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- Workshops
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2025
- Faculty:
- Rick Miller, MSW
- Course Levels:
- Master Degree or Higher in Health-Related Field
- Duration:
- 1:51:30
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Original Program Date:
- May 02, 2025
- Short Description:
- Male couples face challenges of being overly independent, and frequently come to couples therapy due to loneliness and feelings of betrayal based on awkward communication styles. Though each partner yearns for their intimate and emotional needs to be met by the other, many gay men lack these skills due to the secrecy and shame which are typical aspects of gay development. He will share a video of a couple who went from experiencing distance and questioning their relationship to achieving intimacy and connection through the couples work they did. This workshop will define how norms in the gay community encourage avoidance, and how male couples can benefit from learning how to communicate, hear, and nurture each other, enhancing secure functioning. Clinicians will feel confident with existing modalities for treating couples and will be able to adapt these skills to successfully treat male couples.
- Price:
- $59.00 - Base Price
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- Workshops
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2025
- Faculty:
- Rebecca Jorgensen
- Course Levels:
- Master Degree or Higher in Health-Related Field
- Duration:
- 1:52:30
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Original Program Date:
- May 02, 2025
- Short Description:
- EFT is a structured, experiential model of couple therapy, rooted in adult attachment theory, that helps partners move from conflict, distance and distress to increased openness, trust and deeper emotional engagement; from an insecure to a secure and enduring attachment bond. The effectiveness of EFT is strongly supported by over 30 years of respected outcome research, with success rates of up to 70%, and a growing body of process research that helps identify the most impactful interventions that help create lasting change. Most therapists see couples and many lack a clear, empirically supported treatment model that increases effectiveness. This introductory presentation provides new and experienced therapists the theory and essential practice elements for working with emotion as used with diverse populations and presenting issues.
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- $59.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Keynotes
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2025
- Faculty:
- Elliott Connie, MA, LPC
- Course Levels:
- Master Degree or Higher in Health-Related Field
- Duration:
- 58:55
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Original Program Date:
- May 02, 2025
- Short Description:
- The word “Solution” in the title of the Solution Focused Approach. The key tenant of this way of working actually has nothing to do with solutions, it has everything to do with hope. Just as when working with individual clients, working with couples means we have to use skillfully crafted questions that move the couple from despair to a hoped for future. As the couple answers these questions they come back together in deep and meaningful ways that will last. In this lecture the presenter will share the keys to asking the kinds of questions that consistently produce positive results for couples.
- Price:
- $59.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Keynotes
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2025
- Faculty:
- Rick Miller, MSW
- Course Levels:
- Master Degree or Higher in Health-Related Field
- Duration:
- 57:39
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Original Program Date:
- May 02, 2025
- Short Description:
- For decades, many male couples have successfully navigated open relationships. But it’s been done quietly, and the mental health and couples fields have only recently begun addressing models of consensual non-monogamy. Join Rick Miller, LICSW during this keynote as he discusses his work with male couples who have navigated the terrain of open relationships in the context of couples therapy. He will provide guidelines for success and failure, including his model in which couples incorporate honest communication, and modes for assessing how the model is working and what can shift. He will provide videos of a couple who have struggled with honesty and fears, yet found a way to strengthen their joint intimacy by incorporating individual needs. Attendees are encouraged to step out of their own comfort zones to consider appreciating and supporting a consensual non-monogamy model with couples wishing to explore their options.
- Price:
- $59.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Keynotes
- Categories:
- Anxiety and Depression Conference 2024
- Faculty:
- Reid Wilson, PhD
- Course Levels:
- Master Degree or Higher in Health-Related Field
- Duration:
- 1:00:51
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Original Program Date:
- Sep 15, 2024
- Short Description:
- Those suffering from generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) are like worry-making machines who become anxious about topics that can concern any of us: money, work, family, our health. The noise of worry is like a boombox in their heads with no offswitch. You will learn how to shift clients’ relationship with their fears and override the responses that perpetuate them. You will explore paradoxical strategies to help clients transform their anxieties and worries from intimidating threats into challenges that they can meet and conquer. The goal is to persuade clients to adopt a self-help protocol to voluntarily, purposely and aggressively seek out the unneeded worries of GAD headon and dispatch with them rather than trying to avoid them.
