Online Sex and Porn Addiction therapists in Potomac, Maryland MD
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Sex/Porn Addiction
Washington Psychological Wellness
Counselor/Therapist
Washington Psychological Wellness is a boutique-style mental health practice located in Gaithersburg, Maryland. At Washington Psychological Wellness, our clinicians have specialized training and expertise in the outpatient treatment of addictive-like habits (e.g., sexual addiction) in adolescents, teenagers, and adults. Our clinicians provide a non-judgmental collaborative environment in which one can take risks and explore different ways of thinking, feeling, and being. We aim to help you gain clarity about the underlying causes of your addiction, provide strategies to help you cope, and empower you to trust your inner voice and live each day authentically. Our therapists will tailor treatment to your unique needs. Treatment will include an integrative approach consisting of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), motivational interviewing, mindfulness meditation, solution-focused therapy, person-centered therapy, and other holistic and empirically validated therapeutic modalities. Our goal is to help you lead a life worth living. We are currently accepting new clients. Telehealth (online) therapy options are available. Call now to schedule your free 15-minute consultation!
12 Years Experience
Online in Potomac, MD
Sex/Porn Addiction
Stacy Brumage
Licensed Professional Counselor, LCP, LCPC
I specialize in providing compassionate support for partners of individuals struggling with sex addiction. Discovering that your partner has been struggling with sex addiction can be a devastating and traumatic experience, causing feelings of betrayal, confusion, and profound emotional pain. I understand the unique challenges partners face and are here to support you on your journey towards healing, restoration, and empowerment.
My approach to therapy for partners of sex addicts is grounded in creating a safe and nurturing space where you can explore your emotions, process your experiences, and rebuild a sense of trust and stability in your life. I offer individual and group therapy sessions tailored to address your concerns, and goals, providing a confidential space for you to express yourself and receive support without judgment.
Through my specialized CSAT trained therapy sessions, I help partners navigate the complexities of betrayal trauma, establish healthy boundaries, and develop coping strategies to manage the emotional rollercoaster of recovery. I provide education about sex addiction, support in understanding and processing feelings of grief and loss, and guidance in rebuilding self-esteem and self-worth.
I empower partners to reclaim their sense of agency, autonomy, and emotional well-being. I believe that healing from the impact of sex addiction is possible, and I’m committed to supporting partners on their journey towards healing, growth, and renewal.
If you're struggling to cope with the effects of your partner's sex addiction and seeking support to navigate this challenging journey, reach out for specialized therapy services for partners of sex addiction today. Together, let's embark on a path towards healing, restoration, and empowerment.
16 Years Experience
Online in Potomac, MD
Sex/Porn Addiction
Dr. Mike Strand
Psychologist, PsyD
Sex addiction can create a complex web of secrecy, shame, and guilt, disrupting personal relationships and self-image. In my practice, I approach these sensitive issues with understanding and confidentiality, acknowledging the strength it takes to seek help. Through tailored therapy, I provide guidance towards understanding triggers, developing healthier coping mechanisms, and rebuilding a sense of control and self-respect.
18 Years Experience
Online in Potomac, MD
Sex/Porn Addiction
Elisha S Lee
Counselor/Therapist, NCCA CTCC CPC
Sexual Addiction counseling services focus on addressing the patterns of compulsive sexual behaviors that negatively impact individuals' lives and relationships. It is an area of treatment that demands sensitivity, confidentiality, and a deep understanding of the underlying psychological factors.
Modalities and Support
* Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to identify and modify negative thought patterns and behaviors.
Motivational Interviewing to enhance an individual's motivation towards change and empower them to take active steps in their recovery.
* Psychotherapy that delves into past experiences and emotional factors contributing to addictive behaviors, providing insight and avenues for healing.
* Mindfulness-Based Relapse Prevention to instill techniques that help manage urges and maintain changes over time.
* Group therapy sessions that offer peer support, sharing of experiences, and mutual accountability in a professionally moderated setting.
Aims of Sexual Addiction Therapy
Our Sexual Addiction Therapy works towards:
* Providing a comprehensive understanding of sexual addiction and its effects on personal and interpersonal functioning.
