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Betrayal Grief Recovery
Sometimes betrayal doesn't only break trust. It creates loss.
If someone's actions changed what you believed about an important relationship, you may be grieving the relationship you thought you had, what you believed was true, and a future that no longer feels certain.
The Grief After Betrayal Group is for women experiencing grief after a significant betrayal in an important relationship.
The betrayal may involve a spouse or partner, family member, adult child, close friend, or another important relationship. The relationship may have ended. It may have changed. Or you may still be in it.
This group does not assume that staying, leaving, reconciling, forgiving, or ending the relationship is the right outcome. Our work is narrower and more personal:
What did this experience change or take from you, and what remains emotionally unfinished?
Group Information
Dates: Wednesday, October 14-December 2, 2026
Time: 6:00-7:30 PM EST
Location: Online
Length: 7 Sessions + 1 private 60-minute "listening heart" consultation
Group size: 8
Cost: $425/person
What the Group Offers
Betrayal can create an unusual kind of grief because the loss is not always obvious. The person may still be alive. They may still be in your life. You may still love them. And yet something you believed existed no longer does in quite the same way.
Perhaps you lost trust. Safety. A shared understanding of your relationship. Confidence in what you believed about the past. A future you expected. A friendship. A family structure. A sense of belonging. Or confidence in your own judgment.
Sometimes betrayal creates another painful question:
What exactly am I grieving when the person is still here?
Using the Grief Recovery Method(r), this group provides a structured process for exploring the losses connected to the relationship and identifying what remains unfinished for you.
The goal is not to tell you what the betrayal should mean.
It is to help you understand your own experience well enough that it does not have to remain the organizing center of your life.
Betrayal Can Create More Than One Loss
The event itself may be only part of what you are grieving.
You may also be grieving:
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The person you believed you knew
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The relationship you believed you had
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What you thought was true about the past
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The future you expected
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Trust that once felt ordinary
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Relationships with other people affected by the betrayal
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Your previous sense of safety or belonging
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Confidence in your own perceptions or judgment
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Things you wish had been different, better, or more
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Things you wish you had said—or heard
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These losses can coexist with anger, love, relief, confusion, resentment, longing, or even hope for the relationship.
You do not have to simplify those emotions before beginning the work.
What to Expect
This is a small, structured group rather than an open-ended support group. We will move through the Grief Recovery Method together, with reading and exercises between meetings.
You will have opportunities to:
Understand grief as a response to relationship loss and change.
Look at the whole relationship, rather than allowing the betrayal to become the only lens through which every earlier experience is understood.
Your completion does not depend upon another person finally giving you the explanation, apology, acknowledgment, or response you deserved.
You will never be asked to excuse what happened, call harm good, forgive before you are ready, or decide whether a relationship should continue.
This is not couples counseling, mediation, or a process for determining whether you should stay or leave. It is grief work.
The Grief Recovery Method(r) is an educational program for working with grief and loss. It is not psychotherapy or a substitute for mental health treatment.
You Don't Have to Know What the Relationship Becomes Next
You can address what has been lost and what remains unfinished without first deciding the future of the relationship.
If betrayal has left you carrying grief that has been difficult to name, you are invited to join the next Grief After Betrayal Group.
Not sure whether your experience fits this group?
Not Ready for a Group Yet?
You don't have to be ready to join a group to begin understanding what you're experiencing.
This 12-part series explores some of the less visible losses that can accompany betrayal.