Working with couples makes for challenging but also rewarding clinical practice. In this fascinating couples webcast series we invited some well known colleagues to discuss a range of common themes faced by therapists working with struggling couples. Discover new approaches from some of the world's leading couples therapists. Find out how to work with some common themes experienced by therapists with some of the world's leading practitioners in this new couples webcast series 'Contemporary approaches to psychotherapy with couples'.
This online program is worth 6 hours CPD.
Dr Mona D. Fishbane, Ph.D., clinical psychologist, is Director of Couple Therapy Training at the Chicago Center for Family Health. She is an AAMFT Approved Supervisor and member of the Advisory Board for the journal Family Process. Mona lectures nationally and internationally, and has published numerous articles on couple therapy and neurobiology. She has been the recipient of honors and fellowships, mostly recently a grant from the Templeton Foundation. Mona’s book, Loving with the Brain in Mind: Neurobiology & Couple Therapy (2013), is part of the Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology. www.monafishbane.com
Harville Hendrix, Ph.D., is a clinical pastoral counselor who holds a Ph.D. in Psychology and Theology from the University of Chicago and is a former professor at Southern Methodist University. He is known internationally as the co-founder with his wife, Helen LaKelly Hunt, PhD., of a couples therapy called Imago Relationship Therapy. Together they co-founded Imago Relationships International, an international non-profit organization that offers training, support and promotion of the work of 2000 Imago therapists in 30 countries.
Harville is the author of Getting The Love You Want: A Guide for Couples (which has sold over 2 million copies) and Keeping The Love You Find: A Personal Guide, both New York Times best sellers. With Helen he co-authored Giving The Love That Heals: A Guide for Parents, also a best seller, and Receiving Love: Transform Your Relationship by Letting Yourself Be Loved plus three meditation books, two study guides and a video for couples seen on more than 300 public television stations. Their books are published in over 57 languages.
Referred to by Oprah Winfrey as the "Marriage Whisperer", Harville has been featured on the Oprah show 17 times winning Oprah an Emmy for "most socially redemptive" daytime talk show, was ranked in her top twenty shows and recently received the #2 spot for Oprah's "Greatest Aha Moments." Harville has appeared on multiple television talk shows and is a sought after lecturer. For the past 4 years, his passion helped ignite a global movement to educate the culture about the value of healthy intimate relationships, which included working with the top Couples Therapists in the nation. Harville and Helen have been married since 1982, have 6 children and 5 grandchildren and live in New York City.
Speaker Disclosures
Helen LaKelly Hunt, Ph.D., cocreated Imago Relationship Therapy with Harville Hendrix, Ph.D. Together they’ve authored 11 books, including Getting the Love You Want and Making Marriage Simple. Helen has been inducted into the Women’s Hall of Fame for her work in women’s philanthropy.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Helen LaKelly Hunt is the co-founder of Relationships First, Imago Relationships Worldwide and Imago International Training Institute and is the co-creator of Imago Relationship Therapy. She is the founder and president of the Sister Fund and is the co-creator and co-founder of Women Moving Millions. Helen LaKelly Hunt receives royalties as a published author. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Helen LaKelly Hunt has no relevant non-financial relationships.
Robert Hudson is Psychotherapist, Sex and Relationship Therapist and a Sexual Addiction Specialist and Supervisor. He is Founder and Clinical Director of the Hudson Centre for Psychotherapy and Recovery in the Centre of London, a recognised therapy centre for treating individual and couples experiencing trauma, sex addiction, sex therapy, love addiction and couple counselling. www.thehudsoncentre.co.uk.
Dr. Sue Johnson, is an author, clinical psychologist, researcher, professor, popular presenter and speaker and a leading innovator in the field of couple therapy and adult attachment. Sue is the primary developer of Emotionally Focused Couples and Family Therapy (EFT), which has demonstrated its effectiveness in over 30 years of peer-reviewed clinical research.
Sue Johnson is founding Director of the International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy (ICEEFT) and Distinguished Research Professor at Alliant University in San Diego, California, and Professor, Clinical Psychiatry at the University of British Columbia, Canada, as well as Professor Emeritus, Clinical Psychology, at the University of Ottawa, Canada.
Dr. Johnson is the author of numerous books and articles including Attachment Theory in Practice: EFT with Individuals, Couples and Families (2019) The Practice of Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy: Creating Connection (3rd edition, 2019) and Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy with Trauma Survivors (2002).
