How to Stress-Proof a Relationship
Steven Stosny
Couples often lose the skills they learn in therapy during times of stress, retreating to entrenched habits of emotion regulation and interaction based on childhood coping mechanisms of blame, denial, and avoidance. Our … Read more>>
An Emotionally Focused Approach
Kathryn Rheem
Volatile, emotionally escalated clients can be among the most challenging cases couples therapists regularly work with. Such clients can often be set off by seemingly negligible events, making sessions difficult for both partners and … Read more>>
A Non-Pathologizing Approach to Out-of-Control Sexual Behavior
Joe Kort
Rather than providing a pathway to healing, the sex addiction model too often contributes to clients being sexually lost and at odds with their own nature. Therapists are left with both … Read more>>
Working with Kids and Their Parents
Mitchell Greene
Sports, even at the youngest developmental levels, has become a source of great stress for kids and their parents. The final results of games and kids’ individual statistics are immediately broadcast on … Read more>>
Saving Relationships on the Eve of Destruction
Peter Fraenkel
Unhappy couples often present in ways that offer little promise their relationship can be saved, leaving the partners feeling helpless and the therapist feeling stumped. But hope can spring anew when … Read more>>
Coregulating Together
Martha Straus
To regulate with distressed kids and families, we need to have three skills: the ability to stay calm and present ourselves, a way to gather both verbal and nonverbal session feedback to improve effectiveness and encourage … Read more>>
The Changing Face of Open Relationships
Tammy Nelson
As the flurry of recent press coverage indicates, more couples today are negotiating monogamy in new and creative ways, including through open marriages, polyamory, group marriages, and a variety of intentional partnerships. … Read more>>
Transforming the Sexual Narrative
Suzanne Iasenza
When couples come to therapy with problems involving desire, arousal, and orgasm therapists often fall into the trap of thinking of them as somehow broken and in need of fixing. Instead, this workshop offers … Read more>>
The Gottman Method Approach
Julie Gottman & John Gottman
Trauma treatments have largely ignored the interpersonal symptoms of PTSD. But whether caused by early abandonment, childhood abuse, military combat, or other traumatic experiences, the impact of trauma on committed relationships … Read more>>
Helping Millennials Navigate the Brave New World of Intimate Relationships
Alexandra Solomon
Modern love presents us with a dizzying array of choices and challenges, but young adults in particular are navigating a brave new world of intimate relationships. Sex education … Read more>>
Unexplored Issues in Therapy
Kirsten Lind Seal
In the United States, 1 in 6 new marriages is interethnic or interracial. Today’s therapists need to be equipped to help cross-cultural couples not only navigate the usual intimacy and communication concerns, but … Read more>>
Addressing the Stresses of Late-Life Marriage
Barry Jacobs & Julia Mayer
While there’s an expectation that marital happiness will increase in the last third of life, when many couples are freer of children and family responsibilities, the reality is more … Read more>>
Mindfulness for Teens and Young Adults
Gina Biegel
As they try to navigate the demands of school, online social lives, and daily pressures, many teens and young adults today are worried, in pain, angry, and even out of control. In … Read more>>
Its Uses and Misuses
Ian Kerner
True or false: porn desensitizes people to genuine intimacy? Or wait, true or false: porn use is a normal, healthy expression of human sexuality? Porn is a confusing and polarizing topic that can easily … Read more>>
What We Know Makes Couples Therapy Work
John Gottman, Julie Gottman, William Bumberry & Vagdevi Meunier
In recent years, research has identified key, measurable elements of happy and stable long-term relationships. They include trust, attunement, listening compassionately and nondefensively within … Read more>>
Beyond Masters and Johnson
Ian Kerner
Effective sex therapy goes beyond what happens in the consulting room and requires behavioral interventions that clients can work on between sessions. Although “homework” is a regular part of sex therapy, clinicians’ standard packages … Read more>>
Helping the Rejected Parent Make Things Right Again
Ron Taffel
Well-meaning parents who’ve been rejected by their children of all ages are often in tremendous pain. While they may be outwardly hurt and angry, internally they’re silently wrestling with shame … Read more>>
Gratitude and Meaning in Caring for Aging Parents
Barry Jacobs & Julia Mayer
While caring for aging parents is often portrayed as a physical, psychological, and financial burden, there’s a growing body of research suggesting that caregivers can derive important … Read more>>
Cooperation without Punishment
