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2024 Couples Conference


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Couples Conference 2024
Faculty:
Jeffrey Zeig, PhD |  Lilian Borges, MA, LPC |  Elliott Connie, MA, LPC |  William Doherty, PhD |  Shawn Giammattei, PhD |  Harville Hendrix, PhD |  Helen LaKelly Hunt, PhD |  Rick Miller, MSW |  Tammy Nelson, PhD |  Terry Real, LICSW |  Stan Tatkin, PsyD, MFT |  Ari Tuckman, PsyD
Course Levels:
Master Degree or Higher in Health-Related Field
Duration:
17 hours
License:
Not Applicable

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Description

Main Conference

  • Register for All Sessions Friday, May 3rd through, Sunday, May 5th

About the Conference

The Couples Conferences have become a leading vehicle for learning the applications of the latest research on facilitating treatment with couples. At this Conference, you will learn from leading-edge theorists and practitioners as they define, describe and discuss differing approaches that initially promote closeness and those that move toward managing difference and facilitating differentiation. By the end of this Conference, you will have advanced and refined your own thinking about how to approach the challenge of facilitating intimacy. Visit CouplesConference.com for more info.

Qualifications

The Couples Conference is open to professionals in health or mental health-related fields, including physicians, doctoral-level psychologists and dentists who are qualified for membership in, or are members of, their respective professional organizations (eg. AMA, APA, ADA), and to professionals with health-related graduate degrees (eg. MSW, MSN, MA or MS) from accredited institutions. Full-time graduate students in accredited programs leading to such degrees will be accepted if they supply a letter from their department on letterhead stationery, certifying their full-time status as of June 2022.

Credits

Please note: Attendees can receive up to the listed max credits each day. All sessions, except those as listed as “not for credit” are calculated as 1.0 clock/credit hour per 1 hour session. Attendees are given credit per session/hour, and not per day. There is no partial session credit given. Please click on the Credits tab above for more info.

Disclaimer

If the Milton H. Erickson Foundation (hereby referred to as MHEF) cannot hold the 2024 Couples Conference due to acts of nature, war, government regulations, disaster, civil disorder or curtailment of transportation facilitating other emergencies making it inadvisable, illegal, or impossible to provide the facilities or to hold the meeting, each prepaid attendee will receive a copy of the annual conference handouts and any other materials that would have been distributed. Fixed conference expenses will be paid from the pre-registration funds. Remaining funds will be refunded to pre-registrants. MHEF is not responsible for any other costs incurred by pre-registrants in connection with the annual conference.

The views and opinions expressed by presenters are their own and do not necessarily represent those of MHEF.

MHEF disclaims any responsibility for the use and application of information presented at this conference.

Cancellation Policy

Please email support@erickson-foundation.org for written registration cancellations. Cancellations submitted on/or before March 31st will be given a full refund. Cancellations submitted after April 1st but before before April 24, 2024 will receive a full refund, with a $50 service fee. Those who cancel after April 24 and before April 30, 2024, will receive a 50% refund. We will not issue refunds for cancellations made after May 1, 2024. Please allow 8-10 weeks processing. If paying by check, please note that those who submit a non-sufficient fund check will be charged a $20 service fee.

Credits


A.C.C.M.E.

The Milton H. Erickson Foundation, Inc. is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.


A.M.A.

The Milton H. Erickson Foundation, Inc., designates this live activity for a maximum of 17 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.


A.P.A.

17 credits available.

The Milton H. Erickson Foundation, Inc. is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Milton H. Erickson Foundation, Inc. maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

 

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a financial relationship it will be resolved prior to the activity. A faculty
member will not be allowed to present if the conflict is not or cannot be
resolved.​


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B.R.N.

The Milton H. Erickson Foundation, Inc. Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number CEP 9376 for 17 contact hours.


CA B.B.S.

Licensees with the California Board of Behavioral Sciences

The Milton H. Erickson Foundation, Inc is approved to provide CE’s by the NBCC and the APA in the state of California.  As of 7/1/15, California BBS accepts CE hours from CE providers approved by either the NBCC or the APA for all license types per Title 16 California Code of Regulations (16CCR) § 1887.4.1 and § 1887.4.3


Florida L.C.S.W., L.M.F.T., L.M.H.C.

The Milton H. Erickson Foundation, Inc. is approved by the Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling as a provider of continuing education (CE Provider #: 50-2008).


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The Milton H. Erickson Foundation, Inc. has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 5056. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. The Milton H. Erickson Foundation, Inc. is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.


New York L.C.S.W. and L.M.S.W.

The Milton H. Erickson Foundation is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0304.


New York L.M.F.T.

The Milton H. Erickson Foundation is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists. #MFT-0052.


New York L.M.H.C.

The Milton H. Erickson Foundation is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0116.


New York Psychologists

The Milton H. Erickson Foundation, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0069.