Sue trains behavioral health providers in EFT worldwide and consults to the over 75 international institutes and affiliated centers who practice EFT. She also consults to Veterans Affairs and the U.S. and Canadian militaries.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Sue Johnson has employment relationships with University of British Columbia, Campbell & Fairweather Psychology Group, Alliant International, University Ottawa, Couple and Family Institute, and the International Center for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy. She receives royalties as a published author. Dr. Johnson receives a speaking honorarium, recording royalties, and book royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Sue Johnson serves on the editorial board for the American Journal of Family Therapy (AJFT) and the journal Couple and Family Psychology: Research & Practice.
Judi Keshet-Orr is a consultant psychosexual and relationship psychotherapist. She has over 30 years of clinical, teaching, mentoring and supervisory experience and has been awarded Fellowship of both COSRT and the National Council of Psychotherapists. Judi has co-founded several successful organisations and training programmes, these include The Incest Intervention Project, CPPD, and the COSRT-approved course at the Whittington Hospital NHS Trust. With Bernd Leygraf she co-authored and led the MSc in Humanistic Psychotherapy and Psychosexual & Relationship Psychotherapy courses. She also co-authored and led the Master's programmes at London's South Bank and Middlesex Universities in psychotherapy and psychosexual therapy. For many years Judi was actively involved with BASRT (now COSRT) and AHPP (UKCP member organisations).
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Margaret Ramage is a Sexual and Relationship Psychotherapist with 30 years' experience of working in the NHS and private practice. She was Co-Director of the St Georges' Hospital Medical School Course for MSc in Human Sexuality, the first medical school based training of its type in the UK. Her publications have mostly been on topics related to women’s sexuality and sexual problems. She has trained in Systemic Family Therapy, Somatic Trauma Psychotherapy and Family Constellations and works with infidelity from a variety of perspectives. New developments in neuroscience frequently refresh her approaches. She is a Fellow and a past Chair of the College of Sexual and Relationship Therapists.
Professor Peter Stratton is a Systemic Psychotherapist and psychologist with broad research interests and substantial involvement in statutory processes that affect the provision of psychotherapy. His own research includes development of an outcome measure for families in therapy (the SCORE project); the effects of basing training on concepts of active learning and the dialogical construction of self; the relationships of humour and creativity during psychotherapy; attributional analyses of family causal beliefs and blaming; public attitudes to terrorism by combining attributional coding with metaphor analysis; and fostering practitioner research networks. His current positions include: Joint - Editor of Human Systems; Academic and Research Development Officer for the Association for Family Therapy; Chair of the UKCP Research Faculty; Chair of European Family Therapy Association Research Committee.
Session 1: Understanding intimacy in the couple relationship
with Dr Harville Hendrix
Learn how to:
- Help couples move past the anxiety which often stops them deepening intimacy
- Facilitate couples to create a safe container for risk taking and emotional learning
- Turn conflicts into an opportunity for repair
- Help clients grow beyond childhood relational adaptions
Session 2: The neurobiology of couple reactivity
with Dr Mona Fishbane
Discover how to:
- Identify neurobiological processes underlying couple reactivity
- Utilise interventions that increase prefrontal thoughtfulness and decrease limbic reactivity
- Facilitate clients’ emotion regulation and empathy
- Enhance transformation, with an understanding of neuroplasticity
Session 3: Working with sex addiction in the couple relationship
with Robert Hudson
You'll learn:
- The nature and impact of sex addiction and compulsivity.
- The impact of sex addiction and compulsivity on the partner.
- How to understand the trauma of the discovery and manage the crisis.
- How to deal with the emotional aftershock
- Next steps.
Session 4: How attachment affects the relationship
with Dr Sue Johnson
You'll be able to:
- Understand the key concepts of attachment theory and the map to healthy relationships it offers
- Understand the EFT model and how change occurs in this model
- List EFT interventions and how they shape corrective bonding events
- Understand how attachment styles affects communication
Session 5: Couples in conflict
with Judi Keshet-Orr
Explore:
- What to do when couples are engaging in a divorce agenda (or any agenda)
- High risk behaviors
- Contracting and managing confidentiality conflicts (e.g. arising when the therapist meets partners separately)
- Domestic violence issues
Session 6: Parenting and the family connection
with Professor Peter Stratton
You'll learn how to:
- Discover common family issues that affect the couple relationship
- Understand how these can affect the family system
- Discover new ways of working
- Enable families to form a renewed family connection
Session 7: Infidelity
with Margaret Ramage
You'll learn how to:
- Identify a range of factors which may lead to infidelity in couples
- Facilitate the couple through the crisis of disclosure and the ensuing turmoil
- Bring couples to an understanding of the meaning of the infidelity for them and their relationship, and the process of recovery
- Enable couples to form renewed intimate connection, with techniques to retain their connection and support them in that for the future
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