Sexual addiction can destroy a relationship and drive feelings of loneliness, shame, and guilt. Forty million adults in the United States admit to viewing pornography regularly, while 10% acknowledge that they cannot stop. You might be hiding your compulsive sexual behavior from your partner, or they have just discovered it.

What is Sexual Compulsive Behavior?

At Richer Life Counseling Las Vegas, we view any compulsive behavior from substances such as alcohol, sugar, and drugs, to process behavior such as gambling, pornography, and shopping as all ways to numb out. When you engage in problematic behavior, your brains get a rush of feel-good chemicals, and you start to crave these feelings over and over again. With time, we need to have more and more substance to have the same feeling.

Sexual addiction, pornography addiction, can be used to numb out. You start thinking about your sexual behavior, and you cannot stop thinking about it until you act out the behavior. Maybe you spend hours a day disconnected from your relationship, looking for a sexual connection. Ofte,n pornography addiction or sexual addiction starts as a way for you to escape emotional problems in your life. It might feel like you cannot just stop your sexual behavior. That is because your brain has developed pathways of dealing with emotions through numbing out.

When using sex as a way to numb out, you can lose the joy in the act and start to feel loneliness, shame, and guilt. We help our clients stop unwanted sexual behavior and learn to develop healthy sexual behavior. Our clients can learn to connect and understand what drives their unwanted sexual behavior.

Treatment Services

Pornography Addiction Therapy

Hiding porn from your partner, fighting about your use of porn, and just feelings of shame and guilt around your use of pornography. Your use of pornography could be keeping you from having the type of relationship you would like or damaging the relationship you already have. Pornography addiction has become a silent epidemic that affects so many.

Signs and Symptoms of Pornography Addiction

Obsessing with pornography. It feels like you can’t stop, viewing it multiple times a day, viewing it in the bathroom, in public, while driving, or at work.
You spend more time watching pornography than you do in other enjoyable activities.
Spend less time with others.
You avoid spending time attending to personal responsibilities.
Feel shame and guilt after viewing pornography.
Spending more money than you should on pornography.
Have cravings to view more pornography, feeling triggered throughout the day.
You lost time spending hours viewing pornography or trying to sneak it in as often as you can.
Losing interest in sex.
You have injured yourself by masturbating.

Start your recovery from pornography addiction today. Learn more about how porn addiction could be affecting your life. Contact us today to get started with your pornography addiction treatment.

Sexual Addiction Therapy

Sexually compulsive behavior can include pornography addiction, but also includes other sexual behaviors. These behaviors can create feelings of distress, hopelessness, shame, and guilt. You might have tried to stop these sexually compulsive behaviors, yet you keep acting out sexually. Your sexual behavior is ruining your relationship, could be costing you your job, and is putting you in dangerous, high-risk situations.

Signs and Symptoms of Sexual Addiction

Ways of Sexually Acting Out

Pornography Overuse – viewing multiple times away, spending hours at a time.
Prostitution – seeing escorts, massage parlors.
Chronic Masturbation – With or without viewing pornography, with the possibility of injury.
Exhibitionism or Voyeurism (without consent).
Having multiple affairs.
Risk-taking sexual behaviors – multiple partners, unprotected sex.
Spending more money and time than you would like in the pursuit of sex.
Sending sexual images via text or sexting to someone outside of your relationship agreements.

Effect of Sex Addiction

Experiencing a decline in personal relationships, social, and family engagement,
Lower concentration and productive at work,
Sexual dysfunction.
Sexually transmitted infections (STIs).
Anxiety.
Depression.
Substance misuse or abuse.

Start your recovery from sex addiction today. Learn more about how your sexual addiction could be affecting your life. Contact us today to get started with your sexual addiction treatment.

Porn & Sex Addiction Intensive Outpatient Program

The Richer Life Recovery Intensive Outpatient Program in Las Vegas offers a structured, therapist-led approach to overcoming sexual addiction and compulsive behaviors. Designed for individuals seeking a balance between intensive treatment and daily responsibilities, this program combines the flexibility of outpatient care with the depth of therapeutic support. Participants engage in process groups, facilitated by licensed therapists, and utilize workbooks from the accompanying online program as a supplement to therapy. This integration ensures a comprehensive treatment experience that addresses both the psychological and behavioral aspects of recovery. The program is structured over 12 months, providing participants with sustained support and the tools necessary for lasting recovery. With a monthly fee of $150, the recovery group offers full access to the online program, making it a cost-effective option for those committed to their healing journey. An initial assessment session is required to ensure a good fit for the process group, ensuring that each participant receives personalized and effective care.

