Sex and Love Addiction Therapy in Scottsdale
Spiral Up Counseling is a comprehensive recovery services provider in Scottsdale, Arizona. Angela Smigiel is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and has worked in the mental and behavioral health field since 2004. She has extensive training in a number of different trauma treatment modalities including: Post Induction Therapy (PIT), Internal Family Systems (IFS), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and Certified Sex Addiction Therapist (CSAT).
Our experience enables us to offer effective outpatient, individualized, psychological care. We treat a number of mental health disorders, and provide a neutral ground to individuals.
Our Therapy Practice
Our focus is to help individuals heal, energize, and become aware of their inner strengths. We achieve this by providing a neutral safe space, listening to your concerns, and customizing a treatment plan.
Our Treatment Focus
We promise to be there for you every step of your journey. Our goal is to help you grow from your struggles, heal from your pain, and move forward to where you want to be in your life.
Our Patient Promise
Our Therapy Services in Scottsdale
When it comes to finding the support you need, our services can be the change you are looking for. Whether it’s guidance, healing, personal or relationship growth, we provide a safe space to explore your thoughts and emotions.
Addiction
Dual Diagnosis
Trauma and PTSD
Co-Dependency
Relationship Issues
Substance Use
Women's Love and Sex Addiction
How Sex and Love Addiction Therapy Works
Four trauma treatment modalities, matched to the person rather than the person matched to the method.
Post Induction Therapy (PIT)
Pia Mellody’s model for developmental trauma. It works on the childhood wounds that shape how you show up in adult relationships, rather than on the behaviour on the surface.
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
A parts based approach. Instead of fighting the part of you that acts out, IFS gets curious about what it is protecting and what it needs.
EMDR
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, for memories the nervous system never finished processing. Often the fastest route through single incident trauma.
Certified Sex Addiction Therapist (CSAT)
The specialist training behind sex and love addiction work: assessment, disclosure, and structured recovery rather than shame and willpower.
Love Addiction to Love Awareness
Angela’s workbook is for the pattern underneath the relationship: the anxious pull when a partner moves away, and the shutdown when intimacy gets close. It treats both sides of that cycle as attachment wounds rather than character flaws.
Working from attachment theory and nervous system regulation, it walks through identifying love addiction and love avoidance patterns, understanding adult attachment styles, breaking the addict and avoidant cycle, regulating emotional triggers, and setting boundaries without losing connection. It is written to be used on its own or alongside therapy.
Independently published, 27 February 2026. 173 pages. ISBN 979-8249858049.
Change Starts Now in Scottsdale
Sex and love addiction therapy in Scottsdale starts with one conversation. I get it, sometimes it’s hard to know where to begin. Take a deep breath, reach out, and I will be here to support you every step of the way.
Why Choose Us For Your Needs in Scottsdale
A specialist, not a generalist
Angela is a Certified Sex Addiction Therapist. Sex and love addiction is not a sideline here, it is the training the practice is built on.
In the field since 2004
More than twenty years of mental and behavioral health work, in outpatient care, with adults who have usually tried something else first.
Four trauma modalities, not one
Post Induction Therapy, Internal Family Systems, EMDR and CSAT, so the treatment plan is built around you rather than around a single method.
Published on the work itself
Angela wrote a recovery workbook on love addiction and love avoidance, so you can read how she works before you ever book.