Join expert couples therapist, Marci Gray, as she elevates your practice with a new approach to:
Foundations and Initial Challenges
Commitment and Intimacy Restoration
Advanced Challenges and Strategies
- Rebuilding Trust
- Impact of trust ruptures on relationships.
- Using attachment injury interventions to address and heal breaches of trust, building rituals of connection, and trust-building exercises like the Trust Revival Method.
- Managing Intense Emotions
- Identifying emotions like anger, sadness, guilt, and shame.
- Employing emotion coaching to help partners validate and process their feelings, utilizing the Flooding technique to recognize and manage overwhelming emotions, and self-soothing exercises.
- Addressing Underlying Issues
- Recognizing deeper relationship problems.
- Using cycle de-escalation to identify and change negative interaction patterns, applying the Four Horsemen framework to address criticism, contempt, defensiveness, and stonewalling, and replacing them with positive communication techniques.
Commitment and Intimacy Restoration
- Ensuring Both Partners are Committed to Healing
- Importance of mutual commitment
- Establishing secure base dialogues to foster a sense of safety and mutual investment in the relationship, implementing the Sound Relationship House to build a strong foundation of commitment and trust.
- Restoring Intimacy
- Challenges to physical and emotional intimacy
- Facilitating bonding conversations that enhance emotional closeness, encouraging physical touch and affection through Love Maps exercises and the Magic 5 Hours for daily intimate connection.
Advanced Challenges and Strategies
- Handling Relapse Triggers and Communication Barriers
- Recognizing and managing triggers
- Implementing reflective listening to validate and understand partner’s triggers and responses, using repair attempts and the softened startup to approach difficult conversations and manage conflict effectively.
- Forgiveness, Establishing a New Normal, and Balancing Needs
- Steps to facilitate forgiveness and reconciliation
- Guiding partners through forgiveness interventions to process hurt and rebuild trust, creating shared meaning to establish new relationship rituals and commitment patterns.
- Balancing personal and relational healing needs
- Promoting individual self-soothing while maintaining relational focus, encouraging partners to maintain individual dreams alongside relationship goals to ensure balanced growth.
- Diversity and Cultural Sensitivity in Therapy
- Apply techniques to understand and validate emotional experiences within diverse cultural contexts.
- Understand diverse relationship norms and utilize strategies for soft start-up to effectively address and appreciate different relationship norms between couples.
- Trauma-Informed Approaches to Couples Therapy
- Learn to recognize attachment injuries within the context of trauma.
- Apply trauma-informed strategies to rebuild trust and foster commitment following infidelity.
- Risks and Limitations of the research
Join us for this comprehensive training and revolutionize your approach to couples therapy, helping your clients build stronger, more resilient relationships!
Objectives
- Apply techniques from Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) and the Gottman Method to enhance couple connections and promote meaningful progress after infidelity.
- Understand the impacts of infidelity on intimate relationships.
- Learn techniques to determine if couples are mutually committed to repair attachment wounds after infidelity.
- Develop skills to work effectively with couples from diverse backgrounds and address infidelity with cultural sensitivity.
- Learn advanced skills in constructive conflict management to help couples resolve disputes and overcome negative patterns.
- Integrate trauma-informed approaches to address past traumas and childhood wounds, facilitating healing and rebuilding trust.
