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A six-session, 18-hour, live interactive Certification training with Master Clinician Dr. Marty Klein.
About this Training
This series is six total sessions of 3 hours each, for a total of 18 CE hours. It runs from Oct 2023-Mar 2024, taking place on one Saturday each month from 10 am – 1:15 PT/1-4:15 pm ET. In addition to receiving a 3 CE hour certificate for each session, upon completion of the entire series, you’ll be issued a Certificate in Couples Therapy. These sessions can purchased as a bundle or individually.
Description
Couples therapy consists of dozens of clinical decisions every hour—hundreds of decisions over the course of each case. Here’s a practical training that will build the skills you need to make these decisions, and to continue fine-tuning your work as you discover each couple’s unique clinical challenges.
Most couples enter therapy with a specific vision of their problems. They may describe themselves as having “anger problems,” “sexual incompatibility” or “trust issues”. A skillful therapist will explore how the clients’ framing of their situation is keeping them stuck–and how they might change that. While looking at the most common topics in couples therapy, Dr. Klein will show you how to identify the powerful client narratives that keep couples stuck in their dysfunctional patterns.
Couples typically want to talk about content—who’s doing or saying the wrong thing regarding money, parenting, sex, or whatever. In contrast, the most effective therapy addresses couples’ processes—and when couples learn that perspective and face who they are, they can frequently address their content problems themselves. That’s effective therapy.
In this intermediate-level training you’ll learn how to teach couples the skills they need in order to grow and change—and help them overcome their resistance to that very growing and changing. Take all six trainings and you’ll be a more effective couples therapist, with better clinical outcomes—and you’ll enjoy this challenging, fascinating work more.
The training will consist of didactic PowerPoint presentations, with frequent references to actual couples’ cases. There will be plenty of time for questions, including discussions of participants’ cases. Dr. Klein will include occasional brief role-playing to demonstrate the application of various interventions. And as Marty’s world-wide audiences know, you’ll laugh while you learn—guaranteed!
Target audience: This training is appropriate for all mental health professionals.
Content level: Intermediate