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- Topic Areas:
- Workshops | Relational Life Therapy Model (RLT) | Couples Therapy | Trauma
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2023 | Pioneers in Couples and Family Therapy
- Duration:
- 1:20:18
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Short Description:
- This workshop presents Relational Life Therapy (RLT), a powerful couples therapy model that integrates deep individual work—such as trauma healing and character transformation—within the presence of a partner. Blending loving confrontation, relational skills training, and inner child work, RLT produces rapid, lasting change. Core concepts include addressing shame and grandiosity, using the wise adult/wounded child/adaptive child framework, and applying empathic reversal to build compassion, accountability, and authentic connection.
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- Workshops
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2023
- Course Levels:
- Master Degree or Higher in Health-Related Field
- Duration:
- 2:00:39
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Short Description:
- When faced with loss of attraction, clients and therapists alike often feel overwhelmed, confused, and disempowered. Attraction seems so mysterious, coming on quickly and going away just as suddenly. It is easy to believe attraction is out of our control. But restoring attraction is actually possible. In this workshop, Martha will show you how she uses several concepts and interventions from the Developmental Model of Couples Therapy to help clients identify what is blocking attraction, remove the blocks, and restore intimate connection. Expect a spirited combination of lecture, discussion, Q & A, and plenty of immediately applicable material you can take to your next session.
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- Topic Areas:
- Workshops
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2023
- Duration:
- 2:00:39
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Short Description:
- When faced with loss of attraction, clients and therapists alike often feel overwhelmed, confused, and disempowered. Attraction seems so mysterious, coming on quickly and going away just as suddenly. It is easy to believe attraction is out of our control. But restoring attraction is actually possible. In this workshop, Martha will show you how she uses several concepts and interventions from the Developmental Model of Couples Therapy to help clients identify what is blocking attraction, remove the blocks, and restore intimate connection. Expect a spirited combination of lecture, discussion, Q & A, and plenty of immediately applicable material you can take to your next session.
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- Topic Areas:
- Keynotes
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2023
- Duration:
- 55:23
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Short Description:
- Internal Family Systems (IFS) is a model of therapy that views the mind as a system of sub-personalities or parts that hold different beliefs, emotions, and behaviors. IFS also believes that each person has a “Self” that has inherent wisdom or healing capacity. When we apply IFS to couples, we help each partner become aware of their own parts and how they interact with their partners parts. This helps couples resolve conflicts that arise when their parts are in opposition to each other. IFS also helps each member of the couple identify and heal the wounds within them that can get in the way of intimacy in the relationship. The overall goal of IFS in couples is to help individuals become more aware of their own parts, to access empathy for their partner’s parts, and release the blocks that cause conflicts to develop a more compassionate relationship within themselves and their relationship.
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- Topic Areas:
- Keynotes
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2023
- Course Levels:
- Master Degree or Higher in Health-Related Field
- Duration:
- 55:23
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Short Description:
- Internal Family Systems (IFS) is a model of therapy that views the mind as a system of sub-personalities or parts that hold different beliefs, emotions, and behaviors. IFS also believes that each person has a “Self” that has inherent wisdom or healing capacity. When we apply IFS to couples, we help each partner become aware of their own parts and how they interact with their partners parts. This helps couples resolve conflicts that arise when their parts are in opposition to each other. IFS also helps each member of the couple identify and heal the wounds within them that can get in the way of intimacy in the relationship. The overall goal of IFS in couples is to help individuals become more aware of their own parts, to access empathy for their partner’s parts, and release the blocks that cause conflicts to develop a more compassionate relationship within themselves and their relationship.
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- Topic Areas:
- Keynotes | Developmental Therapy Model | Couples Therapy
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2023 | Pioneers in Couples and Family Therapy
- Duration:
- 30:53
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Short Description:
- An overview of the Developmental Model in couples therapy, focusing on transformative strategies for therapists. Learn how to guide couples through predictable relationship stages, support individual growth, and create lasting change through strong leadership, emotional risk-taking, and strategic interventions. Includes practical techniques for managing client challenges and fostering deeper intimacy.