* Developing tools and strategies to manage and curtail compulsive sexual behaviors.
* Supporting the building of a positive and healthy sexual identity.
* Restoring damaged relationships and improving communication and intimacy with partners.
* Promoting overall well-being by addressing co-occurring issues such as anxiety, depression, or substance use.
Recovery from sexual addiction is a process that often involves confronting difficult emotions and deep-seated patterns. Our Sexual Addiction therapy services are designed with the utmost care to help individuals gain control over their behaviors, rebuild their lives, and establish fulfilling connections that are not overshadowed by compulsion. Through a combination of evidence-based clinical methods and compassionate care, we provide the necessary resources and guidance for lasting change and recovery.
9 Years Experience
Online in Potomac, MD
Sex/Porn Addiction
Dr. Walter J. Matweychuk
Psychologist, Ph.D.
I have found that people who are addicted to sex need to understand the function the addiction is playing in their life. With this knowledge, the individual can better address their problems and desires. I also teach people skills for unconditionally accepting themselves as shame and self-downing will not help them overcome their issues in this sphere of life. Finally, I teach people how to cope with sexual urges that will get them into trouble and how to live meaningful lives.
36 Years Experience
Online in Potomac, MD
Sex/Porn Addiction
Dr. Patricia Webbink
Psychologist, MA and PhD in Clinical Psychology
I have worked with sex addicts who are addicted to online pornography and other objects and gadgets like dolls or other paraphernalia. Often deep work in the past uncovers early sexual abuse or other early experiences that have led to the addiction. This can lead to letting go of the
addiction. Please feel free to call for further information and/or a consultation: 301-229-8000.
56 Years Experience
Online in Potomac, MD
Sex/Porn Addiction
Daniel McNulty
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LMSW
I have found that integrating various therapeutic modalities with a holistic approach is effective in addressing sexual addiction. Drawing from techniques such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), and Accelerated Resolution Therapy, I assist clients in identifying triggers, managing impulses, and developing healthier coping strategies. Additionally, I incorporate Attachment-based approaches and Internal Family Systems (IFS) to explore underlying relational patterns and past traumas contributing to addictive behaviors, fostering self-awareness and facilitating healing in the journey towards recovery.
12 Years Experience
Online in Potomac, MD
Sex/Porn Addiction
Clear Path Counseling and Wellness Center
Licensed Professional Counselor, MA. LPC
Brad provides trauma-informed therapy for sexual addiction, compulsive sexual behaviors, pornography addiction, infidelity-related issues, and the relationship trauma that often accompanies these struggles. Sexual addiction can deeply impact trust, emotional intimacy, self-esteem, marriage, family stability, and overall emotional well-being, often creating cycles of secrecy, shame, guilt, anxiety, and disconnection within relationships.
Many high-functioning and high-achieving individuals silently struggle with compulsive sexual behaviors while appearing successful professionally or socially. Despite external success, these behaviors can create profound internal conflict, emotional distress, relationship instability, and feelings of isolation or loss of control. Partners often experience betrayal trauma, emotional pain, hypervigilance, and difficulty rebuilding trust after discovering compulsive sexual behaviors or infidelity.
Brad takes a holistic and trauma-focused approach to sexual addiction counseling, helping clients understand the deeper emotional and psychological factors driving compulsive behaviors. Sexual addiction is often connected to unresolved trauma, attachment wounds, emotional neglect, chronic stress, shame, dissociation, or unhealthy coping patterns developed over time. Therapy focuses not only on behavior change, but on understanding and healing the root causes contributing to the cycle.
As an experienced trauma therapist and EMDR therapist, Brad integrates EMDR therapy (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), trauma-informed counseling, emotional regulation strategies, and holistic therapeutic approaches to support meaningful and lasting recovery. Treatment focuses on reducing compulsive behaviors, resolving shame and guilt, improving emotional regulation, strengthening self-awareness, and helping clients develop healthier coping strategies and more authentic emotional connections.
