Our online Individual Sessions offer a flexible approach to recovery and healing work for anyone affected by problematic sexual behaviour.
Offering one on one and couples coaching and counselling sessions, our team have every angle of your recovery, healing and relational work covered.
We have sessions available for those seeking recovery and freedom for themselves as well as those seeking healing from the impacts of sexual betrayal.
You may choose to work individually with one of our professionals in place of group support or alongside it, whatever you need. Our professionals come with a wide range of training and expertise so please check out their profiles and choose the person most suitable for your needs. If you’re not sure who will be the best person for you to work with, please schedule a session with any of the team, all will be happy to help you to identify the best person for you to work with.
Meet the Recovery Team
Cat Etherington
NT STAFF
Cat is our Director of Recovery. She’s a certified professional life coach and integrative counselling practitioner, working with individuals and couples impacted by problematic sexual behaviour and betrayal. The first ever European practitioner to be certified by the Association for Partners of Sex Addicts Trauma Specialists (APSATS), Cat has developed her skills through well known entities including The Gottman Institute and Society for the Advancement of Sexual Health. Cat leads our team of recovery practitioners and serves as a board member for APSATS.
Cindy Bajema
NT STAFF
Cindy is our Head of Recovery. She’s a certified APSATS Coach (ICF/ACC, CPC), Peer Facilitator (ADOH – C-SASI), Trauma-Informed Coach (TIC), and mentor who integrates multiple somatic approaches in her work with individuals and couples. Training with Dr.Jake Porter (CRC), Carol Sheets (ERCEM – CES) and Gottman methods inform her work with couples. She brings valuable life experience and a deep heart of compassion to her work, along with the ability to hold hard questions in a process of supporting clients’ healing as they move from trauma to transformation.
Fran Hopwood
Fran is a Certified Professional Coach, Brave Hearts Mentor and Certified Partner Coach with APSATS. With a long history in the education sector, Fran made the switch to personal coaching after walking her own healing journey for several years. Fran has taken additional trainings with A Door of Hope and knows, first-hand, the challenges of healing after betrayal, offering both
personal and professional insight for overcoming them.
Amy nagy
Amy is a Certified Professional Life Coach with specialized training through APSATS. She supports people struggling with traumas including abuse, betrayal, chronic illness, and lack of energy and wellbeing. She approaches her coaching from a holistic viewpoint, and provides support, guidance, and encouragement to help you examine the areas of your life that are out of balance, get to the root of what is holding you back, move you forward on your journey towards recovery and wellness.
Julie Calhoun
Julie is certified professional coach and an APSATS trained and certified partner coach. She is also trained as a peer facilitator through A Door of Hope and in Couple Centered Recovery Coaching. A partner herself, who benefitted from the support of coaching in her own healing process, she committed to give back to the community that was essential in her own journey of recovery and growth. Julie’s marriage of 37 years continues to experience healing as a result of commitment, hard work, and God’s grace. It is her honor and privilege to walk beside others, giving guidance, encouragement and hope.
Jacki LASH Idler
Jacki is an ICF Certified Coach (ACC), Peer Facilitator (C-SASI), an APSATS trained partner coach (CPC-c). She also has advanced training in problematic sexual behavior (SASH – ATPSB Levels 1 & 2), Internal Family Systems, resilience, self-care, relational recovery, sex and love addiction and intimacy anorexia. A lifetime of work focused on empowering others along with her personal experiences has instilled Jacki with a fierce desire to partner with women moving forward through addiction and trauma.
Rebecca Maestas
Rebecca is a licensed mental health clinician in the state of New Mexico, USA, a certified APSATS Certified Clinical Partner Specialist (CCPS), and a Life Coach trained by the Professional Christian Coaching Institute (PCCI). Rebecca works with individuals as well as couples. She has a family history of Drug and Alcohol addiction as well as walking through the journey of Partner Betrayal. Rebecca brings a diverse firsthand perspective as well as a passion for helping individuals and couples heal to her work.
lisa taylor
Lisa Taylor is a New Zealand-based counsellor specialising in sex addiction & partner trauma. She has studied with field leaders Barbara Steffens (APSATS), Paula Hall (ISAT), Donna Dixon (A Door Of Hope) and Christian Sex Addiction Specialists (C-SASI). Drawing on her own experience as the wife of a sex addict, Lisa has also authored several books on partner trauma and SA including the award-winning Beyond Betrayal.
bryan bajema
Bryan is a Certified Life Coach and Mentor. He is also an APSATS trainee which allows him to bring a partner-sensitive approach to his coaching. Bryan works with men, focusing on strengthening recovery and relationship skills. Bryan is passionate about walking along-side with men who wish to have the best life they can while developing and strengthening their relationships.
Chris Jones
Chris is a certified professional coach and trainee counsellor based in the UK. He has trained directly with Dr Omar Minwalla in the deceptive sexuality and trauma model (DST) and has also completed the multidimensional partner trauma model course with APSATS. He works primarily with men recovering from sex addiction and/or problematic sexual behaviour but does so from a firmly partner sensitive and relationally focused perspective.
Bethany Macdonald
Bethany is a trained coach and has her own personal testimony of freedom from addiction to pornography and now walks alongside other women on their own journey of hope and healing. She has piloted and facilitated the Click to Kick groups for women over the past six years and brings unique insight into the specific area of female recovery. She is available for individual sessions with women who are seeking recovery.