This was never about willpower. It’s about how you learned to cope — and how you can change it.
If compulsive sexual behavior has taken more from your life than you ever intended, you are not weak or beyond help. The behavior began as a way to soothe a nervous system under strain — and what was learned can be understood, interrupted, and replaced. The Sex Addiction Intensive is a private, one-on-one weekend built on attachment science, nervous-system regulation, and proven recovery structure, guided by a CSAT-trained clinician with deep experience in this work.
“Compulsive sexual behavior is best understood as an attachment and regulation issue — not a moral failing. Understanding that isn’t an excuse; it’s the key that finally makes change possible.”
— The recovery approach at LifeWorks Recovery
Who This Intensive Is For
This private, one-on-one intensive is for individuals ready for a structured, compassionate path toward real change.
Compulsive Behavior
For individuals whose sexual behavior or pornography use has become compulsive and costly.
Beyond Willpower
For people who’ve tried to stop through sheer willpower and been discouraged when it didn’t hold.
Preparing for Repair
For partners preparing to do repair work in a couple’s Safe Harbor Intensive.
Ready for Change
For anyone ready for a private, structured, compassionate path toward lasting change.
A Compassionate, Science-Based Frame
Three Movements of Recovery
The work moves through three interlocking movements — steady yourself, build the structure that holds, and rebuild your capacity for real closeness.
Self-Regulation
Learning to calm and steady your own nervous system — grounding, distress tolerance, and interrupting the trance and craving cycle before it takes over.
Outer-Regulation
Building external structure that holds when willpower wobbles — accountability, boundaries, environmental changes, a sponsor and community, and a concrete relapse-prevention plan.
Inter-Regulation
Repairing your capacity for real closeness — moving from arousal-as-coping toward genuine intimacy and safe, secure connection.
Built on the ANCHOR Model™
This intensive is delivered through the ANCHOR Model™ — our original, attachment-based, trauma-informed approach. As individual work, it leans most on Attune & Stabilize (self-regulation) and Renew & Resource (outer structure and lasting recovery), while preparing you for the honesty of Name the Truth if you go on to do couple’s disclosure in a Safe Harbor Intensive.
What the Weekend Looks Like
The Sex Addiction Intensive is usually scheduled across Friday evening, Saturday, and Sunday for a total of 16 or 20 hours, customized to you.
Reframe & Define
Assessment feedback, defining sobriety, and the psychoeducation that reframes the behavior through attachment and neuroscience.
The Working Day
Self-regulation skills, mapping your cycle and rituals, and moving into the roots — including shame, grief, and family-of-origin.
Structure & Connection
Building outer structure (12-Step engagement, accountability, relapse prevention) and beginning inter-regulation — preparing, if relevant, for disclosure to your partner.
Pairs with the couple’s Safe Harbor Intensive. If you have a partner, individual recovery and relationship repair support each other. This intensive can run before or alongside the couple’s Safe Harbor Intensive, with a coordinated handoff into trauma-informed disclosure. We’ll help you sequence them.
16-Hour or 20-Hour
Set together at your brief, free upfront consultation.
Why people trust us with this
When the stakes are this high, who you do this work with matters.
Your Investment
Choosing to face compulsive sexual behavior takes real courage — and it’s one of the most important investments you can make in yourself, your integrity, and the people you love. In one focused weekend you can begin to break free of the patterns that have been running the show, reaching what often takes months of weekly work.
Because every intensive is built entirely around you — your history, your pace, and whether a 16- or 20-hour format fits — we set the scope and talk through the investment together at your free, confidential consultation. Your weekend includes a private space in Addison, all materials, and refreshments throughout; comfortable lodging and dining are nearby.
Common Questions
Is this the same as saying I have “no self-control”?
No — quite the opposite. The whole premise is that this isn’t a willpower problem, and that understanding the real drivers is what makes lasting change possible.
Is it confidential?
Yes. This is a private, one-on-one intensive in a discreet space in Addison.
Do I have to involve my partner?
Not for this intensive — it’s individual work. If you have a partner, we can coordinate with a Safe Harbor Intensive when you’re both ready.
Will I have to talk about explicit details?
The work is honest but non-graphic. We focus on patterns, triggers, and recovery — not explicit content.
What happens after the weekend?
You leave with a concrete recovery and relapse-prevention plan, plus recommendations for ongoing support like groups and continued work.
Dallas Counseling Office
LifeWorks Recovery Counseling Center
4201 Spring Valley Road, Suite 1430
Dallas, TX 75244
Explore Related Programs
Individual work is strongest with support around it. These LifeWorks programs are most often paired with the Sex Addiction Intensive.
Problematic Sexual Behavior Group
A weekly, trauma-informed process group for compulsive or problematic sexual behavior — structure, accountability, and honest community for the long work of change.
Betrayal Trauma Intensive
If your partner is carrying betrayal trauma, they have their own private path — a one-on-one intensive built entirely around their healing.
All Couples Intensives
When you’re ready to do the work together, our couples intensives — including Safe Harbor — carry recovery into the relationship.
Take the First Step, Privately
A confidential consultation is the simplest way to find out if the Sex Addiction Intensive is right for you. There’s no pressure — just a warm, honest conversation about where you are and what could help.