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Infidelity Training for Therapists

Learn frameworks and tools to help couples heal from infidelity, stabilize emotions, rebuild trust, and navigate the path toward lasting repair.

A woman and a man sit on a park bench. The woman looks away with a frustrated expression, while the man sits with his head in his hands, suggesting they are upset or having an argument.

Heal the Deepest Wounds: Helping Couples Through Infidelity

Infidelity rips relationships apart abruptly and violently. Treating couples in the aftermath is one of the most important challenges therapists will face.

Helping couples through infidelity is unlike any other challenge in a couples relationship, requiring a specific set of skills and tools. During this time of turmoil, rage and despair, it’s important that therapists manage the first session in a way that can bring a sense of relief and stabilization for the couple. Therapists also need to move the couple forward thereafter to help the couple repair the damage.

Do you feel dread when a couple needs help with infidelity? Do you feel stuck with the betrayer’s defensiveness, avoidance of the topic or the betrayed partner’s rage and obsession with details? Would you like to calm the couples system while being effective at helping move the couple forward?

If so, this training is for you. Whether you are meeting with the couple or one of the partners, you will feel like a more powerful leader with these frameworks and interventions.

Join us!

What You Will Get:

This short but powerful training is designed to equip you with tools and structures needed to help couples and individuals navigate this challenging time. Through small and large group discussion, case examples, role plays, teaching, transcripts, video demonstration, handouts for your couples and more, you will learn:

  • The 3 choices a couple is faced with in the aftermath of infidelity, how to present them to the couple and how to help them decide which is the right path for them.
  • How to stabilize first sessions, and the sessions thereafter.
  • Predictable ways each partner is experiencing the infidelity, and how to reframe these experiences as powerful interventions.
  • The 3 phases of infidelity, and tools to help the couple navigate each phase.
  • A step-by-step process for rebuilding trust (the betrayed partner plays a role too!), and how to explain it to the couple.
  • Predicting and managing the common obstacles that arise in the trust building process.
  • When the betrayer shares their thought processes that led to infidelity, the betrayed partner feels blamed. Learn an effective framework to counter this predictable obstacle, leading to receptivity and more transparent, open conversations at a time when the couple needs it the most.

And so, SO much more….

Couples lean on us in desperation: How do I know my partner will never cheat again? How long will I feel this way? Should I forgive them? Should we stay together? Will our relationship ever feel normal again? It’s important that we navigate these legitimate questions in a way that helps move the couple forward.

What past attendees are saying

“I really loved how informative this Infidelity training was. Michelle presented the different stages of working with infidelity while also offering interventions and examples of how to work with each stage. Excellent training – one of my favorites so far!” – Monica Ramil

“Michelle masterfully presents a simple- yet powerful- straightforward 3-phase treatment process, including handouts and sample questionnaires to support the therapy process. Michelle is brilliantly experienced as a couple’s therapist and instructor. One of my favorite trainings ever!” – Kate Parkinson, LMFT, CSA

Important Details

💳 Registration Fee
The registration fee is non-refundable. However, you may apply your payment toward a future training by Michelle.

🔒 Confidentiality
For the privacy of both clients and therapists, sessions are not recorded.

👥 Small Group Format
Enrollment is limited to ensure personalized attention, rich discussion, and in-depth case support.

Registration

Target Audience: Mental health professionals who would like to learn how to deepen their work with the aftermath of infidelity.

Meetings Single session

Dates TBD

Location Online via Zoom - Recording available!

Fee $117-$147, with or without CE credits, live or recording

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CE Information

This course meets the qualifications for 4.5 hours of continuing education credit for LMFT’s, LCSW’s, LPCC’s and LEP’s as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

CE Provider Information: Michelle Joy, MFT (Provider #65866) is approved by the California association of marriage and family therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFT’s, LCSW’s, LPCC’s and LEP’s. Michelle Joy, MFT maintains responsibility for the program and all its content.

Accommodations: To request accommodations for special needs, please email the Program Administrator at [email protected].

Grievances: To obtain the grievance policy or to report a grievance, please email [email protected] or call 650-485-1504.

Certificates: Course completion certificates will be awarded at the end of the course upon submission of a completed evaluation form and, if applicable, a post-test.