Monique ThompsonLicensed Professional Counselor-Supervisor & Infidelity Recovery Specialist

The infidelity recovery formula

29 May 2025 · 1 min

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This content was created by Monique Thompson. This content was uploaded by Monique Thompson. This is a YouTube video titled "The infidelity recovery formula" (created 2025-05-29) featuring Dr. Monique Thompson, a clinician with 24 years of experience. In a short instructional monologue she offers practical tips for couples preparing for therapy after an affair—advising each partner to complete several EMDR sessions before deep talk therapy, and recommending use of talk therapy plus EMDR plus her "Infidelity Recovery Workbook for Couples" as a combined recovery approach.

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Hi, I'm Dr. Monique Thompson. I help couples recover from affairs, and I've been in practice for 24 years. I provide these short videos to give you some tips on how to get the most out of coaching or out of therapy. Today I want to give you some tips on what to do so that you're ready for your therapy session, especially for your first one. All right, maybe you spent your whole relationship trying to make sure you paid attention to each other, you communicate well, you went on retreats, you went— you read all the Gottman books, you did everything right. And still this non-consensual moment happened. Well, what do you think you need to do next? Should you sit down and talk about it? Should you go on a trip or vacation, kind of renew your vows? What should you do? I'm going to tell you right now that you want to set aside some time for each of you to get a few sessions of EMDR completed before you take the deep dive into talk therapy. Talk therapy plus EMDR plus the workbook, the Infidelity Recovery Workbook for Couples that I provide, Put those 3 together and now, now you have some real tools to recover from this non-consensual moment, from this act of infidelity that's happened in your relationship. You got this.