The ocean of tears cannot drown us if karuna (compassion) is there.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Karuna is the Buddhist word for compassion. Compassion is at the core of all of our therapeutic strategies. Compassion for ourselves. Compassion for each other.
Meet Our Team
Rob Terry
CSAT IFS Therapist
Rob founded Karuna Healing in 2022. He created and provides training in the Karuna Healing sex addiction integrated approach, integrating IFS, ACT, CBT, EMDR, IPF, and Coherence Therapy and combining the CSAT Addiction Model, OCSB Values Model, Minwalla Integrity Abuse Model, and partner empathy "Help Her Heal". Read more
Angela Doel
Betrayal Trauma Therapist
Angie is Karuna's lead therapist, bringing 20+ years' experience guiding individuals and couples through betrayal trauma and relational wounds. An accomplished author of multiple books and therapy manuals, Angela adapted Rob's teachings into Karunaās signature betrayal trauma course, blending compassion with practical, evidence-based strategies. Read more
Vannah Hughes
CSAT IFS Therapist
Vannah is a highly experienced couples counselor specializing in treating high-profile clients impacted by sex, love, and relationship addictions. With 15+ years of expertise, she integrates IFS, psychodynamic therapy, CBT, and somatic approaches to provide discreet, holistic, and evidence-based healing. Read more
Len Liebner
Sex Addiction Recovery Therapist
Len brings 21 years of therapy experience across diverse settings, including mental health, substance abuse, and court-ordered counseling. Len is trained in the Karuna Approach for sex addiction treatment. "I look forward to working with you, and making your therapeutic experience a journey of learning and change." Read more
Rolando Arias
CMHCi
Rolandoās formation and experience as a philosopher and spiritual director has helped him build a solid commitment to helping others based on empathy, compassion, and understanding. He is trained in IFS, EMDR, and the Karuna Approach, blending compassion and evidence-based trauma-informed therapy. Read more
NeCole Rivera
CHMCi
I genuinely look forward to hearing your story. I understand that old thoughts and beliefs can be heavy burdens, and Iām here to help you navigate them. Together, weāll gently uncover the reasons behind your feelings and actions and the negative narratives youāve been believing. Read more
Sheetal Chauhan
Billing and Scheduling Specialist
Sheetal is Karuna Healingās billing and scheduling specialist, ensuring a smooth experience for clients. She is recently married and living in New Delhi, India. If you have any questions about payments, scheduling, or logistics, she is here to help.
IFS: Learning to Love and Heal our Most Difficult Parts
Internal Family Systems (IFS) completely transforms how you see yourself. Rather than fighting and hating your "addicted" or wounded parts, you'll learn to meet them with compassion and understanding. By reconnecting and healing these internal wounds, compulsions naturally diminish, making true recovery possible.
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Mindfulness: Creating Space for
Choice
Mindfulness isnāt just meditationāit's half the battle for those in recovery and their partners. By cultivating mindfulness, you learn to create space between your emotions, urges, and reactions. Instead of compulsively acting out or reacting to trauma triggers, you'll gain the freedom to pause, respond intentionally, and make healthier choices
Betrayal Trauma: Real Pain, Real Healing
Betrayal Trauma: Real Pain, Real HealingBetrayal trauma is realāpartners often experience PTSD symptoms comparable to those of war veterans. At Karuna, we acknowledge this severe pain and treat it seriously. We never retraumatize your partner or blame her for your behaviors. Instead, we walk alongside both of you, facilitating genuine healing and rebuilding trust together.
š Integrated Healing: Addiction is Relational
Porn and sex addiction donāt occur in isolation; when you're in a relationship, addiction inherently affects your partner. True healing requires addressing both individual struggles and relational wounds simultaneously. Karunaās integrated healing approach addresses the addiction, the partnerās betrayal trauma, and the relational dynamics together, creating lasting change.
