When connection breaks, repair is possible.

Brain-based therapy for relational rupture, nervous system regulation, and unwanted pornography use. Compassionate, direct, and grounded in how the brain actually changes.

Janene Kingsley, LMFT #152376 — Licensed in California

The Framework

The R.E.A.L. Repair Framework

A four-step, brain-based process for moving from rupture to reconnection — in therapy and in daily life.

Regulate
Regulate

Slow the nervous system. Before anything can be repaired, the body needs to come out of threat mode.

Examine
Examine

Notice the story the brain is creating. What is it predicting? What does it believe is true?

Acknowledge
Acknowledge

Take ownership without collapsing into shame. Accountability becomes possible when the nervous system is regulated.

Lean In
Lean In

Move toward repair instead of self-protection. Lead with honesty, empathy, and willingness to reconnect.

R.E.A.L.
Repair

Brain-Based Tools to Rebuild Trust and Make Repair Possible

This book helps readers understand what happens in the brain and body when connection feels unsafe — and offers practical tools for moving from reaction to repair.

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Rewire the Pattern. Rebuild the Connection.

Patterns of disconnection, shame, and compulsive behavior aren't character flaws — they're the nervous system doing its job. Therapy guides you toward something different.

Relational Repair & Couples Therapy

For individuals and couples navigating conflict, shutdown, defensiveness, betrayal, or repeated disconnection.

Nervous System & Attachment Work

For clients who become flooded, anxious, avoidant, numb, reactive, or stuck in survival responses.

Pornography Recovery & Intimacy Repair

For unwanted pornography use, secrecy, shame cycles, betrayal repair, and rebuilding trust.

What the work looks like
Map the Pattern

We identify the cycle: what triggers it, how your nervous system responds, and what keeps it repeating.

Understand the Brain

You learn how threat, shame, attachment, dopamine, and avoidance shape your reactions.

Practice New Responses

We build tools for regulation, accountability, communication, repair, and reconnection.

Strengthen Connection

You leave with language, practices, and next steps you can use outside the therapy room.

Oxytocin Rewire — A brain-based recovery app

Recovery That Doesn't Clock Out at the End of a Session

When the hardest moments hit, they rarely happen in a therapist's office. OxytocinRewire is an AI-powered recovery platform that lives in your pocket — built to be there in the exact moment an urge strikes, not just on appointment days. It pairs structured program content and real-time coping tools with an AI companion trained to respond with warmth instead of shame, and it connects directly to your therapist so the work you do together never loses momentum between sessions.

It isn't a tracker. It isn't a blocker. It's a better answer to the moment.

Janene Kingsley, LMFT

Meet Janene Kingsley, LMFT, BCSSCS

Therapist. Author.
Relationship Repair Specialist.

Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and founder of Transformative Relational Therapy Center. Janene helps individuals, couples, and families understand the patterns that damage trust — and learn how to repair with honesty, nervous system awareness, and practical tools.

Learn More About Janene
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R.E.A.L. Repair with Janene

Honest conversations, practical tools, and real talk about repairing relationships and creating meaningful connection.

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