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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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- Topic Areas:
- Keynotes | Couples Therapy | Relational Life Therapy Model (RLT) | Intimacy | Relationships | Grandiosity | Shame
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2005 | Pioneers in Couples and Family Therapy
- Faculty:
- Terry Real, LICSW
- Duration:
- 53:44
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Mar 04, 2005
- Short Description:
- Introduces Relational Empowerment Therapy, a model for modern relationships that addresses emotional imbalance between partners. Focuses on helping less dominant partners challenge unhealthy dynamics through direct confrontation, naming behaviors, and building empathy. Highlights the roles of grandiosity and shame, offering practical tools like precise feedback and functional skill-building. Encourages therapists to speak truth with compassion and humility.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Workshops | Couples Therapy | Relational Life Therapy Model (RLT) | Family Systems | Trauma | Gender
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2005 | Pioneers in Couples and Family Therapy
- Faculty:
- Terry Real, LICSW
- Duration:
- 1:52:59
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Mar 04, 2005
- Short Description:
- Presents the core principles of Relational Empowerment Therapy, addressing cultural shifts from traditional to intimate partnerships. Focuses on correcting emotional imbalance between men and women by confronting grandiosity and empowering the less dominant partner. Highlights the use of leverage, healthy shame, directive techniques, and family-of-origin work to foster authentic connection. Emphasizes the role of therapists in teaching skills and guiding clients toward mutual respect and intimacy.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Workshops | Couples Therapy | Relational Life Therapy Model (RLT) | Relational Recovery Therapy (RRT) | Relationships
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2005 | Pioneers in Couples and Family Therapy
- Faculty:
- Terry Real, LICSW
- Duration:
- 1:57:24
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Mar 04, 2005
- Short Description:
- Introduces Core Negative Images (CNIs) and Dead Stop Contracts as tools in Relational Recovery Therapy to help couples identify and shift destructive patterns. Explores common dynamics like control, criticism, and withdrawal, and how family of origin shapes behavior. Uses the Relationship Grid to teach healthy boundaries and self-esteem. Emphasizes truth, compassion, and mutual empowerment as foundations for deeper connection and sustainable intimacy.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Keynotes | Couples Therapy | Marriage | Relational Life Therapy Model (RLT) | Relationships | Gender | Intimacy | Therapist Techniques
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2007 | Pioneers in Couples and Family Therapy
- Faculty:
- Terry Real, LICSW
- Duration:
- 1:16:02
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Apr 27, 2007
- Short Description:
- Presents a relational therapy approach that addresses the shift from traditional marriage roles to modern, emotionally connected partnerships. Focuses on relational empowerment, helping partners confront grandiosity, form respectful alliances, and build intimacy through direct engagement and systemic change.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Workshops | Couples Therapy | Relational Life Therapy Model (RLT) | Relationships | Addiction | Avoidant | Family Systems | Grandiosity | Love | Shame
- Categories:
- Couples Conference 2007 | Couples Conference | Pioneers in Couples and Family Therapy
- Faculty:
- Terry Real, LICSW
- Duration:
- 2:33:29
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Apr 27, 2007
- Short Description:
- Outlines a dynamic approach to couples therapy centered on relational empowerment, individual accountability, and emotional balance. Focuses on transforming patterns of grandiosity, shame, love avoidance, and addiction through strategic interventions. Introduces tools like the Relational Grid and emphasizes building relational skills, setting boundaries, and guiding clients toward deeper connection, emotional growth, and mutual cherishing.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Keynotes | Couples Therapy | Relational Life Therapy Model (RLT) | Ericksonian Hypnosis and Therapy Techniques | Grandiosity | Shame | Therapist Techniques
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2009 | Pioneers in Couples and Family Therapy
- Faculty:
- Terry Real, LICSW
- Duration:
- 1:10:41
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- May 01, 2009
- Short Description:
- This keynote introduces principles of Relational Life Therapy (RLT), focusing on relationality as a human birthright and the potential for character change. Core strategies include addressing shame and grandiosity, using boundaries and self-esteem as diagnostic tools, and emphasizing practical relational skills. A case example illustrates how personal insight and accountability can lead to transformation. The goal: help individuals build meaningful connections beyond the therapy room.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
