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2-Day Couples Therapy Conference 2024 - Webcast

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2-Day Couples Therapy Conference 2024

2-Day Couples Therapy Conference 2024
When:
Thursday, November 14, 2024 - Friday, November 15, 2024
The Eroticism of Play: Going Beyond the Cliché

Come join renowned sexologists Drs. Emily Nagoski & Lexx Brown-James as they examine how the erotic power of play impacts intimacy and relationship bonding. During this keynote, you’ll learn how to use play as a supportive intervention to increase relationship intimacy when it is not specifically explicit. Building upon frameworks from Adrienne Marie Brown’s Pleasure Activism and Tricia Hersey’s Nap Ministry, Drs. Nagoski and Brown-James present going beyond cliché of play to support providers in removing their own playfulness obstacles to help their clients experience greater levels of pleasure in relationships.
Mapping a Couple’s Vulnerability Cycle: Validation and Challenge in Couple Therapy

In couple therapy, two partners usually come in with very different stories about the problem, and both want to feel seen and understood. But how do you build an alliance with two people who see things differently? In this workshop, Dr. Fishbane and Dr. Solomon will teach an approach that bridges these seemingly incompatible needs by creating a case formulation that integrates Family-of-Origin dynamics, cultural factors, and interpersonal neurobiology. This relational framing will help you hold the tension between support and confrontation. You will learn:
  • How the therapeutic alliance in couple therapy differs from the therapeutic alliance in individual therapy
  • Why couple therapists need to integrate interpersonal neurobiology and family of origin dynamics to understand the blame-and-shame cycles that keep couples locked in despair and conflict
  • How to develop a vulnerability cycle map
Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy (IBCT): Utilizing the DEEP Assessment to Target Couples Distress

IBCT is a widely used evidence-based treatment for couples that was adopted by the US Department of Veteran’s Affairs as its evidence-based treatment for couples distress. The DEEP analysis guides the assessment of couples, feedback to them, and treatment of them in Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy (IBCT). Learn how to use this easy to implement assessment tool in couples therapy to target the issue couples need addressed.
Couples Intensives: An Effective New Path for Couples Therapy

Couples work can be challenging, and partners often come in wanting fast results. Meanwhile, the traditional 1-hour weekly session has proven to be both frustrating and limiting for many couples and their therapists. The start and stop of weekly sessions leave clients wondering "Are we getting anywhere?" In this presentation, we will introduce you to a model for providing couples intensives and condense months of therapy into several days, and how to add this type of therapy to your practice. Participants will receive several handouts to support this new way of working.
Couple Therapy for PTSD: The Healing Power of Cognitive-Behavioral Conjoint Therapy

Intimate relationships are inextricably tied to trauma recovery. Cognitive-behavioral conjoint therapy for PTSD (CBCT for PTSD) is a couple-based treatment for PTSD with the simultaneous goals of treating PTSD and enhancing intimate relationship functioning. This presentation will give you an inside look at this evidence-based treatment and the data supporting its effectiveness and discuss future treatment innovations to optimize the role of couple therapy in trauma recovery.
Tackling Shame in Couples Therapy: How to Disrupt the Negative Cycles

Shame is a powerful emotion that can keep partners stuck in negative interaction cycles. If left un-addressed, interventions often fail. This session will teach you to identify the downward negative shame spiral many partners get stuck in when participating in couples therapy. Couples therapists will learn how to identify shame in both the more critical and more withdrawn partner. They will also learn the different strategies using an integrative approach to addressing shame.
Treating High Conflict Couples: Using Narrative Therapy Informed Relational Interviewing (NIRI)

The history of couples in conflict has been overly focused on the individual issue that is unresolved; from money to who does the dishes. However, these conflicts are embedded in narratives that are themselves embedded in cultural, economic, and systemic systems. These systems are filled with unspoken expectations, obligations, norms, and responsibilities. Narrative-based approaches involve a deliberate shift away from individualized conflict within a couple and moves toward helping couples see the bigger picture. In this workshop through transcripts and video demonstrations, we will highlight now narrative approaches can unlock deeply held and destructive patterns that couples haven’t been able to unlock themselves.
Helping Couples Build Their Love Blueprint: Re-Shaping Their Experiences and Expressions of Love

