Helping you build a life that feels calm, connected, and whole.
In-person counseling in Lake Charles and online throughout Louisiana and Texas for individuals and couples dealing with relationship conflict, betrayal trauma, sex addiction recovery, and major life challenges.
Brent Woods, MA, LPC-S, CSAT
Licensed in Louisiana and Texas.
When the Same Problems Keep Following You...
❖ Pornography or sexual behavior feels harder to control.
❖ Trust has been damaged by secrecy, pornography, or infidelity.
❖ The same arguments keep happening, but nothing really gets resolved.
❖ Anxiety keeps you on edge or awake at night.
❖ Old experiences still affect how you feel and react today.
❖ You're worn down and not sure what needs to happen next.
You don’t have to do this alone.
Counseling can help you slow things down, understand what's driving the patterns you're dealing with, and begin making changes that fit your goals, relationships, and values.
When You’re Not Sure What Comes Next…
Some problems don’t fit neatly into a box. You may know something needs to change, but you’re not sure where to start. These are some of the concerns we work with most often at Woods Counseling Services.
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Maybe you’ve promised yourself you would stop, cut back, or do things differently, only to find yourself back in the same pattern. Pornography, sexual behavior, apps, secrecy, or repeated choices may be affecting your relationship, your values, or the way you feel about yourself.
You may be carrying shame or regret. You may also be trying to repair the damage after everything has come to light.
Counseling can help you understand the pattern instead of simply fighting it with more willpower. We can look at triggers, vulnerabilities, emotional patterns, and the situations that make the behavior more difficult to control. From there, the work becomes building greater honesty and accountability, developing healthier ways of responding, and creating a recovery plan that fits your life.
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Discovering infidelity, hidden pornography use, sexual deception, or a secret part of your partner’s life can leave you questioning everything. You may replay conversations, search for answers, lose sleep, struggle to focus, or wonder whether you can trust your own judgment.
At the same time, people may be asking what you’re going to do about the relationship when you’re still trying to understand what happened.
Counseling gives you space to work through the shock, anger, grief, and confusion without forcing you into an immediate decision about staying or leaving. The focus can begin with helping you regain stability, understand your reactions, establish appropriate boundaries, and become clearer about what you need moving forward.
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Maybe every conversation turns into the same argument. One of you pushes for answers while the other shuts down. You may still care deeply about each other but feel more like roommates than partners, or you may be wondering whether too much hurt has happened to get back what you once had.
For some couples, the problem is years of unresolved conflict. For others, trust has been damaged by pornography, infidelity, secrecy, or other relationship hurts.
Couples counseling gives you a place to slow those patterns down and understand what is happening between you. We can work on communication, conflict, rebuilding trust, emotional and sexual intimacy, and the issues that keep pulling you back into the same cycle. You don’t have to know exactly what the future of the relationship looks like before you begin.
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Sometimes something happened months or even years ago, but it still seems to show up in the present. Certain situations may trigger strong reactions. You may avoid reminders, feel constantly on edge, have difficulty trusting people, or notice that old experiences are affecting your relationships and the way you see yourself.
You may understand logically that the past is over while still feeling like it continues to have a hold on you.
Counseling can help you understand how those experiences are affecting you now and work through the memories, beliefs, emotions, and reactions that continue to cause distress. Depending on what you’re dealing with, that work may include trauma-focused counseling or EMDR as part of an approach tailored to your needs.
How We Work Together Toward Healing
When you walk into my office, you’ll find a place where you can talk openly about what’s really going on without being shamed or judged. Good counseling is a partnership. My job is to understand what brought you here, help you make sense of it, and work with you toward changes that fit your goals and values.
Read More About My Approach
As a Certified Sex Addiction Therapist (CSAT), I have specialized training for concerns involving compulsive sexual behavior, pornography, betrayal, intimacy, and relationship repair. I also work with trauma and other experiences that may continue to affect how you think, feel, react, or connect with others.
There usually isn’t one simple explanation for why a pattern developed. We may look at triggers, emotional responses, relationships, past experiences, beliefs, coping patterns, and what is happening in your life now. Understanding those connections can help us determine what actually needs to change.
Insight is only part of the work. Counseling should also give you practical ways to respond differently when you’re triggered, manage difficult emotions, communicate more effectively, establish healthier patterns, and make decisions with greater clarity. When appropriate, therapy may also include EMDR as part of trauma-focused work.
Whether you’re trying to change a behavior that has become difficult to control, repair a damaged relationship, work through betrayal, or deal with something from the past, the goal is to help you understand what’s happening and begin moving in a healthier direction.
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What Other Professionals
Are Saying
He doesn’t think he’s the only game in town. He doesn’t think in terms of the game at all. He always wants to do a great job for the clients he works with and continue growing and learning alongside them. He doesn’t stop wanting to be and become a better and better professional, and person. He simply wants to create something beautiful in ways that haven’t been done with clients who struggle to see their way to the end of their dark tunnels. And he is very, very good at what he does.
Brent is a leader in the counseling field and goes above and beyond for his clients. He’s the first referral I give for anyone looking for counseling around Lake Charles.
Brent is a dedicated professional who is always seeking ways to help his clients. He has presented professional development training to our staff to help us understand how to support clients in sexual health and healing. I highly recommend him.
Brent is a compassionate and caring therapist who excels in conflict resolution and sorting through complicated emotional situations. Highly recommend.
Trusted by therapists, counselors, and practice owners across Louisiana and Texas.
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STEP 1
Request an Appointment
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STEP 2
Consultation
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STEP 3
Reach your Goals
We work together on your counseling goals and grow.
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