Founder of Daring Ventures in Houston, Texas
NCC, CSAT-S, CMAT, CCPS
Houston-based therapist, executive coach, trainer and speaker. Creator of the Couple-Centered Recovery® model.
When betrayal or addiction shakes a relationship, you deserve care that is honest, hopeful and free of shame. You are not alone, and there is a way forward.
2017Daring Ventures founded
Dr. Jake founded Daring Ventures, a Houston counseling, coaching and consultation practice, in 2017. Today his team serves individuals, couples and families healing from betrayal trauma, problematic sexual behavior, addiction and relational pain.
Dr. Jake Porter is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Houston and the founder of Daring Ventures. Before he opened the practice in 2017, he served for 13 years as a senior pastor, from 2004 to 2017.
He went on to create the Couple-Centered Recovery® model, and he now serves on the faculty of the Doctor of Professional Counseling Program at Kairos University, helping to train future counselors. He also hosts Betrayal Recovery Radio, the official podcast of APSATS.
Through Daring Ventures, Dr. Jake and his team work with betrayed partners, people facing problematic sexual behavior or addiction, couples who want to rebuild, and executives who carry heavy responsibility. One conviction runs through all of that work.
Both trauma and healing are relational.
That is why his approach treats connection as part of the cure, and why the goal is real transformation rather than simply managing behavior.
Every story is different, and so is the first step. Choose the path that sounds most like yours, and the Daring Ventures team will help you find the right kind of care.
Discovering a betrayal can leave you doubting your own mind. You are not crazy, and you don’t have to sort this out by yourself. Daring Ventures offers trauma-informed therapy and coaching that honors what you’ve been through and helps you trust yourself again.
Lasting recovery means becoming a different person, not only performing a different behavior. For people facing problematic sexual behavior or addiction, the team offers a path built on honesty, integrity and real character change.
Or meet Ascent, our program for men committed to integrity-driven recovery.
Your relationship can be part of the solution, not just the place where the pain happened. Couples intensives give you focused, guided time to move from crisis to clarity side by side.
Licensed therapy is available in Texas, with limited availability in Arizona, Florida, Montana and Virginia. Recovery coaching is offered nationwide.
The relationship can be part of the solution, not collateral damage.
Dr. Jake created Couple-Centered Recovery® because people are hurt in relationship, and they heal in relationship too. Instead of setting the couple aside while one partner works on recovery, the model brings the relationship into the healing process, so each partner does their own work while the two of them rebuild trust together.
It draws on five foundations:
You can also read the story behind the model at Couple-Centered.
Here is what the letters after Dr. Jake’s name stand for, along with the advanced training behind his work.
Eight books written to help people heal, reconnect and grow, whether you are just starting out or well along the way.
Breaking Barriers, Building Bridges
The 40 Day Choose Connection Challenge
Beyond Recovery
Turning Question Marks Into Periods
Finding Yourself After Betrayal
It’s Hard to Be a Baby
Shutting Out Shame
Dr. Jake hosts Betrayal Recovery Radio, the official podcast of APSATS.
The show is a place for honest conversation about betrayal, recovery and rebuilding connection, so you can keep learning between sessions or take a first step from wherever you are.
Beyond intensives, Dr. Jake’s practice offers ongoing care, learning and support for leaders, churches and clinicians.
Get to know the therapists and coaches who work alongside Dr. Jake.
Ongoing weekly support for individuals and couples.
Heal alongside people who understand what you are carrying.
Integrity Driven Leadership™ coaching for leaders and executives.
Confidential, highly personal care for people with very public lives.
Online learning to keep growing between sessions.
Support for churches caring for hurting couples and families.
Training for clinicians who want to learn the Couple-Centered Recovery® approach.
Dr. Jake Porter, Ed.D., LPC, NCC, CSAT-S, CMAT, CCPS, is a Houston-based Licensed Professional Counselor, executive coach, trainer and speaker. He founded Daring Ventures in 2017 and created the Couple-Centered Recovery® model.
Daring Ventures is Dr. Jake’s Houston counseling, coaching and consultation practice. It helps individuals, couples and families with betrayal trauma, problematic sexual behavior, addiction and relational pain. You can explore Daring Ventures here anytime.
It is the model Dr. Jake created to treat the couple relationship as part of the solution, because both trauma and healing are relational. Each partner does their own work while the couple rebuilds trust and connection together.
Licensed therapy is available in Texas, with limited availability in Arizona, Florida, Montana and Virginia. Recovery coaching is offered nationwide, so the team can help you find the right option wherever you live.
Yes. He hosts Betrayal Recovery Radio, the official APSATS podcast, and has written eight books, including Breaking Barriers, Building Bridges and Beyond Recovery.
Reaching out takes courage, and you don’t have to know exactly what you need. A member of our team will listen, answer your questions and help you find the right place to begin.