
Does Marriage Counseling Help After Infidelity?
Updated: 8/17/2026 The first phone call most people make after discovering an affair is to someone who can help fix it. The question is whether
Couples Academy helps couples rebuild trust, improve communication, recover from betrayal, and work toward divorce prevention through private, results-focused marriage intensives and coaching programs.
Not ready to talk yet? Take the free Affair Recovery Assessment
The Home of Affair Recovery and Divorce Prevention
When your marriage feels like it is falling apart, waiting weeks between traditional sessions may not feel like enough. Couples Academy provides private marriage intensives, affair recovery support, and divorce prevention programs designed to help couples take focused action when the relationship is at a breaking point.
Hasani & Danielle Pettiford Have Been Featured On America's Leading Networks
20 years · 22 books · Trusted by couples worldwide
When couples reach this point, time matters.
Waiting months for weekly therapy sessions often allows resentment, distance, and confusion to deepen.
You need focused intervention now.
Not ready to talk yet? Take the free Affair Recovery Assessment and get a personal report.
A Private Marriage Intensive is an immersive experience where you and your spouse step away from daily distractions and focus exclusively on repairing your relationship.
Instead of one hour a week for months, you receive multiple days of focused work designed to address the root causes of your crisis.
During the intensive you will:
The goal is simple:
Stop the downward spiral and give your marriage a real chance to recover.
Urgent Marriage Counseling is a 12-session weekly program for couples who need immediate clarity during a moment of marital crisis. Sessions are held virtually, include both couples and individual sessions, and the program can be renewed.
When emotions are high and decisions feel overwhelming, it gives you structured guidance to stabilize the situation and prevent further damage to the relationship.
During Urgent Marriage Counseling you will:
The goal is simple:
Stabilize the crisis and create clarity about the next steps for your marriage.
The Last Chance Weekend is our 3-day group experience in Atlanta for couples in crisis: on the verge of divorce or recovering from infidelity, and needing help now.
Led by Hasani and Danielle Pettiford and the Couples Academy team, it combines individual, couple and group sessions, and you work through your own issues in privacy with your practitioner.
During the weekend you will:
The goal is simple:
One weekend to begin healing and restoring your marriage.
If your relationship is in crisis, the worst thing you can do is wait and hope things improve on their own.
Schedule a confidential consultation and learn whether a Private Marriage Intensive or Urgent Marriage Counseling is the right next step

Updated: 8/17/2026 The first phone call most people make after discovering an affair is to someone who can help fix it. The question is whether

You’ve said it out loud, maybe for the first time: maybe this marriage is over. And you don’t know whether that’s the truth speaking, or

You’ve both decided to stay. You’re doing the work. And then the lights go off and your body does something you didn’t authorize — you

Updated: 8/17/2026 The first phone call most people make after discovering an affair is to someone who can help fix it. The question is whether

You’ve said it out loud, maybe for the first time: maybe this marriage is over. And you don’t know whether that’s the truth speaking, or

You’ve both decided to stay. You’re doing the work. And then the lights go off and your body does something you didn’t authorize — you