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- $59.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Keynotes
- Categories:
- Anxiety and Depression Conference 2024
- Faculty:
- David Burns, MD
- Course Levels:
- Master Degree or Higher in Health-Related Field
- Duration:
- 1:00:58
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Original Program Date:
- Sep 15, 2024
- Short Description:
- Karl Rogers said that empathy is the “necessary and sufficient condition” for therapeutic change. Aaron Beck said that Rogers was wrong, and that empathy was necessary but not sufficient, because cognitive techniques are also needed for change. Albert Ellis said that they were both wrong. He insisted that empathy wasn’t necessary, sufficient, or desirable, because patients have to do their “damn homework” if they want to get better. Who was right? And what happens when a computer provides the empathy? And how might this affect your clinical practice? Dr. Burns will describe the unexpected results of a recent beta test with the Feeling Great App.
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- $59.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Workshops
- Categories:
- Anxiety and Depression Conference 2024
- Faculty:
- Camillo Loriedo, MD, PhD
- Course Levels:
- Master Degree or Higher in Health-Related Field
- Duration:
- 1:00:51
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Original Program Date:
- Sep 15, 2024
- Short Description:
- In the general consideration of Eating Disorders, anxiety symptoms have often been valued only as secondary aspects or even as a non-relevant issue. On the contrary, clinical experience and some recent findings demonstrate that anxiety plays an important role at various critical moments of the disorder and in its treatment process. The incidence of anxiety in ED patients is four times higher than in the general population. A higher anxiety level corresponds to greater severity of the illness. ED symptoms are more intense when accompanied by forms of anxiety. Greater anxiety contributes to poorer outcomes, and follow-up results are less positive. Particularly in BN and AN-B, the tendency toward impulsivity is stronger in accordance with higher levels of anxiety, and If the patient’s body dissatisfaction is high, there is a greater risk of self- injurious behavior and even of suicidal attempts.
- Price:
- $59.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Workshops
- Categories:
- Anxiety and Depression Conference 2024
- Faculty:
- Lilian Borges, MA, LPC
- Course Levels:
- Master Degree or Higher in Health-Related Field
- Duration:
- 1:00:51
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Original Program Date:
- Sep 15, 2024
- Short Description:
- Attachment theory is an integrative theory that can be used as a cognitiveinterpersonal framework for understanding the development of depression, and anxiety. The development of attachment theory and neuroscience had offered ways of understanding how interpersonal experience affects neurobiological processes. It created much impact in psychotherapy allowing for new ways for treating issues like marital problems, relational trauma, depression, and anxiety. Our early relationships shape our neurophysiology, and how we relate to others and ourselves. This workshop will address the relational aspects of depression and anxiety, and ways to address them in psychotherapy.
- Price:
- $59.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Dialogues
- Categories:
- Anxiety and Depression Conference 2024
- Faculty:
- Reid Wilson, PhD | Lynn Lyons, LICSW
- Course Levels:
- Master Degree or Higher in Health-Related Field
- Duration:
- 1:00:51
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Original Program Date:
- Sep 15, 2024
- Short Description:
- The four primary anxiety disorders— panic, specific phobias, social anxiety, and generalized anxiety—control people by generating an absolute standard for certainty and comfort. They inject rules into consciousness, then use that set of rules to take over mental territory. Assigning various exercises and techniques is the least effective way to promote change. We need to go after these disorders at the metacognitive level to take on anxiety’s process and overall laws. Any directives we might offer clients should consistently be driven by a set of five therapeutic goals that can be expressed to the client as “attitudes.” Lynn and Reid will present each of these attitudes and demonstrate how they can be delivered to clients in a persuasive manner. You will learn ways your clients can employ these principles in specific threatening circumstances.
- Price:
- $59.00 - Base Price
- Average Rating:
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- Topic Areas:
- Dialogues
- Categories:
- Anxiety and Depression Conference 2024
- Faculty:
- David Burns, MD | Lilian Borges, MA, LPC
- Course Levels:
- Master Degree or Higher in Health-Related Field
- Duration:
- 1:00:51
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Original Program Date:
- Sep 15, 2024
- Short Description:
- Patients with relationship problems often complain about others, blaming them for the difficulties in their relationship. This nearly always creates intense barriers to effective treatment because if therapists try to "help,"they suddenly run into a wall of resistance. In this panel, two therapists will discuss research on therapeutic resistance as well as treatment techniques from the attachment and TEAM-CBT perspectives. Outcome Resistance and Process Resistance will be described, and therapeutic strategies will be discussed.
