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Digital Seminar

Infidelity and Betrayal: Helping Couples Tend to Pain and Possibility


Faculty:
Alexandra Solomon, PhD
Duration:
2 Hours 40 Minutes
Copyright:
17 Dec, 2024
Product Code:
NOS096575
Media Type:
Digital Seminar
Access:
Never expires.


Description

This course offers a compassionate, stage-based approach to working with infidelity and betrayal in couple therapy. Participants will explore the broader context of infidelity, learn how to support both the betrayed and betraying partners, and navigate common constraints to healing. Emphasis is placed on restoring trust, fostering emotional repair, and helping couples move toward post-traumatic growth and renewed connection after betrayal.

CPD

Planning Committee Disclosure - No relevant relationships

All members of the PESI, Inc. planning committee have provided disclosures of financial relationships with ineligible organizations and any relevant non-financial relationships prior to planning content for this activity. None of the committee members had relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies or other potentially biasing relationships to disclose to learners.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.



CPD

PESI Australia, in collaboration with PESI in the USA, offers quality online continuing professional development events from the leaders in the field at a standard recognized by professional associations including psychology, social work, occupational therapy, alcohol and drug professionals, counselling and psychotherapy. On completion of the training, a Professional Development Certificate is issued after the individual has answered and submitted a quiz and course evaluation. This program is worth 2.75 hours CPD for points calculation by your association.



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Dr. Alexandra H. Solomon is internationally recognized as one of today’s most trusted voices in the world of relationships, and her framework for Relational Self-Awareness has reached millions of people around the globe. A couple therapist, speaker, author, and professor, Dr. Alexandra is passionate about translating cutting-edge research and clinical wisdom into practical tools people can use to bring awareness, curiosity and authenticity to their relationships.

She is a clinician educator and a frequent contributor to academic journals, and she translates her academic and therapeutic experience to the public through her popular Instagram page, which has garnered a quarter of million followers. She is an adjunct professor in the School of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University, and she is the face of MasterClass in Practice. She is a licensed clinical psychologist, who works with individuals and couples in private practice.

Her hit podcast, Reimagining Love, reaches thousands of listeners across the globe each week and features deep dives into complex relationship dynamics as well as conversations with high-profile guests from the worlds of therapy, academia, and pop culture. She is the award-winning author of three bestselling books: Love Every Day, Loving Bravely and Taking Sexy Back. Her work has been covered by outlets including NPR, Today, New York Times, Scientific American, and the Oprah Winfrey Network.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Alexandra Solomon is the founder and clinician for The Institute for Relational Self-Awareness and has employment relationships with Northwestern University and Masterclass. She receives royalties as a published author and is the podcast host of Reimaging Love. Dr. Solomon receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Alexandra Solomon is a thought leader for Heleo, a founding expert for the Mine'd app, and an ambassador for The Relationship School. She is an ad hoc for several peer review journals, for a complete list contact PESI, Inc. Dr. Solomon is a member of the American Psychological Association, and the American Association for Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists. She has presented for Modern Sex Therapy Institute (MSTI) and the Integrative Sex Therapy Institute (ISTI).

 


Objectives

  1. Explore the nature of infidelity, the impact on a couple, and how to work with infidelity in couple therapy.
  2. Identify barriers to restoration of trust after a breach and discern whether and how a couple can rebuild
  3. Promote post-traumatic growth in individuals and couples after infidelity, leveraging the crisis as an opportunity for personal and relational growth.

Outline

  • Big picture of infidelity and working with infidelity in couple therapy
  • Tending to the betrayed partner
  • Tending to the betraying partner
  • A stage-based model for recovery from infidelity in couple therapy
  • Constraints to healing from infidelity
  • Restoration of trust in couples post-infidelity
  • Post-traumatic growth after the experience of infidelity

Target Audience

  • Psychologists
  • Physicians
  • Addiction Counsellors
  • Counsellors
  • Social Workers
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Nurses
  • Psychotherapists
  • Other Behavioural Health Professionals

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