Betrayal trauma shatters the shared world of a couple.
Each partner is left carrying wounds, questions, and fears that can feel insurmountable, leaving the couple asking, Can our relationship be restored? Is it possible to trust again?
 Unpacking Betrayal Trauma: Rebuilding Trust is a mini-course designed to help couples in the survival phase of recovery understand the impact of betrayal, repair what has been broken, and begin rebuilding a relationship rooted in safety, truth, and connection.
This course is gentle, structured, and deeply practical—giving couples the tools to move from crisis to clarity, from chaos to compassion, and from rupture to the beginnings of repair.
Whether you’re early in the healing journey or circling back for deeper repair, this course gives you a roadmap you can walk together.
What You'll Learn
This mini-course includes six core lessons to help you understand betrayal trauma and begin rebuilding trust as a couple.
The Shockwave: Understanding Betrayal Trauma as a Couple
Betrayal trauma shatters the attachment bond. This lesson helps couples understand the emotional, physiological, and relational impact on both partners.
Parallel Journeys: Navigating Different Healing Timelines
Learn why healing unfolds at different paces and how to stay connected while honoring each person’s unique timeline.
Rebuilding Safety: Foundations for
Trust Repair
Understand what emotional and relational safety look like after betrayal and pick up the core practices that rebuild trust through consistency, transparency, and support.
Communication After Crisis: From Silence to Speaking Truth
Discover how to move from shutdown, chaos, or defensiveness toward calm, honest, compassionate communication that minimizes re-traumatization.
Rewriting the Narrative: Processing the Past Together
Shape your shared story by revisiting the past safely and engaging in grief, storytelling, and reconnection practices.
Cultivating New Intimacy: Emotional, Spiritual & Physical Healing
Begin to restore intimacy through small acts of care, safe emotional and physical closeness, and shared rituals that support a hopeful, connected future.
What Makes This Mini-Course Different
Most resources focus on either the betrayed partner or the betraying partner. This course is for you to complete together to work on your relationship.
It honors both stories. It validates both experiences. It invites both partners into meaningful repair. And it gives you tools to begin rebuilding with intention.
GET STARTED REBUILDING TRUSTWho This Is For
This course was created for couples who:
- Are navigating the aftermath of sexual betrayal or problematic sexual behaviors
- Feel stuck in fear, shame, anger, or confusion
- Want to understand how betrayal trauma affects both partners
- Need help rebuilding safety, trust, communication, and intimacy
- Are committed to moving forward—slowly, intentionally, and together
You do not need to be “ready” or “fully healed” to begin this course. You only need the willingness to take one step toward each other.
By the End of This Course You Will Have…
- A deeper understanding of what betrayal trauma really is
- Tools to repair emotional safety and rebuild trust
- A communication framework to reduce conflict and reactivity
- A process for addressing the past without getting stuck in it
- A hopeful, practical way forward—together
This is a turning point in your healing journey. You can rebuild trust. Work on your relationship together.
Begin Your Healing Today
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Unpacking Betrayal Trauma:Â Rebuilding Trust
Whether you’re in the early shockwave or months into the rebuilding process, this mini-course gives you a compassionate roadmap toward trust, truth, and connection.
What’s Included…
- 6 video lessons (10–20 minutes each)
- Downloadable worksheets and tools to practice empathy in real life
- Reflection exercises to apply each lesson
- 6 months of course access so you begin your recovery journey right away
- Practical skills that support your recovery as a couple and rebuild your relationship
You don’t have to navigate this pain alone. Start your healing together today.
START THE COURSE FOR ONLY $47Note: Hope & Freedom University recommends beginning your recovery journey with our foundational courses, Sex Addiction 101 and iRecovery 101.
Explore these courses by clicking on their names, or find the right course for your phase of recovery in our recommended course sequence.
Meet Your Instructor
Tina Wehner, MTSC, LCMHCS, CSAT-S, CCBRT, CPTT-S, CMAT, CHFP
Tina has walked with hundreds of couples and individuals through betrayal trauma recovery. Her compassionate, clinically grounded approach helps partners regain safety, self-worth, and hope.
Learn More →Tina Wehner
MTSC, LCMHCS, CSAT-S, CPTT-S, CCBRT, CMAT, CHFP
A Leading Sex Addiction Expert
Tina Wehner is the president and executive director of Hope & Freedom Counseling Services in Charlotte, North Carolina. She is a Certified Sex Addiction Therapist Supervisor (CSAT-S), Certified Partner Trauma Therapist Supervisor (CPTT-S), Certified Couple Betrayal Recovery Therapist (CCBRT), Certified Multiple Addiction Therapist (CMAT), and Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor Supervisor (LCMHCS).
Tina received her Bachelors of Arts in Human Services from Elon University and received a Masters of Theological Studies in Counseling from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. She served as a Licensed and Ordained Minister with the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel and spent over 10 years in varying roles within a ministry capacity.
Tina’s professional expertise and extensive training includes treating compulsive behaviors and addictions (substance and process addictions – including sex/love/romance, food, finances (gambling/shopping), and work related addictions; all aspects of sexuality; trauma (including PTSD); abuse survivors; anxiety disorders; eating disorders; codependency; family issues; life transitions; mood disorders; and individuals and their loved ones who are affected by addictions and/or personality disorders. She is trained in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), including advanced EMDR methodology Feeling State Protocol (FSAP); skilled in 12-step therapy; trained in multiple levels of Gottman Method Couples Therapy; and currently serves as a Director of Prepare-Enrich for couples seeking premarital/marriage assessment, enrichment, and therapy.
Tina has personally studied with Dr. Patrick Carnes, (the foremost authority on sexual addiction) and Dr. Milton Magness, having received over 240 hours of specialized treatment training within the field of Professional Trauma and Addiction Recovery. She is a current and active member of the International Institute for Trauma and Addiction Professionals (IITAP).
