Your Resource for Holistic Healing
As a Certified Clinical Sexual Addiction Specialist (CCSAS) and Certified Partner Trauma Specialist (CPTS), Françoise Mastroianni, LCPC, specializes in trauma-informed therapy for individuals and partners affected by sex addiction and intimacy disorders. A Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP) and hypnotherapist, she integrates mind-body approaches to support spiritual, emotional, psychological, relational, and physical healing.
Service and Support Options to Meet Your Needs
Breaking Through
Group for Couples in Recovery – Breaking Through is for couples in the aftermath of discovering sexual addiction. An addiction that imparts secrets, shame, trauma, and emotional injuries in your most important adult relationship and attachment.
Hope for the Heart
A Therapeutic Support Group – Facing sexual betrayal, lies, and secrets. If you are a woman struggling with your “significant other’s” sexual integrity issues, this group can help you with the healing process and give you hope for today and the future.
Hope for the Heart will assist you with some tools and practical guidelines as you walk through some of the most difficult times of your life in the aftermath of the betrayal. You can experience a renewed hope from the sexual addiction induced trauma.
Individuals
If you are an individual seeking a way out of sexual addiction, professional support is available. Clinical counselor Françoise Mastroianni provides the guidance and tools to help you understand the roots of your addiction, navigate the healing process, and create lasting change. Through a step-by-step approach, she helps individuals break free from unwanted behaviors and trauma, fostering both personal growth and a renewed sense of integrity.
Two- or Three-Day Intensive Weekends and Workshops
These intensives are for the couple or individual that wants a jump-start on their recovery and healing process. An intensive includes two to three days of counseling in an eight-hour timeframe. Whether we are working on a disclosure, relational skills on how to heal individually and in the coupleship, you will walk away with a sense of knowing how to move forward in this process. Learning the skill of self-regulating and helping your partner regulate when she or he is in a trauma response is one of the key successes. You learn to be empathic, a practice that takes a change of heart and the central core element to a radical recovery.
Public Speaker
If you are looking for someone to speak on the subject of sexual integrity issues and how it impacts the life of the individual experiencing this issue, partner, and families that are in need of the knowledge and understanding of sexual addiction induced trauma, Françoise would love to be a part of your event. Please contact her here.
Frequently Asked Questions
Somatic Experiencing® is a body-awareness approach to trauma being taught throughout the world. It is the result of over forty years of observation, research, and hands-on development by Dr. Levine. Based upon the realization that human beings have an innate ability to overcome the effects of trauma, Somatic Experiencing has touched the lives of many thousands. SE® restores self-regulation, and returns a sense of aliveness, relaxation and wholeness to traumatized individuals who have had these precious gifts taken away. Peter has applied his work to combat veterans, rape survivors, Holocaust survivors, auto accident and post surgical trauma, chronic pain sufferers, and even to infants after suffering traumatic births. This is the primary website for the SE training, support of health professionals in Somatic Experiencing® and connecting trauma victims to the approximately 5,000 SE® Practitioners across the globe. Learn more at traumahealing.com
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What Others are Saying
My husband and I were married for 27 years before I discovered his secret life. He was addicted to pornography, and frequented prostitutes throughout our entire marriage. We did an Intensive Couple Weekend with Françoise and her colleague. My husband did a formal disclosure, which about put me over the edge. Françoise was very supportive and helped me to stay strong with the questions I had for him. I now feel like I have choices and can take the time I need to heal from the trauma betrayal. It will take a long time before I can trust him again. We are not living together at this time, he is working on his recovery, after agreeing to being in an in-patient treatment center for three months. Without the direction and resources to know where to start, I don’t know how I would have made it this far. I take one day at a time and continue to get the help I need in therapy and my group
– Marina, partner of a sex addict
Françoise is one of the few therapists who have the capacity to combine her significant professional knowledge, with a genuine concern and empathy for people. She is able to draw upon her multiple areas of expertise to develop a treatment plan designed to meet the individual needs of each client. Her personalized approach involves her clients in the treatment process and the desired outcomes, which empowers people to be a part of their own growth. Her versatility also enables her to help those needing counseling for basic life issues, as well as those seeking healing from more significant issues or trauma. In a sentence, Françoise has a genuine heart for the hurting and a gift for helping them to heal.
– Client
EMDR did not remove from my mind the traumatic events I experienced nor make me forget them – the process instead, helped me to put them in ‘another place’. They no longer have the overwhelming power they once had over me and I no longer feel as suffocated by them. None of this would have been possible if I did not have complete trust in my therapist, Françoise – her compassion and ability to always be non-judgmental have always been so very important to my recovery.
– An EMDR client
After 28 years of being married, I found out about my husband’s sex addiction. I felt like someone had sucked the life out of me. I was traumatized and not knowing where to go, who to talk to, and what to do. Françoise gently guided me and helped me to understand what I was going through. I felt validated and understood. She taught me how to manage the high level of activation around the triggers I experienced on a daily basis. I now have tools to use that empower me and give me the courage I need to stay present and process the pain of the betrayal.
– Partner of a sex addict
I am an addict and Françoise helped me to take responsibility for my actions. She prepared me to disclose my addiction to my wife. She also helped me with the incest that I experienced as a child. Without her help I don’t know if there would be a “me” certainly not a marriage. My wife and I are grateful for the knowledge and training she has to work with the addict and support the partners. I have been sober for 5 years, and my wife and I are in a better place than we have ever been.
– Sex addict