Sex and Porn Addiction Therapists in Hillsboro, OR

Sexual addiction is rarely about sex. It is about the need beneath the behavior—the longing for comfort, closeness, relief, or escape when life feels overwhelming or emotionally out of reach. Many men carry shame about the ways they cope with loneliness, stress, anxiety, or disconnection, especially when their coping involves pornography, affairs, or secret sexual behavior. You may have tried to stop many times, promised yourself it would be different, or felt the cycle of guilt and remorse that seems to repeat itself. The behavior is not the real problem—it’s a response to something deeper that was never given a safe place to be seen or understood. My work with men around sexual compulsivity is grounded in compassion, truth, and embodiment. We slow down the cycle to understand what the behavior is trying to soothe—emotional numbness, unspoken shame, unresolved relational wounds, grief, stress, or the feeling of being overwhelmed and alone. We look at how your nervous system responds to pressure, how you learned to cope, and what it feels like when you try to connect in ways that are real. The goal is not just to stop the behavior. The goal is to help you feel again—to be in your body, in your relationships, and in your life with openness and presence. Sex is powerful because it is wired to connect us. When that need for connection becomes tangled, hidden, or carried alone, it can turn into desperation or secrecy. But when we bring compassion and awareness to the underlying need, the impulse begins to soften. You learn how to soothe yourself in healthy ways, how to connect without fear, and how to stand in your integrity—not from willpower, but from wholeness. You are not broken. There is a deeper story inside you that is asking to be heard.

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.

Compulsive sexual behavior and pornography use can create shame, isolation, and relationship strain. We help clients understand the underlying drivers of these behaviors, build healthier coping strategies, and restore a sense of control and alignment with their values.

Sexual and pornography addictions can develop as patterns of behavior that provide temporary relief from stress, loneliness, or difficult emotions, while also leading to secrecy, shame, or strain in relationships. In some instances, these patterns may also begin to affect a person’s professional life and overall well-being. In therapy we explore both the behavior itself and the emotional and relational dynamics that may be sustaining it, recognizing that these patterns can offer important clues about deeper needs or struggles. As understanding deepens and new ways of coping emerge, many people begin to experience greater self-control, increased openness in relationships, and a renewed sense of balance in their lives.

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.

Hillsboro is home to Intel's largest site and the anchor of Oregon's Silicon Forest technology corridor, hosting a dense concentration of semiconductor, electronics, and technology companies that makes it one of the most significant tech manufacturing hubs in the United States. The city has grown substantially as a result of tech sector employment and has a notably diverse population including significant Latino and Asian communities alongside the technical workforce, many of whom have relocated for Intel or other tech employment. Washington County Mental Health provides public behavioral health services, and a growing private therapy sector serves the professional community. Common therapy concerns include tech industry stress and burnout, immigration and acculturation for the city's large immigrant workforce, economic anxiety amid semiconductor industry cycles, and the relocation and community-building challenges of a workforce that has often moved significant distances for career opportunities.

Gender ID

	51%	Male
	33%	Female
	8%	Gender Fluid
	8%	Non-Binary

Session Type

	56%	Online Only
	44%	In Person and Online

Top Treatment Approaches

33%	Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT)
33%	Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
22%	Behavioral Therapy
22%	Hypnotherapy
22%	Internal Family Systems (IFS)
22%	Relational Psychotherapy
11%	Biopsychosocial Therapy

Ages Served

100%	Adult
44%	Senior
33%	Young Adult
22%	Children
11%	Teen

Client Focus

67%	Men
44%	LGBTQ+
44%	Women
33%	Christian
33%	Military / Veterans

Sex and Porn Addiction therapists in Hillsboro, Oregon OR

Chuck Chapman

Maren Jorgensen

OneYou Psychology

Gary D. Alexander

Julien Moe