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- Anxiety and Depression Conference 2025
- Faculty:
- Dan Short, PhD
- Duration:
- 2:00:18
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Sep 28, 2025
- Short Description:
- In this two-hour workshop, we will explore an evidence-based framework for helping individuals regulate anxiety, using an adapted version of Bruce Perry’s ‘sequence of engagement’ model for trauma intervention. This session will prepare professionals to work effectively with highly anxious individuals by guiding them through four key phases of intervention: 1) Regulate – Learn how to calm the central nervous system and create a safe space for nervous system regulation; 2) Relate – Understand how to help individuals feel seen, heard, and understood, fostering trust and safety; 3) Reason – Explore how to activate critical thinking and probability estimation to challenge problematic thinking patterns; and 4) Experiment – Discover effective ‘reality testing’; strategies like opposite action and practicing panic to deactivate anxiety triggers in real-world settings. The core message is that omitting any of these steps can undermine what would otherwise be an effective intervention.
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- $29.00 - Base Price
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- Workshops
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- Anxiety and Depression Conference 2025
- Faculty:
- Lilian Borges, MA, LPC
- Duration:
- 1:57:25
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Sep 28, 2025
- Short Description:
- Anxiety is more than a state of mind—it is a learned, embodied response reinforced by habitual behaviors, distorted cognition, physiological dysregulation, and emotional avoidance. Many individuals unknowingly engage in daily habits that amplify agitation and disconnect them from the present moment, keeping their nervous systems stuck in chronic anxiety loops. This workshop is designed to go beyond symptom management and address the deeper patterns that sustain anxiety. You will learn how to identify and interrupt anxious habits, increase clients’ interoceptive awareness, and apply experiential techniques that promote self-regulation, body-based presence, and emotional flexibility. Demonstrations, video and live, will help attendees gain practical tools they can immediately implement in session and teach clients to use outside the therapy room.
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- $29.00 - Base Price
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- Keynotes
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- Anxiety and Depression Conference 2025
- Faculty:
- Lynn Lyons, LICSW
- Duration:
- 1:06:32
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Sep 28, 2025
- Short Description:
- Our current culture likes to talk (and talk and talk) about anxiety and depression, with seemingly limitless voices weighing in on what to do, what to buy, and what to avoid. But based on rising trends of loneliness, anxiety and depression in our young people, this flood of approaches is not enough. In fact, they’re often making things worse. What do teens and their parents need to know about anxiety and its common path into depression? How do we move beyond “mental health awareness”? Misinformation, self-labeling, and bad advice are everywhere, making the goal of developing emotionally and socially resilient teens increasingly difficult. Mental health providers must focus on creating effective school and family plans that don’t “do the disorder” but instead focus on the development of skills such as problem solving, social connection, emotional management and autonomy. The goal is a thorough understanding of HOW these disorders operate...
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- $29.00 - Base Price
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- Keynotes
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- Anxiety and Depression Conference 2025
- Faculty:
- Reid Wilson, PhD
- Duration:
- 58:21
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Sep 28, 2025
- Short Description:
- When we adapt cognitive-behavioral strategies to fit the needs of those with social anxiety, then treatment becomes significantly more efficient and effective. We will highlight what to seek in the initial interview, presenting to clients their underlying beliefs that lead to their flawed goals, the simplest cognitive restructuring tasks, the why and how of teaching clients paradoxical interventions, setting up and then debriefing exposures and exposure simulations, and the benefits and principles of group work.
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- $29.00 - Base Price
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- Dialogues
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- Anxiety and Depression Conference 2025
- Faculty:
- Lynn Lyons, LICSW | Reid Wilson, PhD
- Duration:
- 1:01:48
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Sep 28, 2025
- Short Description:
- Lynn Lyons and Dr. Reid Wilson have been treating anxiety and OCD for decades. They’ve written books (together and separately), trained clinicians (together and separately) and are full of observations and opinions about what works, what doesn’t, and where anxiety treatment is going. In this dialogue, Lynn and Reid will ask each other pointed questions about trends, success, failures, changes, and controversies. And the audience is invited to join in with their own questions.
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- $29.00 - Base Price
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- Dialogues
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- Anxiety and Depression Conference 2025
- Faculty:
- Lilian Borges, MA, LPC | Dan Short, PhD
- Duration:
- 48:49
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Sep 28, 2025
- Short Description:
- Join two experienced Ericksonian therapists as they discuss innovative, client-centered strategies for addressing anxiety and depression. This dialogue explores how hypnotic techniques can align with evidence-based practices, enhance client autonomy, and reframe emotional conflict. Practical examples highlight the nuanced use of language, pacing, and suggestion in therapeutic conversations. This dialogue doesn't require previous knowledge about hypnosis. It will enhance the knowledge of professionals who use hypnosis in their practice as well as those who don't.