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- $59.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Keynotes
- Categories:
- Anxiety and Depression Conference 2024
- Faculty:
- Michael Yapko, PhD
- Course Levels:
- Master Degree or Higher in Health-Related Field
- Duration:
- 1:03:13
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Original Program Date:
- Sep 14, 2024
- Short Description:
- For decades social psychologists have described the phenomenon known as the “contagion of motion,” referring to how a mood state can be spread from one person to another through social interaction. Two very recent events have forced mental health professionals to re- think what we thought we knew about depression that lend support to the phrase “depression is contagious.” The first event is the huge jump in the rates of depression worldwide as a direct consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic. The second is the widely disseminated authoritative research that has ultimately shown the “chemical imbalance/shortage of serotonin” hypothesis of depression to be mostly or even entirely incorrect. Given that antidepressant medications are the most common form of treatment, we are at a new nexus for redefining how we think about the nature of depression and the individuals who suffer with depressed mood.
- Price:
- $59.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Keynotes
- Categories:
- Anxiety and Depression Conference 2024
- Faculty:
- Lynn Lyons, LICSW
- Course Levels:
- Master Degree or Higher in Health-Related Field
- Duration:
- 1:01:24
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Original Program Date:
- Sep 14, 2024
- Short Description:
- There’s no escaping the dire reports about the high rates of anxiety and depression in teens and young adults. The theories about what is driving the increase are multiple and overlapping, from the pandemic to social media to parenting to the state of the world. And while therapists obviously want to help, are we truly doing what works? Or are we buying into the same mental health trends and assumptions as the young people we’re trying to help? In this keynote, Lynn encourages mental health providers to question the myths, trends, and sometimes surprising approaches to addressing youth mental health and to focus our efforts on treatment based on action, connection, and accurate psychoeducation.
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- $59.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Workshops
- Categories:
- Anxiety and Depression Conference 2024
- Faculty:
- David Burns, MD | Jill Levitt, PhD
- Course Levels:
- Master Degree or Higher in Health-Related Field
- Duration:
- 2:03:13
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Original Program Date:
- Sep 14, 2024
- Short Description:
- Perfectionism (“I’m not good enough!”) is one of the most common beliefs that patients and therapists alike struggle with. It plays a key role in depression, inadequacy, anxiety disorders, eating disorders, substance abuse, relationship conflicts and more. In this exciting workshop, David Burns, MD and Jill Levitt PhD will present cutting edge techniques to deal with perfectionism. Join us and learn how to heal your patients—AND yourself! Workshop Goals In this workshop you will learn how to : Pinpoint the self-defeating beliefs associated with perfectionism Use Positive Reframing to reduce the perfectionist’s intense resistance to change Challenge perfectionistic thoughts with the Cost-Benefit Analysis, Externalization of Voices, Acceptance Paradox, Self-Disclosure, Feared Fantasy, and more.
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- $59.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Workshops
- Categories:
- Anxiety and Depression Conference 2024
- Faculty:
- Reid Wilson, PhD
- Course Levels:
- Master Degree or Higher in Health-Related Field
- Duration:
- 1:59:21
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Original Program Date:
- Sep 14, 2024
- Short Description:
- This fast-paced training for intermediate and advanced clinicians will teach you the latest innovations of a treatment model that Reid has continually evolved over his 40- year career. Leading from a metacognitive perspective of the disorder, you will learn the step-by-step strategies, supported by paradoxical tactics and persuasive techniques, in a brief-treatment model for this often-complex disorder. You will study how clients can activate the strategies and tactics immediately, moment-by-moment, and use them whenever OCD intrudes, throughout their life. For clients who remain symptomatic after previous exposure and response prevention treatment, you will learn how to offer them a fresh start, with renewed optimism and with determination to push into the territory that is currently controlled by OCD.
- Price:
- $59.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Workshops
- Categories:
- Anxiety and Depression Conference 2024
- Faculty:
- Michael Yapko, PhD
- Course Levels:
- Master Degree or Higher in Health-Related Field
- Duration:
- 1:55:45
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Original Program Date:
- Sep 14, 2024
- Short Description:
- Applying Hypnosis in the Treatment of Depression is a short workshop that will emphasize the importance of utilizing proactive and well-targeted interventions when treating depression. How therapists think about the nature of depression and answer fundamental questions - such as what causes depression - naturally determine what treatment approach they are most likely to take. Likewise, how therapists think about the nature of hypnosis and its potential merits in treatment will shape their use of hypnotically based approaches. As we will discuss and you will observe in a video case presentation, there are some very compelling reasons to want to include hypnosis in the treatment of depressed individuals, couples, and families. There are things that no amount of medication can possibly address, hence the emphasis here will be on skills, not pills.
