Even the most experienced therapist can feel overwhelmed by couples struggling with infidelity. In this workshop, you’ll learn how to help couples transcend the trauma of infidelity and feel less hopeless, crazy, self-righteous, and alone. We’ll discuss a radical model for managing secrets and helping partners decide how much information about the affair to disclose.

Research tells us that we’re hardwired to connect: we learn, develop, and respond emotionally in relationship to others. Yet while a high percentage of individuals in therapy have big issues with their partners, most therapists still work with the individual. Is this because our clients are reluctant to enter therapy with their partners or because we hesitate

Given all that we’re learning about social neurobiology, how can couples learn to shape each other’s brains to promote their own mental health and “relational maturity?” In this workshop, we’ll explore a pragmatic, step-by-step process that can activate the natural capacities of our brains for deep, wordless, emotional and spiritual connection. Through lecture, videotape clips,

Conventional wisdom maintains that sexual infidelity is always a symptom of a deeply troubled relationship, and that therapists should insist upon full disclosure, never keeping secrets, and viewing the infidelity as a highly traumatic event. However, when

Bisexuality can be misunderstood by both gays (who sometimes perceive bisexuals as trying to maintain heterosexual privileges by keeping one foot in that world) and straights (who often view bisexuals as postponing coming out as gay). Numerous, contradictory research studies and theories about the prevalence, definition, and even the existence

However deep the love and devotion that longtime partners share, few relationships manage to avoid the typical challenges posed by the routinization of sex, the dimming of sexual impulse with age, and the impact of illness and medications on desire and function. This workshop will provide an overview of sexuality and aging that’ll give you with the framework

With 40 million Americans viewing Internet pornography every month, it’s no surprise that we’re seeing a proliferation of cases involving conflicts between porn users and their partners. This workshop will examine the typical dynamics of this conflict, and present strategies that’ll help support both members of a couple as they struggle with the issue. We’ll discuss the broad range of

While therapists often talk about the importance of emotion, we frequently aren’t comfortable with its explosive intensity, and, as a result, can be unsure of how best to respond when strong feelings are expressed in the consulting room. This workshop will teach techniques used in Emotionally Focused Therapy to help you stay attuned to the flow of emotions,

In today’s high-tech, fast-paced world, when partners complain that they feel “out of sync,” they aren’t just speaking metaphorically. Many common couples’ problems---about sex, emotional intimacy, money, housework, in-laws---are driven by deeper differences in partners’ life rhythms, punctuality practices, and time perspectives. In this workshop, through