In this workshop we will uncover a novel model of love that emerged through decades of research and clinical experience of working with couples across 41 countries. Many couples face disillusionment in their quest for fulfilling love. This session introduces participants to the Emergent Love model as an addition to what we know from the Greek categories of love. It will also delve into the concepts and tools to work with "love blueprint"; 8 common relational configurations" and identifying "six essential ingredients for cultivating enduring love". It will offer practical strategies to help couples reshape their perceptions, experiences, and expressions of love. Participants will be equipped with transformative insights to empower couples towards deeper connection and fulfillment in their relationships.
Bridging the Intimacy Gap: Understanding the Need for Intimacy and Autonomy in Partnership

One of the most common complaints for couples seeking therapy is the loss of intimacy – that spark between partners that fuels the relationship. Surprisingly, the lack of feelings of connection often stem from having lost a sense of yourself as an autonomous individual. In fact, one of the number one things people say after a relationship ends is "I felt like I lost myself." But what if the key to bringing partners closer together is actually the opposite – helping them each find themselves? In this session we’ll explore:
  • Tangible tools for supporting couples in understanding the importance of differentiation in intimacy and what an interdependent model of relating looks like
  • How gender socialization, patriarchal structures, and unaddressed issues of inequality are still impacting intimacy between couples
  • How to practically help couples shift from codependency to interdependence in relationships by challenging and reframing our conceptualization to relational needs
The Eroticism of Play: Going Beyond the Cliché

  1. Catalogue the nonsexual characteristics of pleasurable play.
  2. Demonstrate 2 interventions they can use in relationship therapy regarding play.
  3. Determine the main barrier to play couples encounter.
Mapping a Couple’s Vulnerability Cycle: Validation and Challenge in Couple Therapy

  1. Develop a model for understanding therapeutic alliance building in couples therapy.
  2. Examine the mapping of a vulnerability cycle.
  3. Identify four ways to build therapeutic leverage in couples therapy.
Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy (IBCT): Utilizing the DEEP Assessment to Target Couples Distress

  1. Identify the four components of the DEEP analysis.
  2. Use the DEEP analysis for assessment and feedback.
  3. Determine how the DEEP analysis guides treatment efforts.
Couples Intensives: An Effective New Path for Couples Therapy

  1. Determine the types of couples appropriate for intensive work.
  2. Identify 6 benefits of intensive work for couples.
  3. Identify 4 benefits of couples intensives for therapists
  4. Determine emotional regulation strategies for couples to interrupt their usual emotional triggers.
Couple Therapy for PTSD: The Healing Power of Cognitive-Behavioral Conjoint Therapy

  1. Provide overview of theory supporting Cognitive-behavioral conjoint therapy for PTSD.
  2. Discuss evidence base supporting Cognitive-behavioral conjoint therapy for PTSD.
  3. Review the Cognitive-behavioral conjoint therapy for PTSD protocol.
  4. Discuss future directions for research and clinical innovation.
Tackling Shame in Couples Therapy: How to Disrupt the Negative Cycles

  1. Identify presentations of shame in couples therapy treatment.
  2. Choose strategies to de-escalate and engage couples when shame is preventing them from stepping out of their negative cycle.
  3. Demonstrate interventions from different modalities to work with shame.
Treating High Conflict Couples: Using Narrative Therapy Informed Relational Interviewing (NIRI)

  1. Assess how cultural narratives impact individual couples’ problems in therapy.
  2. Utilize narrative therapy to re-shape narratives that couples bring into therapy about their problem as a method for relieving the conflict.
  3. Demonstrate letter narrative therapy based writing interventions for couples for resolving conflict.
Helping Couples Build Their Love Blueprint: Re-Shaping Their Experiences and Expressions of Love

