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- Topic Areas:
- Topical Panels | Clinical Process | Couples Therapy
- Bundle(s):
- 2024 Couples Conference Bundle
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2024 | Pioneers in Couples and Family Therapy
- Faculty:
- Terry Real, LICSW | Elliott Connie, MA, LPC | William Doherty, PhD
- Course Levels:
- Master Degree or Higher in Health-Related Field
- Duration:
- 59:19
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Original Program Date:
- May 04, 2024
- Short Description:
- This workshop focuses on managing the first couples therapy session—often the most critical. It covers how to establish a working alliance with partners who may be ambivalent, reactive, or have conflicting goals. Key strategies include assertive leadership, empathic engagement, and structured techniques like discernment counseling. Topics include assessing prior therapy, clarifying desired outcomes, and identifying the couple’s relational patterns to set the stage for effective, goal-oriented work.
- Price:
- $59.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Workshops | Couples Therapy | Relational Life Therapy Model (RLT)
- Bundle(s):
- 2024 Couples Conference Bundle
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2024 | Pioneers in Couples and Family Therapy
- Faculty:
- Terry Real, LICSW
- Course Levels:
- Master Degree or Higher in Health-Related Field
- Duration:
- 2:00:54
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Original Program Date:
- May 04, 2024
- Short Description:
- This workshop outlines the core phases of Relational Life Therapy (RLT): data gathering, confronting power imbalances, and teaching relational skills. It emphasizes the role of the adaptive child, relational mindfulness, and moving from complaint to request. Key topics include managing grandiosity and shame, fostering maturity, setting boundaries, practicing loving power, and cultivating relational joy. Strategies for addressing defensiveness, narcissism, and behavior change are also presented.
- Price:
- $59.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Workshops | Couples Therapy | Trauma
- Bundle(s):
- 2024 Couples Conference Bundle
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2024 | Pioneers in Couples and Family Therapy
- Faculty:
- Terry Real, LICSW
- Course Levels:
- Master Degree or Higher in Health-Related Field
- Duration:
- 1:30:25
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Original Program Date:
- May 03, 2024
- Short Description:
- This presentation introduces Relational Life Therapy (RLT), a three-phase approach centered on awakening clients, confronting truth with compassion, and engaging in deep trauma work. It addresses power imbalances in couples by identifying “blatant” and “latent” roles, and emphasizes forming therapeutic alliances with clients’ wise adult selves. Key themes include relational mindfulness, empathy, managing grandiosity, and promoting systemic change for lasting relational transformation.
- Price:
- $59.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Keynotes | Couples Therapy | Relational Life Therapy Model (RLT) | Social Issues
- Bundle(s):
- 2024 Couples Conference Bundle
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2024 | Pioneers in Couples and Family Therapy
- Faculty:
- Terry Real, LICSW
- Course Levels:
- Master Degree or Higher in Health-Related Field
- Duration:
- 1:02:49
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Original Program Date:
- May 03, 2024
- Short Description:
- This talk examines the global rise of patriarchy and its impact on intimate relationships, highlighting how anti-relational culture contributes to high failure rates in long-term partnerships. The speaker presents Relational Life Therapy (RLT) as a solution, built on three phases: loving confrontation, trauma work, and skill-building. Emphasizing the need to teach relational skills in schools, the approach addresses both individual challenges—like grandiosity and shame—and broader systemic influences to build healthier, more connected relationships.
- Price:
- $59.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Keynotes | Attachment | Intimacy | Relational Life Therapy Model (RLT)
- Bundle(s):
- Couples Conference 2023
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2023 | Pioneers in Couples and Family Therapy
- Faculty:
- Terry Real, LICSW
- Course Levels:
- Master Degree or Higher in Health-Related Field
- Duration:
- 40:45
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Original Program Date:
- May 06, 2023
- Short Description:
- This keynote on Relational Life Therapy (RLT) focuses on intimacy, secure attachment, and the shift from individualism to relational living. It outlines three phases of RLT—waking up, joining through truth, and teaching skills—while addressing adaptive childhood patterns. Emphasis is placed on relational mindfulness, repair strategies, and helping clients think relationally to build stronger, more connected partnerships.
