We are licensed counselors expertly trained to treat sex addiction, couples, and trauma.
*Professionally trained by best selling authors and world renowned industry experts Patrick Carnes, and Pia Mellody.
Jeff Schultz, LPC, CSAT
My name is Jeff Schultz and I founded Sonoran Counseling Services with my wife, Francesca Schultz, to help men and women who struggle with the problem of sex addiction and to support the healing of Spouses and Partners affected by the Sex Addict’s betrayal.
Treating sex addiction has been my focus for many years. As a sex addiction counselor I’ve heard and learned a lot.
From my training with Dr. Patrick Carnes, my work as the lead counselor for sex addiction treatment at the Meadows, and my experience of being supervised by Pia Mellody, I’ve seen “low-bottom” sex addicts get better and “high-bottom” sex addicts stay sick. The difference is always in the decision they make to do “whatever it takes” and get and stay sexually sober. It’s as simple (but not easy) as that.
Francesca Schultz, MC, LPC
Francesca’s work with the Spouses and Partners of Sex Addicts focuses on the traumatic wounds of sexual betrayal and guidance through the difficult decisions of early healing.
“Infidelity Induced Trauma is the ‘fight, flight, or freeze’ reaction to the discovery of sexual infidelity. The fight is a self-protective anger or rage, the flight is about fear and self-preservation, and the freeze is about feeling helpless.”
These are normal reactions to the trauma of sexual betrayal and they can easily seem out of control and unbearable.
Francesca uses EMDR as a therapy to decrease the intensity of traumatic reactions as well as bring relief to older and sometimes deeper wounds. She is trained and experienced in the use of EMDR with adults as well as children.
With more than 15 years of experience working with couples and families in crisis, and an expertise in the treatment of partners of sex addicts, Francesca knows how to help and really cares about your healing.
Couples counseling with Jeff and Francesca Schultz
Francesca and I have developed a collaborative approach to Couples Counseling that helps couples through the chaos that follows the discovery or disclosure of sexual betrayal and the difficult questions that follow.
We do this work jointly when possible. That means that there are four of us in your joint couples session. Read more about our couples counseling process here.
