Description: Creative, structured strategies for strengthening couples’ relationships. Topics include resolving parent-child enmeshment, addressing marital loyalty conflicts, preventing domestic violence through financial contracts and family involvement, and using rituals to reset dynamics. Techniques like humor, scheduled communication, and presence-building exercises help rekindle intimacy, reduce conflict, and support long-term connection.
Syllabus Description: Madanes will present fifteen innovative strategies for working with difficult couples. Some will be illustrated with videotapes of actual therapy sessions.
Educational Objectives:
*Sessions may be edited for content and to preserve confidentiality*
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Cloé Madanes, HDL, LIC, is a world-renowned innovator and teacher of family and strategic therapy and one of the originators of the strategic approach to family therapy. She has authored seven books that are classics in the field: Strategic Family Therapy; Behind the One-Way Mirror; Sex, Love and Violence; The Violence of Men; The Secret Meaning of Money; The Therapist as Humanist, Social Activist and Systemic Thinker; and Relationship Breakthrough. She has presented her work at professional conferences all over the world and has given keynote addresses for The Evolution of Psychotherapy Conference, the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy; the National Association of Social Workers, The Erickson Foundation, the California Psychological Association and many other national and international conferences. Madanes has won several awards for distinguished contribution to psychology and has counseled outstanding individuals from all walks of life.
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