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CCBRT Module 4 Training
Webinar - Live - Online - Zoom
  • Date - Wednesday, September 23rd - Saturday, September 26th, 2026
  • Time - 8:30 am - 5:00 pm
  • Time Zone - Pacific Daylight Standard
  • Instructional Level: Introductory
  • Prerequisites: Must have completed CCBRT Mod 1-3
  • Credits Earned: 28 IITAP CEs
  • Early Bird Price - Ends August 26th 2026
  • Standard Price - Begins August 27th, 2026
  • Cost - See Payment Plan Section
IITAP

International Institute for Trauma and Addiction Professionals
P.O. Box 2112 | Carefree, AZ 85377

(480)575-6853
IITAP.com

Course Description
Making Changes that Last: Sustaining Gains and Building Intimacy in Couples Impacted by Betrayal

In Module 4, participants will learn how to work from a relational, experiential, and emotionally-focused stance allowing us to form a solid attachment bond with our couple clients. This ground – seeded with the “7 channels of experience” and fertile with possibility – allows us to accompany our couples as we help them transform their trauma (past and present) and move from “wronging to longing” in their relationship. As they access their Selves-at-best and their (vulnerably expressed) desire to be deeply known by their partner, defenses become less “necessary” and anxiety lowers, allowing a recovery of their Core emotions and an expression of their hard-wired need to belong.

Participants will get another perspective on the first phase of couples’ treatment that follows the discovery of betrayal. During this phase, relational safety is at an all-time low with reactivity at an all-time high. Participants will gain a clear understanding of the attachment-based dynamics that are unfolding and key treatment objectives during this phase.

Also in this module, participants will focus on repair of sexual injuries created within the relationship by the breaking of sexual agreements. The process of repair includes helping the betraying partner to articulate the dynamics driving their behavior in a manner that facilitates understanding, empathy and being known by the betrayed partner. In addition, repair includes exploration and sharing of core emotional and sexual impacts for the betrayed partner in a manner that elicits empathy and compassion from the betraying partner. This training will examine the specific issues that often surface for each individual partner around sexual re-integration after betrayal and how those issues can be worked through in a positive manner.

In addition, intimate betrayal affects all populations and all demographics therein. This is a cultural competency module that will critically examine and challenge personal and societal assumptions about LGBTQ+ relational dynamics. Clinicians will be empowered to increase conceptualization skills necessary for considering the multifaceted needs of sexual and gender diverse couples. While acknowledging the rich diversity within LGBTQ+ communities, this training will primarily focus on lesbian and gay relationships to provide the depth of attention necessary for meaningful exploration of any couple type.

Finally, participants will continue with understanding how working through the grief of betrayal, clients will begin to experience post-traumatic growth. Participants will learn how to guide clients through personal and relational development to find newness and vitality in a flourishing, new relationship with one another.

Click here to view an extended version of the curriculum.

Facilitators
Dr. Merry Frons
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Christopher Shea
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Marnie Breecker
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Dr. Jake Porter
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Dr. Merry Frons is a psychotherapist in private practice in New York. She has specialized in treating individuals and couples with relationship and sexuality issues for over 30 years. She is the author of The Trust Solution: A Couples Guide to Healing After Intimate Betrayal. Dr. Frons is a Certified Sex Addiction Therapist/Supervisor and AASECT Certified Sex Therapist/Supervisor specializing in the treatment of relationship, addiction, and sexuality issues. She strives for a compassionate, clear, sex positive and holistic approach to addiction and compulsive behaviors that integrates research from relational psychotherapy, systems, narrative and attachment theory, neurobiology and sex therapy.

She is the founder of Renew Counseling in New York City, which provides treatment, supervision, workshops and group programs for individuals and couples.

**Dr. Merry Frons denies any conflict of interest as faculty for this training event. Any compensation obtained for my services is directly from IITAP and not from any affiliated commercial sponsor/host.

**Merry Frons denies any conflict of interest as faculty for this training event. Any compensation obtain, for my services is directly from ITAP, and not from any affiliated commercial sponsor/host.

