Couples surviving an affair often need counseling from a marriage and family therapist. After an affair, one of the biggest problems couples face involves learning how to discuss what happened appropriately. Often, the injured spouse presses for detailed information that may only increase the hurt. Conversely, the participating partner frequently wants to avoid talking and move forward.

Our Specialized Approach to Infidelity Recovery

At the Prescott Relationship Center, we have extensive experience working with couples healing after affairs. Specifically, we show couples how to deal with infidelity and resolve the numerous resulting consequences. Our goal involves helping you rebuild trust in your relationship. Additionally, we want to help heal the emotional bond between you and your spouse that the affair broke.

Effective communication becomes crucial during recovery. Our guide on improving communication through sharing withholds helps couples learn to express their feelings safely and rebuild connection after betrayal.

Evidence-Based Affair Counseling Services

Recovering from an affair requires significant work and effort, but it remains entirely possible. Furthermore, we dedicate ourselves to using evidence-based counseling practices in our work with couples healing after affairs. Evidence-based counseling practices refer to methods that research has proven effective.

Emotionally Focused Therapy for Infidelity Recovery

Specifically, our counseling center uses Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) in our affair counseling sessions. Decades of research have proven Emotionally Focused Therapy helps distressed couples improve their relationships.

Emotionally Focused Therapy proves highly appropriate for couples facing affairs. An affair breaks the bond between partners. When a spouse has a physical or emotional affair with someone else, they break the emotional connection that should remain exclusive to that relationship. In EFT language, we call this broken emotional connection an attachment injury. Research demonstrates that over 60% of couples successfully resolve significant attachment injuries after 13 sessions of EFT.

Research-Proven Success Rates

Studies show that marriages grow in trust, forgiveness, and satisfaction with Emotionally Focused Therapy help. We’ve witnessed this transformation firsthand. Couples can resolve wounds of betrayal and abandonment when they openly communicate their feelings about the affair in a safe environment. Moreover, this resolution isn’t a temporary fix. Often, couples discover lasting results.

Why Affair Counseling Investment Is Worth the Effort

Many couples avoid affair counseling initially. Resolving infidelity consequences requires enormous amounts of work and effort. Couples often avoid marriage counseling because they don’t believe anything could possibly save their relationship. They avoid counseling due to guilt, shame, and fear. However, we believe forgiveness and restoration remain entirely possible.

For those struggling with the decision to seek help, our blog post on signs your marriage can survive an affair offers hope and practical guidance for couples wondering if their relationship can be saved.

Research supports what we observe in the couples we counsel. Couples who complete EFT become not only less distressed upon finishing but also maintain these positive results for years afterward.