  1. Assist clients in understanding and reconstructing their love blueprints to alleviate disillusionment and foster healthier relationship patterns.
  2. Articulate the main ingredients for Emergent Love Model and the eight most common relational configurations, enabling them to integrate this knowledge into clinical practice.
  3. Utilize at least 3 tools and exercises that were discussed with their clients.
Bridging the Intimacy Gap: Understanding the Need for Intimacy and Autonomy in Partnership

  1. Identify the role autonomy and differentiation plays and how it supports intimacy.
  2. Evaluate the role of differentiation and autonomy with couples.
  3. List 3 interventions to support a couples’ differentiation from each other as a means of supporting intimacy and desire.
The Eroticism of Play: Going Beyond the Cliché

  • The critical role of play in couples therapy to improve relationships
  • Interventions to use with couples in therapy
  • Addressing the main barriers couples have to play
Mapping a Couple’s Vulnerability Cycle: Validation and Challenge in Couple Therapy

  • How to build the therapeutic alliance in couples therapy
  • Mapping a couple’s vulnerability cycle
  • Creating therapeutic leverage when working with couples
  • What to do when there is a concern about abuse or violence
  • From individualism to relationality: Cultivating the "we" without losing the "I" or the "you"
Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy (IBCT): Utilizing the DEEP Assessment to Target Couples Distress

  • Key interventions in Integrative Behavioral Couples Therapy
  • Rationale for the DEEP analysis in EBCT
  • Use of the DEEP analysis in assessment, feedback, and treatment of couple distress
Couples Intensives: An Effective New Path for Couples Therapy

  • What are couples intensives and why should you practice this way?
  • Six benefits to couples and four benefits for therapists
  • How to define differentiation and why it matters for change that lasts
  • How to motivate couples through teaching emotional regulation and providing time for practice
Couple Therapy for PTSD: The Healing Power of Cognitive-Behavioral Conjoint Therapy

  • Prevalence and understanding of trauma recovery from an interpersonal frame
  • Overview of CBCT for PTSD and its adaptations
  • Review of the treatment effectiveness of CBCT for PTSD
  • Future directions for research and innovation
Tackling Shame in Couples Therapy: How to Disrupt the Negative Cycles

  • Identifying shame in couples’ negative interaction cycle
  • How shame looks in both critical and withdrawn partners
  • Interventions to heal shame in couples
Treating High Conflict Couples: Using Narrative Therapy Informed Relational Interviewing (NIRI)

  • How larger cultural narratives impact couples’ individual problems
  • Re-authoring new meanings and responses to expressions of couple conflict as loss and grief of the relationship’s pre-problem values.
  • Narrative letter writing interventions for couples
Helping Couples Build Their Love Blueprint: Re-Shaping Their Experiences and Expressions of Love

  • The importance of having a love blueprint
  • The model of "emergent love"
  • The 8 most common relational configurations
  • The 6 key ingredients in love relationships
Bridging the Intimacy Gap: Understanding the Need for Intimacy and Autonomy in Partnership

  • How differentiation is a key component to intimacy couples often miss
  • How to talk to couples about lack of intimacy and differentiation
  • Interventions for aiding couples toward renewed intimacy through differentiation

MULTIPLE PRESENTERS

Breakdown for Continuing Education Credits by Event
[+] [-] The Eroticism of Play: Going beyond the Cliché
[+] [-] Mapping a Couple’s Vulnerability Cycle: Validation and Challenge in Couple Therapy
[+] [-] Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy (IBCT): Utilizing the DEEP Assessment to Target Couples Distress
[+] [-] Couples Intensives: An Effective New Path for Couples Therapy
[+] [-] Couple Therapy for PTSD: The Healing Power of Cognitive-Behavioral Conjoint Therapy
[+] [-] Tackling Shame in Couples Therapy: Engaging Partners to Create Connection over Disconnection
[+] [-] Treating High Conflict Couples: Using Narrative Therapy Informed Relational Interviewing (NIRI)
[+] [-] Helping Couples Build Their Love Blueprint: Re-shaping Their Experiences and Expressions of Love
[+] [-] Bridging the Intimacy Gap: Understanding the Need for Intimacy and Autonomy in Partnership
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