About Dimitri Douchin, PhD

Professional background

Dimitri Douchin, PhD is a psychotherapist specialised in sexual addictions and trauma recovery, and a recovered addict himself.

He has an inextinguishable passion for helping men heal from their toxic attachment to pornography and live a happy and purposeful life.

Dimitri is the co-founder of Unhooked, an online platform dedicated to the treatment of pornography addiction.

Dimitri developed his own non-violent methods to manage addiction and successful recovery and has used these techniques with hundreds of men.

He is the creator of all the programs and treatments on Unhooked and runs weekly live group calls as well as 1-1 therapy sessions.

Dimitri owns an Australian Diploma of Counselling. He is also a member of the Society of Australian Sexologists as well as a member of the International Society for Sexual Medicine.

Dimitri’s Story

Dimitri grew up in France near Paris. In 2011, he flew to Sydney to start his PhD in Astronomy & Astrophysics at Macquarie University, where he graduated in 2015.

He then put his astronomy career on hold to dedicate himself to what felt like a life calling: psychology, therapy and healing. Dimitri created his practice in 2015 and started supporting men and women in their sex-life and relationships.

All this time, Dimitri was addicted to sex and pornography, a heavy secret life that no one ever knew about.

Then Dimitri met the love of his life and his current fiancee, Caroline and promised himself to quit pornography to live his best possible life.

After a relentless process of self-analysis and research, Dimitri devised an integrative method that allowed him to better understand his behaviour with pornography in relation to his past wounds and traumas.

Six months later, he was free from his addiction to pornography.

After 17 years of secrecy, shame, guilt, confusion and lack of alignment, he had finally found a way out of his chronic suffering and behaviour.

Shortly after, Dimitri felt like he wanted to help as many men as possible on their own journey of healing. He decided to share his method with the world, and would spent the next 7 years guiding hundreds of men out of their toxic attachment to pornography, to heal their core trauma and to live a meaningful life.

In 2018, he started working at Vityl, Australia’s largest men’s sexual health clinic as a psychosexual therapist, and successfully completed 1500 contact hours with happy clients.

In 2021, Dimitri got frustrated that he couldn’t reach more men who needed help and support. He chose to join forces with his friend Benoit Maurel, a digital strategist, to create an online solution that could reach the millions of men who seek help with pornography.

In 2022, Unhooked was born as as result - an inclusive, novel type of health platform focusing that important and taboo niche.

In addition to working at Unhooked, Dimitri spends his time sharing his love for astronomy, nature, martial arts and human development.

Our method: The Unhooked journey

In his treatment protocol, Dimitri uses a variety of novel methods for a progressive recovery away from pornography.

Instead of focusing on remission (not watching pornography), his clients work on changing the way they watch pornography to make it less stimulating, and successfully integrating their shadow / wounded child / past trauma thanks to transactional analysis, trauma reprocessing and sexual fantasy analysis.