The Academy For Couples Therapists
Content description.
Audio of Sessions
Note: A big thank you goes to the brave couples who allowed me to tape them for the Academy! The length of the audios varies from 60 to 75 minutes.
- Module 1: First Session with high conflict couple presenting with DV
- Module 2: First session presenting with sexual desire discrepancy
- Module 3: Couple on the brink of divorce
- Module 4: Older couple married for decades
- Module 5: Same couple as Module 3, Dealing with repair
- Module 6: Long term couple regression
- Module 7: Separated couple with trouble communicating
- Module 8: First session after discovery of affair
- Module 9: FOO with young couple
- Module 10: Conflict avoidant couple who stopped having sex
- Module 11: Going deeper with same couple as Module 6
- Module 12: Progress in long term older couple, same as Module 3.
Audio of Lessons
- Module 1: The therapist’s own framework: Your identity as a couple therapist
- Module 2: The therapist’s own framework: Goals for first sessions, one size does not fit all in couple therapy. Assessing strength and resilience.
- Module 3 The therapist’s own framework: Topics for psychoeducation. First stage of treatment. Assessment. Requesting feedback
- Module 4: The Developmental framework
- Module 5: The Systemic framework
- Module 6: Narrative couple therapy
- Module 7: The Gottman Method
- Module 8: Emotionally Focused couple therapy
- Module 9: Neuroscience and couple therapy
- Module 10: Interventions for emotional regulation
- Module 11: Intergenerational (Bowen) couple therapy
- Module 12: Psychodynamic couple therapy
List of tools and interventions
Note: these tools are in PDF form
- Module 1-3: Questions to help therapists formulate their own framework
- Module 4: Dialogue tool to help couples fight less
- Module 5: Steps to a good apology
- Module 6: The vulnerability cycle mapping
- Module 7: Basic Couple Maintenance
- Module 8: Feelings that Precede Ineffective Behaviors
- Module 9: Neuroscience Explained: What every couple needs to know about the brain
- Module 10: Tools for Emotional Regulation
- Module 11: The interview exercise. The Fences exercise
- Module 12: Three Memory exercise. The modified attachment interview