You promised to spend the rest of your lives together, forsaking all others. But, the joy and excitement you shared that day has faded into confusion and disbelief when you found out your partner had an affair. You’re numb and heartbroken wondering where it all went wrong.
There are so many questions that are running through your mind. You just this nightmare to end. Despite your best efforts to keep it all hidden, the sleepless nights are beginning to take a toll on your well-being. You can’t seem to stop the tears. You yearn for comfort and support. But, you feel ashamed and find it difficult to trust anyone, especially the person you thought you could count on forever.
Your partner’s infidelity changed everything, now you’re not sure how to proceed in your relationship.
Whether you decide to stay and fight for your marriage or decide to go, I can give you hope and help you face this heartbreak. As a couples therapist, I can help you piece the shattered parts of your life together. I will teach you the tools to establish control over the intense emotions and intrusive thoughts that are consuming you and making it hard for you to live your best life.
Infidelity is a violation of trust that, without help, can destroy any hope of the relationship continuing.
Infidelity of any kind, whether emotional or sexual, attacks the most deeply held trust in your relationship. It is a violation of the agreement that the two of you made to hold certain parts of your lives and relationships as sacred between the two of you. When this trust is violated, it creates deep insecurity, fear, and uncertainty.
Infidelity counseling in Bradenton, FL can help you process the betrayal and determine how to move forward
Your spouse promises it won’t happen again, and they will stay faithful. While this can help, it doesn’t heal the hurt that was caused by their betrayal. In order to truly heal move forward in a healthy way, you and your spouse to be able to process your pain and learn how to rebuild a sense of trust in your relationship. This is no easy process. But, deeper healing happens when you are able to freely voice your needs, feel understood and respected by your spouse. Being able to trust that your needs will be met and your spouse will be faithful can ultimately rebuild your connection to your partner. I will work with you and your spouse to teach you how to experience meaningful emotional connections, so you can proceed in your relationship in a healthy way.
Healing the Hurt with Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples
I use the principles in Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples (EFT) developed by Dr. Sue Johnson. EFT teaches couples how to recognize the deeper emotional dynamics that are happening between them (often below the surface). Then, it teaches them how to emotionally connect in ways that create safety, attraction, connection, and joy.
EFT helps get to the core issues that are underlying the conflict and/or relationship distress. It helps couples and individuals truly understand why their emotions are heightened as a result of such stress. EFT works to ways to interrupt the unhelpful patterns that we find ourselves in that overtime cause damage to ourselves and our relationships. This form of counseling helps develop a new, and more positive, sense of self. It teaches new ways of relating to things and people around you, past memories, and thought patterns.
I also use elements of the Gottman Method and Imago Therapy. These therapies have proven to be the most effective for addressing the necessary healing to truly recover from infidelity. They help build a deep connection and a meaningful relationship.
Sexual Therapy after Infidelity
If you are working through sexual or intimacy concerns after an affair, I can help you heal from that as well. In sex therapy, I provide sexual reintegration therapy to help you rebuild intimacy from the ground up and deal with issues such as shame, embarrassment, disgust, and anger.
Begin Infidelity Counseling in Bradenton, FL:
If your world and your relationship have been rocked by infidelity, I can help you process the shock and pain. Then, I can help you choose a path forward that embraces what’s best for you, your life, and your marriage. You don’t have to go through this alone, I am here to help. Follow these steps to begin counseling in Bradenton, FL:
- Contact Forever Free Counseling and request a free consultation with Elizabeth,
- Meet with me and learn about my approach to infidelity counseling
- Begin therapy and find support and healing.
Other Services Offered at Forever Free Counseling
In addition to infidelity counseling, I offer a variety of counseling services in my therapy practice located in Bradenton, FL, which is nearby to Lakewood Ranch. My individual counseling services include counseling for women, Christian counseling, anxiety treatment, trauma treatment, EMDR, Internal Family Systems Therapy, Brainspotting, treatment for childhood sexual abuse and emotional abuse, sexual anorexia treatment. And, my relationship therapy services include premarital counseling, couples therapy and marriage counseling, counseling for emotionally destructive relationships, therapy for partners of sex addicts, sex therapy, and relationship anxiety therapy. Additionally, I offer online therapy in Florida to meet your mental health needs when you can’t visit my therapy clinic in Bradenton, FL. Contact my counseling practice and learn about the ways I can help you live free and be happy.
