Online Sex and Porn Addiction therapists in Carlsbad, California CA
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Nina Marikian
Marriage and Family Therapist, AMFT
Compulsive sexual behavior can feel like it’s controlling your life. I guide clients to understand triggers, break cycles, and build healthier patterns, reclaiming trust, intimacy, and a sense of agency over their sexual and emotional lives.
3 Years Experience
Online in Carlsbad, CA
Julien Moe
Hypnotherapist, Diploma in Clinical and Applied Hypnosis, Diploma in Life Coaching
Sex and pornography addiction can be treated using hypnotherapy, which aims to rewire subconscious patterns, reduce urges, and break addiction cycles by focusing on positive habit replacement. How Hypnotherapy Treats Porn/Sex Addiction:Rewiring the Brain: It helps change the brain’s dopamine-driven, rewarding link to pornography, reducing automatic urges.Subconscious Re-programming: Hypnotherapy can uncover and address the root causes of the addiction, including underlying shame or trauma.Behavioral Change: Techniques such as suggestion therapy, visualization, and regression are used to associate negative experiences with porn, while fostering healthier habits.
My clients addicted to sex and porn have been resilient and recovering due to my Dicit Hypnotherapy.
10 Years Experience
Online in Carlsbad, CA
Oksana Pueschel
Marriage and Family Therapist, Grad Dip Family Counselling
Using CBT, DBT and neurofeedback
19 Years Experience
Online in Carlsbad, CA
C&C Center for Healing
Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner, LCSW, LMFT, LPCC, PMHNP
We provide nonjudgmental, evidence-based treatment for individuals struggling with compulsive sexual behaviors. Care may include therapy and psychiatric support when appropriate, with a focus on insight, accountability, emotional regulation, and long-term change.
8 Years Experience
Online in Carlsbad, CA
Rising Pines Counseling Services
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW)
I support individuals seeking help with compulsive sexual behaviors in a non-judgmental space. Therapy focuses on understanding patterns, strengthening impulse control, and restoring healthy relationships with self and others.
11 Years Experience
Online in Carlsbad, CA (Online Only)
Laura Anderson LPCC, Eff Shame Therapy
Licensed Professional Counselor, LPCC
Problematic sexual behaviors — including compulsive porn use — are rarely about sex itself. They are most often about pain, disconnection, shame, or a nervous system looking for relief. I work from a harm reduction, client-centered approach using CBT, DBT, Motivational Interviewing, and trauma-focused methods to understand what's underneath the behavior and actually address it. I do not work from a twelve-step or "sex addiction" framework — not because I dismiss your struggle, but because shame-based models tend to create more of the very thing driving the behavior in the first place. You are not broken. Let's figure out what's actually going on.
12 Years Experience
Online in Carlsbad, CA (Online Only)
Viktoria Walda Byczkiewicz, Ph.D.
Pre-Licensed Professional, PhD
I offer a confidential space to discuss your behaviors, compulsions, related concerns, and any aspect of yourself that you may either wish to change or hold onto. Let us explore, in an honest and shame-free atmosphere, how you relate to yourself and others through fantasy and the body to understand yourself, your desires, and your needs more deeply. If you are facing legal problems or the dissolution of valued relationships owing to sexual addiction, let us find ways to cope and change, if and when you are ready.
10 Years Experience
Online in Carlsbad, CA (Online Only)
Don ( "Dr Don" ) Etkes
Marriage and Family Therapist, Ph.D., MFT
For over 30 years I have helped hundreds of men and women to discover ways of healing from sex addiction and moving toward healthy sensuality and a fulfilling life.
39 Years Experience
Online in Carlsbad, CA
Barry Ross
Psychologist, Ph.D.
I am a psychologist, marriage family therapist, bioenergetic analyst, and psychoanalyst with more than 30 years of clinical experience in treating adolescents, adults, and marital couples. I am skilled in helping a person to feel understood and related to in a new and helpful way.
42 Years Experience
Online in Carlsbad, CA
Christian Holmes
Marriage and Family Therapist, M.A., Associate Marriage and Family Therapist
Sex addiction is arguably the biggest thing nobody talks about. Often times it goes unnoticed and therefore unaddressed. Sexual addiction is something that keeps us from the connection we know intrinsically we are made to experience. In our work together I help you get to the root issues that underly your sexual addiction so can experience the love, connection, and peace you are really after.
8 Years Experience
Online in Carlsbad, CA
Chris 'Bucky' Bateman
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT
Pornography and sexual compulsivity can quietly devastate relationships and erode a person's sense of self. We provide compassionate, non-shaming support for individuals and couples navigating the impact of porn addiction helping clients understand what drives the behavior, rebuild trust with their partner, and develop healthier patterns of intimacy and connection.