Tags: Couples Therapy Relational Life Therapy Model (RLT) Character Change Adult Development Amplification of Consequences Couples Dynamics Reframing Responsibility Strategic Use of Self Task Assignment Utilization Character Transformation Adaptive Child Family Systems Functional Adult Grandiosity Intimacy Relational Empowerment Shame
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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 | Conflict | Relationships | Relational Life Therapy Model (RLT) | Strategic Therapy
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2009 | Pioneers in Couples and Family Therapy
- Faculty:
- Terry Real, LICSW
- Duration:
- 1:52:50
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- May 01, 2009
- Short Description:
- The reason why most couples' characteristic fights never get resolved is because in our most heated moments, we stop fighting with each other. Core negative images (CNIs) start fighting and the two real partners get lost. This workshop teaches participants how to help partners identify, make explicit, accept, and ultimately work with one another's core negative images. As partners are taught to utilize each other's CNIs, rather than fight them, all sorts of creative and deliberating possibilities emerge.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
Tags: Conflict Couples Therapy Relationships Core Negative Images Emotional Dynamics Relational Grid Strategic Confrontation Behavioral Cycles Amplification of Consequences Pattern Interruption Reframing Responsibility Strategic Use of Self Emotional Grid Grandiosity Shame Internalized Models Couples Conflict Strategic Repair
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- Topic Areas:
- Keynotes | Love | Couples Therapy | Marriage | Relationships | Ethical Practice | Feminism | Relational Life Therapy Model (RLT) | Therapist Development
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2013 | Pioneers in Couples and Family Therapy
- Faculty:
- Terry Real, LICSW
- Course Levels:
- Master Degree or Higher in Health-Related Field
- Duration:
- 48:07
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Original Program Date:
- Apr 19, 2013
- Short Description:
- We’ve never wanted more from our romantic relationships but both men and women—in different ways and for different reasons—lack the skills to meet our new ambitions. What do men and women want from each other? Why are relationships so fraught? And how can we be more effective as clinicians? The nature of marriage has changed and therapists must meet challenges unique to our new landscape.
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- Topic Areas:
- Couples Therapy | Workshops | Marriage | Relational Life Therapy Model (RLT) | Mindfulness | Relationships | Grandiosity | Shame
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2013 | Pioneers in Couples and Family Therapy
- Faculty:
- Terry Real, LICSW
- Course Levels:
- Master Degree or Higher in Health-Related Field
- Duration:
- 1:28:11
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Original Program Date:
- Apr 19, 2013
- Short Description:
- Terry Real’s Relational Life Therapy ™ deals with the most stuck, most intractable cases by dealing squarely with issues of character. His Relationship Bootcamp begins with this slogan: “Other Workshops Teach You Skills: We Deal With the Part of You That Won’t Use Them.” WHAT you do matters less than WHICH PART OF YOU is at the wheel—the mature, present part of you, or an immature, triggered part of you. “We teach individuals in couples how to be relational—changing each individual’s character as we change the relationship between them.”
- Price:
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Sale is $29.00
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- Topic Areas:
- Depression | Workshops | Masculinity | Couples Therapy | Gender | Addiction | Relational Life Therapy Model (RLT)
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2013 | Pioneers in Couples and Family Therapy
- Faculty:
- Terry Real, LICSW
- Duration:
- 1:25:11
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Apr 19, 2013
- Short Description:
- This workshop addresses the often-overlooked crisis of male depression, affecting an estimated 11 million men. It examines how cultural stigma and rigid gender roles contribute to covert depression—masked by workaholism, substance use, withdrawal, and anger. The session introduces the concept of "compound depression," where men feel ashamed of their vulnerability. Strategies include therapy, medication, peer support, partner involvement, and building relational skills to break the silence and promote healing.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
- Average Rating:
- Not yet rated
- Topic Areas:
- Keynotes | Couples Therapy | Relationships | Attachment | Differentiation | Gender Dynamics | Grandiosity | Relational Life Therapy Model (RLT)
- 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:
- 34:00
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Original Program Date:
- May 14, 2016
- Short Description:
- This workshop presents an intensive, truth-driven approach to saving marriages through Relational Life Therapy. It introduces the concept of psychological patriarchy—structured around the great divide, the dance of contempt, and core collusion—and outlines how therapists can disrupt these dynamics by fostering accountability, intimacy, and new relational skills. The focus is on deep repair, often in couples who have failed in previous therapies, with an emphasis on competence rather than gender.