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Christopher M. Shea, LCSW, CASAC, CSAT, CPTT, CST, RACS- Christopher started his journey into the mental health field as a change agent in 2009. His scope of practice includes treating addiction, trauma, anxiety, personality challenges, and couples seeking to recover from ruptures due to intimate betrayal and other relational challenges. As a psychotherapist, he has a private practice in Manhattan and works with individuals seeking freedom from problematic sexual behaviors, betrayal trauma, substance abuse, and other habituated difficulties. He works with both individuals and couples seeking to improve and make sense of their relational and erotic health. He also specializes in LGBTQIA2+ issues as a result of being part of the clinical team at Identity House in New York City and, more recently, being certified as a Rainbow Advocate Clinical Specialist through IITAP. He has given trainings on chemsex and its pernicious effects on gay men.

His long-term experience as a group facilitator has given him the privilege of being part of bringing wellness to numerous populations. He earned a master’s degree from NYU in clinical social work. He is eclectically trained with specialties in EMDR therapy, cognitive behavior therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, and schema therapy. Christopher is grateful to be currently enrolled in a PhD program to become a sexologist and an AASECT certified sex therapist.

**Christopher Shea denies any conflict of interest as faculty for this training event. Any compensation obtain, for my services is directly from IITAP, and not from any affiliated commercial sponsor/host.

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Marnie Breecker is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT), Certified Sex Addiction Therapist (CSAT) and Clinical Partners Specialist. Since 2008, Marnie has worked with sex addicts, partners of sex addicts and couples impacted by betrayal trauma in both private practice and intensive outpatient settings including The Sexual Recovery Institute (SRI) and The Institute for Sexual Health (ISH) in Los Angeles.

Marnie completed her sex addiction training under Dr. Patrick Carnes and has been a Certified Sex Addiction Therapist (CSAT) since 2010. She has completed extensive training with Pia Mellody, level 1 Psychobiological Approach to Couple Therapy (PACT) training with Stat Tatkin and level 1 training in Deceptive Sexuality and Trauma Treatment (DSTT) with Dr. Omar Minwalla. Marnie was also a founding member of the board of directors of APSATS (Association of Partners of Sex Addicts Trauma Specialists).

Marnie founded the Center for Relational Healing (CRH) in 2013. Over the past eleven years, CRH has grown into a highly regarded outpatient treatment center, providing personalized intensive programs as well as individual, couple and group therapy for clients struggling primarily with sex and love addiction, betrayal trauma and attachment related disorders. Marnie is the host of the Helping Couples Heal podcast and the co-founder of Helping Couples Heal, a global coaching organization dedicated to helping couples heal after betrayal.

Marnie’s greatest professional passion is educating others on the complexity of betrayal and its traumatic impact on intimate partners and relationships and helping people heal. Her greatest personal passions are her 5 year old son and finding reasons every day to laugh. IITAP Certifications.

**Marnie Breecker denies any conflict of interest as faculty for this training event. Any compensation obtain, for my services is directly from ITAP, and not from any affiliated commercial sponsor/host.

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Dr. Jake Porter, LPC, NCC, CSAT-S, CMAT, CCPS Jake Porter is a Board Certified Counselor, Certified Sex Addiction Therapist, Certified Multiple Addiction Therapist, APSATS Certified Clinical Partner Specialist, and the Founder of Daring Ventures Counseling, Coaching, and Consultation. He is also the creator of Couple–Centered Recovery®, a model for overcoming attachment wounds in couples experiencing the trauma of betrayal. Dr. Porter has undergone extensive training in evidence–based treatments for couples who have suffered attachment injuries. He has worked with couples from around the world who have travelled to Houston for treatment of severe attachment injuries and relational trauma. Believing in the inherent worth of every person, Dr. Porter utilizes insights from developmental psychology, interpersonal neurobiology, and spirituality to help his clients experience greater healing and freedom in their lives. He enjoys teaching as Assistant Professor of Counseling at Kairos University's Houston Graduate School of Theology, where he also is Lead Professor of the Doctor of Professional Counseling Program. Jake lives in Houston with his wife, Kristen, and daughter, Magnolia Jane.

**Jake Porter denies any conflict of interest as faculty for this training event. Any compensation obtain, for my services is directly from ITAP, and not from any affiliated commercial sponsor/host.

Training Details

At the conclusion of this training, participants will be able to:

  1. Understand a conceptual framework of creating a plan for treating couples’ repair of betrayal and restoring trust that integrates couples’ and individual treatment objectives.

  2. Assess each partner’s readiness to engage in a repair process and understanding when it is contraindicated.

  3. Learn a six step model with clinical interventions for restoring trust with specific skills and tools to support this process

  4. Create evidence-based clinical interventions that facilitate new patterns of relating.

  5. Assist the couple in understanding the role of accountability, agreements, transparency, attunement and mutuality, and teach skills to implement these processes.

