Sex, Porn, & Love Addiction
Often at the core of sex or love addiction is an impaired attachment that can prevent the individual from effectively bonding to a partner. Due to childhood trauma, insecure attachment or fear of intimacy exists. Sex or relationships are used as a way to meet unconscious needs, regulate emotions, or act out unresolved trauma. Those with porn addiction report being hooked to the accessibility, affordability, and anonymity of pornography. Regardless, people with sex, love, or porn addiction need to be greeted with deep compassion rather than shame and at the same time held accountable for hurting themselves and/or others. We also help individuals who may not be engaging in compulsive relational behavior but did not have healthy role models growing up and want help with co-dependency, please pleasing, navigating dating in a rapidly changing environment, or preparation for a healthy marriage.
PTSD & Complex Trauma
Healing from trauma is not a one size fits all process. That is why there have been several trauma therapies that have been developed such as Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT).
Betrayal Trauma
What do you do when you discover that your spouse has been having an affair or having sex with prostitutes? Who can you turn to that won’t tell you to just get over it or make you feel like you are to blame? Forty-one percent of married women have spouses who cheat and of those women seventy percent experience trauma from betrayal. That is a lot of women and a lot of pain. If your dreams of a happy life have been shattered, Dr. Rojas is here to help you heal and help you make the best decisions for you and/or your family.
Anxiety and Depression
Aaron T Beck developed cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) during the 1960’s when he noticed that clients’ negative thoughts often led to negative emotions which led to engaging in negative behaviors as coping mechanisms. By helping clients analyze how they evaluated events, he could help them see things from a different perspective which alleviated their negative emotions and behaviors.
