Disclosure Prep Manual & Workshop Kit
Creating a Context for Hope and Healing
Disclosure
A facilitated, carefully prepared and supported process where the sexually addicted individual provides his or her partner with a fully honest account of his or her history of acting out behaviors.
Helping couples who are dealing with sexual betrayal navigate the process of getting to, going through, and healing after Disclosure is a complex process, demanding a high level of skill, wisdom, adaptability, and structure on the part of you, the therapist.
To help you help others, we offer two products based on the Relational Recovery Disclosure Model. Each product equips you with everything you need – information, tools, resources and a carefully crafted process – to successfully guide clients through the process of Disclosure:
Relational Recovery Disclosure Prep ManualRelational Recovery Disclosure Prep Workshop Kit
Relational Recovery Disclosure Prep Manual
Who is it for:
If you are new to doing Disclosure, this manual will give you an enormous amount of information, tools and support as you learn to take clients through the steps. If you are experienced at doing Disclosure, but are looking for new ideas and tools to help you refine your process and better equip clients, this manual is full of tips, resources and information to help with that too. This manual can be used to support Disclosures done in individual private practice, a group practice or a counseling center setting.
What’s included:
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Disclosure Process Policies and Procedures Document
This 25-page document serves several different purposes, including:
- A step-by step overview of the Relational Recovery Disclosure Model: Providing an in-depth and detailed overview of the steps involved in preparing and taking clients through the Disclosure process.
- A training tool for clinicians new to the Disclosure process: Serving as a training and guidance tool for clinicians learning how to do Disclosures, providing an enormous amount of information, support, resources and tools as you move through the steps.
- A policy manual for clinics, private practices, and counseling centers: Providing a policy and procedure manual for clinics, counseling centers, or agencies overseeing staff who facilitate Disclosures.
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Client Preparation Worksheets (for the disclosing partner and the betrayed partner):
These detailed worksheets walk your client through the process of thoroughly preparing for Disclosure. From a list of helpful questions to think through in anticipation of the event, to lists of helpful tips for what to include and omit in the Disclosure document, to prep for the polygraph process, to exercises in self-care planning pre-, post and during Disclosure. These worksheets will give you the guidance and confidence you need to fully prepare your client.
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Sample Disclosure:
Nothing is quite so helpful as seeing an example. The sample Disclosure document provides you and your clients with a model for an appropriate Disclosure document, giving the addicted client a guide to follow and helping the betrayed partner know more fully what to expect.
Benefits:
Outlines a three-stage process (providing detailed instructions for each of the three critical stages: 1) Preparing for Disclosure; 2) Giving and receiving Disclosure; 3) Self-care, repair and healing after Disclosure).
Provides clear guidance (assessing clients for readiness, establishing clinical best practices and policies around Disclosure and outlining potential contraindications for Disclosure).
Equips you and your client with clear guidelines for the Disclosure document (providing a sample Disclosure and documents full of tips and information about what to include, what to omit and frequent mistakes to avoid in preparing the Disclosure document).
Empowers you to thoroughly prepare your client for the Disclosure process (ensuring that both the addict and the betrayed partner are grounded, supported, regulated and confident in their ability to successfully move through Disclosure).
Gives clients a clear path toward healing post-Disclosure (outlining the process for completing Disclosure, the Partner Impact Letter and Emotional Restitution Letter and providing a pivot point that moves the couple fully into the next stage: repair and healing of attachment injuries.
Relational Recovery Disclosure Prep Workshop Kit
Who is it for:
If you are working in a group practice, a counseling center or a robust private practice, the Disclosure Prep Workshop Kit can provide you with a way to streamline the preparation process and move couples through Disclosure in a more systematic, informed and empowered way. Designed to be delivered in 3.5 hours to 3-10 couples at a time, the Disclosure Prep Workshop facilitates and simplifies the process for you and your clients.
What’s included:
The Disclosure Prep Workshop Kit provides you with a new method for preparing couples to give and receive Disclosure. Using a workshop format, this tool provides couples with a detailed overview of Disclosure, taking the mystery out of the process, limiting anxiety and placing Disclosure within a context of hope and healing. In addition, this kit offers you a new income stream for your practice in the form of a workshop that can be incorporated into your treatment program and offered again and again.
