This workshop will address the three most common sexual issues in therapy - desire discrepancy, low sexual desire and lack of sexual attraction. Physiological as well as psychological dimensions will be explored using current research and clinical applications.
This workshop focuses on the specific use of cognitive-behavioral strategies as an adjunct to the many treatment modalities of family therapy. It offers a basic overview of the theories of cognitive-behavioral therapy, particularly as it applies to families. Participants will learn first-hand techniques and strategies for working with difficult families and how to integrate these strategies with their respective modes of treatment. Role-playing and case reviews will be used. A question and answer period will follow.
Continuing from the morning program, covered in this workshop are principles for using hypnosis; advantages of hypnosis in sex counseling; experiential methods; induction approaches for hypnosis and sex therapy; and Erickson cases.
Learn the three key elements of Relationship Empowerment Therapy: The use of leverage; Attention to "clean-up" issues; The relationship grid. Participants will be introduced to techniques to help partners learn: Where they are stuck in their relationship; What "unfinished business" fuels their "stuckness;" The consequences of not changing, as well as the opportunities for change; How to get from where they are to where they need to be.
Talking makes many matters worse, not better. Talking can not only exacerbate problems and differences, but prevent the deepest moments of intimacy. Oftentimes therapy focuses too much time talking about connection rather than connecting. Come learn strategies to help couples create love beyond words.
While confrontation is often the best way to help clients examine their contribution to a problem, many therapists feels anxious about the tension aroused during confrontation. Leam to employ confrontation in couples work with special emphasis on matching the intensity of the confrontation- gentle to tough- with the level of impasse. The focus will be on how to select what to confront, when to confront, and how to build a confrontation over time. You will leave this session with a firmer grasp of the attitude and posture necessary to use confrontation more effectively in your work.
Madanes will present a series of skills, practices and strategies for enhancing relationships. There will be an opportunity for discussion and for practicing some of these skills.
This introduction to a developmental-psychobiological approach for working with personality disordered couples will provide attendees with a powerful new method that continues to show good success. This approach focuses on a two-person psychobiological model using attachment, developmental neuroscience and arousal regulation, and moves the clinician from a conflict-content model to a deficit process model focusing on real-time enactments of dysregulation.
The repair process is a detailed formula for helping someone in a state of hurt or frustration move back into satisfactory connection. The process begins with the speaker, teaching the distressed person how to use the feedback wheel- a fourstep prescription for speaking that is effective and clean. Then we tum to the skills of listening and responding, laying out techniques of radical generosity-a sophisticated way to understand your partner's experience and respond to it in the most responsible, (and disarming) manner.
This two-day workshop will introduce the basic theory of the therapeutic processes of Imago Relationship Therapy and demonstrate its application to conflicted couples in committed partnerships. Attention also will be given to the implications of the relational paradigm for all forms of therapy. Methods will include lectures, live demonstrations of the process and a video. This workshop will be credited towards certification for qualified therapists who wish to pursue training towards becoming a certified Imago Therapist and for non-clinical professionals who wish to become a certified Imago Educator.