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- $29.00 - Base Price
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- Workshops
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- Anxiety and Depression Conference 2025
- Faculty:
- Reid Wilson, PhD
- Duration:
- 1:58:45
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Sep 27, 2025
- Short Description:
- Treatment of panic disorder and its phobias is now pushing beyond the permissive approach (“It’s OK that I’m anxious”) and further into the confrontational (“I want to get anxious!”) Participants will learn how to divide and conquer: to interrupt anticipatory anxiety and then to manage physical symptoms using cognitive strategies, paradox, pattern disruption, exposure and interoceptive exposure, and peeling away their everpresent “safety crutches.” All these techniques will be placed within a new broad strategic intervention that modifies the habituation model by teaching clients to alter their orientation toward panic.
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- $29.00 - Base Price
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- Keynotes
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- Anxiety and Depression Conference 2025
- Faculty:
- Michael Yapko, PhD
- Duration:
- 1:05:29
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Sep 27, 2025
- Short Description:
- Cognitive psychology, the study of how people think, has given rise to new understandings about how people gather and use information. This includes how people decide, usually at a level outside of awareness, what is salient to pay attention to in a given context and, likewise, what is essentially irrelevant. When people get sidetracked into irrelevancy, paying too much attention to what doesn’t really matter and too little attention to what does, their perceptions and responses naturally lead them astray. More important, when someone’s perspective is so global or over-general that they simply don’t know how or what to decide, they are far more likely to make poor decisions on the basis of hurt feelings, old history, misconceptions, or blind faith.
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- $29.00 - Base Price
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- Keynotes
- Categories:
- Anxiety and Depression Conference 2025
- Faculty:
- David Burns, MD
- Duration:
- 1:00:42
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Sep 27, 2025
- Short Description:
- For centuries, thinkers have debated a bold claim by Epictetus: that our emotions don’t stem from events, but from our thoughts about them. So—do thoughts cause feelings, or is it the other way around? In this provocative keynote, Dr. David Burns shares groundbreaking findings from a study of nearly 7,000 users of the Feeling Great app. Using cutting-edge assessments and advanced modeling, his team tested the real-time causal links between negative thoughts and feelings. The results may upend conventional wisdom—and transform how we treat depression, anxiety, and self-doubt. You’ll also learn how a rapid, digital intervention can lead to dramatic mood improvement—in minutes.
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- $29.00 - Base Price
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- Workshops
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- Anxiety and Depression Conference 2025
- Faculty:
- Michael Yapko, PhD
- Duration:
- 2:00:40
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Sep 27, 2025
- Short Description:
- “You’re unique…just like everyone else.” This statement highlights a challenging conundrum: if everyone is special then is anyone special? Anyone who has been doing therapy for any significant length of time will likely have noticed that while each person is unique as an individual, their problems are often remarkably redundant: here’s yet another person suffering with an anxiety disorder, another couple suffering in a distressed and depressing marriage, and another person feeling unhappy with life, and so on. Is the problem in them? Or is it in their process, i.e., the steps they follow leading to distress? By asking ‘how’ questions rather than ‘why,” we can more readily identify unhelpful processes and know where to intervene. In this address, I’ll describe how hypnosis can be used to help build better processes that are lifeenhancing.
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- $29.00 - Base Price
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- Workshops
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- Anxiety and Depression Conference 2025
- Faculty:
- David Burns, MD
- Duration:
- 1:49:03
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Sep 27, 2025
- Short Description:
- Do you know how empathic you really are? And does it actually matter? In this interactive workshop, Dr. David Burns shares surprising research showing that therapists often overestimate their empathy—and that even small blind spots can derail progress. You’ll learn powerful tools to assess and dramatically improve your empathy skills in real time. Whether you’re a seasoned clinician or new to the work, this workshop will challenge, inspire, and elevate your practice.
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- $29.00 - Base Price
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- Workshops
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- Anxiety and Depression Conference 2025
- Faculty:
- Lynn Lyons, LICSW
- Duration:
- 2:02:31
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Sep 27, 2025
- Short Description:
- Anxiety is the most common disorder of childhood and one of the top reasons parents seek out help for their children. We also know that anxiety is generational, with over 65% of anxious children having at least one anxious parent. When these parents arrive in our offices, they are often desperate for help and looking for direction but are still routinely left out of treatment! Working directly with parents in first (and subsequent) sessions is critical for offering concrete direction, building expectancy, and setting the tone for between session work. This workshop will focus on HOW to get families engaged from the start with an active approach that is direct, skill-based, and works to decrease accommodations and safety behaviors. We’ll address how to immediately tackle the physical symptoms that dominate and distract from addressing the key patterns.
