A Structured Process for Truth, Safety, and Clarity

Trauma-Informed Therapeutic Disclosure in Farmington Hills

Available in-person and virtually across Michigan.

Therapeutic Disclosure follows a carefully sequenced process: 

Pre-Disclosure Preparation

Emotional stabilization, nervous-system support, readiness assessment, and pacing for both partners. 

Structured Disclosure Session

A therapist-guided session where the betraying partner shares a complete, accurate written disclosure to the betrayed partner. 

Polygraph Verification
  • Used to support clarity and safety
  • Never as punishment.
  • This is done when Clinically Indicated
Emotional Restitution Letter

A structured letter acknowledging harm with accountability and empathy. 

Impact & Amend Letters
  • Impact Letter: The betrayed partner shares impact
  • Amendment Letter: The betraying partner responds with specific commitments
Integration & Stabilization

Support to process information without retraumatization. 

Disclosure is paced — Never rushed. 

*Disclosure is a process, not a single event.*

After betrayal, the most destabilizing pain is often not only what happened

But what remains unknown.

Unanswered questions, partial truths, and shifting stories

Keeps the nervous system in survival mode.

You may feel: 

  • Unable to trust what you are being told 
  • Stuck replaying details or searching for missing pieces 
  • Constantly overwhelmed, hypervigilant, or shut down 
  • Unable to move forward without clarity 

Therapeutic Disclosure exists because healing cannot begin in confusion. 

*Relationships break from secrecy — Not from truth.*

A structured, therapist-guided process

Designed to bring truth into the relationship

safely and ethically.

It is used to: 

  • Reduce retraumatization 
  • Stabilize the betrayed partner’s nervous system 
  • Create a foundation for trust repair 
  • Establish transparency and accountability 
  • Replace chaos with clarity 

Therapeutic Disclosure is not couples therapy.

It is a clinical container that makes later healing work possible. 

*Truth needs structure to be healing.*

This process may be appropriate when: 

  • Significant information has been withheld 
  • Betrayal or deception has occurred 
  • Previous “truth-telling” was incomplete or harmful 
  • The betrayed partner feels unsafe or destabilized 
  • The relationship cannot move forward without full clarity 

Disclosure protects both partners by ending uncertainty and guesswork.

*Disclosure restores stability before repair.*

Therapeutic Disclosure is: 
  • Trauma-informed 
  • Carefully paced 
  • Therapist-guided 
  • Protective of nervous-system safety 
Therapeutic Disclosure is not: 
  • An emotional confrontation 
  • An interrogation 
  • Unstructured “truth dumping” 
  • Couples therapy 
  • A guarantee of reconciliation 

The goal is clarity and safety — Not outcomes. 

*Disclosure creates the conditions for healing.*

*Processes support therapy — They do not replace it.*

You are not broken.

Healing begins with a single step — Reaching out.

When you’re ready, we’re here

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If you are in crisis or experiencing an emergency, please call 911 or your local emergency services, or visit the nearest emergency room.

Thrive Beyond Trauma Counseling does not provide crisis or emergency services.

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