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Ryan, Dave, and Heather are standing by to have a confidential call with you and answer your questions about treatment.
If sex addiction is taking over your life, Begin Again Institute is here to help. We guide men to recovery at our residential treatment center in Colorado.
Or if you’re looking for Christian-based treatment to help restore your faith as you heal, our Christian Men’s Intensive may be the right fit.
Our team will help you discover the root cause of your sex addiction and give you real tools to manage your urges long term.
Sexual behavior becomes an addiction when it starts to harm your life, but you still can’t stop. It can affect your relationships, your job, your health, and nearly every other part of your life. Living with sex addiction feels a lot like living with a drug or alcohol addiction. Sexual thoughts take over your mind. The urge to act feels too strong to control.
Sex addiction is one type of intimacy disorder. An intimacy disorder makes it hard to feel safe and connected with another person, emotionally or physically. Sex becomes a way to feel close to someone, or to feel something at all, without the vulnerability that real connection requires. That’s part of why the behavior can feel so hard to stop. It’s standing in for something deeper that hasn’t been healed yet.
Common signs of compulsive sexual behavior include:
People with sex addiction often feel out of control because they’re consumed by sexual thoughts and actions they can’t stop, even when they want to. But there is help. With focused sex addiction treatment, you can stop these behaviors before they cause more harm.
Sex addiction rarely stems from just one thing. Most of the time, it grows out of a mix of brain chemistry and life experiences.
Sexual activity triggers a reward response in the brain. Over time, that response can become a way to cope with pain, stress, or emotions you don’t know how to handle any other way. The behavior becomes a relief, even when it causes real damage.
Many men with sex addiction also have unresolved trauma. This might include childhood neglect, abuse, family dysfunction, or other painful experiences that you never fully processed. Compulsive behavior often becomes a way to numb or escape that pain.
This is why effective treatment doesn’t just stop the behavior. It gets underneath it, to the root cause driving it. At Begin Again Institute, we know how to treat sex addiction.
Triggers are different for everyone, but most fall into some common categories:
Recognizing your triggers is one of the most important parts of recovery. Treatment helps you understand your specific patterns and build tools to respond differently when they show up.
Sex addiction is real, and left untreated, it tends to get worse. The longer the behavior continues, the more it can cost you. Your marriage. Your career. Your health. Your peace of mind.
Untreated sex addiction may lead to:
None of this means recovery isn’t possible. It means waiting rarely makes things easier. The sooner you address the root cause, the faster real healing can begin.
Sex addiction treatment works best with a two-part approach. First, we help you uncover and heal the root causes behind the behavior. Then, we help you build new patterns to replace the old, compulsive ones.
At Begin Again Institute, we use the Trauma-Induced Sexual Addiction (TINSA®) model to guide your healing process. TINSA is a neurobiological framework that helps you understand how your brain and body respond to past wounds, so you can finally process them. We integrate this trauma-focused model with various therapeutic tools to ensure your treatment plan fits your needs.
Internal Family Systems (IFS) is an evidence-based therapy that helps you understand the different “parts” of yourself. One part of you might want to be a faithful, present partner. Another part might be the one acting out. IFS helps these parts come into alignment instead of conflict.
Brainspotting is a therapy that helps resolve trauma your body is still holding onto. It’s based on the idea that painful feelings can get physically stuck in the body. Specific techniques help release those feelings and reset your brain’s response to painful memories.
No two men come into treatment with the same story. That’s why sex addiction treatment isn’t one-size-fits-all here at BAI. Your clinical team builds a plan around your specific history, goals, and needs for healing.
Begin Again Institute offers two intensive program options to suit your needs.
The 14-Day Men’s Intensive gives you a clear framework for healing unhealthy sexual behavior. The program includes:
The intensive takes place on a private campus in a historic home in Berthoud, Colorado.
Our Christian-focused intensive is built for men of faith dealing with sexual addiction and intimacy disorders. The weight of sexual addiction can feel even heavier to carry for men who hold their faith close.
This program, located in Longmont, Colorado, offers the same care and therapy as our 14-Day Intensive, with an added focus on rebuilding your relationship with God.
Recovery doesn’t end on Day 14. Real healing is a process, and the right support after treatment matters just as much as the treatment itself.
When your intensive ends, your work isn’t over, and you shouldn’t have to figure out what’s next on your own. We connect every client with a trusted referral network of outside therapists and specialists who continue care after you leave. This means you walk out of Begin Again Institute with a real next step already in place, not just a goodbye.
You’re not alone after you go home. Begin Again Institute maintains an active alumni network for graduates of our programs. This gives you an ongoing connection to the brotherhood you built during your intensive, along with continued support as you apply what you learned to daily life.
Sexual addiction affects relationships on every level. Partners of men with sex addiction carry their own betrayal and trauma, and that pain deserves real attention, too.
Our virtual Partner Support Program is free for the spouse of any man in one of our programs. It includes group support sessions, a trained facilitator, and education from a betrayal trauma specialist. The goal is to help partners heal, set healthy boundaries, and learn their own self-regulation tools.
You don’t have to live with the shame, guilt, and damage that sex addiction has caused. Begin Again Institute offers evidence-based treatment proven to help you recover from sex addiction. Call us today at 720-702-4608 to schedule a consultation or learn more about our programs.
If you’re ready for a life free from sexual addiction, pornography addiction, or other intimacy disorders, our team is here to help. In as few as two weeks, you could be on your way to recovery — living a life free from guilt, shame, or secrets. Help is just a phone call away.
Yes. While sex addiction isn’t listed in the DSM-5, Sex addiction is recognized by major health organizations as a real and treatable condition, often called compulsive sexual behavior. It involves sexual thoughts or actions that feel impossible to control and cause real harm to your life, relationships, or well-being.
A high sex drive isn’t a problem on its own. Sex addiction is different. It’s marked by a loss of control, ongoing harm to your life or relationships, and continued behavior even after it’s clearly causing damage. The issue isn’t how often; it’s whether you can stop.
Sex addiction usually develops from a mix of brain chemistry and unresolved trauma. The brain’s reward response can turn compulsive behavior into a coping tool for pain, stress, or emotions that a person hasn’t learned to process another way. Learn more about the root causes of sex addiction →
At Begin Again Institute, our core program is a 14-day intensive. Two weeks is enough time to build real momentum in healing without requiring a 30-to-45-day commitment, most programs ask for. Recovery continues after the intensive through ongoing support and our referral network.
Yes. With trauma-focused therapy, the right support, and a commitment to the process, many men significantly reduce or stop compulsive behaviors and rebuild their relationships. Recovery takes ongoing work, but freedom from sex addiction is possible. Recovery starts with addressing the root cause, not just the behavior.
You don’t leave without a plan. Every client is connected to a trusted referral network for continued outside therapy, and you’ll have access to Begin Again Institute’s alumni network for ongoing connection and support.
An intimacy disorder makes it hard to feel safe and connected with another person, emotionally or physically. Sex addiction is one type of intimacy disorder — sex becomes a substitute for real connection rather than an expression of it. Healing both means addressing the fear of closeness underneath the behavior, not just the behavior itself. Learn more about intimacy disorders →
Ryan, Dave, and Heather are standing by to have a confidential call with you and answer your questions about treatment.