Brad also works extensively with couples and relationship dynamics impacted by sexual addiction, betrayal trauma, and trust violations. Therapy may include rebuilding communication, restoring emotional safety, establishing healthy boundaries, and repairing trust within the relationship when appropriate. Partners are supported in understanding the impact of betrayal trauma while also creating healthier relational patterns moving forward.
Therapy provides a confidential, supportive, and non-judgmental environment where clients and couples can openly address painful experiences without shame or condemnation. The goal is not simply behavioral control, but deeper emotional healing, restored integrity, healthier relationships, and a renewed sense of self-worth and connection.
Healing and recovery are possible. With the right support, individuals and couples can move beyond cycles of addiction, shame, and disconnection to create healthier relationships built on trust, honesty, emotional intimacy, and lasting change.
Virtual counseling and online EMDR therapy sessions are available, providing confidential and convenient access to specialized trauma-focused therapy from the comfort and privacy of home.
28 Years Experience
Online in Potomac, MD (Online Only)
Sex/Porn Addiction
Dena Leibowitz
Counselor/Therapist, MS, LCADC, CHT, 500 RYT
Sex addiction like most addictions is a symptom of avoiding pain and pursuing pleasure to avoid pain. Take a deep dive and liberate yourself from the temptation and desires that are ruining your life.
36 Years Experience
Online in Potomac, MD
Sex/Porn Addiction
Asher Lipner
Psychologist, Ph.D., SRT
Many people struggling with pornography or compulsive sexual behavior feel trapped in cycles of secrecy, guilt, shame, and repeated attempts to “just stop.” I help clients understand the emotional, relational, and behavioral patterns driving these struggles while developing healthier coping strategies, greater emotional awareness, and stronger self-leadership. My approach combines psychodynamic therapy, behavioral strategies, trauma-informed work, and principles from 12-step recovery to support meaningful and lasting change.
25 Years Experience
Online in Potomac, MD
Sex/Porn Addiction
Dr. Brian Weir
Psychologist, PsyD
Do you feel you or your partner are a sex addict? Maybe, however not all sex behaviors constitute a sexual addiction, and sometimes the sex behaviors may be a manifestation of a different problem. Regardless of an addiction or not, I can help address these issues by identifying the triggers, mange impulses and urges, find healthy ways of changing the behaviors. Further, we will explore any deeper reasons behind the behaviors and address any underlying psychological or emotional issues that may contribute to sexual issues.
23 Years Experience
Online in Potomac, MD
Sex/Porn Addiction
Barry Lipscomb
Hypnotherapist, CHT
Using guided meditation and hypnotherapy, we work together to understand the underlying patterns and trauma that lead you to sexually compulsive behavior. I help you understand and heal what is underneath this destructive behavior. We tap into your own inner wisdom and intuition as a resource for healing and charting a healthy sexual expression for a more fulfilling and productive life.
6 Years Experience
Online in Potomac, MD
Sex/Porn Addiction
Peter Gould
Psychologist, Ph.D.
As a licensed clinical psychologist who treats sexual addiction, I provide compassionate and effective treatment for individuals struggling to manage sexual impulses that negatively affect their lives and relationships. My approach, informed by evidence-based therapies such as CBT, is customized to address the unique needs of each person.
22 Years Experience
Online in Potomac, MD (Online Only)
Sex/Porn Addiction
Dr. L A McCrae
Licensed Professional Counselor, LCADC, FOT, CCTP, CCTSA
We address Sexual Addiction with clinical depth and a fundamental rejection of shame-based religious or carceral models. As an addictions specialist, I help you understand the behavioral cycles you've used to survive, while building new pathways for intimacy and self-regulation. We focus on the "why" behind the behavior to help you reclaim your sexual and emotional agency.
7 Years Experience
Online in Potomac, MD
Sex/Porn Addiction
Dr. Christopher Lowery, DHSc, CLCP
Clinical Health Practitioner, Board-Certified Life Care Planner
This component provide the development of healthy coping strategies, manage urges, and build balanced, fulfilling relationships.
