Websites and Podcasts

Support for Sex Addiction, Betrayal Trauma, and Relationship Recovery

If you or someone you love is struggling with sex addiction, compulsive sexual behavior, pornography use, infidelity, or partner betrayal, the following resources may offer education, support, and guidance.

Sex Addiction, Pornography, and Recovery

1. Willow Tree Counseling – An Introduction to Sex Addiction and Betrayal
   An introductory educational course covering sex addiction from behavioral and neurological perspectives, the relationship between trauma and compulsive sexual behavior, treatment, betrayal trauma, therapeutic disclosure, and relationship healing.
2. SAA Recovery – Am I a Sex Addict?
   Sex Addicts Anonymous provides peer support for individuals seeking recovery from compulsive sexual behavior or sexual addiction.
3. Addiction Center – Sex Addiction Symptoms and Effects
   An educational overview of sex addiction, common symptoms, behavioral patterns, and available treatment resources.
4. Sex and Relationship Healing
   A free resource site from Seeking Integrity offering webinars, educational materials, support groups, and resources for individuals struggling with sex addiction and for betrayed partners.
5. Sex Help – IITAP Resources
   The International Institute for Trauma and Addiction Professionals provides education, treatment resources, professional referrals, and information related to sexual addiction and compulsive sexual behavior.
6. SMART Recovery – Sex Addiction and Recovery
   SMART Recovery provides tools and peer-support resources for managing addictive and problematic behaviors using evidence-informed self-management strategies.
7. Recovered Man – Matt Dobschuetz
   Home of the Porn Free Radio podcast and resources from Matt Dobschuetz, author of Porn Free: Becoming the Type of Man Who Does Not Look at Porn.

Betrayal Trauma, Infidelity, and Partner Support

8. Carol the Coach – Help Them Heal
   Resources for couples recovering from betrayal trauma, with an emphasis on empathy, relationship repair, accountability, and healing.
9. Beyond Affairs
   Brian and Anne Bercht provide resources for couples recovering from affairs, infidelity, and marital betrayal.
10. Bloom for Women
    Educational courses and resources designed to help women understand and recover from betrayal trauma.
11. Partners of Sex Addicts Resource Center – PoSARC
    Resources, education, and support for partners of individuals dealing with chronic sexual deception, infidelity, or compulsive sexual behavior.
12. Vicki Tidwell Palmer / Victoria Priya
    Resources focused on boundaries, betrayal recovery, relational healing, and personal growth.
13. Jane Does Well
    A Massachusetts nonprofit offering free divorce support, education, and community resources for women and mothers experiencing emotional and financial upheaval.

Relationships, Sexual Health, and Emotional Healing

14. Esther Perel
    Psychotherapist and author known for her work on relationships, intimacy, desire, infidelity, and modern partnership.
15. Dr. Joe Kort
    Psychotherapist, clinical sexologist, author, and founder of The Center for Relationship and Sexual Health. His work addresses sexuality, intimacy, relationships, sexual health, and LGBTQ+ issues.
16. Dr. Ramani
    Educational resources focused on narcissism, toxic relationship dynamics, emotional abuse, trauma recovery, boundaries, and emotional healing.

Social Media

Instagram

1. Peaceful Barb – DARVO
   A social-media resource discussing DARVO: Deny, Attack, and Reverse Victim and Offender.

Apps

The following apps may support emotional awareness, grounding, journaling, relaxation, CBT skills, trauma recovery, relationship communication, and therapeutic work.

Emotional Awareness, Grounding, and Self-Regulation

1. How We Feel
   A free emotional-awareness and well-being journal designed to help users identify emotions, recognize patterns, and practice emotional-regulation strategies.
2. The Tapping Solution
   Guided Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) tapping exercises, audio programs, meditations, and challenges intended to support stress reduction and emotional regulation.
3. Sorting Therapy
   A simple, low-stimulation color-sorting app designed for relaxation without timers, scoring, sound effects, or achievement systems.
4. Clarity – CBT Thought Diary
   A CBT-based mental-health app offering mood tracking, thought exercises, coping skills, journaling, and tools for stress, anxiety, and low mood.
5. Worry Dolls
   A digital journaling and anxiety-management app inspired by worry dolls and incorporating CBT and mindfulness concepts.

EMDR and Trauma-Focused Tools

6. Heal – Guided EMDR Therapy App
   A self-guided app offering EMDR-inspired exercises designed to support individuals working through trauma, anxiety, and emotional distress.
7. EMDR App
   An EMDR-oriented app designed for therapists and clients, with tools intended to support bilateral-stimulation work in person or remotely.
8. EMDR Tappers
   An app designed by researchers, veterans, and EMDR professionals that uses synchronized visual, auditory, and vibration-based bilateral stimulation.

Betrayal Trauma and Trauma Recovery

9. PTSD Coach
   A free app created by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and Department of Defense. It includes trauma education, symptom tracking, relaxation exercises, coping tools, stress-management strategies, and links to support. Although not specific to betrayal trauma, many of its grounding and trauma-management tools may be useful for individuals dealing with intense trauma responses after betrayal.
10. CPT Coach
    A treatment-companion app for people completing Cognitive Processing Therapy with a mental-health professional. CPT is an evidence-based treatment for PTSD that focuses on identifying and changing distressing trauma-related beliefs.
11. Mindfulness Coach
    A free app from the VA’s National Center for PTSD designed to teach mindfulness skills and support stress reduction. It can be useful for grounding, nervous-system regulation, and learning to observe difficult thoughts or emotions without immediately reacting to them.

