Early Recovery Couples Empathy Model Training

October 2022

SASA invites counsellors, therapists and pastoral care worker to attend online, our four- day introductory training on how to work with couples who are in early recovery from sexual addiction and betrayal trauma.

Working with couples is hard work, but with infidelity and compulsive sexual behavioral disorder, the picture becomes much more complicated and requires knowledge of how to work with couples from a partner-sensitive approach. ERCEM will provide strategies that will repair the relationship and build trust back into the coupleship. Moreover, the training will teach professionals empathy and relational skills they can use with their clients to enhance working through the three-phase partner betrayal model developed by APSATS.

Teaching the addict how to empathise and use techniques that support his wife’s healing is part of creating safety and stabilisation for the partner and prepares her (or him) for the grieving and anger work in Phase 2. This four-day training will provide couple exercises that have been adapted from the “Help Her Heal” model that will help the partner move through the anger, grief, mourning and loss stages. It teaches the “Ultimate Empathy Exercises” that allows her to rage at the addiction, grieve the loss of what she thought she had, and mourn what will never be the same again.

A companion text for this course is Carol’s book Help Them Heal.

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