Confidential Support for Overcoming Compulsive Sexual Behavior
Judgment-free support to help you heal, recover and feel at peace with your Self. Schedule a free consult with a Certified Sex Addiction Therapist.
Omar Waheed MA RP CSAT
Welcome to Connections First. I am a certified sex addiction therapist (CSAT) trained at the International Institute for Trauma and Addictions Professionals (IITAP).
I have been helping men with sex and porn addictions for 15+ years. I am here to help you heal, rebuild relationships and create a lasting recovery. Book a free consult and let’s get started.
The benefits of sex addiction therapy
Through specialized therapy for compulsive sexual behaviour, you’ll move beyond the shame and powerlessness that have kept you stuck. My evidence-based approach helps you:
- regain control of your life
- understand the root causes driving these patterns
- develop healthier coping strategies.
As you progress, you’ll find healing in your relationships—rebuilding trust and intimacy with those who matter most. Most importantly, you’ll end the exhausting dual life and become whole again, living authentically without the burden of secrecy and isolation.
How it works
Step 1: Confidential consultation
Step 2: Personalized treatment plan
Step 3: Work, work, work
Step 4: Ongoing support and (optionally) group therapy
Understanding Sex Addiction
Compulsive sexual behavior and pornography addiction are more common than you might think, affecting millions of people from all walks of life. This isn’t about willpower or moral failure—it’s a treatable condition often rooted in stress, trauma, unmet emotional needs, or learned coping patterns. You’re not broken, and you’re definitely not alone. With the right support and evidence-based treatment, recovery is absolutely possible, and many people recover and go on to live life to their full potential.
What topics does sex addiction treatment address?
Effective sex addiction treatment will address all the relevant factors that contribute to the addictive behaviour. Some issues that often come up:
- Compulsive masturbation
- Pornography addiction
- Hyper-sexual behaviours
- Anxiety around sex
- Childhood trauma
- Coping with difficult emotions
- Erectile dysfunction
- Developing intimacy skills
- Sexual health plan
- Rebuiling relationships and trust
“In sex addiction, a two-track sexual development has occurred. One track is focused on isolated sexual behaviour that is like a drug. The other involves sex within an intimate relationship. These two tracks grow further apart over time and lead to a dual life.”
OMAR WAHEED MA RP CSAT
How to recover from sex addiction?
This is a large topic and you may read about the general principles of addiction recovery here. More specifically at Connections First therapy we employ some or all of the following methods to treat sex addiction:
- A structured program of recovery
- Integrated psychotherapy (using multiple techniques at once)
- Finding the root causes and healing them each using integrated methods
- Crafting new narratives and letting go of old self-defeating ones
- A trauma-informed approach
- A task-based model of therapy
- Developing a sobriety plan
- Developing new forms of personal power
- Motivation and goal setting
- Relapse prevention
- Healing in relationships
- A sexual health plan
We use a task-based model of therapy and create customized treatment plans. Each plan is based upon a foundational structure of knowledge, skills and therapeutic interventions and then tailored to your individual situation and needs.
Practice locations for Connections First Therapy
Connections First Therapy provides services online across Ontario. I also meet clients in-person at a meeting space in Vaughan and Newmarket, Ontario. The location is easily accessed by car or transit from the following areas:
- Brampton
- Woodbridge
- Aurora
- Barrie
- King City
- Richmond Hill
- North York