Faculty

Jeffrey Zeig, PhD's Profile

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Jeffrey K. Zeig, PhD, is the Founder and Director of the Milton H. Erickson Foundation and is president of Zeig, Tucker & Theisen, Inc., publishers in the behavioral sciences. He has edited, co-edited, authored or coauthored more than 20 books on psychotherapy that appear in twelve foreign languages. Dr. Zeig is a psychologist and marriage and family therapist in private practice in Phoenix, Arizona. 


Lilian Borges, MA, LPC's Profile

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The Milton Erickson Foundation


Lilian Borges, MA, LPC, is a licensed professional counselor with more than 18 years of experience doing and teaching psychotherapy, Ericksonian hypnosis and brief therapy. She is an invited teacher at the Milton Erickson Foundation for their extensive hypnosis training programs. Lilian has been conducting seminars in the United States and internationally about couples therapy, and Ericksonian therapy.


Elliott Connie, MA, LPC's Profile

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Elliott Connie is a solution focused therapist with his private practice based in Keller, TX. Elliott specializes in using the solution focused approach to work with couples. He is the co-author of the book The Art of Solution Focused Therapy, and his second book, Solution Building in Couples Therapy, was released in 2012. His latest book, The Solution Focused Marriage: 5 Simple Habits That Will Bring Out the Best in Your Relationship, is now available.

Elliott has traveled throughout the United States and Europe, including the UK, Sweden, Poland, Denmark, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Australia, Russia, South Africa and Canada, training psychotherapists to work more effectively with couples, and helping couples to build more satisfying relationships.


William Doherty, PhD's Profile

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William J. Doherty is an educator, researcher, therapist, speaker, author, consultant, and community organizer. He is Professor and Director of the Marriage and Family Therapy Program in the Department of Family Social Science, College of Education and Human Development, at the University of Minnesota, where he is also an adjunct Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health.


Shawn Giammattei, PhD's Profile

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Shawn V. Giammattei, PhD is a clinical psychologist licensed in the state of California and the founder of the newly developed Gender Health Training Institute. He has a doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology and has 19 years of experience working with individuals, couples, and families around a wide variety of issues. He specializes in working with LGBTQ couples and families with a particular focus on the specific issues that arise for transgender/gender expansive (TGE) couples and TGE youth and their families.

 

Dr. Giammattei is certified by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health as a gender specialist and is on faculty for their Global Education Initiative. He is an affiliated researcher, adjunct professor, and recent past Coordinator of Training for the Rockway Institute: A national center for LGBT psychology research, education, and public policy, at the California School of Professional Psychology at Alliant International University. He co-created the Rockway Certificate in LGBT Human Services, which includes the first semester long graduate course in transgender mental health and currently teaches graduate level courses in LGBT psychology, transgender mental health, and couples & family therapy. He is a research consultant to Kaiser Permanente, Northern California and Emory University regarding their NIH and PCORI funded studies looking at health outcomes of transgender patients. He is also past president and current council member of the Association of Family Therapists of Northern California; past vice-president and board member of the American Family Therapy Academy; and a member of Mind the Gap, an organization affiliated with the University of California, Beniof, Child and Adolescent Gender Clinic focused on the needs of transgender youth and their families.


Harville Hendrix, PhD's Profile

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Harville Hendrix, PhD and Helen LaKelly Hunt, PhD are partners in life and work. Their lives and work are integrated in their commitment to the transformation of couples and families and to the evolution of a relational culture that supports universal equality. Harville is co-creator of Imago Relationship Therapy and co-founder of Imago Relationships International. Chancellor of the Imago International Institute and emeritus board member of IRI. Dr. Hendrix has received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Mercer University, Macon, GA, the Distinguished Service Award from the American Association of Pastoral Counselors, and the Distinguished Contributors Award by the Association for Imago Relationship Therapy. His latest book, written with his wife, Helen Hunt, is Receiving Love


Helen LaKelly Hunt, PhD's Profile

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Harville Hendrix, PhD and Helen LaKelly Hunt, PhD are partners in life and work. Their lives and work are integrated in their commitment to the transformation of couples and families and to the evolution of a relational culture that supports universal equality.


Rick Miller, MSW's Profile

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Rick Miller, MSW, is a clinical social worker in private practice in Boston and on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. He is the author of Unwrapped: Integrative Therapy with Gay Men… the Gift of Presence (2015). Rick has served on numerous national and international faculties, including the International Society of Hypnosis, the Brief Therapy Conference, the American Group Psychotherapy Association, and Harvard Medical School.



Terry Real, LICSW's Profile

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Terry Real, LICSW, is a nationally recognized family therapist, author, and teacher. He is particularly known for his groundbreaking work on men and male psychology as well as his work on gender and couples; he has been in private practice for over twenty-five years. Terry has appeared often as the relationship expert for Good Morning America and ABC News. His work has been featured in numerous academic articles as well as media venues such as Oprah, 20/20, The Today Show, CNN, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Psychology Today and many others.


