An Intentional Divorce After An Affair

Presented by Tammy Nelson, PhD on 10-02-2015 at 9 a.m. Pacific to 11 a.m. Pacific (2 p.m. Eastern)

This presentation will guide you through five essential strategies for helping couples facing separation and divorce, introduce a process for healing with intention, and provide interventions that facilitate couples as they navigate each stage of the process. You will learn clear and effective treatment strategies to apply in your work with couples as they determine how to proceed and to help them move toward a health separation when necessary.

Drawing upon Dr. Nelson's years of experience, we will look at case examples and evaluate contemporary treatment intervention strategies. You will acquire empowering techniques that will serve you and your clients as they intentionally and conscientiously close their relationships after infidelity, allowing all of you to avoid experiencing further trauma, chaos, or feelings of failure.

This intermediate, instructional level web conference is designed to help clinicians:

  1. Define how to end a relationship with integrity and describe the importance of closure after an affair.
  2. List five essential strategies in facilitating intentional divorce therapy after infidelity and explain how the process can be healing for couples.
  3. Explain how partners collude with the narrative that leads to divorce, how healthy dissolution can be achieved, and how separation does not necessarily imply treatment failure, but can, in fact, help each person move toward a healthy individual and family life.
  4. Describe the process for healing shame and helping couples move toward decision making, facilitate intervention, improve communication, work through grief, and cultivate a new vision for the future.

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Event Reviews from Members

Dr. Nelson is very practical and has an excellent grasp of current concerns for couples. - Therese Bogan, LMFT

​I liked that this presentation provided clear questions for client or marriage partners to consider when contemplating divorce. - Susan McChord Hurd, LCPC

​I loved the examples of how couples have chosen to conscientiously de-couple through a ceremony or ritual. I love that idea and want to use it in my work with couples. - Alisha Fleming LPC

Continuing Education (CE) Information

Two CE credits will be provided by GoodTherapy.org for attending this web conference in its entirety.

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Meet the Presenter

Tammy Nelson, PhD

Tammy Nelson, PhD

Tammy Nelson, PhD is a licensed counselor and psychotherapist specializing in relationships and sex. She has been in practice for nearly 30 years, and is certified as a sex therapist, a sexologist, and an Imago relationship therapist.

Tammy is committed to global relational change, and she travels internationally for speaking and training engagements on the topic of sustainable relationships and renewable monogamy. She has been featured as an expert in the Washington Post, Glamour Magazine, Men's Health, and the New York Times, among others. Tammy has authored many books, including The New Monogamy: Redefining Your Relationship After Infidelity, What’s Eating You? A Workbook for Anorexia, Bulimia, and Other Eating Disorders, and the forthcoming Sex and Lies: The Naked Therapist, which is currently under negotiation. Learn more about Tammy's work at www.drtammynelson.com, and follow her blog at www.drtammynelson.com/blog.

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  • Logo This course has been approved by GoodTherapy.org, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #135463. GoodTherapy.org is responsible for all aspects of their programming.
  • GoodTherapy.org, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0395.
  • GoodTherapy.org, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0022 and for licensed mental health counselors #MHC-0031.

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