- Average Rating:
- Not yet rated
- Topic Areas:
- Keynotes | Developmental Therapy Model | Couples Therapy
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2023 | Pioneers in Couples and Family Therapy
- Course Levels:
- Master Degree or Higher in Health-Related Field
- Duration:
- 30:53
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Short Description:
- An overview of the Developmental Model in couples therapy, focusing on transformative strategies for therapists. Learn how to guide couples through predictable relationship stages, support individual growth, and create lasting change through strong leadership, emotional risk-taking, and strategic interventions. Includes practical techniques for managing client challenges and fostering deeper intimacy.
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- Topic Areas:
- Keynotes
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2022
- Duration:
- 1:00:04
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Short Description:
- The process of working with erotic transference and countertransference is often avoided in clinical practice and in the training of psychotherapists. As therapists we must recognize and address that erotic transference and countertransference are significant pathways, albeit uncomfortable topics steeped in fear and defensiveness, toward greater vulnerability, healing, and the potential for growth within the clients we treat and the clinicians we long to be. This keynote discussion will begin a conversation on the process of removing fear from topics traditionally avoided within the realm of normative psychotherapy practice and parameters for their exploration within a boundaried and ethical framework will be provided.
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- Topic Areas:
- Keynotes
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2022
- Course Levels:
- Master Degree or Higher in Health-Related Field
- Duration:
- 1:00:04
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Short Description:
- The process of working with erotic transference and countertransference is often avoided in clinical practice and in the training of psychotherapists. As therapists we must recognize and address that erotic transference and countertransference are significant pathways, albeit uncomfortable topics steeped in fear and defensiveness, toward greater vulnerability, healing, and the potential for growth within the clients we treat and the clinicians we long to be. This keynote discussion will begin a conversation on the process of removing fear from topics traditionally avoided within the realm of normative psychotherapy practice and parameters for their exploration within a boundaried and ethical framework will be provided.
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- Not yet rated
- Topic Areas:
- Keynotes
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2022
- Duration:
- 1:01:08
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Short Description:
- When it comes to sex issues, therapists are understandably concerned about crossing a boundary, making their clients uncomfortable, or getting outside of their scope of practice. However, when therapists shy away from bringing up sexuality, they may be missing serious (even life-threatening) issues. In this skill-building presentation, Martha will share her unique approach to bringing up sex, including how to follow up ethically and thoroughly once the topic is open. When should you refer or consult? Where is the line regarding scope of practice? What language will help both you and your clients feel comfortable? How much do you need to know about sex? How do you tell whether you’re dealing with relational issue or a sex issue? What should you focus on first? Discover the answers to these questions and more, and walk away with a set of tools you can apply in your very next session.
- Average Rating:
- Not yet rated
- Topic Areas:
- Keynotes
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2022
- Course Levels:
- Master Degree or Higher in Health-Related Field
- Duration:
- 1:01:08
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Short Description:
- When it comes to sex issues, therapists are understandably concerned about crossing a boundary, making their clients uncomfortable, or getting outside of their scope of practice. However, when therapists shy away from bringing up sexuality, they may be missing serious (even life-threatening) issues. In this skill-building presentation, Martha will share her unique approach to bringing up sex, including how to follow up ethically and thoroughly once the topic is open. When should you refer or consult? Where is the line regarding scope of practice? What language will help both you and your clients feel comfortable? How much do you need to know about sex? How do you tell whether you’re dealing with relational issue or a sex issue? What should you focus on first? Discover the answers to these questions and more, and walk away with a set of tools you can apply in your very next session.
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- Not yet rated
- Topic Areas:
- Topical Panels
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2022
- Duration:
- 1:01:35
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Short Description:
- Extrinsic forces, centered in racism, classism, sexism, heteronormativity, ageism, ableism, and other intersecting identities impact relationships. However, they factors are not extrinsic, as we are all steeped in and operate from or are operated on, but these factors making them all too present and, unfortunately, made invisible to us as clinicians and the relational systems that we work with. The panel will define these factors, explore the power of their invisibility and impacts on relationships at the micro, mezzo and macros levels of experience and discuss their clinical implications on relational and systemic therapies.