- Price:
- $59.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Keynotes | Couples Therapy | Therapeutic Process | Therapy Practice
- Bundle(s):
- Couples Conference 2023
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2023 | Pioneers in Couples and Family Therapy
- Faculty:
- Stan Tatkin, PsyD, MFT | Elliott Connie, MA, LPC | Terry Real, LICSW
- Course Levels:
- Master Degree or Higher in Health-Related Field
- Duration:
- 57:58
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Original Program Date:
- May 06, 2023
- Short Description:
- This panel addresses best practices for ending couples therapy, focusing on client autonomy, relational accountability, and therapist discretion. Approaches include assuming each session may be the last, using leverage to support change, and emphasizing secure-functioning relationships. Termination is considered appropriate in cases of safety concerns or client readiness, underscoring the value of a strong therapeutic alliance and lasting behavioral transformation.
- Price:
- $59.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Workshops | Masculinity | Relational Life Therapy Model (RLT)
- Bundle(s):
- Couples Conference 2023
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2023 | Pioneers in Couples and Family Therapy
- Faculty:
- Terry Real, LICSW
- Course Levels:
- Master Degree or Higher in Health-Related Field
- Duration:
- 1:34:03
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Original Program Date:
- May 05, 2023
- Short Description:
- This talk introduces key insights from "Us: Getting Past You and Me to Build a More Loving Relationship", focusing on the concept of “loving power”—a blend of assertiveness and cherishing. It examines how patriarchy and individualism contribute to relational trauma and offers strategies from Relational Life Therapy (RLT), including loving confrontation, trauma repair, and skill-building. Emphasis is placed on self-disclosure, humility, and cultivating authentic connection.
- Price:
- $59.00 - Base Price
- Average Rating:
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- Topic Areas:
- Workshops | Relational Life Therapy Model (RLT) | Couples Therapy | Trauma
- Bundle(s):
- Couples Conference 2023
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2023 | Pioneers in Couples and Family Therapy
- Faculty:
- Terry Real, LICSW
- Course Levels:
- Master Degree or Higher in Health-Related Field
- Duration:
- 1:20:18
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Original Program Date:
- May 05, 2023
- Short Description:
- This workshop presents Relational Life Therapy (RLT), a powerful couples therapy model that integrates deep individual work—such as trauma healing and character transformation—within the presence of a partner. Blending loving confrontation, relational skills training, and inner child work, RLT produces rapid, lasting change. Core concepts include addressing shame and grandiosity, using the wise adult/wounded child/adaptive child framework, and applying empathic reversal to build compassion, accountability, and authentic connection.
- Price:
- $59.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Topical Panels | Couples Therapy | Motivation | Therapist Development
- Bundle(s):
- Couples Conference 2022
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2022 | Pioneers in Couples and Family Therapy
- Faculty:
- Peter Pearson, PhD | Tammy Nelson, PhD | William Doherty, PhD | Elliott Connie, MA, LPC
- Course Levels:
- Master Degree or Higher in Health-Related Field
- Duration:
- 57:36
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Original Program Date:
- Jun 24, 2022
- Short Description:
- The panel examines motivation in couples, focusing on how therapists can navigate differing levels of motivation. Approaches include assuming both are motivated, addressing ambivalence through structured decision-making, balancing connection and independence, and fostering teamwork. Emphasis is placed on evoking hope, encouraging emotional risk-taking, and creating a shared vision for the relationship.
- Price:
- $59.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Topical Panels | Cognitive Psychology | Motivation | Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) | Psychoanalysis | Resistance | Strategic Therapy | COVID
- Categories:
- Evolution of Psychotherapy | Evolution of Psychotherapy 2021 | Pioneers in Couples and Family Therapy
- Faculty:
- Robert Dilts, BA | Nancy McWilliams | Michael Miller | Cloe Madanes, HDL, LIC
- Course Levels:
- Master Degree or Higher in Health-Related Field
- Duration:
- 1 hour
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Original Program Date:
- Dec 05, 2021
- Short Description:
- This panel explores diverse perspectives on resistance in therapy, featuring insights from leading experts. Dilts focuses on the relational aspect of resistance, while McWilliams draws from psychoanalytic theory to stress nonjudgmental responses. Miller explains how motivational interviewing reframes resistance as sustained talk and discord. Madanes offers a case study on using family dynamics to reduce resistance. The panel also addresses how COVID-19 has shaped client engagement and resistance in therapeutic settings.
