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- Topic Areas:
- Workshops | Couples Therapy | Love | Relational Life Therapy Model (RLT) | Intimacy
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2009 | Pioneers in Couples and Family Therapy
- Faculty:
- Terry Real, LICSW
- Duration:
- 1:55:39
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- May 01, 2009
- Short Description:
- This session presents a practical approach to Relational Life Therapy™, focusing on the interplay between grandiosity and shame, and the importance of addressing both indulgence and deficiency. It introduces the concepts of “latent” and “blatant” partners, emphasizing leverage, empowerment, and therapist transparency. Strategies include setting safe conditions for therapy, managing untreated disorders, calling forth the functional adult, and fostering relational joy over mere gratification.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Workshops | Couples Therapy | Intimacy | Avoidant
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2009 | Pioneers in Couples and Family Therapy
- Faculty:
- Ellyn Bader, PhD
- Duration:
- 1:23:01
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- May 02, 2009
- Short Description:
- A comprehensive workshop exploring intimacy avoidance in couples, revealing therapeutic strategies to help partners overcome fear of vulnerability, challenge core beliefs, and develop deeper emotional connections through authentic communication and courageous self-exposure.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Workshops | Couples Therapy | Sex and Sexuality | Intimacy
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2009
- Faculty:
- Esther Perel, MA, LMFT
- Duration:
- 1:35:22
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- May 02, 2009
- Short Description:
- The story of intimacy and sexuality in committed modern couples is one that often tells of dwindling desire and includes a long list of sexual alibis, claiming to explain the inescapable weakening of erotic connection. The absence of fantasy, the proliferation of pornography and affairs, as well as a lack of understanding of the nature of erotic desire all contribute to the depression, loneliness and despair. In this workshop we will probe the intricacies of love and desire. Through case examples and video vignettes, Ms. Perel will introduce innovative strategies for partners to take emotional risks when negotiating their dual needs for connection and autonomy, predictability and passion. This model applies to young, old, married and not, heterosexual and same sex couples.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Workshops | Affairs | Couples Therapy | Infidelity | Intimacy | Marriage | Sex and Sexuality
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2009
- Faculty:
- Esther Perel, MA, LMFT
- Duration:
- 1:28:56
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- May 02, 2009
- Short Description:
- No other aspect in the lives of couples, today as well as yesterday, generates more fascination, gossip and fear as infidelity. In our society, sexual infidelity is mostly seen as a symptom of a relationship gone awry. The revelation of an affair can trigger a crisis that shakes the very foundation of trust and connection in the couple. The purpose of this workshop is to present a multi-cultural, non-judgmental perspective to probe the meanings of affairs, rethink fidelity, and address the complexities of marriage, sex, intimacy, and monogamy. We will look at the value and the price of honesty and truth telling, and explore the circuitous ways affairs aim to stabilize a marriage and prevent the dissolution of the family.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Family Therapy | Keynotes | Intimacy | Family Systems | Communication | Couples Therapy
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2011
- Faculty:
- Richard Schwartz, PhD
- Duration:
- 56:30
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Apr 03, 2011
- Short Description:
- We have all been taught that our romantic partner should end our misery and make us feel happy and alive. When he or she doesn’t we wonder if they’re the right one. Yet, for most of us, no partner is capable of keeping our heads above the pools of pain and shame we bring to intimate relationships. Only we can drain those pools and become the primary caretakers for the young, needy parts of us that are drowning in those pools. Once this inner trust is achieved, we can love our partners courageously and unconditionally because we don’t need them to always do the heavy lifting of our spirits.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Infidelity | Workshops | Affairs | Couples Therapy | Intimacy | Relationships | Marriage | Multicultural
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2011
- Faculty:
- Esther Perel, MA, LMFT
- Duration:
- 1:30:32
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Apr 01, 2011
- Short Description:
- Infidelity generally points out flaws in a relationship, and the revelation of an affair often triggers a crisis of trust and connection. We’ll examine the benefits and the costs of truth-telling and transparency, how couples can rebuild trust and intimacy, and how affairs can actually stabilize a marriage and prevent its dissolution. In particular, we will focus on how couples can turn the crisis into an opportunity. Combining didactic material, case studies and video vignettes, we will lay out a nuanced and multicultural therapeutic approach for working with extramarital relations, fantasized or real, disclosed or shrouded in secrecy.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Sex and Sexuality | Workshops | Intimacy | Couples Therapy
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2011
- Faculty:
- Esther Perel, MA, LMFT
- Duration:
- 1:26:34
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Apr 02, 2011
- Short Description:
- This workshop probes the intricacies of love and desire—how they relate and how they conflict.. Participants will learn how emotional intimacy can inhibit sexual desire and why “good intimacy” doesn’t necessarily make for “good sex.” Through case material and video vignettes, we’ll explore how our emotional history: “how we were loved” shapes our erotic blueprints and expresses itself in the physicality of sex: “how we make love”. We will show how to break through erotic impasses and help couples balance the dual needs for security and freedom. This model applies to couples and individuals from all sexual orientations.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Couples Therapy | Keynotes | Intimacy | Relationships
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2012
- Faculty:
- Harville Hendrix, PhD
- Course Levels:
- Master Degree or Higher in Health-Related Field
- Duration:
- 59:12
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Original Program Date:
- Apr 27, 2012
- Short Description:
- After 40-plus years of clinical experience and research, the contours of a healthy love relationship and core interventions are visible but not delineated. This lecture will posit the core features of a healthy relationship and the essential interventions necessary to help couples achieve one.
