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 Braving Model:™providing attachment-focused hope for partner betrayal.
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 Braving 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 Braving 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 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.
Counseling Services
The Relational Recovery Institute offers an individualized proven path and treatment program for relational recovery that will improve your relationships, help to resolve current and past traumas, and transform your life.
Specializations Include:
Sexual Compulsivity / Addiction
Our sex addiction treatment program is designed to not just arrest compulsive sexual behaviors but to address and repair the underlying dynamics that often drive the addiction.
Partner Betrayal Trauma
Treatment for partner betrayal trauma is based on The Braving Model™, developed by Michelle Mays LPC, CSAT-S, to treat individuals healing from the impacts of sexual betrayal, whether that betrayal results from infidelity or a pattern of compulsive sexual behavior.
Childhood Trauma
You have a story. A story that began with the family you were born into and was shaped over time by the relationship between you, your parents, siblings, and extended family. You have a story and understanding your story is the key to healing, freedom and health in your life and relationships.
Recovering Relationships
Relationships are where we experience our greatest joy, our greatest pain and our greatest meaning in life. They are also the place where we learn the most about ourselves and are challenged to grow into the person we are created to be.