Laura Markham
Clients challenged by their children often resort to old-fashioned reward and threat strategies like timeouts, sticker charts, and consequences. But the best parenting tool is always the relationship with, not control over, the … Read more>>
A Nonverbal Approach
Janina Fisher
High-conflict couples can stymie even the most experienced therapist, turning the office into a verbal boxing ring, and us into referees or speechless bystanders. When our usual ways of working don’t slow the battle, much … Read more>>
An Introduction to Emotionally Focused Therapy with Families
George Faller & James Furrow
Parts 1 & 2
By zeroing in on underlying attachment needs, Emotionally Focused Family Therapy (EFFT) offers a powerful process for transformational change. This workshop will show … Read more>>
The Nurtured Heart Approach
Howard Glasser
Parts 1 & 2
Too often therapists working with difficult or intense children inadvertently reward a child’s negativity by increasing their own energy level in countertherapeutic ways. They may also lower their own energy … Read more>>
A Crash Course in the Kids’ Skills Method
Ben Furman
Parts 1 & 2
If you’ve been under the impression that therapy with children and teenagers always needs to be serious business, be prepared to change your mind. In this … Read more>>
Working with the Mixed-Agenda Couple
William Doherty
Parts 1 & 2
It’s not easy when a couple enters treatment unsure about whether to dissolve a marriage or try to save it—especially when each partner leans in a different direction. These … Read more>>
How to Get Unhooked
Martha Straus
Parts 1 & 2
To work with troubled and traumatized adolescents, it’s crucial for therapists to first foster their own capacity for self-awareness and self-regulation. It’s not easy, especially when our young clients’ extreme … Read more>>
Going Deep with Troubled Clients
Terry Real
Parts 1 & 2
The secret to helping couples have a powerful, transformative experience in therapy is to get them to deeply explore—while in each other’s presence—their own character structure and family-of-origin trauma. … Read more>>
Rethinking Infidelity & Pathways to Intimacy
Esther Perel
Parts 1 & 2
Conventional practices say therapists should insist upon full disclosure after an affair, and view all infidelity as a traumatic event. But affairs can also act as a powerful … Read more>>
The Path to Recovery
Michele Weiner-Davis
Without a concrete road map for helping couples heal from infidelity, it’s easy for therapists to get lost in the labyrinth of emotions. Using video clips, this workshop will provide a nuts-and-bolts, step-by-step plan … Read more>>
How to Help Our Clients Heal
Mary Jo Barrett
Exposing the family secret of incest is a transgression that makes everyone deeply uncomfortable, both in the families in which it occurs and for the mental health professionals who try to … Read more>>
How to Revive Erotic Passion
Michele Weiner-Davis
One out of every three couples struggles with mismatched sexual desire—a formula for marital disaster. When one spouse is sexually dissatisfied and the other is oblivious, unconcerned, or uncaring, sex isn’t the only … Read more>>
What We Know Now That We Didn’t Know Then
David Wexler
The field of partner abuse has always been riddled by controversy and misinformation, but recent research has deepened our understanding of what underlies abuse and how best to treat … Read more>>
New Approaches to Improving Outcomes
John Gottman, William Bumberry & Vagdevi Meunier
When couples come to us in pain, we’re often tempted to jump into treatment before really getting the systemic information we need to work most effectively. We may … Read more>>
A Step-by-Step Family Systems Approach
Scott Sells
Parts 1 & 2
It’s not easy when a therapist who’s meeting a traumatized family only possesses the tools to treat an individual child. Unfortunately, until now, systemic treatment for the traumatized family … Read more>>
Bringing Together Creativity and Problem Solving
Lynn Lyons
Parts 1 & 2
When doing therapy with children, we don’t often think of creativity and problem solving as equal partners. But when struggling families arrive at your office, it’s the immediate … Read more>>
A Step-by-Step Approach to EFT
Susan Johnson
Parts 1 & 2
Even as advances in neuroscience and attachment theory have led to an increasing appreciation of the centrality of emotions in human relationships, it’s ironic that therapists are so often … Read more>>
Getting Comfortable with Alternative and Fringe Sexual Issues
Tammy Nelson
Working with the often edgy, erotic behavior people engage in today can challenge a therapist’s own attitudes, values, and deeply held beliefs. This workshop can serve as an introduction to … Read more>>
A Solution-Focused Approach
Ben Furman
What if instead of asking couples and family therapy clients to recount their hurts and frustrations, you asked them to play the Happy Family game? And if that went well, you then introduced them to … Read more>>