- Price:
- $59.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Speeches | Addiction | Co-Occurring Disorders | Family Systems
- Categories:
- Evolution of Psychotherapy | Evolution of Psychotherapy 2021 | Pioneers in Couples and Family Therapy
- Faculty:
- Claudia Black, PhD
- Course Levels:
- Master Degree or Higher in Health-Related Field
- Duration:
- 1 hour
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Original Program Date:
- Dec 04, 2021
- Short Description:
- Working with the young adult with addictive disorders most frequently involves addressing the experience of bullying, physical and sexual abuse, emotional abandonment and loss. These dynamics are significant in addressing the more frequent co-occurring disorders of anxiety and depression. This presentation will also offer a framework for treatment strategies.
- Price:
- $59.00 - Base Price
- Average Rating:
- Not yet rated
- Topic Areas:
- Keynotes | Psychotherapy | Storytelling | Strategic Therapy | Ericksonian Hypnosis and Therapy Techniques
- Categories:
- Evolution of Psychotherapy | Evolution of Psychotherapy 2021 | Pioneers in Couples and Family Therapy
- Faculty:
- Cloe Madanes, HDL, LIC
- Course Levels:
- Master Degree or Higher in Health-Related Field
- Duration:
- 1 hour
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Original Program Date:
- Dec 02, 2021
- Short Description:
- Madanes presents her strategic family therapy approach, focusing on changing family dynamics to resolve issues. She emphasizes the use of respectful directives, avoiding labels, and tailoring interventions like reversing hierarchy for struggling parents and creating positive memories for couples. Madanes also shares her 15-step method for addressing sexual abuse, centered on spiritual healing and apology. She highlights the need to adapt therapy for diverse families and challenges the dominance of individual treatment models and medication.
- Price:
- $59.00 - Base Price
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- Not yet rated
- Topic Areas:
- Couples Therapy | Gender | Masculinity | Topical Panels | LGBTQ
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2021 | Online Continuing Education | Pioneers in Couples and Family Therapy
- Faculty:
- Harville Hendrix, PhD | Terry Real, LICSW | Joseph Winn, MSW, LICSW, CST-S
- Course Levels:
- Master Degree or Higher in Health-Related Field
- Duration:
- 59 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Original Program Date:
- Jun 05, 2021
- Short Description:
- The panel examines shifting male roles in therapy and relationships, focusing on the move from traditional masculinity toward vulnerability, empathy, and equality. Speakers discuss the decline in male resistance to therapy, the importance of dismantling patriarchal norms, and the impact of race, class, and sexuality on masculine identity. Emphasis is placed on therapist self-awareness and promoting relational skills over rigid gender roles.
- Price:
- $29.00 - Base Price
- Average Rating:
- Not yet rated
- Topic Areas:
- Training | Topical Panels | Goals of the Therapist | Attachment | Couples Therapy | Therapist Development
- Categories:
- Evolution of Psychotherapy | Evolution of Psychotherapy 2020 | Pioneers in Couples and Family Therapy
- Faculty:
- Harville Hendrix, PhD | Helen LaKelly Hunt, PhD | Jack Kornfield, PhD
- Course Levels:
- Master Degree or Higher in Health-Related Field
- Duration:
- 1 hour
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Original Program Date:
- Dec 12, 2020
- Short Description:
- This panel focuses on the goal of therapy as fostering love, safety, and connection. Approaches include structured dialog, zero negativity, empathy, and daily affirmations to build safe relationships. Techniques such as deep listening and guided meditation support self-acceptance and emotional healing. The discussion highlights the universal need for safety and the adaptability of these methods across cultures and neurodiverse clients.
- Price:
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- Topic Areas:
- Couples Therapy | Clinical Demonstrations | Clinical Demonstrations with Discussant | Psychotherapy | Conflict | Relationships | IMAGO
- Categories:
- Evolution of Psychotherapy | Evolution of Psychotherapy 2020 | Pioneers in Couples and Family Therapy
- Faculty:
- Daniel Siegel, MD | Harville Hendrix, PhD | Helen LaKelly Hunt, PhD
- Course Levels:
- Master Degree or Higher in Health-Related Field
- Duration:
- 1 hour 32 minutes
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Original Program Date:
- Dec 10, 2020
- Short Description:
- A demonstration of Imago Relationship Therapy, focusing on healing childhood wounds through structured communication. Techniques like mirroring, validation, and sentence stems promote empathy and connection. Discussion with Daniel Siegel includes the neurophysiological impact of presence and safe conversations, as well as the therapeutic potential of hugging in trauma recovery when offered in a secure, respectful environment.