  6. Facilitate increased awareness of dysfunctional relationship dynamics and patterns that undermine trust and inhibit repair.

  7. Help partners understand and practice communication and conflict repair tools that allow them to advocate for their own needs while maintaining a positive connection and move past stuck points in the repair process.

  8. Understand betrayal trauma as attachment trauma

  9. Learn and understand the subsequent relational impacts on both betrayers and betrayed partners

  10. Understand and describe how and why betrayal trauma causes relational trauma 

  11. Conceptualize with clients how to heal how to heal attachment trauma in community 

  12. Learn and understand how to discern a safe community with structure, support, education and resources to create the greatest possibility for growth and repair.  

  13. Learn and understand the specific benefits of betrayal trauma groups & community

  14. Learn and understand how a couples group helps couples heal

  15. Learn and understand the elements of a successful group 

  16. Learn and understand how to screen for the right people

  17. Learn and understand who is and is not appropriate for  a group and/or community

  18. Learn and understand how to create (and enforce) group culture & guidelines 

  19. Learn and understand how to assess when it’s time for a member to leave a group and/or community

  20. Identify and define integrity abuse and its impact on the injured relationship.  

  21. Assess integrity abuse symptoms experienced by the betrayed partner. 

  22. Conduct and use an IAD assessment form for integrity abuse with a betrayer.

  23. Use a CBT worksheet with clients to reduce integrity abuse behaviors. 

  24. Assist a betrayer in creating a succinct IAD list.

  25. Demonstrate effective communication strategies to explain to couples how treatment for deceptive sexuality includes a focus on integrity abuse and not just sexual behavior.

  26. List three specific injuries associated with each phase of integrity abuse.

  27. Identify, define and explain the concept of gaslighting as psychological abuse and its relationship to infidelity

  28. Deepen the understanding of the multifaceted aspects of same-sex couples (SSC).

  29. Apply a queer theoretical framework to challenge dualistic norms and biases related to gender and sexuality, considering the political and historical dynamics affecting sexual and gender minority individuals and couples (SGMC).

  30. Conceptualize cases using a gender-as-relational (GAR) approach.

  31. Analyze the impact of institutional betrayal on intimate betrayal in SSC.

  32. Implement an LGBTQ+-affirmative therapy approach to support couples in the healing process.

  33. Describe the signs of clients shifting from grief into post-traumatic growth;

  34. Use core values to assist clients in creating a new goals for themselves and their relationships;

  35. Plan with clients how they will continue to monitor the rebuilding of trust in their relationships.

  36. Create a plan for a new relational vision through clients’ vulnerability and creativity.

  37. Identify evidence-based strategies that facilitate post-traumatic growth (PTG) in couples and individuals recovering from betrayal trauma.

  38. Analyze the role of forgiveness in the process of PTG and its impact on relational dynamics.

  39. Explore the connection between core values and relational healing, and how they contribute to the development of secure functioning in relationships.

  • Provide mental health professionals with an opportunity for professional growth and to expand their scope of practice.
  • Promote professional knowledge and training regarding working with couples struggling with betrayal.
  • Educate participants on strategies to support the relationship of betrayed couples.
  • Communication and collaboration among treatment models and available resources.
  • The development of clinical skills, which participants can put directly into practice following the training.
  • Expand participants’ ability to provide accurate treatment diagnosis and care plan for clients.
  • Provide a wealth of instruction and resources to help better prepare practitioners treat their most challenging clients.
  1. Relational, experiential, and emotionally-focused stance
    • 7 channels of experience
    • Transforming trauma
  2. Become familiar with "triangles of "self/conflict? and "person/past"
    • To closely track our patients; are they in feelings, anxiety or defense?
    • With whom: someone from their past, their current lives or their therapist?
    • Defenses
  3. Repair and Attachment
    • Cycle of attachment ambivalence
    • "No Man's Land Dilemma"
    • Stabilizing attachment
    • Working with sexual injuries
    • Couples Sexual Healing
  4. Betrayal Considerations Through a Sexual Diversity Lens
    • Differences of betrayal in same-sex and gender diverse couples
    • Treatment planning
    • Dynamics unique to counterparts in different-sex couples
  5. Post-Traumatic Growth
    • Guiding clients through personal development
    • Guiding clients through relational development
    • Shifting from grief to growth
    • Core value work
    • New relational vision

Mental Health Practitioners, Licensed Social Workers, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists, Licensed Counselors, Psychologists, Psychiatrists, and Certified Addiction Counselors.

