Hasani Pettiford
Infidelity Recovery Specialist · Co-founder, Couples Academy
Hasani Pettiford co-founded Couples Academy with his wife, Danielle. For 20 years he has worked with couples in crisis, and his focus is crisis-level marriage intervention and infidelity recovery. He and Danielle have worked with over 800 couples, and have been married for 24 years.
“When a marriage is in crisis, time doesn’t heal — structure does.” — Hasani Pettiford
Hasani leads couples through moments of instability with clarity, structure and calm authority. His work focuses on restoring emotional safety, addressing betrayal directly, and helping couples make clear, informed decisions about the future of their marriage.
How Hasani works with couples
He and Danielle lead Couples Academy’s Private Marriage Intensives: three to five days of structured work with one couple at a time, built on the Quantum Leap Transformation Method. The method follows three prongs:
- Affair Recovery — the 3-day intensive, in six stages: discovery of the affair, stabilizing the crisis, full disclosure, affair-proofing the marriage, restoring trust and overcoming triggers, and the path to true forgiveness.
- Individual Recovery — the fourth day, using the Enneagram, led by Danielle.
- Marital Recovery — the fifth day, rebuilding how the marriage works.
Couples Academy also offers Urgent Marriage Counseling (12 weekly sessions, renewable) and the Last Chance Weekend, a 3-day group experience.
Speaking
Hasani and Danielle are keynote speakers at marriage, leadership and corporate conferences. Together they have worked with couples across the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean.
Training
Hasani and Danielle trained as marriage and family coaches through the Adventist church. Couples Academy provides relationship coaching that incorporates counseling techniques; we are not licensed therapists.
Books
Hasani wrote Moving Forward After Infidelity: From Discovery to Recovery (2025), the book behind Couples Academy’s affair-recovery work. It follows couples from discovery to recovery along three paths: the betrayed partner’s, the unfaithful partner’s, and the couple’s together.
Books by Hasani, or by Hasani and Danielle:
- Moving Forward After Infidelity — From Discovery to Recovery (2025)
- Trusting Again — How to Build New Trust When the Old Trust Is Gone (with Danielle)
- Becoming Trustworthy Again — How to Earn Back What Your Actions Destroyed (with Danielle)
- Stop Lying — A Guide for Married Men
- The Audacity of Marriage — 10 Principles for Life-Long Partnership (with Danielle)
- Marriage Mindset — Aligning Two Minds That Build an Extraordinary Marriage (with Danielle)
- Anchored — Why Affluent Marriages Don’t End and Why Some Finally Do (with Danielle)
- Before You Said a Word — What’s Really Driving the Fights You Keep Having (with Danielle)
- Our Money — Building Financial Unity, Security, and Wealth in Marriage (with Danielle)
- Married to the Game — The Hidden Pressures on Every Athlete Marriage and How to Survive Them (with Danielle)
- The Seven Domains of Intimacy — What They Are, How Marriages Lose Them, and How to Get Them Back (with Danielle)
- 7 Days of Extraordinary Sex — Discover the Keys to a Sex-cessful Marriage (with Danielle)
- Skin Pleasure — 12 Pathways to Erotic Intelligence
- Irreplaceable Husband — What Every Man Needs to Know and Few Were Ever Taught
- Study Your Wife — A Husband’s Guide to Unlocking Deeper Intimacy and Connection
- 100 Day Husband Challenge
- 101 Ways to Love My Wife (with Danielle)
- 101 Ways to Love My Husband (with Danielle)
- Pimpin’ from the Pulpit to the Pews — Exposing & Expelling the Spirit of Lust in the Church
- Why We Hate Black Women — And Why We Should Love Them
See all 22 Couples Academy books →
Watch Hasani
Also: Dealing With Triggers After Infidelity. More teaching on the Hasani Pettiford YouTube channel and the Couples Academy channel. Instagram: @hasanipettiford · @couplesacademy
Work with Hasani and Danielle
If your marriage is in crisis, the first step is a free, confidential discovery call. Phone or WhatsApp: +1 470-771-6254.
Important note: Couples Academy provides relationship coaching, marriage support, and educational resources. If you are in immediate danger, experiencing abuse, domestic violence, or a mental health emergency, please contact emergency services or a qualified crisis resource in your area.