21 Years Experience
Online in Carlsbad, CA
Frankie Santiago
Life Coach, Professional Life Coach
I support men and women in overcoming sex and porn addiction through practical, judgment-free life coaching. We focus on understanding triggers, building healthy habits and boundaries, rebuilding self-control, and addressing the underlying challenges that fuel the cycle. Sessions emphasize actionable strategies, accountability, and tools for long-term freedom so you can regain balance, improve relationships, and restore energy and focus in your life. Recovery is possible — if you’re ready to take that step, I offer a free 15 minute initial consultation to explore how we can create a personalized path forward.
15 Years Experience
Online in Carlsbad, CA (Online Only)
Adam Silverstein
Marriage and Family Therapist, MA, LMFT, CSAT
The clients I work with seek out my support in dealing with unhealthy sexual choices that are impacting their careers, performance, goals and negatively impacting important relationships. I help my clients with focused support and practical tools to heal, grow, and move forward.
12 Years Experience
Online in Carlsbad, CA
New Beginnings Christian Counseling
Marriage and Family Therapist, MA, LMFT
Struggling with sex or porn addiction can feel isolating, shame-filled, and disruptive to relationships, self-esteem, and spiritual life. In therapy, we provide a safe, nonjudgmental space to explore the underlying causes of addictive behaviors—often rooted in trauma, attachment wounds, or emotional struggles—and develop practical strategies for recovery. With Christ-centered guidance, clients learn to establish healthy boundaries, rebuild intimacy, restore self-worth, and cultivate emotional and spiritual healing, moving toward freedom, accountability, and lasting transformation.
15 Years Experience
Online in Carlsbad, CA
Kristin Robert
Marriage and Family Therapist, AMFT
I work with sex addiction by addressing compulsive sexual behaviors within the context of emotional regulation, attachment, and relational impact. Therapy focuses on accountability, reducing secrecy and shame, and supporting healthier patterns that align with personal values and relational integrity.
3 Years Experience
Online in Carlsbad, CA
Empowered Wellbeing, Decolonizing Intersectional and Integrative Complex Trauma & Dissociation Recovery Support
Life Coach, view my credentials online at: www.recoveringfromwithin.com/credentialslongform
Sex Addiction can accompany instances of trauma and/or adaptation to a pervasive culture of objectification and low intimacy cultivation. It can also be a coping strategy in disaster capitalism. Blending other addiction recovery models, TIST, Internal Family Systems (IFS), Attachment Theory, Neuordevelopmental Models, Relational Life Therapy, Reinvent, Patrick Carnes' work and sex and intimacy 12 Step Recovery Principles and Literature from SAA, SLAA and CoSA; along with Traditional Chinese Medicine acupressure and careful trauma support clients may redefine intimacy from a place of agency and renewed self-respect.
15 Years Experience
Online in Carlsbad, CA (Online Only)
Dr. Ingrid Solano
Psychologist, PhD
Sex therapy encapsulates everything that goes on in the mind, body and thoughts around sex.
15 Years Experience
Online in Carlsbad, CA
David Sudyka
Marriage and Family Therapist, Marriage & Family Therapist, LMFT, MA
Compulsive sexual behaviors or pornography use can feel difficult to control and may impact your relationships, self image, and daily life. You may feel shame or frustration about patterns that are hard to change. In therapy we will focus on understanding what is driving these behaviors and building healthier ways to cope and connect. The goal is to help you regain a sense of control and develop a more balanced relationship with yourself and others.
4 Years Experience
Online in Carlsbad, CA (Online Only)
Maren Jorgensen
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT, CST
I offer a compassionate, non-judgmental and non-pathologizing alternative to sex addiction treatment. Porn and sex are nothing to feel shameful about. Let’s address underlying compulsivity, trauma, and stress instead.
9 Years Experience
Online in Carlsbad, CA (Online Only)
Sex and Porn Addiction therapists in Carlsbad, California Statistics
Sex and Porn Addiction therapists in Carlsbad, California average 15 years of experience and charge around $217 per session. 100% offer online sessions. The most commonly treated issues are Sex and Porn Addiction (100%), Relationship and Marriage Counseling (74%), and Depression (72%).
Average years in practice
15 Years Experience
Average cost per session
$217
Gender ID
| 57% |
Male |
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| 34% |
Female |
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| 5% |
Non-Binary |
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| 4% |
Gender Fluid |
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Session Type
| 70% |
In Person and Online |
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| 30% |
Online Only |
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Top Specialties
| 100% | Sex and Porn Addiction |
| 74% | Relationship and Marriage Counseling |
| 72% | Depression |
| 72% | Trauma and PTSD |
| 68% | Anxiety or Fears |
| 62% | Men’s Issues |
| 62% | Loss or Grief |