The Infidelity Recovery Method® Certification Training

 

Helping a couple through the process of affair recovery is difficult for most therapists. The 7-Step Infidelity Recovery Method helps alleviate this issue by offering the couple a 7- step “coaching style” program.

Each step aims to answer and treat specific affair related questions and personal injuries. At the same time, the couple is provided skill based training in many areas to change the conditions of their current relationship environment. By providing the individual the skills they need to have a positive and loving relationship during the affair recovery process – the individual is able to feel hope for a more loving and emotionally connected future relationship.

The course offers an understanding into seven specific types of affairs and how your treatment program should differ based on the type of affair. You are also provided a 12-Session Affair Recovery Program to implement the 7-step infidelity recovery method into your current practice.

The 7-Step Infidelity Recovery Method has two training programs – a short-track guide for therapists, and a Certification program for coaches.

Course Rationale: 

The infidelity recovery program was developed for several reasons:

  1. “To save the fabric of society” – With the divorce rates at an extremely high level, we as therapists and coaches need to take ownership of our ability to help couples stay together, and save the relationship after betrayal. Today, it is too easy to divorce, and for those families who have children, we see the children following parents footsteps into infidelity in their own relationships, or many face the inability to hold stable relationships.
  2. Provide a step-by-step method for therapist and coaches to guide a couple through affair recovery.
  3. To educate couples on how to have a loving relationship. The seven step infidelity recovery program is designed to change the conditions in the relationship environment, so by the end of the program the couple has a new relationship skill set.

The 7-Step Infidelity Recovery course exists, as there was no method to help the therapist treat the issues relating to the infidelity. Research indicates the majority of couples facing infidelity either do not consider counselling as a recovery option, or they do not believe in therapy. The result for the couple is divorce or ignoring the relationship challenges and living in misery.

Current marriage counseling methods such as the popular CBT method, is not suitable for marriage counseling (CBT is excellent for individual therapy when treating specific issues). Emotional Focused Therapy (EFT) is the best option outside of the IRI 7-Step Infidelity Recovery Method. EFT is limited in that it does not specifically look at affair specific challenges, nor the type of affair. Without dealing directly with the affair specific issues in therapy, the reasons why the affair happened in the first place will plague the relationship in the future.

The 7-Step Infidelity Recovery Program, by its very nature of being a “coaching program”, keeps a couple together for as long as possible after the discovery of infidelity. Knee-jerk reactions to one discovering their partners’ affair result in “quickie” divorces and nasty separations. It is the aftermath of affair discovery which causes long term psychological injuries for all involved, and their immediate family.

Time and again we have found that couples who remain together throughout the 7-Step Infidelity Recovery Program are able to find a mutually satisfactory path forward. Furthermore, couples who complete the aftercare program have a stronger bond than before the affair.

Course Aims and Outcomes: 

By course completion, the student will be able to:

  • Understand Affair Types
    • Assign an affair type to the infidelity
    • Understand the effect an affair type has on the current relationship and future relationship.
    • Create a treatment program around the affair type
    • Understand the individual needs (of the unfaithful spouse and the betrayed spouse), both short term and long term, based on affair type.
  • Understand the key issues in affair recovery for long term mental health benefits
  • Use the 7-Step Infidelity Recovery Program to guide the Affair Recovery journey.

 

Specific Learning Outcomes:

The course provides training in each area:

The 7-Steps of Affair Recovery

  1. Commitment
  2. Affair Story
  3. Personal healing
  4. Sex & Intimacy
  5. Emotional Needs
  6. Forgiveness
  7. Moving Forward

The 7 Types of Affairs

  1. One Night Stand
  2. Avoidance Affairs
    1. Conflict avoidance
    2. Sexual avoidance
  3. Philanderer
  4. Entitlement Affairs
  5. Exit Affairs
  6. Split Self Affairs
  7. Sexual Addiction Affairs

Course Requirements: 

  1. Class attendance and participation policy:
    • You do not have to participate in any optional online lesson, workgroup, Facebook group, or discussion. You are welcome to follow any course content or discussion without participation, although your knowledge and expertise would always be welcome.
  1. Course readings:

(a) Required text:

 No required Textbook.

(b) Background readings:

The course will provide you articles and research papers to support each lesson.

  1. Assignments:
  • No assignments are given in this course.
  • For Certification, you will need to complete TWO case studies.

 

Save

Save

13 thoughts on “The Infidelity Recovery Method® Certification Training”

  1. Dorothy Owuor says:

    I am currently doing a diploma course in counselling psychology in Kenya, Africa. Am I eligible to take this course too? I am very interested in this infidelity Revovery Course

    Reply

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *