Meet Your Facilitator
Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes is a Licensed Clinical Psychotherapist. She has been providing treatment, teaching and doing research in addiction treatment since 1997. She is the host of YouTube.com/DocSnipes and the owner of AllCEUs.com providing addiction counselor pre-licensure training and continuing education throughout the US and in 48 other countries..
Pornography Addiction Self-Help Program
14 segment recovery curriculum including:
- Understanding Porn Addiction
- Neuroscience of Pornography Addiction
- Relapse Prevention in Early Recovery from Porn Addiction
- Why You Won't Be Totally *Cured* in 30 Days: Post Acute Withdrawal Symptoms and Tools to Cope
- Don't Give Up: Increasing and Maintaining Your Motivation for Change
- Goal Setting
- Behavior Modification Tools for Porn Addiction Recovery
- Physical Aspects of Porn Addiction and Recovery Tools
- Interpersonal Aspects of Porn Addiction and Recovery Tools
- Emotional Aspects of Porn Addiction and Recovery Tools
- Cognitive Aspects of Porn Addiction and Recovery Tools
- Environmental Aspects of Porn Addiction and Recovery Tools
- Spiritual Aspects of Porn Addiction and Recovery Tools
- Access to our Catalog of Other Self-Help Resources (a $360 value)
Moderated Support Forums to help you apply what you are learning
Discounts on Individual Coaching with Doc Snipes
Introductory Offer! $39 (Regularly $99) Â Â Â
Why Do I Need a Specialized Self-Help Program to Address Pornography Use?
While porn addiction overlaps significantly with other addictions in terms of how it hijacks your dopamine (reward) system, it has many unique impacts on all PIECES of your life including:
- Physically: Problems with arousal or sexual functioning, sleep, energy, increased pain or illness
- Interpersonally: Shame about using, rejection because of using, lack of healthy interpersonal skills, low self-esteem, custody issues if you have kids
- Emotional: Anger, irritability, resentment, frustration, anxiety, depression, guilt, grief and low motivation
- Cognitively: Changes in how you think about others, your expectations of what “should” happen in a relationship, your beliefs about sex
- Environmentally: The entire world can feel like a never-ending porn hub advertisement, difficulty being on the computer for nonporn reasons, and difficulty being anywhere with unrestricted wifi.
- Spiritually: Excessive porn use, or what you see in pornography may go against your values causing you to feel guilty and conflicted.
How is it Different From Sex Addiction?
- Many people misusing porn do not have a partner. Many have never had a partner, so a lot of the interventions aimed at improving communication, healing your relationship and addressing abandonment resulting from or that led to porn use may not apply. At least not in early recovery.
- Pornography use is not a necessary component in a healthy relationship; however, sex generally is. Therefore, you can abstain from porn forever, but not sex.
- If you are addicted to pornography, you may find it hard to get aroused with anyone in real life because you have been virtually experiencing things that are much harder-core or unique than what is generally available in real life.
- Triggers for porn use are also different.