Stan Tatkin, PsyD, MFT's Profile

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Stan Tatkin, PsyD, MFT, is a clinician, researcher, teacher, and developer of A Psychobiological Approach to Couple Therapy (PACT®). He has a clinical practice in Calabasas, CA, where he has specialized for the last 15 years in working with couples and individuals who wish to be in relationships. He and his wife, Tracey Boldemann-Tatkin, developed the PACT Institute for the purpose of training other psychotherapists to use this method in their clinical practice.



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Agenda

Main Conference Day 1 - Friday, May 3rd 2024
May 3rd - K01 - Learning to Live Relationally: Teaching Our Clients; Saving the World
Date/Time: Fri, May 03, 2024 - 09:00 AM to 10:00 AM (PDT)
Speaker(s): Terry Real LICSW
May 3rd - WS01 - From Control to Relational Empowerment: Transcending Patriarchy One Couple at a Time
Date/Time: Fri, May 03, 2024 - 10:15 AM to 12:15 PM (PDT)
Speaker(s): Terry Real LICSW
May 3rd - WS02 - Introduction To Gender Affirmative Couple Therapy With Transgender/Gender-Expansive Couples
Date/Time: Fri, May 03, 2024 - 10:15 AM to 12:15 PM (PDT)
Speaker(s): Shawn Giammattei PhD
May 3rd - WS03 - Show Me, Don’t tell Me – Experiential Approaches with Couples
Date/Time: Fri, May 03, 2024 - 10:15 AM to 12:15 PM (PDT)
Speaker(s): Lilian Borges MA, LPC
May 3rd - K02 - What The World Needs Now
Date/Time: Fri, May 03, 2024 - 01:30 PM to 02:30 PM (PDT)
Speaker(s): Stan Tatkin PsyD, MFT
May 3rd - WS04 - Managing Acting Out in Couple Therapy
Date/Time: Fri, May 03, 2024 - 02:45 PM to 04:45 PM (PDT)
Speaker(s): Stan Tatkin PsyD, MFT
May 3rd - WS05 - Solution-Focused Couples Therapy
Date/Time: Fri, May 03, 2024 - 02:45 PM to 04:45 PM (PDT)
Speaker(s): Elliott Connie MA, LPC
May 3rd - WS06 - Integrative Sex and Couples Therapy
Date/Time: Fri, May 03, 2024 - 02:45 PM to 04:45 PM (PDT)

Main Conference Day 2 - Saturday, May 4th 2024
May 4th - K03 - Therapists as Clients in Couple Therapy
Date/Time: Sat, May 04, 2024 - 09:00 AM to 10:00 AM (PDT)
May 4th -WS07 - What Not To Say In Couple Therapy
Date/Time: Sat, May 04, 2024 - 10:15 AM to 12:15 AM (PDT)
May 4th -WS08 - Living Relationally: Essential Skills
Date/Time: Sat, May 04, 2024 - 10:15 AM to 12:15 AM (PDT)
Speaker(s): Terry Real LICSW
May 4th -WS09 - Naughty and Nice: How Male Couples Build and Sustain Connection
Date/Time: Sat, May 04, 2024 - 10:15 AM to 12:15 AM (PDT)
May 4th - P01 - Intial Session
Date/Time: Sat, May 04, 2024 - 01:30 PM to 02:30 PM (PDT)
Speaker(s): Elliott Connie MA, LPC, Terry Real LICSW, Stan Tatkin PsyD, MFT
May 4th - K04 - Unlocking Harmony: Navigating Relationships with the Diamond Approach of Solution-Focused Couples Therapy
Date/Time: Sat, May 04, 2024 - 02:45 PM to 03:45 PM (PDT)
Speaker(s): Elliott Connie MA, LPC
May 4th - P02 - Modern Couples
Date/Time: Sat, May 04, 2024 - 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM (PDT)
Speaker(s): Lilian Borges MA, LPC

Main Conference Day 3 - Sunday, May 5th 2024
May 5th - K05 - Working with Male Couples: The Good, the Not-so-Good, and the Troubling
Date/Time: Sun, May 05, 2024 - 09:00 AM to 10:00 AM (PDT)
May 5th - WS10 - Hypnosis for Couples
Date/Time: Sun, May 05, 2024 - 10:15 AM to 12:15 PM (PDT)
Speaker(s): Lilian Borges MA, LPC
May 5th - WS11 - How To Talk With Anyone About Anything
Date/Time: Sun, May 05, 2024 - 10:15 AM to 12:15 PM (PDT)
May 5th - WS12 - Promoting Clients’ Self-Care Supports Relationships
Date/Time: Sun, May 05, 2024 - 10:15 AM to 12:15 PM (PDT)
May 5th - K06 - GIVING THE LOVE YOU WANT: From Romantic to Real Love
Date/Time: Sun, May 05, 2024 - 01:30 PM to 02:30 PM (PDT)
May 5th - P03 - Is It Really Over?
Date/Time: Sun, May 05, 2024 - 02:45 PM to 03:45 PM (PDT)