Deepen Your Expertise: The first hour of each session will dive into the foundational theory and practice of Transformative Couples Therapy®, providing you with powerful tools and techniques to help couples break through longstanding struggles.

In the second hour, you’ll witness "unlikely transformations" unfold through clinical training videos, featuring couples working through complex issues:

• How we set the secure base for functioning starting in the first session?

• How we get insecurely attached couple members to practice productive truth-telling eye-to-eye?

• How do we resolve patterns of high conflict at the root cause?

• What are the steps to doing premarital therapy with complex cases?

• How do we turn sexual and financial conflicts into healing experiences?

• How does long term partnership heal attachment deprivation?

• What are the steps to treat early unresolved trauma effectively within couple sessions?

• How can we treat the avoidant state of mind, when the couple member has amnesia about their past?

• How do we accelerate treatment through the use of the Seven Channels of Experience®?

Hands-On Application: The third hour of each session is where the magic happens. With a skillful and supportive Experiential Assistant you’ll apply what you’ve learned with a live role-play “couple”.

Impactful Methods: You'll learn how to build bridges between couple members by accessing the Seven Channels of Experience®.

Become more confident in facilitating needed healing portrayals to help couples build and maintain a stable, deep and lasting felt experience of love.

Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Psychotherapists, MFT's, Social Workers, Registered Counselors, Pastoral Counselors

Identify two ways to help establish a secure base in treatment.

Describe two ways to regulate emotional reactivity in both couple members.

Define how to detect the healthiest aspects of each couple member.

Describe two methods for couple members to process emotional experience to completion.

Define why affirmation of the value of the self and the other is important in couple treatment.

Explain how couple members can learn to melt defenses of intellectualization.

Describe how to process warded-off emotional experience.

Describe how to conduct meta-therapeutic processing after couples have reparative experiences.

Define the value of the core effect of surprise.

Define what is important about helping couple members develop skills to show more demonstrations of valuing in daily life.

Define three early signs of dorsal vagal response.

Describe two ways to regulate dorsal vagal response.

Specify how the frequency of incidences of dorsal vagal response can be reduced in treatment.

Distinguish three methods for engaging avoidantly attached patients in treatment.

Explain why a state of mindful awareness helps both couples and therapist in treatment.

Explain the value of increased awareness of bodily states in couple members.

Define what transformance striving is and how to identify it.

Describe the value of sensation in being aware of internal state.

Define two ways a therapist can use their vision to identify tension in couple members.

Define ways that awareness and skillful expression about energetic states can be helpful.

All times are in Pacific Time

8:00-8:10am: Orientation and opening three-minute Channels of Experience meditation.

8:10-8:20am: Check-in and discussion of each participant’s response to the meditation and any breakthroughs or questions about in treating their couples with Transformative Couples Therapy®.

8:20-9:00am: Didactic presentation and discussion of a slide deck about the TCT method and its application by David Mars, PhD or Lisa Gardner LCSW. Information will include details on how to use the TCT Fidelity Scales to guide clinical application of the method. Presentation will include how to regulate emotional reactivity in preparation for the clinical video example and how to evoke, metaprocess and stabilize the felt experience of love.

9:10-9:50am: Presentation and discussion of captioned clinical video. During and after the video sharing, the instructor will point out the examples shown that were just introduced in the didactic portion described above. Moments that highlight the use of the seven channels of experience will be emphasized to enhance participants capacity to track bodily indicators of moment-to-moment tracking to enhance whole body attunement.

9:50-10:05am: Break

10:05-10:55am: Preparation and transition into Breakout rooms for the Experiential Exercise to apply what they have learned. Participants will choose to be either role play couple members, role play therapist or witness. With the support of the Experiential Assistant, participants gain a direct experience of applying the TCT method.

10:55-11am: Regathering, closing discussion.

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The cost for 22 Continuing Education (CE) credits will be $40. An email from Credits Education will be sent to all participants who complete the course.

January 20, 2026

Participants must have paid tuition fee, signed in, attended the entire seminar, completed an evaluation, and signed out in order to receive a certificate. Failure to sign in or out will result in forfeiture of credit for the entire course. No exceptions will be made. Partial credit is not available. Certificates available after satisfactory course completion at credits.education

Credits.Education, #1032827, is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and LEPs. Credits.Education maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.  Course meets the qualifications for 22 hours of continuing education credits for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

 

All Other States: Most other states accept CAMFT approved courses for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and LEPs.  Check with your state board.