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Counselling
Counselling
Structured Repair After Truth-Telling and Betrayal
Trauma-Informed Couple Therapy in Farmington Hills
Available in-person and virtually across Michigan.
Disclosure changes a relationship permanently.
This phase is often the most misunderstood and most vulnerable stage of betrayal recovery.
You may notice:
- Conversations quickly escalate or shut down
- Intense emotional swings or emotional numbness
- Hypervigilance, fear, or withdrawal
- Pressure to “move on” before safety has returned
- Confusion about whether repair is even possible
*After disclosure, safety must be rebuilt before closeness can return.*
Post-Disclosure Deep Couples Work focuses on:
- Rebuilding emotional safety
- Addressing trauma-driven reactivity
- Repairing attachment injuries
- Slowing conversations that cause harm
- Developing regulated empathy
- Restoring stability before intimacy
Sessions are highly structured and therapist-guided to protect both partners nervous systems.
*Structure creates safety when emotions are intense.*
Post-Disclosure Deep Couples Work is an advanced, trauma-informed phase of couples care designed specifically for the period after therapeutic disclosure.
This work is grounded in the Early Recovery Couples Empathy Model (ERCEM)
It focuses on:
- Emotional and relational stabilization
- Repairing power imbalances created by secrecy
- Rebuilding safety before empathy
- Pacing conversations to prevent retraumatization
- Restoring choice and agency for both partners
This is not reconciliation work.
It is not forgiveness work.
It is safety-first repair.
*Post-disclosure is a trauma phase — Not a communication phase.*
- Trauma-sequenced
- Paced and contained
- Accountability-centered
- Protective of the betrayed partner
- Supportive of genuine empathy development
- Traditional couples therapy
- Conflict-resolution skills training
- Pressure to reconcile
- Pressure to separate
- Forgiveness coaching
*Clarity emerges from safety, not pressure.*
- Formal therapeutic disclosure has occurred
- Major information is no longer being withheld
- Acute crisis has stabilized
- Accountability structures are in place
- Both partners need guided, protected repair
- Before disclosure
- During active deception
- when emotional safety is absent
Timing is critical to prevent further harm.
*Deep repair cannot happen too soon.*
Post-Disclosure Deep Couples Work functions as a bridge phase between betrayal stabilization and longer-term relational repair.
It is commonly coordinated with:
Each service plays a distinct role in the healing sequence.
*Post-disclosure work bridges safety and reconnection.*
Post-disclosure couples work is strongest when individual support is in place.
This may include:
Partner betrayal trauma support →
Parallel care helps reduce overwhelm and supports relational stability.
*Individual stabilization supports relational repair.*
Care is paced intentionally regardless of format.
Healing begins with a single step — Reaching out.
When you’re ready, we’re here