Couples Counseling: Innovative Approaches That Really Work – Part 2

This course will teach the participant to

• Describe how prior trauma can undermine attempts at collaborative conflict
• Demonstrate the use of reframing to encourage empathy
• Describe the concept of narratives, and its clinical application

• Couples Counseling: Learning to Manage Conflict
  • Goals of healthy conflict
  • Fair fighting & collaborative conflict
  • Somatic details and tools Emotional regulation
  • Self-discipline during conflict
  • The role of prior trauma
• Couples Counseling: Using Narratives, Reframing, & Metaphors
  • The concept of narratives
  • The plasticity of narratives
  • Using reframing to focus clients’ attention
  • Using reframing to encourage empathy
  • Using metaphors to disarm resistance
• Couples Counseling: Sexuality, Infidelity, & Our Bodies
  • Building empathy & compassion
  • Beyond victimhood
  • Building trust
  • Self-acceptance
  • De-problematizing bodies
  • Telling the truth
  • Limits to truth-telling