The Disclosure Prep Workshop Kit Includes the Disclosure Prep Manual PLUS everything you need to hold a successful Disclosure Prep Workshop including:
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Marketing Materials
Everything you need, from pre-scripted forms, flyers and even response emails, to market the workshop is included. Fill in the blanks, print and send out. Everything has been provided for you. It’s that easy.
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Workshop Set-Up
Everything that you need to set up and hold a successful workshop is provided, including a workshop consent and confidentiality agreement, participant tracking form, workshop set-up checklist, welcome email to registering participants, and a participant reminder email to send out a few days prior to the workshop.
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Workshop Materials
A PowerPoint or Keynote presentation that is used to present the workshop content to participants. This presentation is provided within a template that can be adjusted with your name/ logo and presenter information.
- A Disclosure Prep Notebook is provided to each workshop participant. The materials included in the notebook are intended not only to take the client through the workshop but also to be used with the client throughout the entire Disclosure Prep process. All the materials for these binders are provided in the workshop kit, including the following:
- Notebook cover
- Table of contents
- Evaluation form
- Printed copy of the presentation
- Beautifully crafted workshop exercises
- Detailed addict preparation worksheets
- Detailed betrayed partner preparation worksheets
- Sample Disclosure
Benefits:
Provides couples with the same information at the same time (limiting increased distress from misinformation or misunderstandings about the process that can arise when details are communicated separately to each person in individual therapy).
Levels the playing field (preventing one partner from knowing information about this sensitive process that the other partner does not yet have).
Takes the mystery out of the process (decreasing anxiety arising from uncertainty about exactly when and how the process will unfold).
Places Disclosure within a context of hope and healing (separating Disclosure from the traumatic discovery events that couples experienced when the betrayal was first uncovered).
Empowers the couple (enabling both individuals to enter the Disclosure process fully informed, prepared, and supported).
Helps couples move through the process more quickly and efficiently (beginning preparatory work during the workshop, including setting their intention for Disclosure and committing to a timeframe for completion of Disclosure).
Disclosure is viewed as the beginning of repair (helping the couple to see Disclosure as a pivotal turning point it the relationship, moving them toward repair and healing of the attachment injuries they have suffered).
Investment
- Relational Recovery Disclosure Prep Workshop Kit……..$349
- Relational Recovery Disclosure Prep Manual……..$199
Which resource is right for you and your practice?
If you want to incorporate a workshop into your Disclosure Prep process then the Manual and Workshop Kit are right for you. If you are looking for tools, resources, worksheets and information to help you facilitate Disclosures with couples but do not have enough client volume to support a workshop, consider the Manual alone. Here’s the breakdown of what you get with each:
(for the disclosing partner and the betrayed partner) (Look Inside)
All materials are downloadable and can be customized with your practice or organization’s branding, logo, address etc.
The Relational Recovery Disclosure Prep Manual and Workshop Kit is being offered in the hope that it will positively impact your practice, your counseling center, and your clients, helping you to feel thoroughly equipped and supported as you guide your clients through the process of Disclosure.
Michelle Mays received her Master’s in Counseling in 2001 in Seattle, Washington where she then opened a private practice focused on helping those struggling with sexual addiction, trauma and relationship issues. In 2005, she crossed the country and moved back to Northern Virginia where she opened a private practice in Leesburg. One of Michelle’s passions to is educate and train other counselors to become excellent providers of care and healing for clients. In 2011 Michelle founded the Center for Relational Recovery, a counseling and training center focused on providing leading edge treatment to sex addicts, partners of sex addicts, trauma survivors, and those struggling with relationship issues.
The Center for Relational Recovery 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. Our programs are grounded in a relational attachment-based model that leads to transformed lives and relationships.
Michelle is a Certified Sex Addiction Therapist and Supervisor trained under Dr. Patrick Carnes. She is also trained in Post Induction Therapy by Pia Mellody for the treatment of relational trauma and is in the process of completing her certification in Emotionally Focused Therapy for couples. Michelle is a registered Supervisor with the state of Virginia and is Licensed as a Professional Counselor in both Virginia and Washington DC.