Clinical Program

Restoring Relational Integrity

Healing Attachment Wounds, Communication Breakdown, and Emotional Disconnection in Couples Relationships

A clinically driven, trauma-informed, and faith-filled couples therapy course designed to help couples heal relational wounds, rebuild emotional safety, restore trust, strengthen communication, and develop healthier patterns of emotional and relational functioning.

10 Modules Self-Paced For Couples Trauma-Informed Faith-Centered
Couples Therapy · 10 Modules
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✓ 10 clinically grounded modules
✓ Biblical integration every module
✓ Pre/post course assessments
✓ Self-paced, mobile-friendly
✓ Dr. Quinones' clinical expertise

About This Course

A Framework for Couples Healing

Restoring Relational Integrity is a clinically driven course integrating trauma-informed care, attachment theory, emotionally focused relationship concepts, interpersonal neurobiology, nervous system regulation, cognitive-behavioral principles, relational integrity theory, and Biblical relationship principles.

The curriculum addresses chronic conflict, emotional disconnection, attachment injuries, betrayal trauma, communication breakdown, codependency, unresolved resentment, emotional invalidation, nervous system dysregulation, trust erosion, unhealthy relational cycles, and relational fragmentation.

Rather than focusing solely on conflict resolution, this course helps couples understand the underlying emotional, neurological, developmental, spiritual, and relational factors contributing to unhealthy relational patterns — and provides a structured path toward healing.

The course emphasizes emotional congruence, accountability, relational safety, emotional maturity, vulnerability, secure attachment, nervous system regulation, and rebuilding relational integrity from the inside out.

Covenant Sacrificial Love Emotional Honesty Reconciliation Accountability Servant Leadership Grace & Restoration Relational Stewardship
"Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins."
1 Peter 4:8

Course Objectives

What You Will Learn Together

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Understand trauma-informed relational functioning and the principles of relational integrity
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Identify unhealthy relational cycles and attachment patterns shaping your connection
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Recognize nervous system dysregulation within conflict and learn to interrupt escalation
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Improve emotional regulation and develop stronger distress tolerance together
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Develop emotionally safe communication skills and repair conversation practices
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Strengthen empathy, validation, and emotional attunement in your relationship
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Understand the impact of shame, criticism, defensiveness, and emotional avoidance
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Rebuild trust and accountability after relational injury with healthy practices
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Identify cognitive distortions affecting relationships and replace them with truth
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Develop healthy boundaries, strengthen intimacy, and create sustainable healing practices
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Strengthen emotional vulnerability and authentic connection with your partner
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Live with relational congruence — alignment between beliefs, emotions, and behaviors
Dr. Donetta Quinones

Your Instructor

Dr. Donetta Quinones

Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) · Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC)

Dr. Quinones brings over 20 years of clinical experience spanning jail cells, rehab centers, and private practice. A Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with a PhD in Psychology, graduate training in forensic psychology, and certification as a Human Behavior Consultant, she integrates trauma science with biblical truth throughout her teaching and curriculum development. She holds dual state licensure and has spent her career sitting with the most broken relationships — and watching them heal.

PhD in Psychology · MA, Forensic Psychology PhD · LMHC · LPC Program Development Trauma & Couples Specialist

Course Curriculum

10 Modules — From Understanding to Restoration

Each module integrates trauma science, attachment theory, nervous system research, and biblical truth — equipping couples to understand what broke the bond and how to rebuild it with grace.

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Module 1

Understanding Relational Integrity

Explores what relational integrity means, emotional congruence, and the alignment between beliefs, emotions, behaviors, and communication. Couples examine internal fragmentation, inconsistency patterns, and how trust and emotional safety are built and broken.

Emotional congruence Relational trust Internal fragmentation Belief-behavior alignment
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Module 2

Trauma, Attachment, and Relationship Dynamics

Examines attachment styles, childhood emotional conditioning, and trauma responses within relationships. Couples learn how fear of abandonment and rejection and emotional survival patterns shape the way they connect with each other.

Attachment styles Childhood conditioning Trauma responses Emotional survival patterns
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Module 3

Nervous System Regulation and Conflict Cycles

Addresses fight, flight, freeze, and fawn responses during conflict. Couples learn about emotional flooding, reactivity vs. responsiveness, polyvagal theory, and how conflict escalation cycles form — and how to interrupt them before they escalate.

