Online Therapy for Sex & Porn Addiction
Online Counseling for Sex and Porn Addiction in California | Online Treatment for Sex and Porn Addiction in California
Feeling overpowered by your sexual urges?
Sex and pornography may be dominating your every move.
You might have fallen into a habit of unruly and disruptive sexual acts, such as excessive masturbation despite physical harm or frequent sex outside your relationship. Or you may constantly choose to watch porn versus spending time with loved ones or completing essential tasks.
Although they bring a short-lived “high,” you know these actions are not benefiting you or the people you care about. You’ve done your best to hide or contain your impulses, but they keep coming back even stronger. So you feel embarrassed and powerless, almost at the mercy of a force that has taken over your world.
Take ownership of your sex journey.
Power Talk Therapy is a virtual practice focused on empowering adults to handle their life challenges—including those involving their sexual desires and behaviors.
We provide online sex and porn addiction therapy, among other counseling services, to adults across California.
Sex is an integral part of your well-being. But it doesn’t have to be a source of shame, worry, or distress—it can be a pleasurable, wholesome, and vibrant ride.
Let us guide you to heal what’s beneath your addiction and seize control of your sexual experiences.
Get in touch to start your recovery today.
What is sex or porn addiction?
Sex addiction is a pattern of compulsive sexual behavior that is hard to manage regardless of its harmful consequences on your health and others.
Porn addiction is the obsessive impulse to watch pornography despite how it might affect your functioning, relationships, and wellness.
It’s not about how much sex or sexual partners you have or how much porn you like to watch. There’s no standard threshold to measure from. It’s about whether these practices cause physical, mental, or emotional distress and interfere with your quality of life.
What is online therapy for sex and porn addiction?
Online therapy or counseling for sex and porn addiction aims to examine what’s behind your uncontrollable sexual behaviors or porn use and determine how to steer them in a healthier manner.
Sex and porn addiction therapy doesn’t involve engaging in any sexual activity with your therapist or within the virtual room. It consists of meeting with a counselor specialized in this area to discuss and address your addiction.
Do you need therapy for sex and porn addiction?
While sex and porn addiction are not recognized as clinical diagnoses in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), that doesn’t make them any less real or damaging.
Common signs of sex addiction:
- Excessive online sex, sexting, or masturbation
- Frequent risky sexual behaviors (e.g., prostitution, sex with prostitutes, unsafe sex, voyeurism, exhibitionism, regular attendance at sex clubs)
- Guilt, anxiety, or low self-worth related to sexual activity
- Hiding sexual conduct from others
- Inability to manage or stop sexual urges
- Obsessive thoughts about sex
- Putting sex ahead of family, school, job, relationships, and responsibilities
- Recurring infidelities or sexual affairs outside of your relationship
- Using sex to cope with other issues
Common signs of porn addiction:
- Extreme consumption of pornography that increases exponentially over time
- Inability to resist, quit, or cut down porn use
- Intrusive thoughts about porn
- Keeping porn habit secret from partner(s), family, and friends
- Prioritizing porn over school, work, home, and social events
- Reduced satisfaction when porn is not part of sexual encounters
- Shame or low self-esteem about watching porn
- Spending hours browsing or viewing porn (sometimes in public or social settings)
- Watching porn as a coping mechanism
Sex and porn addiction can cooccur, with some symptoms overlapping. They can also happen due to/along with stress, abuse, anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties, and trauma.
If you or someone you know struggles with these symptoms, therapy can help you regulate your sexual impulses.
How can online therapy help with sex and porn addiction?
Understanding the nature and impact of your addiction
You might be frustrated and conflicted because you don’t know where your addiction stems from. Is it a symptom of a bigger issue? A route to escape from other pressing challenges? Or are there any other factors involved?
The first step to recovery is to assess your sex and/or porn use history and current activity, as well as the triggers, emotions, and thoughts prompting dysfunctional sexual behaviors. Analyzing all aspects involved allows us to understand the origin and implications of your addiction and define the best course of treatment.
Fostering compassion and accountability
Failing to quit or restrain a behavior you know is hurting you and others can bring a lot of negative emotions. Shame, anger, fear, and disappointment may inundate you, making you feel helpless and alone.
A big part of therapy focuses on cultivating self-compassion, forgiveness, and acceptance. You are not here to be punished or shunned but to be seen and validated as a human being wanting to get better. As you advance in treatment, we’ll also boost your accountability by supporting you to set and enforce clear boundaries.
Restoring healthy sexual practices
Ultimately, you want to get a hold of these sexual urges while restoring your family harmony, work and school performance, and relationship with yourself and others.
Sex and porn addiction therapy offers effective strategies to navigate stressors and moderate sexual desires. You’ll learn wholesome and satisfying ways to approach sex, improve intimacy, and nurture your sexual well-being.
Above all, online therapy gives you the opportunity to go through this process from a safe and comfortable place—be it your bedroom, office, patio, or any other private space. And during a day and time that work for you.
Power Talk Therapy | Online sex and porn addiction therapists in California
Power Talk Therapy delivers online sex and porn addiction therapy to adults in English and Cantonese. Our services are available to California residents, including those living in San Francisco, Irvine, Newport Beach, Manhattan Beach, Laguna Beach, Palo Alto, Atherton, Los Altos, Belvedere, Palos Verdes, Beverly Hills, Santa Monica, and beyond.
Our counselor Simon Chan is a certified sex addiction therapist (CSAT), who has extensive experience unearthing the root of addiction and teaching practical skills to reduce sex engagement and porn use.
We work with adults from diverse backgrounds, sexual orientations, gender identities, and lifestyles, and we love to help members of the LGBTQIA+ community. When treating sex and porn addiction, we mainly use Dr. Patrick Carnes’ model—a successful 30-task program developed by one of the main leaders in the sex addiction field. And we mix in other methods as appropriate, such as cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and dialectical behavior therapy (DBT).
Talking about sex or compulsive sexual behaviors might be difficult at first. But we are here to serve you, not to pass judgment or condemn your actions. You are welcome in this online haven as you are—no need to hide or disguise your truth.
Ready to regain control?
If you or a loved one is enduring sex or porn addiction, please know things don’t have to be this way.
We’ll support you to lead a sustainable, balanced, and joyful sex life.
Call 949-229-3221 or contact us to book a free consultation.
