Not every person dealing with infidelity has a partner who is willing to participate in couples therapy, and not every situation calls for couples work even when both partners are present. Individual therapy for infidelity at Dr. Steinbok's Boca Raton practice is appropriate for patients who are processing the experience of betrayal without a partner's participation, who are working through the psychological experience of having had an affair and what it means about their relationship and themselves, or who are dealing with infidelity as a recurring pattern in their relational history that warrants examination in its own right.
For the betrayed partner working through the experience individually, the clinical focus involves processing the trauma of the betrayal, examining the relational dynamics that existed before the affair, and eventually working toward a genuine decision about the relationship's future rather than one made in the grip of acute pain or shock. For the partner who had the affair, individual therapy creates space to examine honestly what drove the behavior, what needs were unmet, and what the experience has revealed about their own psychology and their relationship. Dr. Steinbok's Boca Raton practice approaches both of these individual situations with the clinical depth they require rather than treating infidelity as primarily a couples problem that only couples therapy can address.
