Process & Behavioral Addiction Support

Love & Sex Addiction Support in Houston

Private, discreet recovery mentoring for sex, love, pornography, and relationship addiction, across Houston and The Heights. Compassionate, clinician-informed support for you and the people affected.

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Clinician-Informed  Private & Confidential  In-Person, Virtual & In-Home  Houston & The Heights

Why Mentoring Works

How sex and love addiction recovery mentoring actually helps

Sex and love addiction thrives in secrecy and shame, and it rarely responds to willpower alone. A recovery mentor offers steady, judgment-free structure and accountability in the real-life moments where recovery is won or lost.

Support without shame or judgment

A safe, discreet place to be honest, where recovery replaces secrecy with structure.

Accountability that interrupts the cycle

Regular check-ins and practical guardrails around triggers, devices, and high-risk situations.

A path to rebuild trust

Steady support for you and your partner as honesty, boundaries, and connection are slowly restored.

Is This Familiar

Signs sexual or relationship behavior has become compulsive

  • Behavior that continues despite real consequences
  • Escalating use of pornography or risky encounters
  • Secrecy, hiding, or lying about behavior
  • Using sex or fantasy to escape stress or emotion
  • Failed, honest attempts to stop or cut back
  • Damage to relationships, work, or self-respect
  • Shame, isolation, or a double life
  • Feeling powerless over the pattern

If this feels familiar, you are not alone, and change is possible. These patterns respond to honesty, structure, and the right support.

Our Support

Sex and love addiction support, built around your life

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Recovery Mentoring

Discreet, non-judgmental one-on-one mentoring for compulsive sexual behavior and love addiction. We meet the behavior, the triggers, and the shame directly and practically, so you can move from secrecy and self-blame toward real control and self-respect.

Recovery Coaching ›

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Accountability & Check-Ins

Regular, honest check-ins in a completely confidential space. These patterns survive on secrecy and shame, so steady, judgment-free accountability with someone you trust is often the single most powerful step toward change.

Behavioral Addiction Support ›

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Boundaries & Triggers

Practical work identifying your triggers and building the boundaries that recovery depends on. We map the situations, apps, and emotional states that drive the behavior and put real structure around them, so you are not relying on willpower in the moments you have the least.

Life Skills Coaching ›

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Urge & Coping Skills

Rehearsed tools for the urges when they surge, ready before the moment arrives. We help you understand what the behavior is really reaching for and build healthier ways to meet those needs, so the compulsion loses its grip over time.

Sober Coaching ›

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Partner & Relationship Repair

Support beginning to rebuild the trust and intimacy these patterns damage. When appropriate, we help you communicate honestly and take the concrete steps that let a relationship start to heal, at a pace that is realistic and sustainable.

Family Support ›

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Relapse Prevention

A clear plan for high-risk moments and a grounded, shame-free response if a slip happens. We rehearse the exits for your riskiest situations and agree in advance what to do, so a lapse becomes a lesson instead of a spiral back into secrecy.

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DISCREET, JUDGMENT-FREE SUPPORT

Shame keeps this hidden. Recovery starts when it is not.

Compulsive sexual behavior and love addiction are among the most isolating and stigmatized patterns there are, which keeps far too many people suffering in silence. Our mentoring offers a completely confidential, non-judgmental space to address the behavior, the triggers, and the shame together, so you can rebuild trust, control, and self-respect.

How It Works

How support begins

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A private conversation

Confidential and without pressure. We listen first and help you name what is really happening.

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A support plan

Built around your patterns, your triggers, and the shape of your week.

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Real-world support

Consistent presence between appointments and after treatment, where recovery is actually tested.

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Coordinated care

We work alongside your clinical team when one exists, or help you build one through Heights Behavioral Health.

Talk to someone, in complete confidence

A private, judgment-free conversation is the first step. We will help you find footing, whatever the last few months have looked like.

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Where Mentoring Fits

Non-clinical support that works with your care

Heights Mentoring is a private, non-clinical recovery support practice. We do not diagnose or provide therapy, psychiatry, or medical care. When those are the right next step, we coordinate with licensed providers and our sister clinical practice, Heights Behavioral Health, so nothing falls through the cracks.

Questions

Sex and love addiction questions, answered

Compulsive sexual behavior disorder is recognized in the ICD-11, and the clinical field treats these patterns seriously whatever term is used. The working definition is the same as any other addiction: continued behavior despite mounting harm, escalation over time, failed attempts to stop, and a life increasingly organized around access and concealment.

Directly, quietly and without moralising. Shame is the single biggest reason people delay getting help here, often by years, and it is also what keeps the behavior running. Everything is private-pay and confidential, boundaries are agreed in writing, and nobody is asked to perform contrition to earn support.

Because they address access rather than function. These behaviors almost always regulate something else: anxiety, loneliness, trauma, boredom or a relationship that stopped working. Remove the access without addressing the function and it moves somewhere else. Clinical treatment does that work; mentoring holds the daily structure around it.

Love addiction describes compulsive pursuit of romantic intensity: serial relationships, abandonment panic, staying far past the point of harm, and crashes between partners. The behavior looks different but the mechanism is the same, and the two frequently appear together.

Yes, and betrayal trauma is real and deserves its own support rather than being treated as a footnote to somebody else’s recovery. Partners get their own space through family support, and we coordinate with therapists who specialize in this area.

Certified Sex Addiction Therapist is a clinical credential, and our founder Joni Ogle holds it, which is why the clinical standards behind this service are set by someone who has treated these presentations for decades. The mentoring itself remains non-clinical and works alongside a treating therapist.

Yes. As a behavioral addiction it falls outside the restrictions applied to drug and alcohol services, so this support can be discussed and found openly.