There’s just under a week until my Imago sponsored telecourse, Recovering from Affairs! Class starts May 14th; student discounts are available. See the Imago website for more details on fees and how to register.
After an affair, most couples struggle with issues around rebuilding trust, earning forgiveness, and moving toward a shared vision of a new monogamy and a new future. As an Imago therapist, it’s easy to feel ineffective or lost in the treatment of affairs, if we go on the old model of infidelity treatment which focuses on a perpetrator and a victim. Common dilemmas in affair recovery often surface around secret keeping, both in the therapy as well as in the primary relationship. Forgiveness can be a stuck place as well. In this class we’ll learn how to help couples work through these major stumbling blocks using Imago techniques of dialogue, validation and empathy. Imago therapy is uniquely therapeutic and will help therapists direct couples in the dialogical process necessary for post affair healing.
- Participants will be able to identify how to work with both partners individually or as a couple and how to manage secrets in couples therapy, and the advantages and disadvantages of revealing an affair.
- Participants will focus on what it means to forgive, learn if it is necessary in the treatment process, and the three stages of Affair Recovery, Crisis, Insight and Vision.
- Participants will identify how to help partners constructively talk about the details of the affair and how to build trust, and move toward erotic recovery.
To register online please click here.
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