Panel Discussion: Understanding & Treating Male Betrayal Trauma

Troy Snyder, Angela Doel, Scott Peacock, Wailer Giles

This session features an interactive expert panel that explores the often overlooked reality of men who experience betrayal through a partner’s sexual acting out, affairs, compulsive behaviors, or emotional abandonment. This session examines how betrayal trauma uniquely impacts men’s emotional world, masculine identity, attachment system, and spiritual life. Through research-informed discussion, real case examples, and Christian integration, participants will gain practical insight into assessment, stabilization, trauma-informed treatment, and long-term healing pathways for betrayed men within both individual and couple-care contexts.

Professional Learning Objectives:

Identify the unique emotional, relational, and spiritual manifestations of betrayal trauma in men, including shame responses, attachment disruption, masculine identity rupture, and spiritual disorientation.

Apply trauma-informed and research-supported assessment and treatment frameworks (e.g., stabilization, trauma processing, attachment repair) when working with male betrayed partners, while avoiding gender bias and spiritual bypassing.

Integrate Christian theological principles—such as identity in Christ, lament, boundaries, truth-telling, and redemptive restoration—into clinical, coaching, and pastoral care for men impacted by sexual betrayal.

About: Troy Snyder, MS, NCC, LPC, CCSAS, CPCS is one of the founding members of IACSAS now known as C-SASI. He has served on the board since its inception and on the executive team for four years, helping guide and direct the development of the organization as well as overseeing the clinical track trainees. 

Angela Doel is a betrayal trauma therapist, recovery coach, published author, and educator specializing in healing after infidelity and relational trauma. She works from an APSATS-aligned, trauma-informed lens and integrates evidence-based approaches, including IFS, ACT, CBT, DBT, and somatic modalities.

Scott Peacock is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with advanced training in the treatment of compulsive sexual behaviors and betrayal trauma. Scott holds certifications as a Certified Sex Addiction Therapist (IITAP), Certified Clinical Partner Specialist (APSATS), Certified Clinical Sex Addiction Specialist (C-SASI), and is a Diplomate Clinician of the Viktor Frankl Institute of Logotherapy.

Wailer is the executive director of Proven Ministries. He and his wife Adena have been married since 2005, kindling the soul-sparks of six children out into the world. They’ve been restoring an 1893 Victorian home since 2011... also an ongoing exercise in relational renovation.

Hours: M-F 8:30 am-5 pm (Central Time)
Telephone: (920) 389-1871
Email: [email protected]

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Hours: M-F 8:30 am-5 pm (Central Time)
Telephone: (920) 389-1871
Email: [email protected]

Thanks to QuestionPro for providing us free survey templates for running multiple types of surveys, helping to strengthen our nonprofit family.