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Dr. Anthony Walker

PhD, BCC, CPC-C, BT-IC

Licensed Professional Counselor

Coach specializing in unwanted sexual behaviors, betrayal trauma, and couple recovery with a partner-sensitive, empathy-fostering approach.

Specialties

  • Unwanted sexual behaviors
  • Betrayal trauma-informed coaching
  • Couple recovery and reconciliation
  • Emotional regulation and self-awareness
  • BrainSpotting for trauma processing

Approach

  • Partner-sensitive coaching
  • Empathy-fostering techniques
  • Early Recovery Couples Empathy Model (ERCEM)
  • Formal disclosure guidance
  • Help.Her.Heal principles

Quick Facts

  • PhD in Human Development and Family Science
  • Board Certified Coach (BCC)
  • Army brat with own recovery experience
  • 8 years teaching/research as university professor
  • BrainSpotting Practitioner

About Anthony ♥ I am a Dr of Human Development and Family Science and offer online coaching sessions, groups, and Help.Her.Heal workshops for men struggling with unwanted sexual behaviors. My training and experience help me to take a betrayal trauma-informed, partner-sensitive, empathy fostering approach to coaching men and couples.

Trauma can impact every aspect of your recovery journey, sometimes in ways that are hard to detect. We can explore together how BrainSpotting may help reduce the power of trauma and cravings in your life. I will help you begin to provide a foundation of truth and begin to heal the relationship by guiding you through the formal disclosure process.

"I am an ARMY brat who grew up with divorced parents. My own recovery journey helps me to bring empathy to all aspects of our work together. My intention is to meet you where you are and help you turn chaos into calm, pain into peace, and heartache into hope."

Coaching Philosophy

As a Board Certified Transformative Life Coach, I strike a balance between validating the lonely struggle of living a life of secrecy and holding clients accountable for the impact of their behaviors on themselves and those around them. Often acting out is related to maladaptive emotion regulation. Becoming emotionally self-aware is a step towards improved emotional health. At times, emotional awareness is buried under internalized messages around gender socialization, intergenerational communication patterns, trauma, and a history of self and partner deceit to protect addictive behaviors.

As a Betrayal Trauma-Informed Coach and a Certified Partner Coach Candidate, I bring a certain understanding of and sensitivity to how betrayal can impact partners. I invite partners to communicate and meet with me so they know who the acting-out partner is working with.

My coaching approach is highly influenced by the principles and techniques for building empathy, staying out of shame, and holding the betrayed partner's pain found in Help.Her.Heal. For some couples, the Early Recovery Couples Empathy Model (ERCEM) is a great approach to building a new marital relationship founded on safety, willingness, transparency, and authenticity.

As a BrainSpotting Practitioner I can walk beside you as we explore and process current and past trauma that may be holding you back from showing up in your relationship like you want to. Using the Crocodile Setup we can use BrainSpotting to build a bridge between your cravings and negative consequences in your life.

Professional Background

I graduated from UT-Austin with a Ph.D. in Human Development and Family Science. Then I taught and presented research nationally and internationally as an Assistant/Associate Professor for 8 years at Indiana State University. Layer that with advanced Betrayed Family Training, and I bring an unparalleled understanding of how family relationships are impacted by betrayal and addiction.

I have years of Life Coaching experience in the porn/sex addiction area. Now, I am completing the internship portion for a Master's in Clinical Mental Health with additional coursework in Addictions and Couple and Family Therapy.

If you are ready to transform your life and your relationship, let's chat today and see if we are a good fit.

Additional training includes:

  • Transformative Coach Practitioner trained by Essential Soul Care Academy
  • Help Her Heal Certified Presenter
  • Advanced training in Betrayed Family Dynamics (APSATS)
  • BrainSpotting Practitioner
  • Advanced BrainSpotting Training in the Crocodile Setup with Roby Abeles
  • Early Recovery Couples Empathy Model (ERCEM) Trained
  • Guided Disclosure Trainee

Ready to take the next step?

If you're struggling with unwanted sexual behaviors or your relationship is impacted by addiction, Dr. Walker and the Intensive Recovery Healing team are here to help you transform chaos into calm and heartache into hope.

Schedule a Consultation