Email: Info@thrivebeyondtraumacounseling.com
Call: (248) 392- 3733
Counselling
Counselling
Porn & Sex Addiction Therapy in Farmington Hills
Available in-person and virtually across Michigan.
This addiction not about moral failure
Porn and sex addiction rarely develop because of desire.
They develop when the nervous system is overwhelmed and sexual stimulation becomes the fastest way to:
- Numb emotional pain
- Escape distress
- Regulate anxiety
- Feel temporarily alive
- Quiet shame or loneliness
- Gain a sense of control
This is not weakness.
It’s a trauma-shaped survival strategy.
The nervous system learned long before you had words for what you were feeling.
*Porn and sex addiction are about relief, not desire.*
- Individuals struggling with porn or sex addiction
- People living in secrecy or shame
- Those who cannot “just stop”
- Partners seeking clarity and safety
- Couples impacted by compulsive sexual behavior
*If this feels familiar, you’re not alone.*
If you’re struggling with porn or sex addiction
- You promise yourself you’ll stop — “and can’t”
- Urges feel compulsive rather than intentional
- Secrecy or hiding is part of the pattern
- Your relationship, work, or self-trust is being affected
- Shame follows the behavior, then pulls you back again
- Stress, loneliness, or emotional pain – trigger acting out
- Escalation has occurred over time
*Compulsion is a nervous-system signal, not a character flaw.*
What Porn and Sex Addiction Really Are?
- Compulsive coping strategies
- Trauma linked regulation patterns
- Attachment wounds
- Conditioned dopamine loops
- Shame-driven cycles
- Low morals
- Lack of discipline
- Hypersexuality
*The addiction is to regulation — Not sex itself.*
Porn and sexual acting-out activate powerful brain pathways:
- Dopamine surges → Short term relief
- Tolerance → Escalation
- Withdrawal → Irritability, anxiety, restlessness
- Shame → Emotional distress → Renewed urges
- The part that desperately wants to stop
- The part that feels unable to
*This cycle is neurobiological — Not a failure of willpower.*
Trauma Root
Porn and sex addiction are often rooted in:
- Boundary violations or sexual coercion
- Shame based environments
- Insecure attachment
- Abandonment wounds
- Early exposure to sexual content
- Chronic loneliness
- Unresolved trauma
- Emotional neglect
*Addiction begins as a solution — Until it becomes the problem.*
Our Approach
Thrive Beyond Trauma Counseling provides specialized, trauma-informed care for porn and sex addiction, including:
- CSAT Model (30-Task Framework)
- CMAT Model (30-Task Framework)
- APSATS (trauma informed partner sensitive care)
- ERCEM (trauma sequenced couples model)
- Somatic therapy for urge regulation
- Parts work for shame reduction
- EMDR for trauma and trigger processing
- Hypnotherapy for subconscious patterns
- Identity repair and relapse prevention
*Healing happens when trauma, attachment, and regulation are addressed together.*
Recovery is not about white-knuckling or perfection
It usually includes:
- Reducing secrecy
- Calming urges
- Regulating the nervous system
- Somatic Work
- Attachment Repair
- EMDR
- Hypnotherapy
- Restoring self-trust
- Honesty
- Emotional presence
- Resilience
- Relapse prevention
- Healthy sexuality
*Recovery is a healing process — Not behavioral control.*
Impact On Partners
- Panic and hypervigilance
- Intrusive thoughts
- Sleep disturbance
- Emotional flooding
- Loss of safety and trust
- APSATS-informed partner care
- Stabilization and validation
- Boundary and safety planning
- Structured disclosure support
*Addiction recovery must include partner safety.*
If porn or sexual behavior has become the way your body copes
And it no longer feels manageable on your own
Support can help.
You don’t need to be sure yet.
You don’t need to have it all figured out.
You don’t need to stop everything first.
We offer structured, ethical, trauma-informed care for Porn and Sex Addiction
and the patterns underneath it.
*You don’t have to do this alone.*