Couples and Relationship Recovery

12. Gottman Card Decks
    A free relationship app from The Gottman Institute containing more than 1,000 prompts across multiple card decks. Couples can use the questions and exercises to strengthen friendship, communication, emotional intimacy, and connection.
13. Paired – Couples & Relationship App
    A relationship app built around brief daily questions, quizzes, games, and exercises designed to improve communication, manage conflict, and deepen connection. Partners can pair their accounts and privately share responses with one another.

A Note About Mental Health, Trauma, and Relationship Apps

Apps can be useful as supplemental tools, but they are not substitutes for individualized mental-health treatment.

Trauma-focused tools, including self-guided EMDR-style apps, should be used thoughtfully. EMDR and other trauma-focused treatment can bring up intense memories, emotions, physical sensations, or trauma responses. Individuals with significant trauma histories, dissociation, severe emotional flooding, or other complex symptoms may benefit from using these tools only with guidance from a qualified mental-health professional.

Apps such as PTSD Coach, Mindfulness Coach, How We Feel, Clarity, and other grounding or emotional-regulation tools may be helpful during betrayal-trauma recovery because they focus more on stabilization, recognizing emotions, coping with distress, and nervous-system regulation rather than intensive trauma processing.

Relationship apps can also support communication and connection, but they should not be used to pressure a betrayed partner into reconciliation, forgiveness, sexual intimacy, or relationship repair before adequate safety and stabilization have been established.

Following sexual betrayal, the immediate goal may be emotional and physical safety, stabilization, accurate information, boundaries, support, and time to process what has occurred. Relationship-building tools may become more appropriate as both partners develop greater safety, accountability, empathy, and readiness for repair.

Apps are most helpful when they support, rather than replace, the broader recovery process, which may include individual therapy, couples therapy, support groups, psychiatric care, trauma treatment, accountability work, therapeutic disclosure, and other individualized resources.

Podcasts

Betrayal Trauma, Sex Addiction, and Recovery

1. Helping Couples Heal
   A podcast focused on helping couples recover from betrayal trauma. Episodes include professional guidance, relationship-repair strategies, and stories from partners, couples, and individuals in recovery.
2. Beauty After Betrayal – Jenni Rochelle
   Conversations focused on rebuilding intimacy, self-connection, relationships, identity, and emotional healing following betrayal.
3. Beauty Beyond Betrayal – Lisa Limehouse
   A faith-based podcast addressing affair recovery, betrayal trauma, rebuilding trust, emotional healing, and identity after marital betrayal.
4. Sex, Love, and Addiction with Dr. Rob
   Dr. Rob Weiss and guests discuss chronic infidelity, pornography, sex addiction, compulsive sexual behavior, relationship betrayal, and recovery.
5. Overcoming Betrayal & Addiction with Dr. Rob and Tami
   A conversational Q&A podcast addressing listener questions about pornography, sexual addiction, infidelity, betrayal, and the recovery process.
6. Betrayal, Betrayal Trauma & DARVO – The Science & Soul of Living Well
   Dr. Melissa Ming Foynes speaks with betrayal-trauma researcher Dr. Jennifer Freyd about betrayal, betrayal blindness, attachment, shame, memory, institutional betrayal, and DARVO.

Relationships, Intimacy, and Connection

7. The Human Intimacy Podcast with Dr. Kevin Skinner
   Explores emotional intimacy, trust, conflict, relationships, personal growth, and meaningful human connection through expert interviews and practical guidance.
8. The Secure Love Podcast: Real-Time Couples Therapy with Julie Menanno
   Licensed therapist Julie Menanno uses Emotionally Focused Therapy to demonstrate attachment dynamics, relationship patterns, emotional needs, and repair with a real couple.
9. Coupleship Inc. Videocast with Debra Kaplan and Rick Kahler
   Combines clinical and financial perspectives to help couples understand money conflict, communication, trust, and financial intimacy.
10. Smart Sex, Smart Love with Dr. Joe Kort
    Dr. Joe Kort and his guests discuss sexuality, intimacy, relationships, pleasure, sexual health, identity, and contemporary relationship issues.

How to Use These Resources

You do not need to use every resource on this page. Start with the topics that most closely relate to your current needs.

You may find it helpful to consider:

• Am I looking for support related to my own compulsive sexual behavior?
• Am I trying to understand betrayal trauma?
• Do I need relationship-repair resources?
• Am I working on emotional awareness or regulation?
• Am I seeking support around boundaries, trust, or intimacy?
• Would I prefer a podcast, app, educational article, peer-support community, or professional resource?
• Which resources feel supportive rather than overwhelming?

Resources can be useful starting points for education and self-reflection, but they should not replace professional assessment, psychotherapy, medical care, or crisis support when those services are needed.

If a resource does not feel like the right fit for your experience, it is okay to move on and choose another approach. Recovery and healing are individual processes, and different people may benefit from different combinations of education, therapy, peer support, community, and self-directed tools.