Thanks to the generosity of our expert speakers and the support of therapists like you, we've had the amazing opportunity to provide professional training to more therapists than ever.
When couples come to therapy, it’s because they’re distressed, demoralized, and stuck in painful patterns.
They can’t wait weeks or months for things to get better – they need meaningful help now!
Sadly, standard weekly sessions often aren’t effective because they leave partners with open, unresolved pain that leads to even more arguments and hopelessness.
That’s where the Couples Intensive model is different – offering focused time and increased traction to work through the couple’s biggest challenges and achieve the breakthroughs that create connected and thriving relationships.
Now, you have the exclusive opportunity to join Couples Intensive pioneers Ellyn Bader and Lori Weisman in this exclusive free workshop.
They’ll teach you, step-by-step, how to:- Apply interventions from the Bader-Pearson proven Developmental Model to work through complex relationship challenges
- Customize and adapt therapy based on the clients’ unique needs
- Achieve energizing breakthroughs that make therapy exciting and rewarding
- And much more!
You’ll be able to see the presenters at work with a real couple during a 2-day intensive.
Get front-row access to watch and learn about critical decisions made during the process …
… and hear them break-down the specific steps they take to help a long-term conflict-avoidant couple with a history of alcoholism.
You will walk away with the foundational insight and skills you need to start offering couples intensives in your therapy practice.
Plus, you’ll receive bonus handouts and videos to use when working with your clients.
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WORKSHOP OUTLINE:
What is a Couples Intensive?
Why does it matter?
What does it accomplish?
- Calming a crisis
- Getting therapy off to a strong and focused start
- Changing the mindset about change
- Developing skills to manage conflict avoidance, repetitive arguments, and emotional reactivity
Why the current model of couples therapy does not work for all couples
What are some benefits for couples:
- Start therapy in a strong way that is conducive to increasing motivation for the work ahead
- Focused time results in clear goals and more traction
- Time to build and practice progressive skills
- Hope is created when things seem bleak
What are the benefits for therapists
- Achieve better clinical outcomes for your clients
- Develop stronger leadership
- Use tools that work
- Be more active and proactive in your approach
- Stop watching the clock and worrying about ending sessions when clients are dysregulated - really have the time to help couples reach their goals
- Witness significant growth happen in real time
- Want to lessen your caseload without limiting your earning potential – while improving your impact on your clients
Highlights of the Work
- How to set the stage so the couple trusts you and gets down to work
- How to set goals that move the couple forward
- How to teach about the brain and emotional reactivity
- Diving in with tools to work effectively with their biggest challenges
- Demonstrate how seemingly simple issues are not what they appear
Therapist skill sets
- Making explicit developmental stuck points
- Increasing motivation and enhancing inspiration
- Teaching about the Brain and Neuroplasticity
- Disrupting long term conflict avoidant patterns
- Managing conflict and differences
OBJECTIVES:
- Demonstrate how intensives support skill building for the couple
- Describe the key characteristics of couples who may benefit from an intensive therapy format.
- Demonstrate how to increase client involvement and accountability in both traditional and intensive couples’ therapy.
- Utilize simple, easy-to-follow language to explain key brain structures involved in interpersonal dynamics, such as emotion regulation, and describe how couples therapy can be utilized to work directly with these structures to improve couples' dynamics.
- Articulate the benefits of differentiation in couples work, demonstrating an awareness of how intensive couples therapy can be utilized to facilitate this process.
- Demonstrate communication-based interventions that can be used to build new emotional skills in each partner.
- Utilize an intensive therapy model to create an environment of uninterrupted focus and practice to address conflict avoidance, hostility and stalled progress.
TARGET AUDIENCE:
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Counselors
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Social Workers
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Psychologists
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Marriage & Family Therapists
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Addiction Counselors
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Physicians
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Physician Assistants
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Other Mental Health Professionals
10:00AM - 6:00PM CENTRAL
8:00 AM - 4 PM PACIFIC
- What is an Intensive…….4 hours-12 hours
- Morning Break
- Continued learning session
- Lunch – 60 min
- Couples Intensives video demonstrations
- Afternoon break
- Q&A with Ellyn Bader and Lori Weisman
Click here for information about Ellyn Bader
Click here for information about Lori Weisman
Thanks to the generosity of our expert speakers and the support of therapists like you, we've had the amazing opportunity to provide professional training to more therapists than ever.
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