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- Topic Areas:
- Keynotes | Therapeutic Relationship | Therapist Development | Communication | Ethical Practice | Family Therapy | Transparency | Empowerment | Spiritual Healing | Cross-Generational Healing
- Categories:
- Brief Therapy Conference | Brief Therapy Conference 2016 | Pioneers in Couples and Family Therapy
- Faculty:
- Cloe Madanes, HDL, LIC
- Duration:
- 51:26
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Dec 10, 2016
- Short Description:
- Emphasizes the role of transparency in therapy, encouraging therapists to clearly explain their actions and intentions. Case examples highlight the impact of truth-telling, family rituals, and confronting hidden dynamics, including abuse, misdiagnosis, and ethical breaches. Reinforces the idea that honesty—shared even when clients are aware of the strategy—can lead to meaningful insight, accountability, and healing.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price

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- Topic Areas:
- Keynotes | Marriage | Couples Therapy | Cross-Cultural Psychology | Cultural and Social Contexts | Emotional Regulation | Archetypal Roles | Communication | Empowerment
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2004 | Pioneers in Couples and Family Therapy
- Faculty:
- Cloe Madanes, HDL, LIC
- Duration:
- 1:01:34
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Mar 26, 2004
- Short Description:
- Focuses on practical strategies for addressing marital dilemmas in therapy. Topics include redefining infidelity to support reconciliation, using indirect negotiation through role-play, and incorporating humor to ease conflict. Emphasizes cultural sensitivity, therapist neutrality, and helping clients consider diverse perspectives on relationships and commitment.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price

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- Topic Areas:
- Workshops | Couples Therapy | Gender | Empowerment | Grandiosity | Shame | Trauma | Cultural and Social Contexts
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2004 | Pioneers in Couples and Family Therapy
- Faculty:
- Terry Real, LICSW
- Duration:
- 1:48:39
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Mar 27, 2004
- Short Description:
- This workshop examines the dynamics of love addiction and avoidance, linking them to early experiences of abandonment and enmeshment. It challenges cultural norms around gender, highlighting the common pairing of love-dependent women and love-avoidant men shaped by patriarchy. The speaker emphasizes healthy self-esteem, emotional boundaries, and the need for mature relational development. Practical tools like feelings journals support the shift toward vulnerability, intimacy, and emotionally grounded masculinity.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price

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- Topic Areas:
- Workshops | Relational Life Therapy Model (RLT) | Couples Therapy | Empowerment | Motivation | Shame | Therapeutic Relationship | Therapist Techniques
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2004 | Pioneers in Couples and Family Therapy
- Faculty:
- Terry Real, LICSW
- Duration:
- 1:43:38
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Mar 27, 2004
- Short Description:
- This workshop presents key principles of Relational Recovery Therapy, focusing on resolving intimacy issues through structured dialogue, clear roles, and mutual accountability. It outlines the importance of addressing self-medication, psychiatric issues, and acting out before working on connection. Practical guidance includes teaching skills, setting respectful boundaries, and fostering support networks. The approach emphasizes assertive communication and shared responsibility to build healthy, empowered relationships.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price

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- Not yet rated
- Topic Areas:
- Workshops | Couples Therapy | Relationships | Communication | Conflict | Empowerment | Family Systems | Strategic Therapy | Systems Thinking | Therapist Development
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2007 | Pioneers in Couples and Family Therapy
- Faculty:
- Cloe Madanes, HDL, LIC
- Duration:
- 2:57:57
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Apr 27, 2007
- Short Description:
- This workshop offers a practical relationship enhancement model rooted in six universal human needs—certainty, variety, significance, love, growth, and contribution. Madanes focuses on healing relational wounds and building stronger partnerships through structured interventions like heartfelt meditation, passion play, and guided dialogue. Case studies, including a couple navigating family tensions and unmet needs, illustrate how addressing past dynamics can renew trust, connection, and resilience across diverse populations.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Topical Panels | Psychotherapy | Therapist Development | Community | Empowerment | Social Issues
- Categories:
- Evolution of Psychotherapy | Evolution of Psychotherapy 2005 | Pioneers in Couples and Family Therapy
- Faculty:
- Mary Goulding, MSW | James F. Masterson, MD | Cloe Madanes, HDL, LIC | Jean Houston, PhD
- Duration:
- 1 Hour
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Dec 09, 2005
- Short Description:
- This discussion examines therapist perspectives on therapeutic neutrality and social commitment. Mary Goulding highlights community resilience, while James Masterson supports neutrality with social awareness. Cloe Madanes advocates for directive therapy to protect the vulnerable, and Jean Houston calls for integrating personal and societal healing. The panel agrees that therapists must address social issues without compromising clinical integrity, acting as both healers and agents of change. Moderated by Jon Carlson, PsyD, EdD
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price

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- Topic Areas:
- Topical Panels | Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) | Abuse | Psychotherapy | Empowerment | Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) | Family Systems | Trauma
- Categories:
- Evolution of Psychotherapy | Evolution of Psychotherapy 1995 | Pioneers in Couples and Family Therapy
- Faculty:
- Cloe Madanes, HDL, LIC | Donald Meichenbaum, PhD | Francine Shapiro, PhD | Lenore Walker, EdD
- Duration:
- 57 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Dec 15, 1995
- Short Description:
- This panel on post-traumatic stress and abuse presents a range of trauma treatment strategies. Approaches include structured apology and accountability from perpetrators, EMDR's eight-phase trauma processing model, and cognitive-emotional interventions for repeated trauma and battered women’s syndrome. The discussion also underscores the importance of thorough victimization assessments and recognizing the risk of secondary trauma in therapists. Moderated by Brent Geary, PhD.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price