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- Topic Areas:
- Workshops | Couples Therapy | Sex and Sexuality | Intimacy | LGBTQ
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2008
- Faculty:
- Esther Perel, MA, LMFT
- Duration:
- 2:00:39
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Apr 26, 2008
- Short Description:
- The story of sex in committed modern couples is one that often tells of a dwindling desire that includes a long list of sexual alibis, claiming to explain the inescapable death of Eros. 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 predicament. This workshop examines the cultural pressures that shape domesticated sex and the puzzling inverse correlation between greater emotional intimacy and the loss of sexual desire.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Workshops | Couples Therapy | Neuroscience | Intimacy | Attachment | Neurobiology
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2008 | Pioneers in Couples and Family Therapy
- Faculty:
- Stan Tatkin, PsyD, MFT
- Duration:
- 2:08:28
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Apr 27, 2008
- Short Description:
- This workshop explores a developmental psychobiological approach to intimacy, showing how the brain’s automatic responses, attachment styles, and arousal levels shape relationship dynamics. It covers how subtle cues like eye contact and microexpressions reveal emotional states, and why co-regulation is key to managing conflict. The approach supports using longer, more frequent sessions to help couples stay connected and repair quickly when things go wrong.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Workshops | Couples Therapy | Multicultural | Sex and Sexuality | Intimacy
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2008
- Faculty:
- Esther Perel, MA, LMFT
- Duration:
- 2:16:00
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Apr 27, 2008
- Short Description:
- Couples’ expectations about the role of sexuality in intimate relationships have changed dramatically over the past 40 years. We will explore the main ideas of the romantic ideal: how we want our partner to fulfill our needs for connection, belonging and continuity, as well as give the sense of transcendence, mystery and passion. Examining the cultural values of love and respect, freedom and responsibility, and interdependence vs. autonomy, we will map a culturally relevant approach to work with the dilemmas of desire in couples. We also will probe the difference between clearly assigned gender role repartition and the post-feminist egalitarian model.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Workshops | Couples Therapy | Neuroscience | Intimacy
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2008
- Faculty:
- Louis Cozolino, PhD
- Duration:
- 2:23:03
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Apr 27, 2008
- Short Description:
- In the course of human evolution, our brains have been shaped by countless adaptational challenges resulting in an organ functioning simultaneously in the conscious present and our primitive and hidden past. This presentation will explore aspects of the human brain which make sustained intimate relationships both possible and problematic.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Keynotes | Couples Therapy | Sex and Sexuality | Intimacy
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2009
- Faculty:
- Esther Perel, MA, LMFT
- Duration:
- 53:02
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- May 02, 2009
- Short Description:
- CC09 Keynote 03 - Mating and Captivity: The Paradox of Sex and Intimacy - Esther Perel, MA, LMFT
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Workshops | Attachment | Couples Therapy | Developmental Therapy Model | Differentiation | Intimacy | Behavioral Psychology | Developmental Psychology | Neuroscience | Therapist Development | Trauma Studies
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2009 | Pioneers in Couples and Family Therapy
- Faculty:
- Ellyn Bader, PhD
- Duration:
- 1:19:52
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- May 01, 2009
- Short Description:
- Learn how attachment, differentiation, and neuroscience intersect to help couples overcome communication barriers, manage conflicts, and grow together. Discover practical techniques like the "ouch" method to de-escalate tensions and support partners in developing deeper understanding and authentic connection.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
Tags: Attachment Couples Therapy Developmental Therapy Model Differentiation Intimacy Conflict Resolution Emotional Growth Experiential Learning Grief Grief Processing Individual Therapy Phenomenological Approach Self-Discovery Therapeutic Alliance Validation Emotional Contagion Trust Issues Relationship Evolution
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- Topic Areas:
- Workshops | Couples Therapy | Deception | Love | Relational Life Therapy Model (RLT) | Relationships | Grandiosity | Intimacy | Shame
- 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 | Addiction | Attachment | Behavioral Therapy | Family Systems | Neuroscience | Psychoanalysis | Psychotherapy | Trauma Studies
- 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
Tags: Avoidant Couples Therapy Intimacy Addiction Anxiety Attunement Conflict Avoidance Differentiation Domestic Violence Emotional Growth Experiential Therapy Hostile Couples Observation Pattern Interruption Phenomenological Approach Rapport Self-Discovery Symbiotic Relationships Therapeutic Alliance Trauma Validation Vulnerability Intimacy Avoidance Emotional Withdrawal Emotional Tension Substance Use
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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:
- Workshops | Couples Therapy | Intimacy | Love | Directive Therapy | Family Systems | Relationships | Strategic Therapy
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2009 | Pioneers in Couples and Family Therapy
- Faculty:
- Cloe Madanes, HDL, LIC
- Duration:
- 1:01:02
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- May 03, 2009
- Short Description:
- Continuation of CC09 Workshop 10. Offers practical strategies for improving couple dynamics through clear directives, humor, and a focus on family systems. Emphasizes the impact of family hierarchy and social context on relationships, and introduces a framework for identifying six universal human needs. A live demonstration illustrates how addressing these needs can shift behavior and strengthen connection.
- 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
- Average Rating:
- Not yet rated
- 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:
- Workshops | Anger | Couples Therapy | Intimacy | Passive-Aggressiveness | Behavioral Therapy | Psychology | Relationships | Therapist Techniques
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2011 | Pioneers in Couples and Family Therapy
- Faculty:
- Ellyn Bader, PhD
- Duration:
- 1:09:17
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Apr 02, 2011
- Short Description:
- Explore couples therapy techniques for addressing hostile, angry partners. Learn specialized strategies for managing conflict, processing emotional trauma, and helping couples develop effective communication skills. Includes practical interventions like the Twilight Zone exercise and rapid repair technique, with insights into relationship dynamics and therapeutic approaches.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
Tags: Anger Couples Therapy Intimacy Passive-Aggressiveness Developmental Stages Emotional Development Emotional Growth Hostile Couples Human Development Pattern Interruption Rapport Strategic Interventions Therapeutic Experimentation Trauma Validation Trauma Triggers Rapid Repair Technique Self-Soothing
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- Not yet rated
- 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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- Not yet rated
- 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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-
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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
- Average Rating:
- Not yet rated
- 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