Therapy for Partner Aggression and Abuse
Learn ways to help couples have safer, more loving relationships.
Therapy for Partner Aggression and Abuse
Learn ways to help couples have safer, more loving relationships.
Domestic violence has been a phenomenon in romantic relationships for as long as relationships have existed. Domestic violence has been called intimate partner violence in recent scholarly literature. These terms are one and the same. This workshop is designed to guide therapists towards a deeper understanding about intimate partner aggression, and learn ways to help couples have safer, more loving relationships.
Built to Support the Work You Do
Therapy for Partner Aggression and Abuse is an advanced clinical training designed to equip therapists with the structure, discernment, and confidence required to work effectively and ethically with couples impacted by aggression and abuse. This course offers both depth and practical application—integrating research-based principles of Gottman Method Couples Therapy with clear clinical decision-making frameworks to enhance safety, accountability, and therapeutic outcomes.
Faculty
Presented by Dr. Carrie Cole, Research Director and Director of the Love Lab at The Gottman Institute, and Dr. Don Cole, Clinical Director at The Gottman Institute, Therapy for Partner Aggression and Abuse will provide a framework to help the couples suffering from intimate partner aggression who walk into your practice.
The Focus of this Training
The focus of this training is on psychological aggression, sometimes referred to in scholarly literature as intimate partner aggression.
Current researchers have not always made the distinction between aggression and types of violence in the intimate partner violence literature, and have included physical abuse, psychological abuse, emotional abuse, sexual abuse, and coercive control in their definitions of the term.
We have worked hard to offer you depth and variety within this course, hoping that something you experience, see, hear, or feel will inspire and motivate you.
During this training participants will:
- Identify situational versus characterological aggression.
- Distinguish between the strategies for dealing with characterological aggression.
- Discover the four major treatment goals for reducing aggression in couples.
- Apply proper treatment strategies for bi-directional aggression and for unidirectional aggression.
- Differentiate underlying contributing factors to IPA and how these can be dealt with in therapy.
- Examine four treatment goals
- Apply treatment goals with couples experiencing partner aggression in their relationship
Integrate and adapt the principles and interventions of Gottman Method Couples Therapy into your own approach to working with couples.
Enhance accountability and success in your clinical work like never before.
Achieve greater clarity and focus in Gottman Method Couples Therapy by integrating a robust structure to work with couples and prevent relapse.
Benefit from the experience, knowledge, and enthusiasm of Gottman Therapists who will help build your competence and confidence.
What’s Inside this Training?
- Each participant will receive materials designed to help therapists and counselors effectively facilitate assessments, interventions, and exercises with their couples that can be used immediately following the training. All assessments and exercises may be photocopied or printed as handouts for couples.
- 68-page Therapy for Partner Aggression and Abuse PDF Digital Manual
- Therapy for Partner Aggression and Abuse Training Certificate of Completion upon passing the Assessment of Knowledge
- Up to 7.5 CE Hours for the training are available for an additional fee.
Who is this training for?
This training is for mental health therapists, counselors, social workers, clergy, military family life chaplains, life coaches, recovery coaches, professors, students and professionals who work with couples affected by alcohol, drugs and/or behavioral addictions.
No prior experience or training in the Gottman Method is required; however, therapists who work with couples will greatly benefit from having at least completed Level 1 Gottman Method Couples Therapy.
If you are interested in hosting an in-person Therapy for Partner Aggression and Abuse Training, please email training@gottman.com.
What Clinicians Are Saying
Frequently Asked Questions
Do I need previous Gottman training to attend?
Specific interventions will be taught at the workshop, many based on modified or adapted approaches from the Gottman Method. While previous Gottman training is not required to attend this workshop, counselors, therapists. and recovery professionals who have completed Level 1 Training will find previous training helpful and relevant to both the theory and interventions covered in this training.
What if I haven’t had any couples training before?
This training offers service providers of all types, the concepts and skills needed to help couples understand and talk about intimate partner aggression.
Participants interested in receiving the introductory training in Gottman Method Couples Therapy may purchase an online course or attend a live two-day workshop.
Are CEs available for this training?
This course is offered for 7.5 Continuing Education (CE) credits from the Cognitive Behavior Institute. Please check with your licensing board to ensure that they accept CEs through Cognitive behavioral Institute.
To receive the CE credits, complete the quiz with 80% or better. To purchase CEs:
- STEP 1: Create an account on CBI Center for Education www.cbicenterforeducation.com
- STEP 2: Follow the link to purchase CEs from our CE co-sponsor – www.cbicenterforeducation.com. (complete the quiz with 80% or better before purchasing CEs)
“Cognitive Behavior Institute is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Cognitive Behavior Institute maintains responsibility for this program and its content.” “Cognitive Behavior Institute, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0098 and the State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0646 and the State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors #MHC-0216.”
This event is not currently NBCC ACEP-approved. However, it meets the guidelines for continuing education. https://www.nbcc.org/resources/nccs/earnce
Can I host an in-person Therapy training?
If you are interested in hosting an in-person Therapy for Partner Aggression and Abuse Training, please email training@gottman.com.