- Price:
- $59.00 - Base Price
- Average Rating:
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- Topic Areas:
- Workshops
- Categories:
- Anxiety and Depression Conference 2024
- Faculty:
- Lynn Lyons, LICSW
- Course Levels:
- Master Degree or Higher in Health-Related Field
- Duration:
- 2:01:11
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Original Program Date:
- Sep 14, 2024
- Short Description:
- After decades of working with anxious families, schools, and mental health providers, Lynn is clear about two things: parents are a critical part of therapy with anxious kids and offering long lists of “coping skills” is not enough to interrupt anxiety’s powerful generational patterns. In this workshop, Lynn will describe 1) why plans often fail, 2) how to create process-based plans for families and schools that go after the demands of the anxiety disorder, and 3) how to shift away from the practice of creating certainty and comfort. Short-term elimination strategies and long- term accommodation plans that address the “content” of the worry are all too common, so let’s instead give parents and educators the information and “big picture” instruction they need!
- Price:
- $59.00 - Base Price
- Average Rating:
- Not yet rated
- Topic Areas:
- Topical Panels | Transference Focused Psychotherapy (TFP)
- Bundle(s):
- 2024 Couples Conference Bundle
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2024 | Pioneers in Couples and Family Therapy
- Faculty:
- Stan Tatkin, PsyD, MFT | Ari Tuckman, PsyD
- Course Levels:
- Master Degree or Higher in Health-Related Field
- Duration:
- 56:43
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Original Program Date:
- May 05, 2024
- Short Description:
- This panel explores the painful aftermath of betrayal and the challenge of proving trustworthiness after infidelity. Clinicians examine lingering doubt, repeated violations, and the difficulty of rebuilding trust when past promises were broken. Emphasizing transparency, mutual effort, and shared vision, the discussion offers both conceptual models and practical tools to support therapists working at the edges of relational repair.
- Price:
- $59.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Workshops
- Bundle(s):
- 2024 Couples Conference Bundle
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2024
- Faculty:
- Lilian Borges, MA, LPC
- Course Levels:
- Master Degree or Higher in Health-Related Field
- Duration:
- 2:00:39
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Original Program Date:
- May 05, 2024
- Short Description:
- Hypnosis is a powerful tool for change and when used in couples therapy it can connect couples with their internal resources, teach them co-regulation, and help create secure bonding. This workshop will teach simple and impactful techniques that you’ll be able to use right away with your couples to empower them to change and make therapy session memorable. No previous experience with hypnosis is necessary.
- Price:
- $59.00 - Base Price
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- Workshops
- Bundle(s):
- 2024 Couples Conference Bundle
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2024
- Course Levels:
- Master Degree or Higher in Health-Related Field
- Duration:
- 1:21:29
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Original Program Date:
- May 05, 2024
- Short Description:
- Talking is the most dangerous thing most people do, and listening is the most infrequent. Participants in this workshop will learn that “how” we talk, not “what” we talk about is the source of all human conflict. And they will learn a new way of talking without criticism, listening without judgment, and connecting beyond difference that will be transformative in all aspects of their lives, including how they do couple’s therapy.
- Price:
- $59.00 - Base Price
- Average Rating:
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- Topic Areas:
- Workshops
- Bundle(s):
- 2024 Couples Conference Bundle
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2024
- Faculty:
- Ari Tuckman, PsyD
- Course Levels:
- Master Degree or Higher in Health-Related Field
- Duration:
- 2:00:51
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Original Program Date:
- May 05, 2024
- Short Description:
- Stressed out, burned out couples don’t have the time or energy to take care of themselves, let alone to nurture their relationship. They come to couples therapy, but then say they’re too busy when they don’t apply what is discussed in session. They’re cutting corners on sleep, diet, and exercise and thereby have less cognitive and emotional bandwidth, including for their partner. They’re more irritable with each other, less patient, and less tolerant of differences. They can easily fall into a zero-sum tug of war where both partners hope for more support from the other, but neither has it to give, furthering the discontent with each other. Everyone knows the obvious good advice on sleep, diet, and exercise, yet then doesn’t always do it. What does this poor self-care reveal about the individual or the relationship? What are the deeper individual and relationship dynamics that interfere with this self-care?
