Working with a Certified Sexual Addiction Therapist (CSAT) is critical to the outcome of sexual addiction therapy. CSATs are highly-trained trauma treatment specialists who help clients work through issues that untrained clinicians may leave unaddressed because CSATs understand the underlying wounds, experiences, patterns, and trauma that can lead to sexual addiction. But what about the partner […]
Brainspotting for Trauma Therapy
Trauma in our Minds and Bodies When most people hear the word “trauma,” they think about major life events. We call this “Big T trauma”—a car accident, rape, fighting in a war, or discovering an affair. Big T trauma ignites our fight, flight, or freeze survival instincts and can literally reshape our brain. Then there […]
Now What?! First Steps in Dealing with Betrayal Trauma
You just found out your partner has been unfaithful. You found porn on his phone. He confessed to years of infidelity. Your mind is spinning. You feel alone. Is he a sex addict? What does sex addiction even mean? You’re devastated, hurt, paranoid, and confused. The trust between you and your partner is broken, and […]