Speaker Types: Workshop Presenter

Primarily working within the local international community, Julie has counselled clients from over 50 countries. At her private practice, she helps distressed and disconnected couples to rediscover and reignite friendship and intimacy, and improve their communication skills.

Julie is the principal Gottman Method Couples Therapy teacher based in Europe and is certified to present all three levels of Gottman Method training, as well as the Art & Science of Love couples workshop. She also serves as a consultant for clinicians seeking certification in Gottman Therapy. She has translated many of the Gottman intervention materials into Dutch.

Ultimately, Julie’s mission is to support couples to become closer and kinder with each other, so they can create safe and loving homes for themselves and their families, hereby positively affecting the world around them. She works on achieving this goal by counseling couples through therapy or workshops, by teaching mental health professionals to integrate the Gottman Method into their own work with couples, and by educating and speaking in local and international organizations and media outlets.

*Accepting New Certification Candidates*

Julie is a Licensed Psychologist based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Since starting her private practice in 2010, her passion has been working with couples. Being located in a very international city, Julie has had the privilege of counselling clients from over 50 countries, allowing her to develop a particular sensitivity and expertise when it comes to working with cross cultural couples. As the first Level 1, 2 and 3 clinical trainer and Certification Track consultant in Europe, Julie aims to establish Gottman Method Therapy as the leading approach to couples therapy across this continent and beyond.

Teaching GMT to mental health professionals from throughout the region continues to be a wonderful and enriching experience. During her first training with John and Julie Gottman, Julie realized they were imparting an incredible set of skills, tools and knowledge that would give her a new way to conceptualize and work with couples that was more helpful than anything she had learned before. Therefore, Julie continued to do all available trainings through The Gottman Institute, including Treating Affairs and Trauma, Bringing Baby Home, Marathon Therapy and the Art and Science of Love. After becoming a Certified Gottman Therapist, she discovered a new passion as a trainer and consultant as well. As a consultant Julie feels privileged to guide consultees through their final step in becoming Certified Gottman Therapists and do so with empathy and positive encouragement. She remembers the nerve-wracking experience of sharing her videos with her own consultant and how she was gently guided to finetune my skills. Julie strives to do the same with her consultees and look forward to supporting the next wave of CGT’s worldwide. Julie offers consultation in both English and Dutch.

*NOT Accepting New Certification Candidates*

Dr. Faith Drew is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) in Arizona, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Texas and a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and LPC Supervisor in Texas and has been providing individual and couples therapy nearly 20 years. She earned her Master’s degree in Marriage and Family Therapy at Abilene Christian University and her Doctoral degree from Texas Tech University.

She is the former EAP Director of a private Employee Assistance Program where she managed clinical operations, led a team of clinicians and support staff, and consulted on critical incident responses.
She spent time in academia, helping to create a Marriage and Family Therapy Master’s Program and earn the COAMFTE Accreditation designation. In addition, she helped establish the on-site training clinic, which provided therapy at a reduced cost for the community.

Currently, she co-owns two private practices with offices in North Carolina and Arizona with her husband, and fellow Certified Gottman Therapist, Dr. George Bitar, LMFT. In addition to running operations and managing a team for both Connect Couples Therapy, PLLC, specializing in couples therapy, and In Session Psychotherapy, PLLC, specializing in working with individuals using EMDR, she co-presents The Art & Science of Love Weekend Workshop for Couples with her husband and offers couples intensives at her office in Arizona.

She believes in promoting and modeling vulnerability and growth and uses an evidence-based method to improve clinical skills called Deliberate Practice. She values the use of recorded sessions and regularly watches sessions and reviews performance skills – the best musicians, artists, Olympians, and athletes must watch their performance and practice before their main event. She believes as clinicians, we should too.

She has been married for 19-years and is a mom to a 5-year-year old daughter and 10-year-old Westie. She loves traveling, is a foodie-at-heart, can speak Spanish and is learning French.

You can contact Faith directly to learn about her consultation pricing and more through her Gottman Referral Network profile here.

Bertha Alicia has been a teacher for many years and loves it. She enjoys presenting workshops and webinars. After becoming a Certified Gottman Therapist, she started training other clinicians and now offers all levels of Gottman Method Couples Therapy in Spanish.

She is also a presenter of The Art and Science of Love workshops to married and premarital couples.
Oriented towards prevention, she also speaks for groups of parents, teachers, and clinicians about how to build healthy relationships.

He sido maestra durante muchos años y es algo que disfruto mucho.
Me gusta dar cursos, conferencias, diplomados.

Después de obtener la certificación, seguí el proceso para poder entrenar a otros terapeutas en el Método Gottman de terapia de pareja.

Actualmente enseño los tres niveles, en español, así como el taller del Arte y la Ciencia de Amar para parejas y para novios.

También, con la orientación hacia la prevención, ofrezco conferencias para parejas, padres y maestros sobre cómo establecer relaciones saludables.

*Accepting New Certification Candidates*
*Actualmente Aceptando Consultados*

Bertha Alicia provides consultation for therapists who are entering the Certification Track program.

She has worked with people from the first day of Level 1 Training and has witnessed how clinicians fall in love with the Gottman Method, the next step is helping them to become Certified.

The Certification Track is difficult and demanding, and is a big step for a couples therapist: it lets you know you have reached the highest quality standards in the use of the Gottman Method and that your work has been reviewed by the most experienced therapists of The Gottman Institute.

In her own words: “As your Consultant in this process, I review your cases and videos looking for your strengths and your areas of opportunity so I can help you develop your skills, improve your use of the Gottman tools and integrate them with the skills and tools you have been using in your practice. This way, besides becoming a Certified Gottman Therapist, you will feel surer of yourself. My goal is to walk with you with empathy, making the journey a collaborative process”.

You can contact Bertha directly to learn about her consultation pricing and more through her Gottman Referral Network profile here.

Cuando has acompañado gente desde el nivel 1 y has visto cómo se enamoran del Método Gottman de terapia de parejas, tanto por su coherencia teórica como por la efectividad de sus herramientas, el paso siguiente es ayudar a que logren su certificación.

El proceso de certificación, si bien difícil y demandante, es un paso muy grande para un terapeuta de pareja: brinda la seguridad de que has alcanzado los estándares de calidad en las técnicas terapéuticas, de que tu trabajo, revisado por los terapeutas más experimentados del Instituto Gottman tiene el nivel requerido para la seguridad de sus pacientes.

Como tu consultora en este proceso reviso tus casos y videos con el fin de conocer tus fortalezas y tus áreas de oportunidad y ayudarte a desarrollar las habilidades necesarias para perfeccionar las herramientas del Método Gottman e integrarlas con las que utilizas en tu práctica cotidiana, de tal manera que te sea más fácil lograr no solo la certificación, sino la seguridad como terapeuta de pareja Gottman.

Mi meta es brindar este acompañamiento de manera empática haciendo del camino un proceso colaborativo.

Puede comunicarse con Bertha directamente para conocer los precios de sus consultas y más a través de su perfil de Gottman Referral Network aquí.