Couples Conference 2015
Held April 24-16, 2015 in Manhattan Beach, CA
Attendees will increase their clinical effectiveness by—
- Comparing and contrasting differing professional perspectives and translating these into specific interventions.
- Evaluating basic principles and techniques of contemporary schools of therapy.
- Comprehending the commonalities that underlie successful clinical work.
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All Couples 2015 Recordings
Below is a listing of all our recordings from the 2015 Couples Conference.
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- Topic Areas:
- Couples Therapy | Keynotes | Communication | Relationships
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2015
- Faculty:
- Harville Hendrix, PhD | Helen LaKelly Hunt, PhD
- Duration:
- 1:00:38
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Apr 24, 2015
- Short Description:
- In the old way of thinking, couples were depicted as a communication system that could be improved with relational skills or as interacting psychopathologies needing treatment by a mental health professional. In the new way of thinking, couples are a system of mutually reinforcing interactions that create anxiety or safety, wounding or healing. They also are the source of culture and the fulcrum of social transformation. What happens in the couple happens in the culture; what happens in the culture happens in the couple.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Couples Therapy | Sex and Sexuality | Keynotes | Intimacy | Relationships
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2015
- Faculty:
- Pat Love, EdD
- Duration:
- 53:58
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Apr 24, 2015
- Short Description:
- Our natural sexual setpoint explains a lot about arousal, desire and intimate satisfaction. We will explore this issue with research, facts and humor, with the objectives of understanding the effects of estrogen on desire and the effects of testosterone on desire.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Couples Therapy | Attachment | Keynotes | Anxiety | Intimacy | Sex and Sexuality | Love
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- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2015
- Faculty:
- Esther Perel, MA, LMFT
- Duration:
- 57:21
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Apr 25, 2015
- Short Description:
- This bold take on intimacy and sex grapples with the obstacles and anxieties that arise when our need for secure love conflicts with our pursuit of passion. We will tackle eroticism as a quality of vitality in relationships extending far beyond mere sexuality and show how reconciling these two competing needs is at the heart of sustaining desire over time. We will address paradoxes of desire and how social forces inhibit erotic expression; attachment history and the erotic blueprint.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Couples Therapy | Keynotes | Trauma
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- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2015
- Faculty:
- Bill O'Hanlon, MS
- Duration:
- 55:33
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Apr 25, 2015
- Short Description:
- Rituals have been used for thousands of years to help people move through difficult developmental times, to move on from problems and stuck places and to grieve and leave trauma behind. In this session, you will discover the two types of rituals that can help couples resolve their issues effectively.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
Tags: Couples Therapy Trauma
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- Topic Areas:
- Couples Therapy | Keynotes | Divorce | Marriage | Relationships
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- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2015
- Faculty:
- William Doherty, PhD
- Duration:
- 48:19
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Apr 26, 2015
- Short Description:
- What do you do with couples who are split on trying to working on their relationship or calling it quits? They are often poor candidate for traditional couples therapy but they are idea candidates for "Discernment Counseling," a creative way of working with couples our therapy models are not designed for. We will discuss the difference between couples therapy and discernment counseling.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Law & Ethics | Therapist Development
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- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2015
- Faculty:
- A. Steven Frankel, PhD, JD, ABPP
- Duration:
- 5:16:28
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Apr 23, 2015
- Short Description:
- This 6-hour program addresses the profound changes that are taking place in the health system in the U.S., the implications for mental health care, and, in turn, the implications for mental health care providers. We begin with a discussion of the role of the insurance industry in health care and how that role has expanded over the past 50-60 years, affecting the licensure and practices of mental health professionals.
