Your Questions, Answered

  • If you struggle with unmanageability, often feel like your life is chaotic, or experience fear about what your future might look like, therapy is the right choice for you. If you are a part of a couple that has experienced betrayal, feel disconnected, or struggle to trust or regain trust then couples therapy could be beneficial.

  • Yes, absolutely. People can live in recovery from sexual addiction after focused work on managing their behaviors and understanding the root cause of their addiction. This process also involves making amends and working on repairing relationships they have damaged in addiction.

  • Yes, many couples rebuild stronger relationships after infidelity, but it requires accountability, transparency, structured support, and shared goals. It is a process that takes time, but many couples are grateful they endured the process.

  • Research shows that the initial trust building processing takes about 6 months to two years. This is developed through accountability, constant communication, and the addicts development of empathy.

  • Individual recovery focuses on sobriety and personal healing, while couples recovery focuses on rebuilding trust, intimacy, and relational safety.

  • The term personality disorder is used as way to describe what I consider to be “inflexible personality traits” that negative impact the ability to be in relationships with others in a healthy/productive way. This can be described in media as things like Narcissism, Borderline Personality Disorder, Antisocial behaviors, etc. I treat things like this through directive, “here and now” therapy meant to improve a person’s ability to have flexible personality traits.