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- $29.00 - Base Price
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- Workshops
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- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2025
- Faculty:
- Lilian Borges, MA, LPC
- Duration:
- 2:02:05
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- May 04, 2025
- Short Description:
- In couples therapy, it’s not uncommon for therapists to find that one partner may need to explore their personal issues separately to facilitate healing within the relationship. Referrals for individual work can sometimes feel complicated, but when used strategically, they can be a powerful tool for enhancing the couple’s therapy journey. This workshop dives into the art of working with a partner individually while maintaining a focus on their relationship dynamics. We’ll explore the attachment framework to help clients understand their attachment styles, reduce defenses, and build empathy for their partner’s needs. Together, we’ll discuss why and when individual therapy is appropriate, how to ensure it aligns with couples therapy, and how to handle the potential challenges and ethical considerations that come with individual sessions.
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- $29.00 - Base Price
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- Topical Panels
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2025
- Faculty:
- Terry Real, LICSW | Rebecca Jorgensen | William Marsh, Psy.D.
- Duration:
- 1:00:34
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- May 04, 2025
- Short Description:
- This panel explores the complexities of relational trauma within couples therapy, examining how past attachment wounds, betrayal, and unresolved trauma impact intimate relationships. Experts will discuss therapeutic approaches for identifying trauma-related dynamics, fostering emotional safety, and promoting healing within couples. The session will integrate insights from attachment theory, neurobiology, and evidence-based interventions, offering clinicians practical strategies to navigate trauma-informed therapy with couples.
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- $29.00 - Base Price
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- Keynotes
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- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2025
- Faculty:
- William Doherty, PhD
- Duration:
- 1:00:15
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- May 04, 2025
- Short Description:
- Politically mixed couples face special challenges during a time of political polarization, and even couples who vote similarly may have conflict over how strongly they feel about the current political environment and how to deal with extended family differences over politics. This is new territory for couples therapists, complicated by the fact that many of us have strong political convictions. This presentation will cover sources of today’s polarization, special assessment issue for couples in conflict over politics, and tools for helping them buffer their relationships against these political stressors and engage in constructive coping. The presenter will also discuss how he has adapted couple therapy principles in designing workshops that bring “reds” and “blues” together through the national nonprofit Braver Angels.
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- $29.00 - Base Price
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- Workshops
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- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2025
- Faculty:
- William Doherty, PhD
- Duration:
- 2:01:01
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- May 04, 2025
- Short Description:
- Many couples therapists treat individuals with troubled marriages when the spouse will not participate in couples therapy. Often the therapy has started out as individual work and then serious relationship complaints surface. But we lack explicit models for helping these individuals, and it’s all too easy to start colluding with the client against the partner who’s absent from the room—a stance that’s counterproductive to improving the relationship and helping the client learn from its difficulties. The challenge is to maintain a systemic, relational perspective even when we are seeing only one partner. This workshop will provide specific tools and guidelines for helping individual clients in the context of their relationship.
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- $29.00 - Base Price
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- Workshops
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- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2025
- Faculty:
- William Marsh, Psy.D.
- Duration:
- 1:59:21
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- May 04, 2025
- Short Description:
- This course will describe key factors in emotional well-being and orienting participants toward opportunities for experiential activities that lead toward a therapeutic goal. A unique perspective will be taken through exploring the impact of social determinants of health and minority stress on relational dynamics, and how to navigate this in therapy. Various theoretical frameworks will be utilized to conceptualize cases and integrate interventions into practice.
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- $29.00 - Base Price
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- Keynotes
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2025
- Faculty:
- Lilian Borges, MA, LPC
- Duration:
- 56:42
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- May 04, 2025
- Short Description:
- Hypnosis is often viewed as a mysterious, external practice, but it is, in fact, deeply woven into the fabric of psychotherapy—particularly in couples therapy. Trance states, which allow individuals to shift perspective, process emotions, and experience deep healing, are integral to many therapeutic approaches, from psychoanalysis to family systems. Whether consciously recognized or not, couples therapists are already utilizing hypnotic tools in their work. This keynote will illuminate how hypnosis plays a vital role in enhancing couples therapy, deepening emotional understanding, and breaking through stuck relational patterns. By becoming more attuned to the hypnotic elements present in therapeutic work, therapists can sharpen their skills and provide even more profound and impactful treatment for their clients.
