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NP0038: Who’s Afraid of Couples Therapy?
Welcome to our “Who’s Afraid of Couples Therapy?” This exciting series, back by popular demand, is based on our November/December 2011 issue on this topic and will explore the challenges of couples work.
What are the most effective strategies in working with couples? How can therapists structure therapy—particularly in the early sessions—so that couples leave with a sense of hope, rather than frustration? Can working with individuals who have serious issues in their relationships actually be detrimental to them? Find out the answers to these questions and much more. In this first session with expert couples therapists Ellyn Bader and Peter Pearson, the creators of the Developmental Model of Couples Therapy, you’ll find out why clinicians often avoid working with couples and how you can better prepare yourself for couples therapy work.
How can therapists most effectively work with emotion in the consulting room—particularly when it comes to couples therapy? Learn with internationally known couples therapist Hedy Schleifer how to help create a nourishing connection between partners, define a role as therapist-as-guide, and much more. Schleifer, who’s pioneered the training of Imago Relationship therapists internationally, will go into how to use this theory in practice and how to best work with emotions.
What happens when partners in couples therapy have two different agendas in mind? Hear from expert William Doherty on this little spoken about topic. Learn how Discernment Counseling, an approach that helps couples clarify their feelings about the next step in their relationship, can help both clients and therapists.
Is it possible to rebuild trust and intimacy in a couple’s relationship after a partner has had an affair? How can therapists help? Hear from Esther Perel, author of the international bestseller Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence, on how to help couples after an infidelity and the role that cultural perspectives have in this emotional situation.
Explore this classic dynamic of couples therapy—an angry woman and a withdrawn man—that’s often confusing for therapists, with couples therapist Jette Simon. Learn more about what’s behind the feelings of anger and the behavior of withdrawing, and how clinicians can more effectively work with shame and fear of disconnection.
Hear an unconventional perspective on couples therapy from David Schnarch, who believes that the best way to help couples is to challenge partners to change their individual behaviors and attitudes. Schnarch’s direct, upfront approach to helping clients will illustrate a different viewpoint on effective couples therapy.
Join Marty Klein, a marriage and family therapist and certified sex therapist, us for a candid discussion about the assumptions that both clients and therapists often share that can get in the way of improving couples’ sexual relationships.
Discover with Kathryn Rheem how to respond effectively when clients express strong feelings in session. Based on Emotionally Focused Therapy, you’ll explore attunement and how to use your own emotions to help clients move beyond attachment injuries.
After the session, please let us know what you think. If you ever have any technical questions or issues, please feel free to email support@psychotherapynetworker.org.
Whole Psychiatry: Alternatives to Conventional Psychopharmacology with Robert Hedaya
Meds: Myths and Realities: NP0035 – Session 4
Is psychopharmacology is a 'go-to' in your practice? Join Robert Hedaya as he discusses how to treat the bodily systems that underlay many mental health issues while avoiding medication. After the session, please let us know what you think. If you ever have any technical questions or issues, please feel free to email support@psychotherapynetworker.org.Tough Customers: Is It Them or Us?
By Rich Simon As therapists, many of us practice in two different worlds. In the first, we see polite, well-behaved, articulate clients with solid values. They engage fully in therapy, talk cogently about their problems, listen attentively to our responses, make reasonably good-faith efforts to follow our suggestions, and sooner or later get better. No wonder we genuinely like these people! Does This Kid Need Medication? with Ron Taffel
Meds: Myths and Realities: NP0035 – Session 3
Do you feel like you could be a more effective therapist with your younger clients? Do you find it hard to determine when interventions--psychological and pharmacological--might be needed? Join Ron Taffel and learn to identify key diagnostic signs that indicate medications could be helpful when dealing with depression, anxiety, AD/HD, and affective disorders. After the session, please let us know what you think. If you ever have any technical questions or issues, please feel free to email support@psychotherapynetworker.org.