- Price:
- $59.00 - Base Price
- Average Rating:
- Not yet rated
- Topic Areas:
- Keynotes
- Bundle(s):
- 2024 Couples Conference Bundle
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2024
- Faculty:
- Rick Miller, MSW
- Course Levels:
- Master Degree or Higher in Health-Related Field
- Duration:
- 59:24
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Original Program Date:
- May 05, 2024
- Short Description:
- Gay men in our culture are mythologized, pathologized, envied, ignored, and oversimplified. Clinicians may be experts in treating heterosexual couples, but too often they miss out on the most effective interventions for this specific population. Men presenting for couples treatment are frequently seeking closer ties—while simultaneously embracing independence and avoidant behaviors. These norms are accepted within the gay community and are also considered norms of masculinity for cisgender men. The couples therapist faces the challenge of transcending these norms and suggesting an intimacy regime that is satisfactory for men. To be effective, it’s essential for clinicians to appreciate community nuances and to feel comfortable talking about gay sexuality. Cultural and racial backgrounds also need to be understood as part of the couples matrix.
- Price:
- $59.00 - Base Price
- Average Rating:
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- Topic Areas:
- Keynotes
- Bundle(s):
- 2024 Couples Conference Bundle
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2024
- Course Levels:
- Master Degree or Higher in Health-Related Field
- Duration:
- 1:02:44
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Original Program Date:
- May 05, 2024
- Short Description:
- The major difference between romantic and real love is that romantic love HAPPENS to you without your choice. It finds you. In contrast, real love is nowhere to be found and it does not exist without your choice. In fact, it comes into being only by an act of will. You create it, and, in that act, you become what you want. This lecture will describe the paradox of “giving what you want” is the only way to get it.
- Price:
- $59.00 - Base Price
- Average Rating:
- Not yet rated
- Topic Areas:
- Topical Panels | Clinical Process | Couples Therapy
- Bundle(s):
- 2024 Couples Conference Bundle
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2024 | Pioneers in Couples and Family Therapy
- Faculty:
- Terry Real, LICSW | Elliott Connie, MA, LPC | William Doherty, PhD
- Course Levels:
- Master Degree or Higher in Health-Related Field
- Duration:
- 59:19
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Original Program Date:
- May 04, 2024
- Short Description:
- This workshop focuses on managing the first couples therapy session—often the most critical. It covers how to establish a working alliance with partners who may be ambivalent, reactive, or have conflicting goals. Key strategies include assertive leadership, empathic engagement, and structured techniques like discernment counseling. Topics include assessing prior therapy, clarifying desired outcomes, and identifying the couple’s relational patterns to set the stage for effective, goal-oriented work.
- Price:
- $59.00 - Base Price
- Average Rating:
- Not yet rated
- Topic Areas:
- Topical Panels
- Bundle(s):
- 2024 Couples Conference Bundle
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2024
- Faculty:
- Tammy Nelson, PhD | Lilian Borges, MA, LPC | Shawn Giammattei, PhD | Rick Miller, MSW
- Course Levels:
- Master Degree or Higher in Health-Related Field
- Duration:
- 1:00:10
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Original Program Date:
- May 04, 2024
- Short Description:
- The needs of couples change as our times are changing. Flexibility around sexuality, gender and betrayal are skills that we need to continue to incorporate. This panel will discuss issues of gender, identity shifts, sex and intimacy, and multiculturalism that modern couples encounter in their relationships. We will also discuss alternative and modern monogamy structures and how to create new monogamy agreements.
- Price:
- $59.00 - Base Price
- Average Rating:
- Not yet rated
- Topic Areas:
- Keynotes | Couples Therapy | Ethical Practice | Therapist Development
- Bundle(s):
- 2024 Couples Conference Bundle
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2024 | Pioneers in Couples and Family Therapy
- Faculty:
- William Doherty, PhD
- Course Levels:
- Master Degree or Higher in Health-Related Field
- Duration:
- 57:54
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Original Program Date:
- May 04, 2024
- Short Description:
- Therapists experience the same relationship issues we see in our offices. Although our clinical training may give us more access to our inner emotional lives than many people, we face “occupational hazards,” such as a tendency to read our partner’s mind and then explain it to them. With humility and humor, let’s explore the relational self of the therapist and how we sometimes show up in couple therapy. In this workshop, we’ll learn how to how to help fellow therapists when they come as clients to leverage their personal and professional strengths to have healthier relationships—and avoid blind spots that come with the territory.
- Price:
- $59.00 - Base Price