24 Years Experience
Online in Potomac, MD
Sex/Porn Addiction
Kari Carter
Life Coach, APSATS certified, ACC, CPC, ADOH
The impact of sex and porn addiction on a partner is profound and often traumatic. Discovery can lead to shock, hypervigilance, intrusive thoughts, body image struggles, and a deep rupture of emotional safety. My work focuses specifically on supporting the betrayed partner - not treating the addiction itself, but addressing the trauma response that follows it.
Using a partner-sensitive, trauma-informed model, I help clients stabilize their nervous system, establish protective boundaries, process betrayal wounds, and regain clarity about their next steps. Partners deserve support that validate the harm experienced rather than minimizing it or pathologizing their response.
Living alongside sex or porn addiction can leave you feeling unseen, unsafe, and questioning your worth. I specialize in supporting partners as they navigate the trauma of addiction-related betrayal, helping them move from chaos and confusion toward strength, clarity, and empowered decision-making.
3 Years Experience
Online in Potomac, MD (Online Only)
Sex/Porn Addiction
Dr Janice Caudill - Intensive Recovery Healing
Psychologist, PhD, CSAT-S, CCPS-S, CPTT-S, IAT, SEP
Dr Caudill is considered a leader in the field of sexual addiction and betrayal trauma. She is a CSAT supervisor and was one of the founding board members of APSATS, the organization that created a trauma model for treating sexually betrayed partners. Dr Caudill is author/co-author of multiple books for completing a full disclosure of sexual betrayal. The Intensive Recovery Healing team is comprised of CSATs, PSAPs, and APSATS trained betrayal trauma specialists. All members of the Intensive Recovery Healing team have advanced training in treating problematic sexual behaviors.
26 Years Experience
Online in Potomac, MD
Sex/Porn Addiction
Dr. Jeannine Pablo
Psychologist, LP, LCMHC, MLADC
Out-of-control sexual behaviors and chronic pornography consumption can severely destabilize an individual's relationships, career, and self-worth. Utilizing evidence-based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), parts of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), trauma therapy and addiction recovery frameworks, I help clients interrupt compulsive behavioral loops. Our clinical work focuses on identifying underlying neurobiological and emotional triggers, establishing clear behavioral boundaries, and repairing relational trust while developing healthy, integrated approaches to intimacy.
23 Years Experience
Online in Potomac, MD (Online Only)
Sex/Porn Addiction
Russell Beebe
Life Coach, Counselor, LCMHC, CSAT,
Compulsive pornography use and unhealthy sexual behaviors can leave you feeling stuck, frustrated, and disconnected from the life you want to live. If you've made repeated attempts to stop but continue returning to the same patterns, lasting change is possible. Our online recovery coaching program offers a structured system built around accountability, practical strategies, and consistent support. You'll learn how to establish healthy boundaries, identify and manage triggers, strengthen self-control, and build habits that support long-term recovery.
16 Years Experience
Online in Potomac, MD (Online Only)
Sex/Porn Addiction
Dr. Adam Shafer (Chicago, IL)
Psychologist, Psy. D., M.A.
Matters of intimacy can be physical in nature that, in some ways, connect with our emotional lives and can become more complicated as we grow into our relationships with others.
17 Years Experience
Online in Potomac, MD
Sex and Porn Addiction therapists in Potomac, Maryland Statistics
Sex and Porn Addiction therapists in Potomac, Maryland average 21 years of experience and charge around $233 per session. 100% offer online sessions. The most commonly treated issues are Sex and Porn Addiction (100%), Anxiety or Fears (79%), and Depression (67%).
Average years in practice
21 Years Experience
Average cost per session
$233
Gender ID
| 57% |
Male |
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| 32% |
Female |
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| 7% |
Non-Binary |
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| 4% |
Gender Fluid |
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Session Type
| 75% |
In Person and Online |
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| 25% |
Online Only |
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Top Specialties
| 100% | Sex and Porn Addiction |
| 79% | Anxiety or Fears |
| 67% | Depression |
| 67% | Trauma and PTSD |
| 63% | Addictions or Substance Abuse |
| 58% | Self Esteem |
| 58% | Social Anxiety |