Monique ThompsonLicensed Professional Counselor-Supervisor & Infidelity Recovery Specialist

Do you really need years of talking to get over cheating?

28 May 2025 · 1 min

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In this brief segment, Monique Thompson challenges the conventional belief that recovering from infidelity requires years of talk therapy. She argues that a more efficient approach combines a short, intensive course of EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) – roughly eight uninterrupted sessions with an EMDR‑trained therapist – with about six months of supplemental talk therapy to clarify goals and move forward. Thompson emphasizes that this timeline (approximately six months total) is sufficient for most people to transition from merely discussing the betrayal to actual healing, and she offers her services to guide clients through this process.

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Know better, do better. Once upon a time, you spend about a year in talk therapy, minimum a year, just talking about infidelity, going home, want a divorce, coming back, talking some more. Welcome to 2025. Use EMDR, eye movement desensitization and reprocessing. You need about 8 uninterrupted sessions and maybe 6 months total talk therapy to figure out what you want to do to move forward. You do not need years and years. You need about 6 months, 8 sessions EMDR with an EMDR-trained therapist. I'd love to work with you to go from talking to healing.