Couples Therapy for Cheating & Sex Addiction | Houston, TX
For many Houston couples, the hardest question after discovering cheating or pornography use is what it means. Was it a one-time affair, or part of a pattern that looks like sex addiction? The answer shapes what recovery needs to look like, and it’s hard to sort out alone.
Few things disrupt a relationship like cheating or sex addiction. They affect the couple, and they shake each partner’s sense of what’s true.
Cheryl Ann Camarillo, LCSW, CSAT, CST, has spent more than 31 years helping couples through exactly this. As one of a limited number of therapists in the country certified in deceptive sexual trauma, she offers Houston couples a structured path from crisis to understanding and rebuilding, through online sessions available anywhere in Texas.
Are you and your partner ready to see what healing actually looks like?
Reach out today.
Specialized Couples Therapy for Houston, Online
In a metro area as big as Houston, finding a therapist with the right training is hard, and getting across town to see one every week can be harder. Online sessions take the drive out of it.
Cheryl is licensed throughout Texas, so Houston couples, from the Heights to Katy, Sugar Land, and The Woodlands, can work with her through online sessions.
Couples who want to meet face to face can also schedule sessions at her San Antonio office.
Specializing in Couples Therapy for Cheating & Sex Addiction Recovery
What Couples Therapy for Cheating and Sex Addiction Involves
Sex addiction and cheating overlap, but they aren’t always the same thing. Cheating can be a single betrayal. Sex addiction usually involves a repeated, compulsive pattern that continues despite real attempts to stop.
Understanding the behavior and its impact helps Cheryl shape the work each couple needs. She starts by helping both partners get a clear, honest picture of what happened.
The work addresses the betrayed partner’s need for safety and clarity, along with the responsibility of the partner who caused harm to become honest, accountable, and consistent.
She is trained in the Minwalla Model, an approach that treats truth and safety as the foundation for any real repair.
How Cheating Changes a Relationship
Discovering cheating, in any form, reshapes how both partners experience the relationship.
The partner who was cheated on often struggles with anxiety, lost trust, and questions about everything they believed. The partner who cheated often isn’t sure how to repair the damage or can’t explain their own choices.
Without the right support, many couples end up cycling through conflict, silence, and short bursts of progress that don’t hold.
Cheryl helps couples break that cycle. Her approach gives both partners the structure they need to work through the crisis, not just manage it.
Common challenges she works with include:
- Repeated discoveries of cheating or deception
- Conversations that escalate before anything gets resolved
- One or both partners unsure whether to stay or leave
- A loss of intimacy and emotional connection
- Anxiety, depression, or trauma responses affecting daily life
Sex Addiction and Couples: Understanding What’s Happening
Sex addiction is one of the most misunderstood issues a couple can face, and a topic many couples search for online.
For many couples, the pattern goes past a single act of cheating. It can involve pornography that became compulsive, repeated sexual behavior outside the relationship, or a cycle that continued despite real efforts to stop.
As a Certified Sex Addiction Therapist (CSAT), Cheryl holds one of the most specialized credentials in this area. She works with both the partner who has been acting out and the partner who was affected, helping each understand what really happened and what rrecovery looks like for the relationship.
The aim is a clear picture for both partners and a real path forward.
Rebuilding After Cheating or Sex Addiction
One of the most common questions couples ask is whether a sex addict can change. With the right treatment and commitment from both partners, many couples do see real change, and relationship recovery becomes possible.
Cheryl uses trauma-informed therapy, EMDR, and Brainspotting together with structured couples work to help partners process what happened and build something that holds. The process moves at a pace both partners can sustain.
With 31+ years of experience, including work with more than 250 couples dealing specifically with deceptive sexuality and betrayal, Cheryl has seen what creates lasting change and what keeps couples stuck.
“We had 2 couples therapists and 3 personal therapists over 5 years, and nothing started to change until Cheryl worked with both of us. She understood the trauma, the damage to our relationship, and our worries about our children.”
Why Houston Couples Choose Cheryl Ann Camarillo
If you’re searching for a Houston couples therapist who specializes in cheating and sex addiction, the right training matters.
Cheryl has specialized training in sexual betrayal, deceptive sexuality, and sex addiction recovery. Her certifications reflect that focus.
- Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW)
- Certified Sex Addiction Therapist (CSAT)
- Certified Sex Therapist (CST)
- Certification in Deceptive Sexual Trauma, Institute of Sexual Health
- EMDR and Brainspotting
She has worked in this specialty since 1994 and has focused exclusively on deceptive sexuality and betrayal trauma since 2017. She has trained future clinicians at the university level and brings personal experience with betrayal to every couple she works with.
Her clients describe her as straightforward, caring, and non-judgmental.
Take the First Step Toward Healing as a Couple
Cheryl Ann Camarillo helps Austin couples find greater clarity, stability, and a path forward through online therapy or in-person sessions at her San Antonio office.
Whether you’re both committed to rebuilding or still working out what comes next, the first step is a conversation.
Reach out today to schedule a free consultation and see what a clear path forward could look like for your relationship.
Start with Cheryl’s free Relationship 911 webinar to learn more about healing after betrayal.