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Sale is $29.00
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- Topic Areas:
- Couples Therapy | Workshops | Communication | Relationships | Relational Life Therapy Model (RLT) | Trauma
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2018 | Pioneers in Couples and Family Therapy
- Faculty:
- Terry Real, LICSW
- Duration:
- 58:30
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- May 04, 2018
- Short Description:
- This workshop is on Relational Life Therapy (RLT), a model designed to help clients move beyond shame and grandiosity to build healthier relationships. The speaker shares techniques for confronting dysfunctional behaviors, exploring family-of-origin patterns, and teaching practical relational skills. A case study illustrates how leverage, accountability, and skill-building can shift even high-conflict couples toward repair and responsibility.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Symposiums | Couples Therapy | Developmental Therapy Model | Gottman Method | Relational Life Therapy Model (RLT) | 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:
- Ellyn Bader, PhD | Terry Real, LICSW | Carrie Cole, M.Ed, LPC | Donald Cole, DMIN, LPC, LMFT
- Course Levels:
- Master Degree or Higher in Health-Related Field
- Duration:
- 1:08:01
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Original Program Date:
- Apr 12, 2019
- Short Description:
- A symposium featuring three couples therapy models, offering insights into relationship dynamics, therapeutic approaches, and innovative techniques. Experts Terry Real, Don and Carrie Cole, and Ellen Bader share strategies for addressing power imbalances, understanding relationship patterns, and facilitating meaningful change. They provide therapists with practical tools for assessing couples, managing conflict, and supporting relationship growth across diverse relationship structures.
- Price:
-
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Tags: Online CE Couples Therapy Developmental Therapy Model Gottman Method Relational Life Therapy Model (RLT) Ethics Client Work Interpersonal Development Relationship Models Therapeutic Method Trauma Therapy Conflict Management Developmental Model Emotional Triggers Relational Empowerment Systemic Perspective Therapeutic Competence Emotional Safety Gottman Institute Individual Therapy Polyamory Relationship Stages Therapeutic Imposition
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- 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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- 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.
- Price:
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Sale is $29.00
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- 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:
- 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:
- 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
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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:
- 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
- Average Rating:
- Not yet rated
- 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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- Average Rating:
- 28
- Topic Areas:
- Couples Therapy | Conflict | Developmental Therapy Model | IMAGO | Infidelity | LGBTQ | Relational Life Therapy Model (RLT) | Relationships | Sex and Sexuality
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2020 | Online Continuing Education
- Faculty:
- Ellyn Bader, PhD | Joseph Winn, MSW, LICSW, CST-S | Terry Real, LICSW | Harville Hendrix, PhD | Helen LaKelly Hunt, PhD | Martha Kauppi, MS MFT | Stan Tatkin, PsyD, MFT | William Doherty, PhD | ....
- Course Levels:
- Master Degree or Higher in Health-Related Field
- Duration:
- 4 Hours
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Original Program Date:
- Apr 03, 2020
- Short Description:
- A streaming option in place of the Couples Conference 2020 4 hour event. This recording provides a comprehensive cross-section of a variety of approaches to couples therapy, including specific therapeutic models, discussions on sexual desire discrepancies, working with resistance in the therapy room and more.
- Price:
- $29.00 - Base Price