Because change happens in relationship.
Relationship with ourselves, others, and our Higher Power or larger systems of meaning.
Professional Training
Expand your expertise through certification as a Partner Betrayal Specialist trained in the Attachment-Focused Partner Betrayal Model (APB).
Intensives
Accelerate healing and create real transformation through an individual or couples counseling intensive.
Counseling Services
Access individualized treatment for yourself or your relationship with a focus on sexual compulsivity, partner betrayal trauma, childhood trauma, or relationship issues.
Welcome to the Relational Recovery Institute
The Relational Recovery Institute is grounded in the belief that all change happens in relationship, and that our attachments to others are both the most meaningful and at times the most challenging parts of our lives.
The Model
The Attachment-Focused Partner Betrayal (APB) Model, developed by Michelle Mays LPC, CSAT-S, introduces an attachment-based model that presents new language, concepts, and imagery to explore the crucial relational dilemma that betrayed partners face when their significant other is unsafe to connect to, yet connection is the key to healing.
Professional Training
Sexual betrayal introduces an attachment-based bind into relationships as partners become unsafe to connect to and yet, connection is the key to emotional regulation and healing.
The Attachment-Focused Partner Betrayal (APB) model prioritizes the relational nature of sexual betrayal, recognizing that even the best guidance and help can fall short without a thorough understanding of how an attachment system in distress functions and alters relationships with the self and others.
Expand your expertise through certification as a Partner Betrayal Specialist trained in the Attachment-Focused Partner Betrayal (APB) Model.
Intensives
Counseling intensives offer an opportunity to leave the distractions of daily life behind and spend focused, intentional time in a safe space to learn and heal. The Relational Recovery Institute offers three types of counseling intensives:
Couple Intensives
Designed for couples who are either healing after betrayal, are struggling to work through conflicts, or who simply want more play and connection in their relationship.
Childhood Trauma Intensives
Designed for individuals who are healing childhood wounds and working to change relational patterns stemming from imperfect parenting and insecure attachment.
Sex After Betrayal Intensives
Designed for women who have experienced sexual betrayal in their adult partnered relationships (whether from infidelity or a pattern of sexual addiction) who are ready to reclaim their sexual selves and heal the sexual injuries created by betrayal.