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- Topic Areas:
- Workshops | Confrontation | Therapist Techniques
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2004 | Pioneers in Couples and Family Therapy
- Faculty:
- Ellyn Bader, PhD
- Duration:
- 1:32:12
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Mar 26, 2004
- Short Description:
- Exploration of the art of confrontation in couples therapy, balancing empathy and directness. Bader outlines six confrontation styles and shares strategies for addressing issues like addiction, trust, and conflict avoidance. Through video examples and case studies, she demonstrates how therapists can navigate complex dynamics—considering culture, gender, and individual histories—while helping clients confront passivity, express motivations, and take responsibility for change.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Workshops | Couples Therapy | Multicultural | Religion | Gender
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2004
- Faculty:
- Esther Perel, MA, LMFT
- Duration:
- 1:44:56
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Mar 26, 2004
- Short Description:
- Cultural and religious differences provide the backdrop against which couples' issues of commitment, gender and child raising, as well as, family connectedness and cultural loyalty are played out. Mixed couples often face difficult decisions at key junctures in the life cycle. In this workshop, participants will learn to identify conflicts around culture and religion, tease out the cultural contexts of common couples' dilemmas, and help clients make informed choices about the role that group continuity, family tradition and cultural values will play in their lives.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Workshops | Couples Therapy | Hypnosis | Hypnotherapy | Experiential Therapy | Unconscious Processes
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2004
- Faculty:
- Jeffrey Zeig, PhD
- Duration:
- 1:59:27
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Mar 26, 2004
- Short Description:
- Hypnosis is an experiential method of "gift wrapping" ideas. With or without formal trance, hypnotic methods can be used in the assessment and intervention process of couples therapy.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Workshops | Affairs | Couples Therapy | Trauma | Intimacy
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2004
- Faculty:
- Janis Abrahms Spring, PhD, ABPP
- Duration:
- 1:52:35
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Mar 26, 2004
- Short Description:
- This workshop offers a clear, compassionate roadmap for helping couples recover from infidelity. Using a three stage model, it shows how to name the trauma of discovery, understand the unfaithful partner’s experience and make thoughtful, not impulsive, decisions about reconciliation. Participants learn concrete ways to rebuild trust, address romantic and unrequited love, challenge unrealistic beliefs about marriage and guide partners toward more mature, intentional connection.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Workshops | Couples Therapy | Intimacy | Multicultural | Sex and Sexuality
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2004
- Faculty:
- Esther Perel, MA, LMFT
- Duration:
- 1:28:38
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Mar 26, 2004
- Short Description:
- This workshop examines the cultural pressures that shape domesticated sex and the puzzling inverse correlation between greater emotional intimacy and the loss of sexual desire. It will demonstrate how to help couples draw pleasure from the hidden, the suggestive and the uncanny while also respecting their needs for safety and stability. Using case examples, we will explore how to grant the body its profound capacities for communicating in its own language.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
- Average Rating:
- Not yet rated
- Topic Areas:
- Workshops | Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) | Couples Therapy | Neurodiversity | Neuroscience
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2004
- Faculty:
- Daniel Amen, MD
- Duration:
- 2:07:38
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Mar 27, 2004
- Short Description:
- This workshop examines how attention deficit disorder affects intimacy, communication, and family stability. Participants learn to recognize the neurological roots of impulsivity, distraction, and emotional reactivity, and how these patterns strain relationships. The session offers practical, brain-based strategies—including lifestyle changes, supplements, and therapy approaches—to improve focus, empathy, and connection for individuals and couples living with ADD.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
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- Not yet rated
- Topic Areas:
- Workshops | Love | Avoidant | Addiction
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2004 | Pioneers in Couples and Family Therapy
- Faculty:
- Terry Real, LICSW
- Duration:
- 1:48:39
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Mar 27, 2004
- Short Description:
- This workshop examines the dynamics of love addiction and avoidance, linking them to early experiences of abandonment and enmeshment. It challenges cultural norms around gender, highlighting the common pairing of love-dependent women and love-avoidant men shaped by patriarchy. The speaker emphasizes healthy self-esteem, emotional boundaries, and the need for mature relational development. Practical tools like feelings journals support the shift toward vulnerability, intimacy, and emotionally grounded masculinity.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
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- Not yet rated
- Topic Areas:
- Workshops | Couples Therapy | Marriage | Passive-Aggressiveness | Relationships
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2004
- Faculty:
- Peter Pearson, PhD
- Duration:
- 1:58:12
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Mar 27, 2004
- Short Description:
- The classic passive-aggressive person is a help-rejecting complainer who will not follow through with carefully crafted agreements and seems to be immune to targeted insights. They often end up with a despairing partner.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
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- Not yet rated
- Topic Areas:
- Workshops | Anxiety | Couples Therapy | Depression | Divorce | Marriage | Relationships
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2004
- Faculty:
- Pat Love, EdD
- Duration:
- 1:46:45
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Mar 27, 2004
- Short Description:
- Anxiety and depression are fast becoming the leading causes of personal disability and the single greatest destructive force in relationships. Research indicates that when one person in a relationship is depressed, the divorce rate goes up nine times. Therefore, it is vital that therapists learn to recognize typical and atypical symptoms early in therapy. It also is imperative that symptoms of relational depression are recognized. Lecture, video, written exercises and demonstration will be used.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
- Average Rating:
- Not yet rated
- Topic Areas:
- Workshops | Narcissism | Differentiation | Relationships
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2004 | Pioneers in Couples and Family Therapy
- Faculty:
- Ellyn Bader, PhD
- Duration:
- 1:43:12
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Mar 27, 2004
- Short Description:
- Dive into the complexities of narcissistic relationships through case studies and therapeutic techniques. Learn how to help couples navigate emotional barriers, develop empathy, and build deeper intimacy by understanding the developmental roots of narcissistic behavior and practicing effective differentiation strategies.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price