- Price:
- $30.00 - Base Price
Tags: Ethics Law Therapist Development
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- Topic Areas:
- Couples Therapy | Topical Panels | Differentiation | Brief Therapy
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2015
- Faculty:
- Ellyn Bader, PhD | Judith Anderson | Peter Pearson, PhD
- Duration:
- 43:37
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Apr 24, 2015
- Short Description:
- CC15 Topical Panel 01 - Why Differentiation Matters - Ellyn Bader, PhD, Peter Pearson, PhD, and Judith Anderson
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
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- Not yet rated
- Topic Areas:
- Topical Panels | Attachment | Couples Therapy
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- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2015
- Faculty:
- Harville Hendrix, PhD | Stan Tatkin, PsyD, MFT | Marion Solomon, PhD
- Duration:
- 1:01:42
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Apr 24, 2015
- Short Description:
- CC15 Topical Panel 02 - Deepening Attachment and Connection - Harville Hendrix, PhD, Marion Solomon, and Stan Tatkin, PsyD
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
Tags: Attachment Couples Therapy
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- Topic Areas:
- Couples Therapy | Workshops | Communication | Relationships | Goals of the Therapist
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- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2015
- Faculty:
- Harville Hendrix, PhD
- Duration:
- 1:38:54
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Apr 24, 2015
- Short Description:
- Couples therapy tends to operate without a clear map of successful outcome, except the reported satisfaction/dissatisfaction of the couple. In this workshop, we will propose an optimal outcome of couple’s therapy, the process of reaching it and demonstrate the procedures that achieve it.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
- Average Rating:
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- Topic Areas:
- Couples Therapy | Workshops | Psychobiological Approach to Couples Therapy (PACT) | Attachment | Neurobiology | Therapist Development
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2015
- Faculty:
- Stan Tatkin, PsyD, MFT
- Duration:
- 1:54:28
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Apr 24, 2015
- Short Description:
- This workshop focuses on couple therapy with highly disorganized partners and couples. Special attention will be paid to the importance of strong therapeutic frame (rules) and therapeutic stance (goals). Highly disorganized partners and couples will be viewed through the lens of attachment theory, regulation theory, and neurobiological development.
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- $15.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Couples Therapy | Infidelity | Sex and Sexuality | Workshops | Love | Intimacy
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- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2015
- Faculty:
- Esther Perel, MA, LMFT
- Duration:
- 1:40:17
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Apr 25, 2015
- Short Description:
- Through case examples, Esther Perel will show how to effectively engage such issues as intimacy, sexuality and infidelity by creating separate spaces where each partner can explore his/her feelings and experiences along with larger relationship dynamics. We will show how to navigate privacy and secrecy, honesty and transparency, stage interventions around sexual impasses, and structure a safe and flexible therapeutic environment to work effectively with infidelity.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Couples Therapy | Workshops | Love | Relationships | Addiction | Sex and Sexuality | Trauma | Attunement | Communication
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- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2015
- Faculty:
- Alexandra Katehakis, MA, MFT
- Duration:
- 1:55:21
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Apr 25, 2015
- Short Description:
- Sex addiction destroys trust in relationships, traumatizing the partner, the sex addict, and the family system. Relational trauma left untreated will have both parties and the entire system crumbling. Attunement, communication, and empathy (ACE) are the three pronged stool that supports the long, and sometimes arduous, journey to restoring trust. The goal is to recognize the signs of relational trauma in both parties, and compare the difference between relational trauma and co-dependence
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- $15.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Couples Therapy | Workshops | Deception | Differentiation | Confrontation
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- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2015
- Faculty:
- Ellyn Bader, PhD | Sue Diamond, MA, RCC
- Duration:
- 1:32:41
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Apr 25, 2015
- Short Description:
- Everybody lies. Some lies are loving and harmless. But, others are enormously destructive. Couples’ patterns of deception often begin innocently but end in couples destroying the love they once had. Self- deception, conflict avoidance and felony lies all undermine commitment and connection. Learn to identify and disrupt deception, confront evasiveness and hypocrisy and facilitate differentiation.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
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- Not yet rated
- Topic Areas:
- Couples Therapy | Workshops | Love | Communication | Intimacy | Relationships