Polyvagal theory Emotional flooding Reactivity vs. responsiveness Conflict escalation cycles
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Module 4

Communication and Emotional Safety

Develops skills in emotional validation, active listening, and healthy emotional expression. Couples examine defensive communication and emotional invalidation patterns — and learn repair conversations that restore connection rather than escalating distance.

Emotional validation Active listening Defensive communication Repair conversations
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Module 5

Shame, Identity, and Emotional Wounds

Explores shame-based relational patterns, emotional hiding, fear-based communication, criticism and withdrawal cycles. Couples address identity wounds and insecurity that drive relational distance — and learn how to respond to shame with transparency instead of blame.

Shame-based patterns Emotional hiding Criticism and withdrawal Identity wounds
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Module 6

Boundaries, Accountability, and Trust Repair

Develops healthy boundaries and relational responsibility within the couple bond. Couples work through trust rebuilding, distinguishing accountability from punishment, and building consistency and reliability as the foundation for renewed intimacy.

Healthy boundaries Relational responsibility Trust rebuilding Consistency and reliability
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Module 7

Intimacy, Vulnerability, and Emotional Connection

Builds emotional intimacy through vulnerability and transparency. Couples examine fear of closeness, emotional attunement practices, and healthy affection and connection — learning how to stay emotionally open with each other even during difficult seasons.

Emotional intimacy Vulnerability Emotional attunement Healthy affection
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Module 8

Faith, Grace, and Relational Restoration

Explores grace-centered healing, forgiveness, and reconciliation. Couples apply biblical conflict resolution principles, examine spiritual maturity in relationships, and restore covenant connection through intentional, faith-rooted practices.

Grace-centered healing Forgiveness & reconciliation Spiritual maturity Covenant restoration
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Module 9

Rebuilding Relational Stability

Builds emotional consistency, healthy routines and rhythms, and shared values and vision. Couples develop relapse prevention strategies for unhealthy cycles and create long-term relational maintenance practices that sustain the healing they have built together.

Emotional consistency Healthy rhythms Shared values Relapse prevention
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Module 10

Walking in Restored Relational Integrity

Closes the course with sustainable healing practices and growth-oriented relationship principles. Couples learn to maintain emotional safety, continue accountability rhythms, and live with relational congruence — where their faith, feelings, and actions are aligned in the way they love each other.

Sustainable healing Relational congruence Continued accountability Growth-oriented practices

Pre-Course Assessment

Establishing Your Baseline

Before beginning the course, each partner completes a 30-question assessment covering relational integrity concepts, trauma-informed care, nervous system regulation, communication, and biblical principles. This establishes a baseline to measure growth against at course completion.

30
Questions
3
Max Attempts
70%
Threshold

Post-Course Assessment

Measure Your Growth

Upon completing all 10 modules, each partner completes the post-course assessment — the same 30 questions, measuring comprehension and growth. Post-test results display a growth metrics section showing pre-test percentage, post-test percentage, and the delta in points.

30
Questions
3
Max Attempts
70%
Pass Threshold

Who This Course Is For

For Couples Ready to Rebuild Together

Healing in relationships requires understanding, commitment, and grace. This course gives couples the clinical framework and biblical foundation to understand what created the distance — and how to close it together.

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Couples in Relational Distress

Couples experiencing chronic disconnection, unresolved conflict cycles, or emotional distance that has become the painful norm in their relationship.

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Attachment & Trauma Survivors

Couples navigating past trauma, childhood emotional conditioning, or attachment wounds that show up as fear of abandonment, emotional withdrawal, or hyperreactivity.

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Communication Breakdown

Couples struggling with defensiveness, stonewalling, criticism, or pursue-withdraw cycles that leave both partners feeling lonely and unheard.

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Faith-Rooted Restoration

Couples seeking a trauma-informed, biblically grounded path to healing — integrating clinical truth with covenant faith and grace-centered practices.

Begin Your Restoration Journey Together

Couples healing is possible. This course gives you the clinical framework and biblical foundation to understand what happened — and start rebuilding the bond you both came into this relationship hoping to find.

$399

One-time payment · Both partners · Lifetime access

Enroll Now — $399

Secure checkout via Stripe · Lifetime access upon enrollment