Transformative Couples Therapy® is a body-oriented, affective neuroscience and attachment-based method. These courses will present the theory and practice of Transformative Couples Therapy® through lively teaching from David Mars that incorporates inspiring video-recorded demonstrations of the work. Core Training also provides supervision and consultation for each group member's video-recorded session work to help participants learn to better track, inspire and affectively regulate two people at a time in couple treatment. The six group members share their own clinical video to receive constructive support, reflection and guidance. Each participant will receive 40 minutes of focused attention each time they share their work. The beauty of these TCT Core Trainings is in the way we safely develop ourselves and our work with each other by using communication based on embodied witnessing through the seven channels of experience. This is a relieving alternative to "feedback" with it's inherent judgement and projection. Instead, we will use Process Language throughout each training session to build safety and develop optimal skillful communication for creating a secure base in ourselves at the same time as learning how to generate transformative outcomes for your couples.

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

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

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

Define why affirmation of the self is important.

Find shared matching values in couple members.

Describe how to process warded-off emotional experience.

Conduct meta-therapeutic processing when couples experience reparative experiences.

Define the value of the core affect of surprise.

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. (Porges, 2009, Dana, 2018)

Agenda for Wednesday Transformative Couples Therapy Core Training

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

8:10am-8:20am: Check-in and discussion of participants’ responses to the meditation and any breakthroughs or problems in treating their clients with TCT

8:20am-9:00am: A participant shares video of a session for supervision and supportive consultation.

9:10am-9:50am: A participant shares video of a session for supervision and supportive consultation

9:50am-10am: Closure, including metaprocessing this Core Training session

 

Live online, zoom

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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 8 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.