Face to face, online and telephone therapy and coaching for porn and sex addictions
(Please note that we continue to offer PRUK sessions online. We've been working online for more than a decade. While online therapy might be new for you, it is something that we are very experienced, comfortable and enthusiastic in using. We regularly use a number of platforms - including FaceTime, Zoom and Sessions.)
PLEASE NOTE: The PRUK sessions list is currently closed to new people due to the long wait list we have. We hope to be able to offer new sessions again from April 2024. You are welcome to send us an email and Duncan will respond as soon as he can.
Welcome to Porn Recovery UK. We offer unique individual porn and sex addiction therapy and coaching sessions in Bristol and around the UK and Europe via Telemedicine platforms Vsee, Whereby, Zoom*, FaceTime and WhatsApp. We also offer telephone counselling as an option. Established in 2007 by Duncan E. Stafford - one of the UK’s most experienced therapists in porn and sex addiction work - PRUK offers a unique service to users, partners and couples.
Through confidential, one-to-one sessions (face-to-face or online), we will help you to understand your behaviour and guide you to controlling your issues so that you have the best cognitive and emotional control tools available to prevent you relapsing.
PRUK will support your recovery process so that you can gain control of your life and move past the problems you are currently suffering from, such as:
* compulsive Internet porn use
* use of webcams sites
* adult hook-up apps
* use of escorts, prostitution, or
* sexual acting out through affairs.
We are not like many other recovery programmes, the work we do at PRUK is not a one-size-fits-all programme. Your sessions will be unique and focused on helping you discover exactly what you need to do to contain, reduce or stop your using habits altogether. In the Online only REWIND programme our unique daily 'check-in' option will help support you on your recovery journey every single day.
Read our latest blog post - The knock that probably saved my life ...
Lead therapist Duncan (author of the book TURNED ON: Intimacy in a pornized society) recognises the difficulties pornography throws up for a wide range of members of society. As an ethical and professional therapist registered and accredited by the BACP, his approach is non-judgemental, non-political and non-faith based. This approach is reflected throughout PRUK's work. (You can also visit Duncan's own therapy sites at Therapy Place Bristol and therapy place online.)
If you have just discovered that someone close to you is using pornography, cybersex or other sexual services it is very common to be feeling one or all of a number of common reactions to your discovery. Click Partners and family members to find out more.
Next steps:
Please take your time to explore the PRUK site and decide if you are looking for regular one-to-one coaching/therapy sessions or if you’d like to consider the REWIND programme (12 individual webchat-based recovery sessions, with a daily check in option spread across the course of a year).
Please contact us through the email button in the side bar (appears at the bottom if viewing this page on a mobile).
"The REWIND programme has helped me to reach an entire year without reaching for my tablet to search for porn. When I started I couldn't stay green for a week" Nick, Bedford.
"It took me about six months to realise I hadn't really wanted to stop using. Once I understood that I was able to stop. The daily check-in option became a fantastic help and I no longer use pornography of any sort. I'm now a much happier human being!" Dave, Wiltshire.
"It was truly a sobering experience to realise I had wasted so much of my life in my own porn world. Escaping that has given me my life back." Rick, Bath.
"Thank you from the bottom of my heart for helping me change my habits. There was a time before I started the REWIND programme that I thought nothing of spending an entire day at the weekend just searching and using porn. I lost more than three years of my life simply searching the Internet! Without you I hate to think what might have happened." Tom, Cambridge.
If you are a therapist visiting PRUK you can find out about bespoke training, CPD and seminar talks about working with pornography, cybersex and the Internet from the For Therapists page.
If you are a journalist or member of the media then please click The media contact page
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*We offer Vsee, Whereby, Zoom and Skype for webchat-based session. However, if you have an Apple product that supports FaceTime, we can also use this as it is end-to-end encrypted. The same is true for WhatsApp. We are open to using other end-to-end encrypted platforms. Talk to us if you'd like to call via another platform. Telephone is also seen as being secure for the purpose of therapy.
The Porn Recovery UK site for cybersex counselling, porn addict recovery, sex addiction and online Internet sexual problems, in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, Bristol, Bath and North Somerset and UK wide was last updated on 1 October 2023. Online and in room sessions available in Bristol with Therapy Place Bristol.