires?” Finding and understanding the “true you” while relating to others is a difficult process to do alone. As relationship and a certified sex therapist, I specialize in treating relationship and sexual issues, helping individuals and couples navigate these challenges. Together, therapy can help you develop resiliency and new tools to connect with yourself and others.
George Bortnick
Drug & Alcohol Counselor, PhD, MLADC, IDSP, SAP, CAMT
Verified Verified
Burlington, VT 05401
I am also licensed in Maine and Vermont. I have been practicing addiction counselor since 2016 in Hampstead New Hampshire. I primarily conduct telehealth but also have an office in Hampstead if you want in person sessions. I am trained in EMDR, CBT, DBT, motivational interviewing, anger management, impaired driver service provider, Battery Intervention, Mindfulness, Nutritional integrative for mental health, and gambling addiction. I have a particular expertise in working with families with addiction, trauma-based therapy, DWI, and those who have been incarcerated for substance abuse related crimes.
I am also licensed in Maine and Vermont. I have been practicing addiction counselor since 2016 in Hampstead New Hampshire. I primarily conduct telehealth but also have an office in Hampstead if you want in person sessions. I am trained in EMDR, CBT, DBT, motivational interviewing, anger management, impaired driver service provider, Battery Intervention, Mindfulness, Nutritional integrative for mental health, and gambling addiction. I have a particular expertise in working with families with addiction, trauma-based therapy, DWI, and those who have been incarcerated for substance abuse related crimes.
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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.