Imagine providing couples with the space and focus to experience significant change in their relationship. That’s the power of intensive work. Weekly therapy sessions can often feel fragmented leaving the couples feeling frustrated and hopeless. Intensives work allows couples to build a strong foundation for confronting long standing issues. Couples need new skills to manage emotional reactivity and to face differences and conflict.
Couples intensives work because they create an environment of uninterrupted focus, enabling couples to address conflict, avoidance, hostility, and stalled progress head-on. With your guidance and strong leadership, they can explore their emotions, communication styles, disillusionment, and betrayals in ways that simply aren't possible in shorter, sporadic sessions.
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Ellyn Bader, Ph.D., is in private practice and is Co-Director of The Couples Institute in Menlo Park, California. Over the past 25 years she has conducted professional training programs in couples therapy and has trained therapists throughout the United States as well as Europe, Asia, South America, and Australia. She is a past president of the International Transactional Analysis Association and a recipient of the Clark Vincent Award for an outstanding literary contribution to the field of marital therapy from the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists. Dr. Bader is frequently invited to speak at national and international conferences. She and her husband, PETER PEARSON, Ph.D., coauthored the books, “In Quest of the Mythical Mate: A Developmental Approach to Diagnosis and Treatment in Couples Therapy” (Brunner/Mazel) and “Tell Me No Lies: How to Face the Truth and Build an Honest Marriage” (St. Martin’s Press).
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Ellyn Bader is the director of The Couples Institute and receives compensation as a consultant. She receives royalties as a published author. Ellyn Bader receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Ellyn Bader is a member of the American Psychological Association, the International Transactional Analysis Association, and the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists.
Lori Weisman, MA, LMHC, is a relationship expert based in both Palm Desert, CA, and Bellevue, WA, who specializes in couples coaching, relationship intensives, and marriage intensives. She’s a seasoned relationship expert with extensive experience in helping couples navigate the complexities of their relationships. With a deep understanding of the intricacies of human connection, Lori has dedicated her career to providing guidance and support to couples in crisis. Her expertise spans a wide range of relationship issues, from communication breakdowns to infidelity, and she has a proven track record of helping couples find hope and a path forward.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Lori Weisman maintains a private practice. She receives a speaking honorarium from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Lori Weisman has no relevant non-financial relationships.
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Describe the 4 pillars of intensive couples’ work.
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.
Utilize interventions to prevent fighting couples from controlling and derailing the session, while creating an opportunity for improving communication and creating repair.
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 and emotional reactivity
Why the current model of couples therapy does not work for all couples
What are some benefits for couples:
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
Therapist skill sets:
Understanding couples developmental stages
Increasing motivation and enhancing inspiration
Teaching the Brain and Neuroplasticity
Managing conflict and differences
Counselors
Social Workers
Psychologists
Marriage & Family Therapists
Addiction Counselors
Physicians
Physician Assistants
Other Mental Health Professionals
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