About

Michele Saffier, LMFT, CSAT 

Healing is possible after the trauma of relational betrayal.

Michele Saffier helps clients move from the trauma of betrayal to healing.

Michele Saffier is a licensed marriage and family therapist who has been in practice for more than 20 years. Ms. Saffier has private practice offices in Newtown, Bucks County and Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania, where she conducts group, individual, couples, and family therapy. Her programs and workshops have enabled participants to begin the process of healing the trauma and deep wounds of relational betrayal, past and present.

Trained as a Contextual Therapist, Ms Saffier works to assist her clients in understanding the root causes of their current issues. Challenges are healed from deep internal sources, enabling individuals to develop an awareness of self and of others that promotes lasting change.

Ms. Saffier is a certified sex addiction therapist trained by Patrick Carnes, PhD, a seminal pioneer in SA treatment; she has specialized in the field since 1996. As a Level 3 EMDR practitioner, Ms. Saffier often incorporates EMDR to heal psychological trauma.
Her successful partners programs utilize the trauma model which treats the partner as a victim of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, offering partners a compassionate, no-blame, symptom-reducing approach to healing and forgiveness.

As a licensed and trained Marriage and Family therapist, Michele Saffier regularly works with couples and individuals struggling with a variety of issues including communication skill-building, family conflict resolution, unresolved early childhood issues that create current problems, for example. 

Ms. Saffier works with sexual compulsives to gain sobriety over acting out behaviors and reclaim integrity, self-respect and mend relationships. She conducts continuing education seminars to mental health professionals, retreats and workshops for addicts, partners and couples as well as supervision to mental health professionals.

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