š Partner-Sensitive Approach: Protecting, Not Blaming
Traditional therapy can inadvertently blame or retraumatize partners, sometimes even suggesting they're responsible for their spouseās addiction or affair. Karuna Healing explicitly rejects this harmful approach. Our model protects and validates partners, ensuring their trauma is understood and sensitively cared for throughout the entire recovery process.
š©āā¤ļøāšØ Early Couples Work: Healing Together From Day One
Conventional wisdom either postpones couples work until after individual recovery or prematurely initiates marriage counseling that risks retraumatizing the partner. At Karuna, we believe in structured, early couples therapy thatās distinctly different from traditional marriage counseling. Our approach is trauma-informed, respectful, and research-backed, guiding couples toward early relational healing without increasing the risk of divorce.
š§© Attachment Theory: Healing the Core Wounds
At the heart of compulsive sexual behaviors lie attachment wounds, typically stemming from trauma. As you heal these attachment injuries, your behavior naturally realigns with your true values and self-worth. Attachment healing empowers you to stop self-sabotage, creating lasting freedom from addiction.
ā±ļø Built on Research and Clinical Best Practices
Our program was carefully developed from rigorous research, clinical best practices, and thousands of hours of real-world implementation. Starting with our comprehensive assessment, we identify the precise root causes of your struggles, ensuring your therapy targets exactly what's needed. Every elementāfrom trauma-informed therapy techniques like IFS and EMDR, to structured recovery processesāis evidence-based and proven effective.
ā±ļø Brief, Effective Therapy: Change Happens Quickly
Many therapists will tell you that real change takes yearsāthis simply isn't true. With Karunaās structured, intensive 8-week program, you'll experience profound shifts quickly. For many clients, this program provides all the formal therapy theyāll need. At a minimum, it's a powerful jump-start toward lasting change.
Karuna Early Recovery Couples Counseling
Conventional wisdom either postpones couples work until after individual recovery or prematurely initiates marriage counseling that risks retraumatizing the partner. At Karuna, we believe in structured, early couples therapy thatās distinctly different from traditional marriage counseling. Our approach is trauma-informed, respectful, and research-backed, guiding couples toward early relational healing without increasing the risk of divorce.
Frequently Asked Questions
Therapist rates for 50 minute sessions:
- Rob: $195 (Sex Addiction)
- Angie: $150 (Betrayed Partners, Couples)
- Vanna: $175 (Couples, Female SA)
- Len: $120 (Sex Addiction)
- NeCole: $100 (Betrayed Partners, Couples)
- Rolando: $100 (Sex Addiction) English and Spanish speaking
Therapists are available for the 8 week program (pricing here) and for individual sessions.
We do not accept insurance, as our services are provided as recovery coaching rather than therapy. However, most clients can use their Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) for reimbursement of mental health-related coaching expenses.
We believe healing from sex addiction and betrayal trauma can happen faster than traditional models suggest. Our intensive, structured approach gives you powerful tools for lasting change, and many clients find significant improvement within the 8-week program.
A core Karuna Healing principle is that long-term romantic relationships are very valuable and most likely worth putting in your best effort to heal. We’ll guide you through an honest and compassionate evaluation process. Whether your marriage can heal depends on factors weāll explore together. Our goal is to empower you to make wise, informed decisions, regardless of your partnerās choices.
Absolutely. With the right support and tools, deep and lasting healing from sex addiction and betrayal trauma is completely achievable. Real change is not only possibleāit’s within your reach right now. IFS is a powerful therapy modality. “When our parts are ready to change, they can change in an instant.”
In November 2024, Rob and Julie made the decision to end their marriage and professional partnership. As of March 1, 2025, Julie has transitioned into her own independent practice, where she continues to support individuals and couples. Karuna Healing remains fully committed to its mission of helping individuals and couples heal from sex addiction and betrayal trauma, with an expanded team and new program offerings.
Karuna Healing is based in Utah, but all of our sessions and groups are online over Zoom.
Click the Contact Us button above and complete our contact form, specifying your preferred therapist and a couple of alternative times that work for you. We’ll follow up promptly to get you started on your healing journey.
