Online Sex and Porn Addiction therapists in Santa Cruz, California CA
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Sex/Porn Addiction
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 Santa Cruz, CA
Sex/Porn Addiction
Integrative Psychotherapy Group
Marriage and Family Therapist
We work with clients who express issues or concerns with Sexual Addiction.
10 Years Experience
Online in Santa Cruz, CA
Sex/Porn Addiction
Diaspora Therapy Group
Marriage and Family Therapist, DSW, LMFT
We provide non-shaming support for individuals struggling with compulsive sexual behaviors. We explore underlying emotional drivers, attachment patterns, and coping strategies while building accountability and healthier relationships. Our approach is trauma-informed, respectful, and goal-oriented.
7 Years Experience
Online in Santa Cruz, CA
Sex/Porn Addiction
Dennis Sapire
Psychologist, JD PhD
Despite my generally sex positive therapeutic orientation, I am frequently asked to treat people suffering negative consequences of sexual behavior.
24 Years Experience
Online in Santa Cruz, CA
Sex/Porn Addiction
Douglairian psychology apc
Marriage and Family Therapist, Lmft
I offer a compassionate, non-shaming alternative to sex addiction treatment—one that focuses on understanding, choice, and sexual health, rather than labels or lifelong pathology. I work with individuals struggling with out-of-control sexual behavior, compulsive pornography use, infidelity, sexual shame, and relationship distress. Instead of viewing sexuality as the problem, we look at how sexual behavior functions in your life and what it is trying to regulate or communicate.
5 Years Experience
Online in Santa Cruz, CA (Online Only)
Sex/Porn Addiction
Sexual Recovery Coach
Counselor/Therapist, PhD, CST, CADC-III, CTA-CC
Sexual addiction carries with it a degree of secrecy, and often shame, that other addictions do not have to deal with. The worst part of a sexual addiction for many is the compulsion to do things that are outside their personal value system. When a person behaves in a way that is not congruent with their moral compass, it can create great distress and confusion. My program to treat this addiction is based on proven techniques involving cognitive-behavioral, trauma-centered, and neurological components. Over time we can help you rewire your brain so that these compulsions no longer drive you.
20 Years Experience
Online in Santa Cruz, CA
Sex/Porn Addiction
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 Santa Cruz, CA
Sex/Porn Addiction
Monica M. Huston
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT
Compulsive sexual behaviors often serve as a way to manage stress, disconnection, or difficult emotions. I work with individuals to understand the underlying patterns driving these behaviors, rather than only focusing on stopping them. Through this work, clients develop greater awareness, stronger boundaries, and more intentional ways of relating to themselves and others.
9 Years Experience
Online in Santa Cruz, CA
Sex/Porn Addiction
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 Santa Cruz, CA
Sex/Porn Addiction
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 Santa Cruz, CA (Online Only)
Sex/Porn Addiction
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 Santa Cruz, CA
Sex/Porn Addiction
Bruce Howard
Psychologist, PhD
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43 Years Experience
Online in Santa Cruz, CA
Sex/Porn Addiction
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 Santa Cruz, CA (Online Only)
Sex/Porn Addiction
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 Santa Cruz, CA (Online Only)
Sex/Porn Addiction
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 Santa Cruz, CA (Online Only)
Sex/Porn Addiction
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 Santa Cruz, CA
Sex/Porn Addiction
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 Santa Cruz, CA
Sex/Porn Addiction
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 Santa Cruz, CA (Online Only)
Sex/Porn Addiction
Luis Maimoni
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT
Sex addiction is something that is frequently discussed in the media, but there is no "official diagnosis" for it in the DSM-5, our diagnostic manual. Some say this is because there is insufficient research on the topic.
The clients I've met with who have believed themselves to be "sex addicts" were actually using sex to cope with another issue. Once the other issue was identified and treated, the need to engage in the unhelpful sexual coping activity was greatly reduced. I can't promise you the same result, but I can promise to treat you respect as we work together to understand what is driving the behavior you are seeking to reduce.
14 Years Experience
Online in Santa Cruz, CA
Sex/Porn Addiction
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 Santa Cruz, CA
Sex and Porn Addiction therapists in Santa Cruz, California Statistics
Sex and Porn Addiction therapists in Santa Cruz, 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% | Loss or Grief |
| 62% | Men’s Issues |