Experiential techniques can reach the heart of the matter sooner as it focus more on process and less on content but couples sometimes can resist engaging in it preferring to stay on the storytelling of the last argument. This workshop will present ways to circumvent the “blame game” using experiential techniques with a “twist” that will make sessions come to life, bringing more fun, and emotional impact to the sessions, and making it memorable.
Experiential techniques can reach the heart of the matter sooner as it focus more on process and less on content but couples sometimes can resist engaging in it preferring to stay on the storytelling of the last argument. This workshop will present ways to circumvent the “blame game” using experiential techniques with a “twist” that will make sessions come to life, bringing more fun, and emotional impact to the sessions, and making it memorable.
Couple therapists often expend too much energy by failing to take up acting out in couple therapy. Therapists are working too hard because they fail to notice acting out by one or both partners and deal with it appropriately. Acting out should not be rewarded with doing therapy. Rather, acting out is a sign that the therapist does not have a therapeutic alliance with the couple and must use specific tools necessary to address it as soon as it arises. A therapeutic alliance means that the couple and therapist remain fully collaborative, cooperative, and on task. The task of couple therapy is to focus on the relationship, not on the therapist or partner on partner. The couple therapist must use supportive confrontation of the couple system itself (avoiding partners directly) in order to gain a therapeutic alliance. In this workshop, attendees will learn how to spot signs of acting out and practice — through demonstrations — various interventions.
Couple therapists often expend too much energy by failing to take up acting out in couple therapy. Therapists are working too hard because they fail to notice acting out by one or both partners and deal with it appropriately. Acting out should not be rewarded with doing therapy. Rather, acting out is a sign that the therapist does not have a therapeutic alliance with the couple and must use specific tools necessary to address it as soon as it arises. A therapeutic alliance means that the couple and therapist remain fully collaborative, cooperative, and on task. The task of couple therapy is to focus on the relationship, not on the therapist or partner on partner. The couple therapist must use supportive confrontation of the couple system itself (avoiding partners directly) in order to gain a therapeutic alliance. In this workshop, attendees will learn how to spot signs of acting out and practice — through demonstrations — various interventions.
This presentation will provide an overview of Solution Building Couples Therapy (SBCT). The presenter will introduce the Diamond Approach to SBCT and will provide detailed explanations of each step of the Diamond Approach. Participants will see real examples of actual couples engaged in SBCT. Participants will engage in in-depth discussions about how to conceptualize cases from this perspective.
This presentation will provide an overview of Solution Building Couples Therapy (SBCT). The presenter will introduce the Diamond Approach to SBCT and will provide detailed explanations of each step of the Diamond Approach. Participants will see real examples of actual couples engaged in SBCT. Participants will engage in in-depth discussions about how to conceptualize cases from this perspective.
Therapists and counselors need training and tools to intervene with relationship issues where there are sexual dilemmas. After an overview of clinical concepts, this course will offer skills to help therapists and counselors address concerns around intimacy, helping individuals and couples to improve their intimate relationships.
These topics may trigger countertransference and projection for the therapist and couples can face frustration and repeat patterns that lead to destructive behaviors both individually and with a partner. We will the basics of the integrative sex therapy model and touch upon trauma, desire issues and recovery from affairs and how these unique issues impact treatment.
Based on clinical practice, research and case examples, we will cover interventions and techniques that foster effective, ethical therapeutic relationships for clients struggling with intimacy issues.
Therapists and counselors need training and tools to intervene with relationship issues where there are sexual dilemmas. After an overview of clinical concepts, this course will offer skills to help therapists and counselors address concerns around intimacy, helping individuals and couples to improve their intimate relationships.
These topics may trigger countertransference and projection for the therapist and couples can face frustration and repeat patterns that lead to destructive behaviors both individually and with a partner. We will the basics of the integrative sex therapy model and touch upon trauma, desire issues and recovery from affairs and how these unique issues impact treatment.
Based on clinical practice, research and case examples, we will cover interventions and techniques that foster effective, ethical therapeutic relationships for clients struggling with intimacy issues.
If our futures are informed by our pasts, what do we stand to learn from those masters who came before us? In the Grandmasters' Approaches to Psychotherapy, Dr. Jeffrey Zeig will be your tour guide in exploring the wisdom and exceptional insights of some of the brightest minds to ever grace the field of psychotherapy. These in-depth lectures cover the most vital elements of their individual styles, and will bring them all together to reveal what learnings we can take away in our modern practice.
If our futures are informed by our pasts, what do we stand to learn from those masters who came before us? In the Grandmasters' Approaches to Psychotherapy, Dr. Jeffrey Zeig will be your tour guide in exploring the wisdom and exceptional insights of some of the brightest minds to ever grace the field of psychotherapy. These in-depth lectures cover the most vital elements of their individual styles, and will bring them all together to reveal what learnings we can take away in our modern practice.