Betrayal Trauma & Addiction Recovery Services
Every referral listed below is given based on the perception that they work from a trauma model perspective. The trauma model conceptualizes betrayed partners as injured individuals who develop trauma symptoms as a result of the betrayal and not as a co-collaborator or co-dependent to their spouses addiction. No person should have to experience treatment-induced trauma due to an uneducated professional practicing ignorantly in this specialty. Please inform us if you have any concerns about any of the referrals below while also vetting their services on your own prior to treatment.
counseling & Coaching
Dr. Karen J. Holland is a Board-Certified Lifestyle Medicine Specialist who works with individuals and couples. She specializes in working with betrayed partners through her Positively Healthy Intimacy program.
Helping Couples Heal offers specialized coaching for relational and intimate partner betrayal. They also offer a 2-day weekend workshop and host a highly informative podcast.
Dr. Barbara Steffens is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor and Board Certified Coach who has specialized in working with betrayed partners since 1999. She is the founding president of APSATS (The Association of Partners of Sex Addicts Trauma Specialists).
Brad Alderich is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and relationship coach who specializes in working with individuals with unwanted sexual behaviors.
intensive programs
Dr. Omar Minwalla is a Licensed Psychologist and Clinical Sexologist who has developed online educational courses about Deceptive Sexuality and Trauma (DST), problematic sexual behavior and systemic abuse that surrounds those issues.
Helping Couples Heal offers a powerful 2-day weekend workshop that assists couples in healing from relational and betrayal trauma. Hosted by Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists, Marnie Breecker and Duane Osterlind from the podcast.
Banyan Therapy Group offers intensive workshops for both betrayed partners and addicts in California. They also offer counseling, a blog and many other resources.