| Course | Healing Betrayal: A 12-Week Course Focused on Restoring Sexual Intimacy Through Nature Therapy |
| Audience | This course was designed for individuals, couples, or relationship partners at any stage of the betrayal recovery process looking to heal from emotional, sexual, internet, or a combination of betrayals. This course integrates seamlessly with weekly sessions for therapists, counselors, and mental health professionals by providing individuals or relationship partners with valuable tools, weekly interventions, and somatic/cognitive prompts to work through the recovery process more effectively. |
| Course objective | This course was designed for individuals, couples, or relationship partners at any stage of the betrayal recovery process, looking to heal from emotional, sexual, internet, or a combination of betrayals. This course integrates seamlessly with weekly sessions for therapists, counselors, and mental health professionals by providing individuals or relationship partners with valuable tools, weekly interventions, and somatic/cognitive prompts to work through the recovery process more effectively. |
| Time Commitment | Approximately 3 hours a week |
| Learning outcomes | By completing this course, participants will: – Decrease intrusive thoughts, rumination, and dissociation; reduce anger flooding; challenge negative core schemas; reduce ambivalence, hyper-vigilance, and hyperawareness. Effectively process and manage symptoms related to grief and loss of the assumptive world. – Gain a greater understanding of factors that may have led to the betrayal. Practice accountability, improve communication, and establish new agreements for transparency and self-love based on secure attachments, including individual and relationship goals for the future. – Increase empathy, forgiveness, and mindfulness for greater connection, acceptance, and restoration of intimacy and sexual desire. Create or co-create the blueprint for a more mindful relationship with self and partner/s going forward. |
| Modules | Phase I: Stabilization (four weeks). Weeks 1, 2, 3, and 4 are provided in a virtual, online format and entirely self-paced. Phase II: Understanding (four weeks). Weeks 5, 6, 7, and 8 are provided in a virtual format, online, and entirely self-paced. Phase III: Rebuilding Weeks 9, 10, 11, and 12 are provided in a virtual format, online, and entirely self-paced (four weeks) for participants who choose to continue the course through the virtual format included with the online course option. For participants that chose the in-person option: Weeks 9-10 are delivered through the virtual format, online, and entirely self-paced (two weeks). Course content for weeks 11-12 is provided through the intensive in-person weekend retreat Friday-Sunday. Please use the contact form to request in-person weekend retreat options. |
