Michael Porter, LICSW
Licensed Sex & Love Addiction Therapist
Couples Therapy
Helping partners navigate the impact of compulsive sexual behaviors, restore honest communication, and establish healthy emotional boundaries.
Couples Counseling for Sex & Love Addiction
When sex or love addiction impacts a relationship, both partners experience immense pain, confusion, and fear. Couples therapy provides a safe, guided setting to evaluate the depth of the issue, establish safety, and create an individualized treatment roadmap.
Our comprehensive assessments examine past and present relational dynamics to determine risk levels and eliminate active behavioral risks that cause addictive patterns to persist.
Key Goals in Couples Therapy:
- Address compulsions, secret behaviors, and broken agreements openly and safely.
- Assess partner readiness for sobriety and emotional honesty in the relationship.
- Establish formal boundaries and structured disclosure protocols when appropriate.
- Rebuild emotional safety and differentiate healthy intimacy from addictive attachments.
Couples Sex Addiction Therapy
Focuses on halting high-risk sexual behavior (affairs, excessive porn use, solicitation) and restoring relational safety through structured accountability and therapeutic disclosure.
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Focuses on resolving anxious attachment, codependency, and intense relationship drama that prevents true emotional closeness and causes ongoing instability.
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The Center for Sex & Love Addiction provides couples therapy in Beverly, MA and via secure virtual sessions for residents of Massachusetts and Southern New Hampshire.
Couples Therapy — Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about relationship counseling when sex or love addiction is present.
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