Sexual Addiction & Pornography Addiction: Couples Counseling

Affairs, infidelities, looking at porn, and hiding it all create a breach of trust in the relationship. No matter what compulsive sexual behavior you have or your partner has, it is hurting your relationship. The intense feeling of pain and hurt, along with shame and guilt, can start to be healed with couples counseling. Couples can overcome sex addiction or porn addiction; it just takes time.

If you are ready to start to heal your relationship from the hurt and the pain that comes from a partner who has a sexual addiction & pornography addiction, contact us today. Couples counseling will be a safe place to explore all the pain and hurt and learn how to heal.

Therapeutic Disclosure

In the process of therapeutic disclosure, several challenges frequently arise. Sometimes disclosure happens in fragments rather than as a complete account, which can intensify mistrust and emotional pain. Shame, secrecy, and denial may also prevent full recall, making it difficult for the addict to share everything at once. In addition, disclosure can carry legal and relational risks, such as consequences related to divorce or custody. Without proper structure and professional guidance, the process itself can even retraumatize the partner, overwhelming them instead of fostering healing. These challenges highlight the importance of guided disclosure, which creates safety, encourages honesty, and lays the foundation for lasting recovery.

Sexual Addiction Treatment & Pornography Addiction Treatment

Our clients want to change or limit their sexual numbing behavior. Both pornography addiction treatment and sexual addiction treatment include learning what your triggers are, how to develop new daily activities, understanding your own emotional cycle, and learning to connect in more personally meaningful ways. Our clients discover personal meaning in their own lives and learn how to connect in meaningful ways to friends, family, and intimate partners.

What Keeps You Away From Sexual Addiction Treatment Or Pornography Addiction Treatment

The therapist is going to judge me for my porn use?

That might be true if you are seeking out a therapist who doesn’t understand or has not worked with pornography addiction. It is not the therapist’s job to make any judgments about what you want. My clients learn to set their own bottom lines that work or don’t work for them. If you’re going to stop but can’t give up porn just yet, coming into therapy can help you understand what it does for you to keep using pornography.

Will you really understand our problems?

We might have different sexes, ages, and life experiences. It can be scary to open up to a stranger about personal problems. I am so honored to be in a profession that can help you on your journey. I strive to connect with you on an emotional level.

Why stay married after betrayal?

I’ve always told myself (and everyone else in my life) that if I were in a relationship where my partner had an affair(s), I would leave. We have heard this from many hurt partners that we work with. We have even heard that I left every other relationship when someone had an affair, but this one seems so hard to leave. There is never just one reason why you will want to stay and repair with your partner. It is hard work, it is painful work. But we have seen many couples who find that healing the pain of infidelity through affair therapy has provided them with a healthier, happier relationship.

Can a marriage work after finding out about sexual addiction or porn addiction?

Marriage can work after finding out. Marriage is a commitment to be there for your partner. Regardless of the reason for the addictive behavior, both partners can learn how to create a healthier marriage. Many couples will avoid thinking or talking about sexual compulsive behavior, but the hurt will linger on and come back at some point in the relationship if you do not address it. Clients with whom we have worked will not just heal the hurts of the sexual compulsive behavior but will leave therapy with a healthier relationship than ever before.

Why seek out a counselor who specializes in sexual addiction and pornography addiction?

Seeking a counselor specializing in sexual addiction and pornography addiction will lead to more profound healing. Many therapists might use their judgments about sex, sexual addiction, and pornography addiction when treating it. At Richer Life Counseling, we specialize in helping relationships heal from sexual addiction and pornography addiction. We have both certified sex therapists and certified sex addiction therapists on staff. We do more than hand out worksheets and discuss addition. Couples will learn to access what led to the breach of trust and how to safeguard their relationship from any future violations of trust.

Start Recovery From Sex Addiction and Pornography Addiction Today

If you or your partner is struggling with sexually compulsive behavior, Richer Life Counseling Las Vegas can help you today. Reach out to us with any questions below, or book directly with any one of our therapists listed below who work with sex and porn addiction.

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