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- Topic Areas:
- Sex and Sexuality | Attachment | Couples Therapy | Keynotes | Intimacy
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2012
- Faculty:
- Esther Perel, MA, LMFT
- Course Levels:
- Master Degree or Higher in Health-Related Field
- Duration:
- 55:47
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Original Program Date:
- Apr 28, 2012
- Short Description:
- Based on Perel’s Mating in Captivity, this bold take on intimacy and sex grapples with the obstacles and anxieties that arise when our quest for secure love conflicts with our pursuit of passion. We will tackle eroticism as a quality of aliveness and vitality in relationships extending far beyond mere sexuality and consider how the need for secure attachment and closeness can co-exist with the quest for individuality and freedom.
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- Topic Areas:
- Psychotherapy | Keynotes | Intimacy | Mindfulness | Love | Couples Therapy | Neuroscience
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2012
- Faculty:
- Rick Hanson, PhD
- Course Levels:
- Master Degree or Higher in Health-Related Field
- Duration:
- 59:50
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Original Program Date:
- Apr 29, 2012
- Short Description:
- To compensate for the brain’s innate negativity bias – making it like Velcro for negative experiences but Teflon for positive ones, which sensitizes couples to hurts and conflicts and undermines psychotherapy – we’ll explore a vital method in self-directed neuroplasticity: identifying key positive experiences and then registering them deeply in implicit memory.
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- Topic Areas:
- Infidelity | Workshops | Affairs | Couples Therapy | Intimacy | Sex and Sexuality
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2012
- Faculty:
- Esther Perel, MA, LMFT
- Duration:
- 1:48:13
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Apr 27, 2012
- Short Description:
- Sexual infidelity often triggers a crisis that threatens the entire foundation of trust and connection in a couple. In this workshop, we’ll discuss the complexities of marriage, sex, intimacy, and monogamy in couples from a multicultural, nonjudgmental perspective. We’ll explore the motivations behind affairs and their possible meanings in different relationships, both heterosexual and gay. We’ll examine the benefits and costs of truth-telling and transparency, how couples can rebuild trust and intimacy, and why affairs can actually stabilize a marriage. With an eye on the existential, clinical and ethical aspects involved, we will focus on how our own assumptions, values, and personal experiences can influence our therapeutic work and elude the needs of the couple.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Workshops | Couples Therapy | Intimacy | Sex and Sexuality | Conflict
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2012
- Faculty:
- Esther Perel, MA, LMFT
- Course Levels:
- Master Degree or Higher in Health-Related Field
- Duration:
- 1:54:46
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Original Program Date:
- Apr 27, 2012
- Short Description:
- In this workshop, we will look at fantasy as an ingenious way our creative mind overcomes all sorts of relational and intra psychic conflicts around desire and intimacy. Therapists can help clients develop a view of fantasy as a narrative that creates a safe space to experience the pleasure that can invigorate their loving relation-ships. They will decipher the meaning of sexual fantasies, approaching them more as dreams or complex symbolic structures than as literal narratives of secret intentions.
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- Topic Areas:
- Keynotes | Love | Couples Therapy | Polyvagal Theory | Intimacy | Neuroscience | Relationships
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2013
- Faculty:
- Stephen Porges, PhD
- Course Levels:
- Master Degree or Higher in Health-Related Field
- Duration:
- 56:26
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Original Program Date:
- Apr 20, 2013
- Short Description:
- The Love Code provides a metaphor to explore the neural mechanisms underlying how and why we attach, bond, fall in love and seek out safe and trusted others in an unsafe world. This presentation will explore the body’s need for intimate engagement and social bonding from an adaptive perspective. Within the theoretical context of the Polyvagal Theory, the presentation will illustrate how specific features in our social environment may trigger neurophysiological systems, through a process of “neuroception,” that enables us either to be fearful and disengage or to feel safe and enter enduring intimate relations.
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- Topic Areas:
- Couples Therapy | Sex and Sexuality | Workshops | Intimacy
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2013
- Faculty:
- Marty Klein, PhD
- Course Levels:
- Master Degree or Higher in Health-Related Field
- Duration:
- 1:51:11
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Original Program Date:
- Apr 19, 2013
- Short Description:
- What do most couples really want from sex? It isn’t endless orgasms, or sex around the clock. Most people want the same old things: connection, pleasure, excitement, mystery, validation. And magic. When the prospect of getting these is slim, satisfaction declines, and desire falls. This is not a “dysfunction;” improving genital “function” is not the answer. The key, instead, often lies in addressing power struggles and control issues; the existential challenges of adulthood; and the need for a new vocabulary. We will discuss how to move couples from perfunctory, infrequent sex to a more vibrant and intriguing experience. We’ll also look at what therapists need internally to help couples discuss sex.
