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Healing Hearts Group Starting September 8th, 2026

Healing Hearts Group Starting September 8th, 2026

The Healing Hearts Group

Helping women move through intimate partner relationship betrayal with support, strength, and a renewed sense of self.

If you are struggling after discovering a partner’s infidelity, sex addiction, porn addiction, or secret sexual behavior, you are not alone—and you don’t have to navigate this by yourself.

You may be carrying pain that feels difficult to explain — disconnection in relationships, loss of trust, emotional overwhelm, or a quiet sense that something no longer feels safe inside.

Therapy here is a space to slow down, feel understood, and begin rebuilding emotional safety at your own pace. You don’t need to have clarity, answers, or the right words to begin — only the willingness to be supported in your experience.

Who I Help:

  • Betrayed partners navigating infidelity or sex addiction recovery

  • Adults healing from narcissistic or emotionally unsafe relationships

  • Veterans navigating identity, trauma, and reintegration

  • People who feel disconnected, overgiving, or emotionally exhausted

  • Couples impacted by sex and pornography addiction seeking recovery, repair, and emotional reconnection

If this is where you are right now…

You may be feeling:

  • constantly anxious in your relationship

  • hyperaware of your partner’s behavior or secrecy

  • confused about whether your reactions are reasonable

  • emotionally exhausted from trying to hold everything together

  • ashamed to talk about what you’re experiencing

  • afraid to trust again but still longing for connection

Our Services Via Telehealth

  • Individual therapy offers a space to slow down, reflect, and make sense of patterns shaped by trauma, chronic stress, and lived experience. Many individuals seek therapy feeling disconnected from themselves, stuck in survival mode, or overwhelmed by emotional or relational challenges. In this space, we work toward greater self-understanding, emotional regulation, and clarity, supporting growth that feels grounded, compassionate, and sustainable.

  • Couples therapy supports partners who feel stuck in cycles of conflict, distance, or mistrust, including the impact of infidelity and betrayal. Often, these experiences disrupt emotional safety and communication, leaving both partners feeling hurt, guarded, or unsure how to move forward. Therapy offers a structured, supportive space to process betrayal, rebuild trust, strengthen communication, and explore relational patterns with care, accountability, and compassion.

  • This group goes beyond simply sharing your story—it offers a structured, clinically informed process with focused tools, materials, exercises and connection to help you stabilize, understand, and rebuild.

    • For: Adult women located in California (betrayed partners)

    • Day: Tuesday evenings/weekly

    • Time: 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM (90 minutes)

    • Format: Virtual via Zoom (secure and confidential)

    • Length: 12-week group

    • Type: Closed group (same members each group)

    • Group Size: 6–7 women - as space allows

    Start Date for next group module: Tuesday, September 8, 2026

  • Family therapy focuses on improving communication, understanding roles and patterns, and strengthening relationships within the family system. Families may seek support during periods of transition, conflict, or emotional strain. Therapy offers a space to explore how individual experiences and stressors impact the family as a whole, fostering healthier interaction, clearer boundaries, and more supportive connections.

  • Optum

    United Healthcare

    Aetna

    BlueShield of CA

    Cigna/Evernorth

    TriWest

    TriCareWest

Meet the Therapist

Eliana Nivon is an Associate Professional Clinical Counselor (APCC # 21745) and Associate Marriage and Family Therapist (AMFT # 161186) U.S. Army veteran whose work is grounded in trauma-informed, relational, and culturally responsive care. Her clinical approach integrates Internal Family Systems (IFS), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Gottman Method, Relational-Cultural Theory (RCT), and multicultural counseling. Eliana’s areas of focus include trauma, narcissistic abuse, betrayal, relationship dynamics, and multicultural identity, with particular care for clients navigating complex interpersonal experiences. She earned her Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology from Pepperdine University and holds a Bachelor of Science in Forensic Psychology from Arizona State University. Her work is guided by compassion, collaboration, and respect for each client’s lived experience. 

Eliana is supervised by Alex Lerza, Certified Sex Addiction Therapist, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT #83946).

Associate Professional Clinical Counselor - 21745

Associate Marriage & Family Therapist - 161186

Associate Sex Addiction Therapist Canidate

Psychoeducation

These videos explore common experiences related to trauma bonding, narcissistic dynamics, and infidelity. The goal is to offer language, validation, and understanding for experiences that are often confusing or difficult to name, while supporting greater self-awareness and healing.