- Average Rating:
- Not yet rated
- Topic Areas:
- Topical Panels
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2022
- Course Levels:
- Master Degree or Higher in Health-Related Field
- Duration:
- 1:01:35
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Short Description:
- Extrinsic forces, centered in racism, classism, sexism, heteronormativity, ageism, ableism, and other intersecting identities impact relationships. However, they factors are not extrinsic, as we are all steeped in and operate from or are operated on, but these factors making them all too present and, unfortunately, made invisible to us as clinicians and the relational systems that we work with. The panel will define these factors, explore the power of their invisibility and impacts on relationships at the micro, mezzo and macros levels of experience and discuss their clinical implications on relational and systemic therapies.
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- Not yet rated
- Topic Areas:
- Workshops
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2022
- Course Levels:
- Master Degree or Higher in Health-Related Field
- Duration:
- 2:00:12
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Short Description:
- For this workshop, we will briefly review research on discussing race related themes and concerns between interracial couples. The presenter will introduce 2-3 interracial couples currently in treatment with this provider and some presenting concerns around sociocultural identity differences, perspectives on social justice, and how the couple discussed or did not discuss microaggressions one partner of the couple experienced outside of the relationship. The presenter will address her own countertransference processes, how she conceptualized the conflicts, and how she addressed and facilitated dialogue between the couple. Participants will also have an opportunity to present their own cases, challenges moments, and questions they have regarding how to address race related presenting issues.
- Average Rating:
- Not yet rated
- Topic Areas:
- Workshops
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2022
- Duration:
- 2:00:12
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Short Description:
- For this workshop, we will briefly review research on discussing race related themes and concerns between interracial couples. The presenter will introduce 2-3 interracial couples currently in treatment with this provider and some presenting concerns around sociocultural identity differences, perspectives on social justice, and how the couple discussed or did not discuss microaggressions one partner of the couple experienced outside of the relationship. The presenter will address her own countertransference processes, how she conceptualized the conflicts, and how she addressed and facilitated dialogue between the couple. Participants will also have an opportunity to present their own cases, challenges moments, and questions they have regarding how to address race related presenting issues.
- Average Rating:
- Not yet rated
- Topic Areas:
- Workshops
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2022
- Course Levels:
- Master Degree or Higher in Health-Related Field
- Duration:
- 2:00:37
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Short Description:
- Dishonesty can damage relationships and undermine therapy, but honesty is hard, especially for some clients. And yet, for therapy to progress, romantic partners need to be able to navigate thorny discussions with honesty and respect—and couples therapists need to avoid getting roped into being the lie detector. Honesty and disclosure are an important part of effective therapy, but they are also an important goal to work towards. We will begin by discussing the different kinds of dishonesty, the purposes that they serve, and the impact that actual or suspected dishonesty has on the partner and relationship. Then we will discuss how to help clients build the skills to be able to be more honest with themselves, their partner, and their therapist, as well as how to help partners be better receivers of honest disclosure, so that both partners feel empowered to shift a dissatisfying dynamic.
- Average Rating:
- Not yet rated
- Topic Areas:
- Workshops
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2022
- Duration:
- 2:00:37
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Short Description:
- Dishonesty can damage relationships and undermine therapy, but honesty is hard, especially for some clients. And yet, for therapy to progress, romantic partners need to be able to navigate thorny discussions with honesty and respect—and couples therapists need to avoid getting roped into being the lie detector. Honesty and disclosure are an important part of effective therapy, but they are also an important goal to work towards. We will begin by discussing the different kinds of dishonesty, the purposes that they serve, and the impact that actual or suspected dishonesty has on the partner and relationship. Then we will discuss how to help clients build the skills to be able to be more honest with themselves, their partner, and their therapist, as well as how to help partners be better receivers of honest disclosure, so that both partners feel empowered to shift a dissatisfying dynamic.
- Average Rating:
- Not yet rated
- Topic Areas:
- Workshops
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2022
- Course Levels:
- Master Degree or Higher in Health-Related Field
- Duration:
- 2:02:19
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Short Description:
- What kills desire in long-term relationships, and how do you help clients with desire discrepancy find one another again? Desire may be mysterious, but relational dynamics that block it--like pressure for sex, managing sex pain, and sexual performance issues--are very predictable. Learn how to identify and work effectively with these tough but common blocks so that desire can bloom again. You’ll gain clinical tools for depathologizing desire differences, starting a collaborative conversation about pleasure, and helping partners build the skills to stay flexible and connected through sexual challenges.