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- Topic Areas:
- Workshops | Intimacy | Couples Therapy | Relationships
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2013
- Faculty:
- Lonnie Barbach, PhD
- Duration:
- 1:31:09
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Apr 20, 2013
- Short Description:
- Dr. Barbach will explore dialogue as it pertains to creating intimacy. Her presentation will analyze the language used by partners as a key to understanding the dynamics of the relationship and how deliberate linguistic changes can transform that relationship by deepening emotional bonds and creating healthy intimacy.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Workshops | Pain and Healing | Couples Therapy | Sex and Sexuality | Conflict | Infidelity | Intimacy
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2013
- Faculty:
- Marty Klein, PhD
- Course Levels:
- Master Degree or Higher in Health-Related Field
- Duration:
- 2:04:57
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Original Program Date:
- Apr 21, 2013
- Short Description:
- Couples therapy typically pathologizes porn use while legitimizing the grievances of the user’s partner. While this approach may seem logical, it rarely increases sexual/relationship satisfaction. How do we hold both partners while they struggle to define their behavior, contract, and emotions? This talk examines a different approach to intrapsychic conflict and power struggles over porn use. We’ll explore underlying rela-tional issues, including: Is conflict about pornography a way to avoid confronting defi-cits in the sexual (or non-sexual) relationship? Are one or both partners acting out body image issues? Is porn use infidelity?
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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
- Categories:
- 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
- Average Rating:
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- Topic Areas:
- Couples Therapy | Infidelity | Sex and Sexuality | Workshops | Love | Intimacy
- Categories:
- 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 | Communication | Intimacy | Relationships
- Categories:
- 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
- Average Rating:
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- Topic Areas:
- Couples Therapy | Workshops | Intimacy | Love | Sex and Sexuality
- Categories:
- 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.
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- $15.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Trauma | Workshops | Intimacy | Relationships | Couples Therapy
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2016 | Pioneers in Couples and Family Therapy
- Faculty:
- Terry Real, LICSW
- Course Levels:
- Master Degree or Higher in Health-Related Field
- Duration:
- 02:05:42
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Original Program Date:
- May 14, 2016
- Short Description:
- This workshop outlines a three-phase model for healing trauma and deepening intimacy in relationships. It focuses on using leverage with resistant clients, addressing early and relational trauma, and guiding deep character change in the presence of a partner. Emphasis is placed on managing personality disorders, using rituals in therapy, and holding high relational standards—especially when working with boys—to foster long-term relational health.
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- Topic Areas:
- Attachment | Workshops | LGBTQ | Relationships | Differentiation | Communication | Intimacy | Sex and Sexuality
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2016
- Faculty:
- Rick Miller, MSW
- Duration:
- 01:44:31
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- May 15, 2016
- Short Description:
- Gay men face unique challenges regarding intimacy, communication and personal autonomy. Hiding due to being gay along with being raised male, creates a dynamic of distancing as the norm. The goal of psychotherapy is to accept and verbalize vulnerabilities in a context of safety, encourage revealing oneself for the sake of self-acceptance, and to learn how to receive nurturance from others. This workshop will define the art of how to gain connection while maintaining autonomy. There will also be an emphasis on sexuality and how specific attachment styles effects choices related to safety, security and risky sexual practices.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Couples Therapy | Trauma | Keynotes | Intimacy | Trauma Studies
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2017 | Pioneers in Couples and Family Therapy
- Faculty:
- Janina Fisher, PhD
- Duration:
- 54:20
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Apr 02, 2017
- Short Description:
- Fisher explores trauma's profound impact on couples' relationships, revealing how past experiences shape attachment patterns, trigger conflicts, and disrupt intimacy. Through sensory motor psychotherapy, she offers innovative strategies for healing, emphasizing safety, understanding non-verbal memories, and rebuilding connection.
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- $15.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Couples Therapy | Trauma | Keynotes | Intimacy | Trauma Studies
- Bundle(s):
- Learning Track - Turn Down the Trauma
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2017 | Pioneers in Couples and Family Therapy
- Faculty:
- Janina Fisher, PhD
- Course Levels:
- Master Degree or Higher in Health-Related Field
- Duration:
- 54:20
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Original Program Date:
- Apr 02, 2017
- Short Description:
- Fisher explores trauma's profound impact on couples' relationships, revealing how past experiences shape attachment patterns, trigger conflicts, and disrupt intimacy. Through sensory motor psychotherapy, she offers innovative strategies for healing, emphasizing safety, understanding non-verbal memories, and rebuilding connection.
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