Name: Healing after Infidelity: Betrayal Trauma in Couples Therapy—Live
SKU: HAI-261207
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Healing after Infidelity: Betrayal Trauma in Couples Therapy—Live Presented by Tammy Nelson, PhD

This live, two-hour online training explores clinical approaches to infidelity recovery and the treatment of betrayal trauma in couples therapy.

Infidelity can profoundly affect trust, safety, intimacy, sexuality, identity, and each partner’s understanding of the relationship itself.

Drawing on clinical research and theory related to infidelity, betrayal trauma, couple recovery, therapist countertransference, and relationship agreements, Tammy Nelson, PhD, will introduce her three-phase clinical framework addressing crisis and stabilization, insight and reevaluation, and vision and renegotiation.

Participants will examine varied forms of affairs and explore how therapist bias, countertransference, triangulation, collusion, and unintentional shaming can interfere with recovery or contribute to retraumatization. Moving beyond a victim-perpetrator-rescuer framework, the training supports a more clinically balanced understanding of both partners and the relationship system.

Through clinical discussion, case material, and practical interventions, participants will learn strategies to help couples repair relational injuries, increase transparency, address implicit and explicit expectations about monogamy, and create sustainable relationship agreements for the future.

Target Audience and Course Level

This intermediate-level training is designed for licensed psychologists and other mental health professionals with graduate-level clinical training. For psychologists seeking APA continuing education credit, the content builds upon doctoral-level education in psychology.

Topics covered

A three-phase clinical framework for working with couples following infidelity
Strategies for reducing shame, bias, collusion, and retraumatization in treatment
Interventions for rebuilding trust, intimacy, transparency, and relational safety
Tools for helping partners create explicit and sustainable relationship agreements

Learning Objectives

By the end of the program, participants will be able to:

Differentiate the crisis, insight, and vision phases of Dr. Nelson’s clinical framework for treating infidelity according to the primary clinical focus of each phase.
Apply two interventions—trauma-informed stabilization and explicit relationship-agreement development—to a clinical case involving infidelity.

Continuing Education Information

Requirements: Participants seeking CE credit must attend the full live two-hour program and complete the post-program evaluation. CUE Management Solutions will issue and distribute CE certificates following completion of these requirements.

CE Sponsor: CUE Management Solutions, LLC is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. CUE Management Solutions, LLC maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

CUE Management Solutions, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0242.

CUE Management Solutions, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0925.

CE Eligibility: Other licensed mental health professionals, including professional counselors and marriage and family therapists, may also be able to apply these credits toward their continuing education requirements. Participants should confirm acceptance with their individual licensing boards.

Commercial Support: No commercial support has been received for this program.

Cancellation Policy: Cancellations received at least 48 hours before the event are eligible for a full refund, including any CE fee paid. No refunds are available for cancellations made within 48 hours of the event or for nonattendance. Refund requests should be emailed to ICDC.

If ICDC cancels or reschedules an event, registrants may choose a full refund or transfer their registration to the new date.

About Tammy Nelson, PhD

Tammy Nelson, PhD, is a Board Certified Sexologist, AASECT Certified Sex Therapist, Licensed Professional Counselor, Certified Imago Relationship Therapist, and Licensed Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counselor. She has more than 30 years of experience working with couples and individuals, including those navigating flexible monogamy and other relationship structures. Dr. Nelson is a TEDx speaker and host of The Trouble with Sex podcast. She speaks internationally and consults with institutes, think tanks, and corporations on communication, integrity, sexuality, and relationships.

Presenter Disclosures

Dr. Tammy Nelson is the author of books relevant to the program's content, including The New Monogamy, When You're the One Who Cheats, and Open Monogamy. She is also Director of the Integrative Sex Therapy Institute. Her CV lists an expert advisor and press consultant role with Ashley Madison. These professional relationships are disclosed because of their relevance to the subject matter.