Speakers: Certified Gottman Trainers

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Please click here to download a list of Certified Gottman Therapists* listed who have expressed an interest in speaking to various professional and public audiences on the topic of The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work.

All of these clinicians are Certified Gottman Therapists and have been involved in various positions of leadership at The Gottman Institute in addition to their private practices. Some are involved as Certified Gottman Couples Workshop Leaders for The Art and Science of Love couple's workshops.

If you are seeking a speaker, please contact these individuals directly. Before contacting the speakers please have the following information ready to discuss: speaking event, date, location, honorarium, audience description and agreement for expenses.*Certified Gottman Therapists are all licensed or certified therapists who practice independently in their state, province, or country. Each has been specifically trained by Drs. John and Julie Gottman to provide Gottman Method Couples Therapy.

 LIVE - Level I: Marital Therapy - A Research Based Approach to Gottman Therapy (MTRBA)

Sponsored by The Family Institute of Neve Yerushalayim
Instructor: Toni Parker, Ph.D.
Date: Monday, May 19 and Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Registration deadline: Thursday, May 1, 2008
Time: 9:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Tuition: 1,100 (Includes Gottman Training Manual)
Pre-requisite: Participants must have a minimum of a master’s level degree in a Mental Health related field.

Under the guidance and dynamic instruction of Dr. Toni Parker, a Certified Gottman trainer, the Family Institute will offer Mental Health professionals the opportunity to learn Gottman’s research based assessment techniques and intervention strategies as applied to couples therapy. Participants will receive a certificate from the Gottman Institute as well as the Clinician’s Manual for Marital Therapy.The 550-page manual provides direct hands-on training techniques for therapists. The clinical manual is complete with all marital assessment tools, exercises and materials for couples' intervention. It includes all materials covered in the workshop.

Toni Parker, Ph.D., is a Certified Gottman Method Couples Therapist and a Gottman Couples Workshop Leader.  She was trained by The Gottman's and is one of the few trainers in North America certified to teach the Gottman Approach to Couple’s Therapy. Over the past 20 years in the Mental Health Field, she has worked extensively with couples, families, supervision of interns, individuals and groups. Dr. Parker also received clinical training in mind/body medicine at the Harvard Medical School and did some of her post-doctorate training at Stanford University. During the pioneering years of Brief Therapy she was one of the early trainees at the Mental Research Institute in Palo Alto, California and worked under the renowned Drs. Richard Fish, and John Weakland. Dr. Parker is in private practice in Encino, California, where she works primarily with couples and families.

For more information, contact The Family Institute of Neve Yerushalayim
P. O. Box 43016 - Jerusalem– 91430
Telephone (02) 652-7893
E-mail: FamilyInstitute@nevey.org
www.nevey.org