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Register for the FREE webinar on infidelity and learn the 3 phases of treatment.
Infidelity is one of the most important challenges a couple can face. The emotions associated with such an event have traumatic impacts for years to come. Couples can be completely destroyed by this betrayal or they can also rebuild a relationship that was often already fragile before the disclosure. This can be a turning point for relationships that have experienced infidelity. Therapists and counsellors are often ill-equipped to support relationships that have experienced this breakup in the couple.
Health professionals offering counseling and psychotherapy services for couples find themselves with a relationship issue that is very complex when it comes to sexuality and more specifically infidelity. The betrayal of infidelity is a situation for which many therapists have difficulty grasping the underlying elements that maintain the dynamic. Addressing very thorny topics such as normal marital sadism, forgiveness, acceptance and reconciliation and their emotional gridlock with partners through the lens of mind-mapping.
For health professionals (psychologists, marriage and family therapists, sexologists, psychotherapists) offering psychotherapy or counseling to couples suffering from a betrayal related to infidelity. This workshop will help you explore in depth the dynamics that even therapists would prefer to avoid in therapy. This training will also address concrete ways to analyze and improve the dynamics of the relationship of the couple who consults. Neuroscience and brain plasticity will be addressed to better understand the impact of the approach.
Duration: 6 hours
The workshop is recognized by the OPQ for hours of training in psychotherapy and eligible for other Orders for formal ADP.
Once you have purchased the workshop, an email with access codes and presentation materials will be sent to you to start the online training.
François has been a sexologist since 2010 and a psychotherapist since 2012. He trained in David Schnarch’s Sexual Crucible Therapy (SCT) and Crucible Neurobiological Therapy (CNT) approach to help couples with difficulties related to sexual desire and other dysfunctional dynamics. He became an systemic supervisor and founder of his sexologist and psychotherapist clinic in Montreal in 2017. He is recognized for his frankness and dynamism by his clients and colleagues to address thorny topics in relationship dynamics in couples therapy.
Infidelity is one of the most complex reasons for consultation in couples psychotherapy.
It confronts the therapist with intense emotions: anger, shame, guilt, trauma, ambivalence, desire to make amends… or to leave. In these moments, it is easy to get caught up in the couple’s suffering, to take sides in spite of oneself or to want to rush a decision.
However, our role is not to tell the couple whether they should stay together or separate.
Our role is to help them regain their freedom of choice.
This is precisely the objective of this new 6-hour training:
Learning to accept, forgive and reconcile infidelity: having the option to choose.
Forgiveness is not an obligation.
Separation is not always the best solution.
Rather, the real clinical question is:
How do we help partners regain enough differentiation to make a free choice, rather than having a reaction dictated by fear, guilt or trauma?
During this training, we will explore the processes that allow the couple to get out of automatic reactions so that they can really decide their future.
During this training, you will develop concrete tools to:
Understand the different functions that infidelity can have in the dynamics of the couple.
Use differentiation as a therapeutic lever to reduce defensive reactions and promote more conscious decisions.
Identify the mind-mapping processes that maintain suffering, interpretations and scenarios imagined after the discovery of infidelity.
Intervene when partners are prisoners of their assumptions, projections or certainties.
Develop more ease in accompanying intense emotions without avoiding difficult conversations.
Helping partners determine if reconciliation is possible… or if separation becomes the most consistent choice with their values.
Infidelity can easily become a subject that generates apprehension for many therapist.
How do you answer questions that no one really has the answer to?“Should I trust him?”
“Do I have to tell everything?”
“Can a couple really get over it?”
“Can we forgive without forgetting?”
This training will allow you to develop a more solid clinical posture in order to accompany these situations with more calm, nuance and confidence.
Because when the therapist is comfortable with uncertainty, he or she helps the couple to find their own bearings rather than looking for ready-made answers.
Develop skills that will help you support individuals and couples who have experienced infidelity
9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
9 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.