- Average Rating:
- Not yet rated
- Topic Areas:
- Workshops
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2022
- Duration:
- 2:02:19
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Short Description:
- What kills desire in long-term relationships, and how do you help clients with desire discrepancy find one another again? Desire may be mysterious, but relational dynamics that block it--like pressure for sex, managing sex pain, and sexual performance issues--are very predictable. Learn how to identify and work effectively with these tough but common blocks so that desire can bloom again. You’ll gain clinical tools for depathologizing desire differences, starting a collaborative conversation about pleasure, and helping partners build the skills to stay flexible and connected through sexual challenges.
- Average Rating:
- Not yet rated
- Topic Areas:
- Topical Panels | Couples Therapy | Deception
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2022 | Pioneers in Couples and Family Therapy
- Course Levels:
- Master Degree or Higher in Health-Related Field
- Duration:
- 1:00:34
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Short Description:
- Experts examine lies and deception in relationships, revealing four types of lies and strategies for rebuilding trust. The panel explores therapist techniques for detecting dishonesty, understanding partner motivations, and supporting couples through significant betrayals. Key insights include the importance of transparency, self-awareness, and mutual commitment to healing.
- Average Rating:
- Not yet rated
- Topic Areas:
- Topical Panels | Couples Therapy | Deception
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2022 | Pioneers in Couples and Family Therapy
- Duration:
- 1:00:34
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Short Description:
- Experts examine lies and deception in relationships, revealing four types of lies and strategies for rebuilding trust. The panel explores therapist techniques for detecting dishonesty, understanding partner motivations, and supporting couples through significant betrayals. Key insights include the importance of transparency, self-awareness, and mutual commitment to healing.
- Average Rating:
- Not yet rated
- Topic Areas:
- Keynotes | Attachment | Couples Therapy | Psychobiological Approach to Couples Therapy (PACT)
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Pioneers in Couples and Family Therapy | Couples Conference 2022
- Course Levels:
- Master Degree or Higher in Health-Related Field
- Duration:
- 1:02:37
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Short Description:
- This session explores the integration of the "empty chair" psychodrama within the PACT model to interrupt regressive relational patterns rooted in early object relations. By externalizing archaic self–other dynamics, therapists can help partners develop a witness state, promote individuation, and shift ego-syntonic behaviors toward more adaptive, secure-functioning interactions in real time.
- Average Rating:
- Not yet rated
- Topic Areas:
- Keynotes | Attachment | Couples Therapy | Psychobiological Approach to Couples Therapy (PACT)
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Pioneers in Couples and Family Therapy | Couples Conference 2022
- Duration:
- 1:02:37
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Short Description:
- This session explores the integration of the "empty chair" psychodrama within the PACT model to interrupt regressive relational patterns rooted in early object relations. By externalizing archaic self–other dynamics, therapists can help partners develop a witness state, promote individuation, and shift ego-syntonic behaviors toward more adaptive, secure-functioning interactions in real time.
- Average Rating:
- Not yet rated
- Topic Areas:
- Keynotes
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2022
- Course Levels:
- Master Degree or Higher in Health-Related Field
- Duration:
- 1:00:54
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Short Description:
- The Solution Focused Approach has been around since the 1970s and in that time it has grown in prominence and popularity amongst professionals in many fields. One area where it has been gaining steam in recent years has been in working with couples. This is an approach about using questions to help the couple move their relationship from the problem towards a future that is more desirable to both partners.
- Average Rating:
- Not yet rated
- Topic Areas:
- Keynotes
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2022
- Duration:
- 1:00:54
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Short Description:
- The Solution Focused Approach has been around since the 1970s and in that time it has grown in prominence and popularity amongst professionals in many fields. One area where it has been gaining steam in recent years has been in working with couples. This is an approach about using questions to help the couple move their relationship from the problem towards a future that is more desirable to both partners.