- Price:
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- Topic Areas:
- Milton Erickson | Multicultural | Psychotherapy | Ericksonian Hypnosis and Therapy Techniques | Utilization | Hypnosis | Strategic Therapy
- Categories:
- Erickson Streaming Video Collection | Erickson Materials | Milton H. Erickson Collections
- Faculty:
- Jeffrey Zeig, PhD | Milton H. Erickson, MD
- Course Levels:
- Master Degree or Higher in Health-Related Field
- Duration:
- 59 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Original Program Date:
- Aug 13, 2020
- Short Description:
- Milton Erickson often advised psychotherapy students to study anthropology so that therapy could be provided from the perspective of the cultural background of the client. In the video, Erickson uses his understanding of cultural orientation when working with an adolescent where the presenting problem is a speech defect. This is a highly informative case of using strategic and systemic processes that can be applied to other presenting problems.
- Price:
- $19.95 - Base Price
- Average Rating:
- Not yet rated
- Topic Areas:
- Ericksonian Hypnosis and Therapy Techniques | Phobia | Milton Erickson | Hypnosis | Hypnotherapy | Strategic Therapy
- Categories:
- Erickson Streaming Video Collection | Erickson Materials | Milton H. Erickson Collections
- Faculty:
- Jeffrey Zeig, PhD | Milton H. Erickson, MD
- Course Levels:
- Master Degree or Higher in Health-Related Field
- Duration:
- 1 Hour 12 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Original Program Date:
- Aug 13, 2020
- Short Description:
- This video contains the best illustration of how Milton Erickson's handles cases presented to him. Using both hypnotherapy and strategic directives, Erickson works with a woman who has a phobia of a flying in a plane. This significant case exemplifies the fundamental principles and practices of an Ericksonian approach. These can be applied to other presenting problems and used by clinicians who subscribe to other treatment methodologies for a particular problem.
- Price:
- $49.95 - Base Price
- Average Rating:
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- Topic Areas:
- Pain and Healing | Milton Erickson | Ericksonian Hypnosis and Therapy Techniques | Hypnosis | Strategic Therapy | Utilization | Cancer
- Categories:
- Erickson Materials | Erickson Streaming Video Collection | Milton H. Erickson Collections
- Faculty:
- Milton H. Erickson, MD | Jeffrey Zeig, PhD
- Course Levels:
- Master Degree or Higher in Health-Related Field
- Duration:
- 1 hour
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Original Program Date:
- May 07, 2020
- Short Description:
- This video features three separate cases, but all demonstrate Erickson’s fundamental method of utilization. Utilization is the foundation of solutions to all problems, and it is a philosophy of living which was central Erickson’s life and work as a therapist. He demonstrated that whatever existed in the situation, whatever the patient presented, could be utilized to advance the therapy.
- Price:
- $29.95 - Base Price
- Average Rating:
- Not yet rated
- Topic Areas:
- Workshops | Multicultural | Strategic Therapy | Strengths-Based
- Categories:
- Erickson Congress | Erickson Congress 2019
- Faculty:
- Terry Soo-Hoo, PhD
- Duration:
- 2 Hours 3 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Dec 15, 2019
- Short Description:
- Much of this Workshop will address issues of culture, race, sexual orientation, diversity and social justice and equality, etc. A major premise is the idea that all therapy is multicultural therapy. This means that every client brings to therapy a unique world and therefore the challenge for every therapy is for the therapist to be able to enter the unique world of each client. This therapy method is especially adept at working with cultural differences as it is highly adaptable and therefore able to work within the unique world of the client.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
- Average Rating:
- Not yet rated
- Topic Areas:
- Clinical Demonstrations | Love | Evocative Communication | Solution Oriented Approach | Strategic Therapy
- Categories:
- Erickson Congress | Erickson Congress 2019
- Faculty:
- Michael Munion, MA, LPC
- Course Levels:
- Master Degree or Higher in Health-Related Field
- Duration:
- 58 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Original Program Date:
- Dec 14, 2019
- Short Description:
- This demonstration entails identification of desired change, assessment and enhancement of motivation, and implementation of a solution oriented, strategic intervention. This approach utilizes client strengths and experiences to improve outcome through accessing prior success experiences.