 Psychotherapy NetworkerThis is the header info Lynn Grodzki's Practice-Building in Hard TimesToday’s session with Lynn Grodzki was incredibly clear, practical, and insightful. Although I don’t have a private psychotherapy practice, I learned a lot of important information that would be helpful to anybody especially in these rough economic times. Read more Comments Rich Simon to be Awarded Mental Health Media PrizeEditor Rich Simon--our very own Networker rock star--will be honored for his editorial excellence with The Erikson Institute Prize for Excellence in Mental Health Media. This new award, presented by the Erik H. Erikson Institute for Education and Research, pays tribute to Rich Simon as well as NPR reporter Alix Spiegel and Erica Goode of The New York Times. Read more Comments Lynn Grodzki'sTo everyone who registered for today's one-on-one with Lynn Grodzki: everyone here at Psychotherapy Networker sincerely apologizes for the inconvenience. We are so sorry about the technical difficulties that happened today, and are working to ensure that this will never happen again. Please tune in for Lynn Grodzki's session to explore how to "survive and thrive" in these difficult times, next Wednesday, 12-1 pm. More information and details are soon to come. Thanks so much again for your patience. Comments The Tug-of-War over TraumaSusan Clancy’s article, “The Trauma Myth”, published in the March/April Networker, is getting renewed buzz from its recent appearance on Alternet.com. This excerpt, from her book with the same title, has fueled a wide range of reactions, from appreciation to disgust. Read moreComments Positively Controversial--Ehrenreich’s Book is causing a StirBarbara Ehrenreich’s 2009 book about the intricacies of positive psychology--which she doesn’t think is such a positive contribution to the country--has evoked strong emotions from its readers. Read moreComments The New American Family: One-on-One with Ron TaffelToday’s one-on-one between Ron Taffel and Rich Simon about the “New American Family” was fascinating for me especially as I’ve grown up as part of this new era. I completely related to everything Taffel described--the powerful influence of the peer group, the “second family”, the dwindling sense of hierarchy, and the lack of rituals. Comments The Future of Brain-Based Psychotherapy : One-On-One with Dan SiegelWhat an exciting opportunity to be able to hear Dan Siegel’s take on the much-discussed, drama-filled debate that spontaneously occurred between Siegel and renowned psychologist Jerome Kagan. Read moreComments The Long Shadow of Trauma: One-on-One with Bessel van der KolkToday’s conversation between Bessel van der Kolk and Rich Simon, regarding van der Kolk’s thoughts on trauma, was a really interesting follow-up to Mary Sykes Wylie’s article, “The Long Shadow of Trauma” in the March/April issue. See her article here. Read more Comments Welcome To Symposium 2010!It’s finally here, the Symposium, the weekend we’ve all been waiting for….maybe some of you knew what to expect when you got here but as much as I’ve been warned, I wasn’t entirely prepared! Comments Best Thursday Learning Moment or Workshop?It’s not often that I get the opportunity to imagine my life as a landscape. Comments Dan Goleman's Friday Morning KeynoteWow. Well, that was a wake-up call! I consider myself pretty savvy about environmental issues, and I know that many "green" products are mostly a marketing scam. But a resource like "goodguide.com" feels like a revelation. Read moreComments Best Friday Workshop or Learning Moment?When Dan Siegel’s kids were teenagers, and they would whine, “I’m bored” as teens are apt to do, he would respond, “Why don’t you try a new firing pattern?”
03.19.2010 Posted In: NETWORKER EXCHANGE By Psychotherapy Networker
It’s not that we don’t use most of our brains, he explained during his joint workshop with Natalie Goldberg, it’s that we don’t use many of our neuron firing patterns. Read more Comments Ron Taffel's Friday Lunch AddressWhat an amazing, moving presentation. Right from the start, those video clips were powerful. For me, the first news and movie clips were depicting events and time periods that I've only learned about - they happened before I was born. Read moreComments Natalie Goldberg's Friday Dinner AddressI feel so lucky because not only did I get to hear Natalie Goldberg speak, I got to hear her speak twice in one day. Read moreComments Dan Siegel's Saturday Morning KeynoteI have never been a “science person”. Science has always intimidated me; knowing that I won’t fully understand, terms like “neurons” usually make my eyes glaze over. But, Dan Siegel’s presentation “The Neurobiology of We” was absolutely fascinating. Even though he threw a few of those scary science words at us, he added jokes and vivid examples to make his ideas significant and clear. Read moreComments Best Saturday Learning Moment or Workshop?What a unique opportunity I was given today, to be able to participate in William Doherty’s ethics workshop based on the popular TV show The Sopranos!
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03.19.2010 Posted In: NETWORKER EXCHANGE By Psychotherapy Networker
Comments Jerome Kagan's Saturday Lunchtime AddressMy mind is reeling after Dr. Jerome Kagan's lunch presentation: "Human Nature and the Possibility of Change." People are wired from birth to have certain dispositions, but are we condemned to these traits? Kagan said, "Science is at an early age for understanding temperament," and that there is an extremely large number of possible temperaments. Read moreComments Barbara Ehrenreich's Saturday Dinner AddressFrom the moment Barbara Ehrenreich stepped onto the stage for tonight’s dinner address, she had the audience cracking up. Her speech protesting positive psychology-well, it was positively striking.
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03.19.2010 Posted In: NETWORKER EXCHANGE By Psychotherapy Networker
Comments Tara Brach's Sunday Morning KeynoteI can see why Tara Brach was chosen to lead us on the last leg of our Symposium experience. Her presentation about awareness and opening our hearts was very thought-provoking. Even her voice is soothing and even, as if she is perpetually leading meditation.
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03.19.2010 Posted In: NETWORKER EXCHANGE By Psychotherapy Networker
Comments Favorite Sunday Workshop or Learning Moment?As lively and energetic as it can be to have many people with diverse opinions, perspectives and backgrounds participating in a workshop, my experience Sunday was different because it was such an intimately small group. Comments |
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