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- $29.00 - Base Price
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- Workshops
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- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2025
- Faculty:
- Martha Kauppi, MS MFT
- Duration:
- 1:59:54
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- May 03, 2025
- Short Description:
- Are you finding it challenging to make progress with couples experiencing mismatched libidos? This in-depth workshop will equip you with powerful techniques to simultaneously engage and constructively challenge both the lower and higher desire partners. Learn to explore common inhibiting factors affecting sexual desire, identify and avoid typical therapeutic pitfalls, and learn effective first-session strategies to lay a strong foundation for treatment. Observe video demonstrations of pivotal therapeutic moments and discover methods to establish personalized, meaningful goals for each partner.
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- $29.00 - Base Price
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- Workshops
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- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2025
- Faculty:
- Tammy Nelson, PhD
- Duration:
- 2:02:03
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- May 03, 2025
- Short Description:
- In this cutting edge training we will discuss the varieties of affairs and the many ways that relationships can heal from the betrayal that affects intimacy. We will review the stages of recovery that lead to long term healing. Issues around trust, forgiveness, new visions of monogamy, sexuality and connection for the future of the couple’s relationship will be addressed. We will review three phases of treatment and the steps of the recovery process. It is crucial to understand the triangulation that can occur when therapists do not explore their own bias and countertransference and we will look at how to avoid unintentional shaming and client retaliation. We will look at the power of the third in the relationship, including the therapeutic as well as the romantic.
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- $29.00 - Base Price
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- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2025
- Faculty:
- Terry Real, LICSW
- Duration:
- 1:56:30
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- May 03, 2025
- Short Description:
- RLT (Relational Life Therapy) has three phases. One is waking up the clients (joining through the truth). Two is doing deep trauma work in the presence of the partner. And, three is relationship skill building. It is a combination of all three of these phases together that produces the quick profound transformational change RLT is known for. This workshop will give therapists a new map to give to their clients—how to think relationally along with the beginnings of a new tool set for example ‘how to speak up for yourself with love’, how to handle a disgruntled partner, and others. I’ll share with you a new vision of how to live relationally and nuts and bolts concrete practices to achieve it.
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- $29.00 - Base Price
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- Topical Panels
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2025
- Faculty:
- Elliott Connie, MA, LPC | Lilian Borges, MA, LPC | William Doherty, PhD | Ari Tuckman, PsyD
- Duration:
- 59:45
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- May 03, 2025
- Short Description:
- It’s said that the truth shall set you free, so why do romantic partners lie to each other? Or to their therapist? And how important are the facts anyway in couples therapy? Actual or perceived dishonesty can wreak havoc on a relationship and can stall therapeutic progress. Most couples therapists don’t want to get bogged down on fact checking, but sometimes the details do matter–perhaps to the other partner, perhaps as revealing about the individual speaking, and perhaps as revealing about the couple’s dynamic.
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- $29.00 - Base Price
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- Topical Panels
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2025
- Faculty:
- Martha Kauppi, MS MFT | Rick Miller, MSW | Tammy Nelson, PhD
- Duration:
- 58:43
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- May 03, 2025
- Short Description:
- Couples therapists have more conversations and treatment options than before, including discussions about relationship structures as well as sexuality. Participants will have the opportunity to hear about different approaches to couples therapy and relationship structures and ask any questions they may have.
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- $29.00 - Base Price
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- Keynotes
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2025
- Faculty:
- Martha Kauppi, MS MFT
- Duration:
- 1:01:27
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- May 03, 2025
- Short Description:
- This keynote session will delve into the complex world of sexual desire, exploring why discrepant desire is such a challenging issue for clients and therapists alike, and providing a comprehensive systemic framework for understanding and addressing it. Attendees will be offered a practical and innovative tool for parsing complex and interconnected factors, providing a deeper understanding that will reshape your approach to one of the most pervasive and complicated relational sex issues.
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- $29.00 - Base Price
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- Keynotes
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- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2025
- Faculty:
- Terry Real, LICSW
- Duration:
- 1:00:55
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- May 03, 2025
- Short Description:
- Leading men, women and non-binary people into true intimacy is synonymous with leading them beyond patriarchy. Traditional gender roles were never built for intimacy, but for stability. For example, the traditional term masculinity MEANS invulnerability—the more invulnerable you are the more manly you are and visa versa. Yet, you cannot be intimate and invulnerable at the same time. Leading men into intimacy means nothing less than reconfiguring who they are as men. Traditionally women and partners of men are socialized to over accommodate and resent. More modern women and partners have been taught to speak up with individual empowerment, but rarely with ‘relational empowerment.’ RLT (Relational Life Therapy) teaches people to stand up for themselves and love and cherish their partner in the same breath. “Loving power” also goes beyond the morays of patriarchy, we therapists are intimacy merchants. Our work is at once therapeutic and social activism.
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- $29.00 - Base Price