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Welcome to Couples Therapy: Today and Tomorrow. During these next five sessions, we’ll get a valuable opportunity to hear a variety of perspectives, expand our skills, and learn ways of enhancing our effectiveness with couples. Today’s session with expert couples therapist William Doherty, “Bad Couples Therapy and How to Avoid It” will delve into the most common mistakes therapists make when treating couples and how to avoid these difficult situations.
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Best,
Bill Doherty
We are in charge of the session and while we don't want them to abuse one another in our office, we want to see how they interact so that we can better intervene. Gottman also has questionnaires that he has the couple fill out so that he can focus in like a laser. I have found those exceedingly useful. (I don't get a commission- just love his stuff- very practical.)
I especially appreciated the info about connecting with both people. As someone who works with men more than women, I have found that making couples counseling friendly to the man as well as to the woman gets buy -in; instead of the stereotypical man being dragged to counseling. Wexler wrote a great book on Men in Therapy that addresses this in detail.
Thanks for having this in a webinar. I love to hear new ideas and not have to pay for lodging and food and transportation to hear those ideas.
Thank you,
Don Boice- Rochester, NY
~Dale Pavich, Santa Barbara, Ca
Lailey Jenkins
Bainbridge Island, WA
Bill gave tangible example of what could of often does go wrong and what can remedy the situation. I agreed that couples need to feel secure in the session because the therapist is there as a strong facilitator, well versed in handling explosions, sarcasms and interruptions. I liked how he addresses boundary invasion and acknowledges the intrusion into the other person's process. There are so many nuances to good couples therapy and Bill certainly is contributing by his knowledge and openness around own his mistakes. Thanks for an informational and engaged hour. Charlie Love, Austin, TX.
Kathleen Santa Rosa, CA
Susan Philo, Kodiak AK
Jennifer, Seattle WA
I may consider revising this piece of what I do and see how using Bill's approach may improve my couples therapy.
Lynn Pearlmutter in New Orleans
Laura LICSW from North Dakota
Bill Doherty
I came away from the presentation reassured that some of what I have been doing, that is the micro skills are supported by Dr. Doherty. In particular, the 'not allowing' the negative to eachother, but to have it flow through the therapist. I backed into that skill, and now know it is a valid one. Thank you.
I love the comment about the "Camelot of the relationship". Oftentimes, one partner will say they loved that time and the other will hate it. Then you have a great therapuetic issue to deal with.
I am glad you talked about these micro skills. My supervisor is so concerned with analyzing me and my feelings that I rarely get the skill help that I need. I am grateful for the Networker for offering this to us for free. Thank you, Renee Segal, Minnetonka, MN
I've just started on this transatlantic journey! The Networker webinar idea in general and Bill's in particular, are just great stuff. Many thanks. I wish I'd caught the Ethics one too - we've been using remote involvement with clients and supervisors and need to get sharper with our ethics and permissions.
It would take a book to explain how well-meaningly disparate the UK scene of relationship help remains. Our culture is still more of a welfare state provision and mentality (taxpayer and government pay, not clients and insurance companies). And Scotland is a different country and government to England as well. Couple Counselling and Family Therapy are two very different fields that damned well should be "married" as they are in the US and elsewhere. FT training assumes it equips FTists to do couple therapy, but how can it if FTists aren't the main place that couples go?
Our small FT team is uniquely based in a CC voluntary agency. Yet we still don't really know what how our CCer colleagues think and practice. Bill's presentation is a wonderful bridge to confirm and help clarify.
What he describes is very much in tune with my approach and ways based on long experience (as an NHS child and family psychiatrist) and various FT approaches. But I've never before been taught it; so that's a complete delight now, and to be more able to begin to have conversations with CCers across the UK that begin "Do you know Bill Docherty's work in the US / Have you seen the Networker webinars . . . What do you think? Is that how your first session looks like? If not, how does it work?"
Bill Doherty
But it's not just that FT brings a systems understanding; I think FT brings a whole range of helpful ideas and interventions that (in psychodyanmic UK) would not be allowed. But then FT (in UK if not US) has gone all reflective for its own reasons now!!
It would be too much of a distraction here that would be full of generalisation and uncertain understandings of words, but I'd love someone who knew or researched the US scene and the UK scene to give a comparative snap shot of what the trainings, the models and practices of CC/Therapy and FT are. Anyone done that?
I don't know even the UK much. I presumed that the combined AMFT in the US meant integrated Couple and Family Therapy trainings unlike the UK. I gather that in UK there is a strong psychodynamic approach - and that would tend to go with "How not to do a first session" wouldn't it?! But then, surely (as you and others have described) counsellors would simply have had to do something more proactive in practice with their couple clients than nod their heads analytically?
Nick
PS I'm enjoying the In Treatment series on DVD. Unusually gripping entertainment if not good therapy. I was wondering if it (or the like in film etc) maybe a good source of publicly available data to base a comparative discussion on!
Look forward to the next session.
Sally, London UK
Linda Palius, MFT
Encino, CA
Laurie Kelly, MSW, RCSW
Whistler/Pemberton, BC Canada
Lynn Rosenfield, LCSW Los Angeles
Elaine Boyle, LMHC Tacoma, WA.
As a graduate student about to start my first practicum, I am so grateful to have been given this insight before I sit with my first couple. I copied your verbage verbatim and will be using it rather than stumbling through my own words. What a wonderful gift! Thank you.
Bill Doherty
I have worked mostly with cross-racial, cross-cultural couples, so appreciate very much the straightforward approaches in the session.
In Vietnam where I just left, and where I had a private practice www.tuyetbrown-psychotherapy.com , please comment on the 2 following questions during the first session: a/ how hopeful are you that therapy may help solve your problem(s)? b/ please do not discuss the session content bwt you after leaving this session. Thank you. yukisnow@hotmail.com
I enjoyed Dr. Doherty's webinar and found it really useful to refresh some basic rules we often forget in our everyday routine and also to find some good practical advise on certain situations. But they brought to me some questions that I'm not sure can be answered here:
how do you manage a couple therapy when you consider some situations to be a hidden (or some times not so hidden) mistreatment?
do you use different techniques with multicultural couples, do you address this issue in a specific way or just ignore that cultural difference?
Thank you again and I'm willing to watch the next webinar! Anna Romeu, Barcelona, Spain
It might not seem it
Nick
Chris Cable, Annapolis MD