Chad Touchette, LMFT-S, CSAT

I’m Chad Touchette (he/him), a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Supervisor (#201430) and Certified Sex Addiction Therapist (CSAT). I help men, women, and couples who struggle with their most intimate relationships learn to communicate their needs, compromise, and learn to love themselves again. My clients appreciate my calm and direct approach and how I keep them consistently engaged in the session, energized, and focused on their goals. I understand grief and loss and will walk alongside you as you process the sadness and pain from the loss of your loved one. 

I am constantly engaged in continuing education classes or have my nose in a book or research article. I am licensed to supervise marriage and family therapist associates and have over 12 years of experience in this field. I am trained in Gottman Method Couples Therapy, Emotionally Focused Therapy, and have additional training to help people process grief and loss and recover from sex and porn addiction. I am serious about frisbee golf and love to go camping with my family. I am a husband and a father, and I understand the effort it takes to be a good partner and dad with all the demands of modern life.

Does this sound like you?

You’ve spent your entire career excelling at what comes naturally to you. Networking, attending to every minute detail of your job, traveling out of the country when the job requires you to, while quietly meeting deadlines and exceeding the expectations of your bosses. You drive a car you love, never miss a day at the gym, and scroll through Twitter looking for the latest news headline. But your marriage is a mess. You go through your day, worried the people who work for you will see through your veneer. They’ll see the hurt and pain you feel, and how horribly you think about yourself. You don’t feel attractive, or loveable, and sometimes it’s easier to withdraw than try to make things better in your marriage. 

You try to communicate your needs, but the fights escalate. Your partner screams at you for shutting down, and it’s impossible to understand why the people you love are so angry. When you talk to your friends, their lives seem so perfect. You know that if something doesn’t change, your marriage will end in divorce, and you’ll be alone and miserable. You just wish you could trust that your partner is going to love you, and you want to feel less impulsive and stop the negative self-talk.