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- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2015
- Faculty:
- Pat Love, EdD
- Duration:
- 1:34:46
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Apr 25, 2015
- Short Description:
- While we love those deep, intimate conversations that bring us close together and join our spirits, what role does difference play in passion? Come explore this and other questions related to relational happiness. We will identify two empathic systems, and understand the role of dopamine in intimate relationships.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
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- Not yet rated
- Topic Areas:
- Couples Therapy | Workshops | Relationships | Therapist Development
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- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2015
- Faculty:
- William Doherty, PhD
- Duration:
- 1:42:09
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Apr 25, 2015
- Short Description:
- How to work with partners who are leaning in difference directions about staying together and trying therapy. Learn core techniques and see a video demonstration of how to work confidently with these challenging couples. You will learn the key pathways offered couples in Discernment Counseling.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
- Average Rating:
- Not yet rated
- Topic Areas:
- Couples Therapy | Workshops | Intimacy | Love | Sex and Sexuality
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- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2015
- Faculty:
- Esther Perel, MA, LMFT
- Duration:
- 1:27:43
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Apr 25, 2015
- Short Description:
- Why does great sex so often fade for couples who claim to love each other as much as ever? Why doesn’t good intimacy guarantee good sex? When you love , how does it feel and when you Desire how is it different? Loss of Desire brings many people into our offices. It is the prime sexual complaint that leads relational unhappiness, infidelity and even divorce. For the most part, sexuality has been relegated to sex therapy and couple therapy has been a desexualized practice. Yet, love in our digital age puts sex at the center of couples’ lives.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Couples Therapy | Workshops | Relationships | Therapist Development | Community
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2015
- Faculty:
- William Doherty, PhD
- Duration:
- 1:50:01
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Apr 26, 2015
- Short Description:
- People turn to friends and family long before they go to a couples therapist. Marital First Responders is a new training program for people who are natural confidants on relationship problems: people turn to them for support and perspective. Learn what the training involves, tune your skills in being a confidant in your own social world, and see if you’d like to teach this course in your community.
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- $15.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Addiction | Workshops | Love
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2015
- Faculty:
- Pat Love, EdD
- Duration:
- 1:46:03
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Apr 26, 2015
- Short Description:
- This workshop will explore the fine line between love and addiction. Therapeutic strategies and questions will be explored, and you will learn three predictors of compulsion/ addiction.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
Tags: Addiction Love Couples Therapy
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- Topic Areas:
- Couples Therapy | Workshops | Communication | Interviewing | Therapist Development
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- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2015
- Faculty:
- Peter Pearson, PhD
- Duration:
- 1:53:12
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Apr 26, 2015
- Short Description:
- Conventional approaches begin with: What brings you here? How can I help? What are your objectives? These are great questions for individuals but they are toxic for dysfunctional couples. Their responses will get you a truckload of cross complaints. After ten minutes nobody is feeling great.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Couples Therapy | Workshops | Experiential Therapy | Brief Therapy | Ericksonian Hypnosis and Therapy Techniques
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- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2015
- Faculty:
- Jeffrey Zeig, PhD
- Duration:
- 1:49:31
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Apr 26, 2015
- Short Description:
- Milton Erickson was one of the earliest people to work in Brief Therapy model with couples. This workshop will describe advanced advantages of using experiential methods with couples, including enactment technique and sculpting, lecture, demonstration, and small group practice.
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- $15.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Couples Therapy | Workshops | Love | Communication | Conflict | Relationships
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2015
- Faculty:
- Bill O'Hanlon, MS
- Duration:
- 1:36:23
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Apr 26, 2015
- Short Description:
- Couples, because they come from different background and have different understandings, often use the same words to mean different things, leading to unnecessary conflict. This workshop will provide a simple, but powerful method to quickly resolve couples conflicts using action talk.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price