CCBRT Module 4

Purchase Options

Registration Fees

Early Bird Rate

8/26/2026

Standard Rate

8/27/2026
New CCBRT Candidate

Buy 1 Module

 Single Online Registration $1,450.00 USD  $1,550.00 USD
Existing ASAT,CSAT, APTT,CPTT

Buy 1 Module

 Single Online Registration $1,395.00 USD  $1,495.00 USD
New CCBRT Candidate Module Payment Plan Required Deposit (to secure spot and submit online registration) + 4 Payments of $275 $350 + 4 Payments of $275  

Please note: Payment Plan option is only offered for a five month time-frame and must be paid in full prior to the start of the training. This option will be available until May 31, 2026.

8:30 am - 10:00 am Class
10:00 am - 10:15 am Break
10:15 am - 12:00 pm Class
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Lunch
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm Class
2:30 pm - 2:45 pm Break
2:45 pm - 5:00 pm Class

Breaks and lunch period do not count for Continuing Education (CE) Credit.
*Breaks are approximate times

The Zoom link will be sent the week of the scheduled event to the email address provided on your registration form.

If you do not receive the link within 24 hours of the event please contact support@iitap.com.

28 Total IITAP CE Hours

  • The International Institute for Trauma and Addiction Professionals (IITAP) is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. IITAP maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Training is Live-Online Interactive for 28 Credit Hours.

  • This course has been approved by the International Institute for Trauma and Addiction Professionals (IITAP, LLC), as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #92253. IITAP is responsible for all aspects of the program. Training is Live-Online Interactive for 28 contact hours. Online Interactive for 28 Credit Hours.

  • The International Institute for Trauma and Addiction Professionals (IITAP) is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT), Licensed Clinical Social Workers (LCSW), Licensed Professional Clinical Counselors (LPCC) and/or Licensed Professional Counselors (LPC). IITAP maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. Course meets the qualifications for 28 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

  • International Institute for Trauma and Addiction Professionals (IITAP, LLC) is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0224. Training is Live-Online Interactive for 28 contact hours.

  • International Institute for Trauma and Addiction Professionals (IITAP, LLC) is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists. #MFT-0031.Training is Live-Online Interactive for 28 contact hours.

  • International Institute for Trauma and Addiction Professionals (IITAP, LLC) is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0060. Training is Live-Online Interactive for 28 contact hours.

  • International Institute for Trauma and Addiction Professionals (IITAP, LLC) is an NBCC-Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEP™) and may offer NBCC-approved clock hours for events that meet NBCC requirements. IITAP is solely responsible for all aspects of the program. This program qualifies for 28 Live-Online Interactive Clock Hours as approved by NBCC Provider #6251.
Policy and Resources

In order to earn full CE Credit for attending a CSAT, CPTT, CCBRT, RAE, RACS, or PSAP module training, or CMAT training, full attendance is mandatory. If any hours over the course of the training are missed, those hours must be made up by attending the next available offering of the module at a cost of $250 per half day . Click here for details on our Missed Hours Policy.

Any questions or concerns, please email training@iitap.com.

  • Refund: For a full refund, a written cancellation notice must be received by IITAP no later than 30 days prior to the first day of the scheduled event. Cancellations received less than 30 days prior to the first day of the scheduled event will be refunded less a $300 cancellation fee. Allow 6 weeks for refund.
  • Credit: To receive a credit for the full registration fee, a written cancellation notice must be received by IITAP no later than 30 days prior to the first day of the scheduled event. Cancellations received less than 30 days prior to the first day of the scheduled event will be credited less a $300 cancellation fee. Credits expire 1 year from the date issued.
  • Transfer: Registration fees may be transferred to another module training or workshop, if available. Transfer requests must be submitted in writing to IITAP prior to the first day of the scheduled event, and the training must be completed within 1 year of the original event. If the training is not completed within that time frame, the registration fee will be forfeited, and it will be the participant’s responsibility to register for the next available training and pay the full registration fee.

Getting Your Certificate -Course completion certificates for in-person trainings are provided to attendees at the conclusion of the training. Certificates for online trainings are uploaded to member IITAP accounts within two weeks of the conclusion of the training or emailed to non-members, if applicable.

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