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- Topic Areas:
- Conversation Hours | Psychotherapy | Brief Therapy | Strategic Therapy | Utilization
- Categories:
- Erickson Congress | Erickson Congress 2019
- Faculty:
- Eric Greenleaf, PhD
- Duration:
- 59 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Dec 13, 2019
- Short Description:
- Participants will discuss the place of emotional expression in the conduct of modern brief, strategic and hypnotic psychotherapies.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
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- Average Rating:
- Not yet rated
- Topic Areas:
- Workshops | Couples Therapy | Relational Life Therapy Model (RLT) | Relationships | Identity | Masculinity
- Bundle(s):
- CC19 Main Conference Audio Bundle | CC19 Individual Selections
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2019 | Online Continuing Education | Pioneers in Couples and Family Therapy
- Faculty:
- Terry Real, LICSW
- Duration:
- 1:10:29
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Apr 14, 2019
- Short Description:
- This workshop covers phase two of Relational Life Therapy, focusing on Family of Origin and Inner Child Work. It examines how childhood experiences shape each partner’s relational stance and the couple’s dynamic. Key tools include the Relationship Grid, which maps boundaries and self-esteem across four quadrants. The session addresses the impact of patriarchy, grandiosity, and shame, and offers strategies for building healthy self-esteem, managing contempt, and restoring relational balance.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
- Average Rating:
- Not yet rated
- Topic Areas:
- Workshops | Couples Therapy | Relational Life Therapy Model (RLT) | Gender | Trauma
- Bundle(s):
- CC19 Main Conference Audio Bundle | CC19 Individual Selections
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2019 | Pioneers in Couples and Family Therapy
- Faculty:
- Terry Real, LICSW
- Duration:
- 1:02:19
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Apr 12, 2019
- Short Description:
- This presentation outlines the core phases of Relational Life Therapy (RLT): confronting dysfunctional patterns, inner child work, and teaching relational skills. Emphasizing extended sessions and multi-generational trauma, the approach targets power imbalances, grandiosity, and false empowerment. The goal is to foster deep connection and sustainable change through truth-telling, accurate diagnosis, and strategic leverage.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
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- Not yet rated
- Topic Areas:
- Workshops | Couples Therapy | Relational Life Therapy Model (RLT) | Gender | Trauma
- Bundle(s):
- CC19 Main Conference Video Bundle | CC19 Individual Selections
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2019 | Online Continuing Education | Pioneers in Couples and Family Therapy
- Faculty:
- Terry Real, LICSW
- Course Levels:
- Master Degree or Higher in Health-Related Field
- Duration:
- 1:04:21
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Original Program Date:
- Apr 12, 2019
- Short Description:
- This session introduces the fundamentals of Relational Life Therapy (RLT), emphasizing a collaborative, non-confrontational approach between therapist and client. Key concepts include sustaining dialogue, identifying internal parts (functional adult, wounded child, adaptive child), and using techniques like psychodrama to address multi-generational trauma. The importance of treating psychiatric conditions before engaging in deeper emotional work is also underscored.
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- Topic Areas:
- Master Classes | Hypnosis | Psychotherapy | Ericksonian Hypnosis and Therapy Techniques | Strategic Therapy | Ericksonian Psychotherapy | Experiential Therapy | Hypnotherapy
- Categories:
- Brief Therapy Conference | Brief Therapy Conference 2018
- Faculty:
- Michael Yapko, PhD | Jeffrey Zeig, PhD
- Course Levels:
- Master Degree or Higher in Health-Related Field
- Duration:
- 2:56:13
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Original Program Date:
- Dec 10, 2018
- Short Description:
- Ericksonian hypnotherapy and strategic approaches promote experiential methods of change. In combination they can be synergistic. Psychotherapy is best when clients have the experience of an alive, goal-oriented therapeutic process. Such dynamic empowering experiences pave the way for new understandings and growth-oriented possibilities. Drs. Yapko and Zeig will engage with each other and the participants to examine commonalities and differences in their work. The Master Class centers on providing then deconstructing demonstrations of Ericksonian Psychotherapy and Hypnosis, providing a unique opportunity for in-depth learning.
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