Meet Catriona
Welcome - I’m really glad you’re here.
I can still clearly recall the day back in late August 2008, when my husband told me he had had an affair. He calmly told me he had something he needed to tell me and then dropped the bomb that tore my world apart – “I had an affair”. My brain was telling me to compute this information but my body was already reacting in a huge a guttural roar that came from a place I had never accessed before and my arms were grabbing the bookcase against the wall and throwing it across the lounge room. “NOOOOOO!!!!”. And then I left my body.
The next few days I recall was like watching a scene in Neighbours. It was not my life I was living – I was watching someone else’s life play out. Affairs did not happen in my marriage. I was truly living a plot from Neighbours. This was not real. I was in deep shock and trauma that in reality was to last many months. And that is it, with very few words from your partner, your life falls apart.
Fast forward to today…I spend most of my counselling time with couple’s who are working through the crisis of an affair (or affairs) in their relationship. Already a qualified social worker when I went through it myself, after my own recovery journey I decided I had learnt too much to not share it with others going through this.
In 2014 I developed my own Affair Recovery Program and use this to help couples successfully work through their own recoveries. I can help you too.