These small group supervision and training sessions provide an opportunity for participants to deepen their skills and effectiveness in treating couples using the Transformative Couples Therapy® (TCT) method. During each two-hour meeting on Zoom, two members of the group will receive forty minutes of focused attention a couple session on video.

We will give and receive training constructive witnessing and supervision in a balanced way from Lisa Gardner, LCSW and the group participants. We will be witnessing each other’s work, which is different than the commonly used practice of giving “feedback”. Feedback can often invite judgment, projection, and labeling of the work, while witnessing allows us to safely explore our learning edges.

In this group we will hold both the therapist and the couple in a deeply respectful and resonant place. We will use I-statements and the Seven Channels of Experience to stand in the shoes of both the therapist and the couple members. The result is that we co-create the secure base with each other that we want to co-construct with our couples. We will practice with each other the TCT consciousness of mindful perception, reception and expression in order to facilitate maximum growth.

Psychologists, MFTs, Licensed Professional Counselors, Psychiatrists, Licensed Social Workers and Pastoral Counselors

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

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

Detect the healthiest aspects of each couple member.

Utilize two methods for couple members to process emotional experience.

Design healing a portrayal to treat relational trauma.

Define why affirmation of the self is important.

Explain how clients can melt defenses of intellectualization.

Find shared matching values in couple members.

Describe how to process warded-off emotional experience.

Conduct meta-therapeutic processing when couples have reparative experiences.

Define the value of the core emotion of surprise in treatment.

Integrate core affect through slowing down.

Locate two ways to tailor treatment to a couple member’s attachment style.

Select opportunities to help couple members to feel and show more positivity.

Utilize openings to soften defenses.

Define three early signs of dorsal vagal response.

Demonstrate knowledge of two ways to regulate dorsal vagal response.

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

Distinguish methods for engaging avoidantly attached patients in treatment.

Detect an example of a tough case in which an unexpected breakthrough occurred.

Explain how a meditative state of mindfulness helps in treatment.

Conduct a role play of meta-therapeutic processing.

Explain the value of increased awareness in couple members.

Identify transformance striving in a session.

8:00 am-8:1 5 am PT : Orientation and opening three-minute Channels of Experience meditation

8:15 am-9:00 am PT: A participant shares video of a session for supervision and supportive consultation focused on creating a secure base in treatment and regulating emotional reactivity

9:00 am-9:50 am PT: A second participant shares video of a session for supervision and supportive consultation focused on creating a secure base in treatment and regulating emotional reactivity

9:50 am-10:00 am PT: Closure, including metaprocessing this Small Group Supervision and Training session.

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The cost for 16 Continuing Education (CE) credits will be $40. An email from Credits Education will be sent to all participants who complete the course.

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 16 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.