Name: Level 2 Training
Start: 2021-06-04T09:00:00-04:00
End: 2021-06-06T17:00:00-04:00
Location: TBD- Alexandria

Fri4Jun

Sun6Jun

Event Overview

Deepen your understanding of Gottman Method Couples Therapy and expand your strategies and interventions in your work with couples in Alexandria, VA. Practice using Gottman Method interventions in group role-plays while receiving personal, supportive coaching from trainers.

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Who Should Attend?

Mental health professionals
Allied professionals and clergy
Students and interns
Family clinic staff
Professors/teachers of couples therapy
Researchers in the social sciences
Employee assistance professionals

Training Objectives

View new demonstration films from John and Julie Gottman’s clinical office
Refine your clinical skills and expand your strategies and interventions in your work with couples
Learn to internalize and integrate the powerful, research-based Gottman Method assessment and intervention techniques
Gain insight as to when to use these methods and when couples therapy is contraindicated
Gain confidence in using the techniques

What Will You Learn?

Assess a couple’s Friendship Profile, Conflict Profile, and Shared Meaning Profile
Develop interventions that couples can use as antidotes to the Four Horsemen
Help couples to soothe physiological flooding
Apply six modes of changing the Attack/Defend System in a couple’s interactions
Assist couples in establishing dialogue about their gridlocked conflicts
Select and implement interventions to help couples deepen their Friendship System with rituals of connection
Select and implement interventions to help couples create a shared system of values and meaning
Identify and implement five different co-morbidities common to couples using Gottman Method assessments and interventions