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The Art of Relationship Repair: Helping Couples Heal After Infidelity with Integrative Tools from EFT, Gottman and More

Couples therapy can be challenging and intense. It is not for the faint at heart, nor for the passive or timid therapist. Learn how to master couples therapy and gain confidence to work with couples of diverse backgrounds who are facing serious challenges in their relationship. Avoid common mistakes and pitfalls that inexperienced therapists can make. Help couples who are stuck and struggle with intimacy, conflict, trust, misunderstandings or maintaining a deep connection to attune with one another and meet one another’s needs utilizing portions of both the Gottman method and Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy. Understand the ingredients for healthy and happy relationships while gaining tools and strategies for repair, restoration and reigniting the connection that brought them together.

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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.

Outline

EFT and Gottman Method in Couples Therapy Integration for Building Intimacy

Understanding the integrated structure and approach
Utilizing EFT's attachment framework to foster emotional intimacy
Utilizing the sound relationship house and Gottman assessment
Applying Gottman's Four Horsemen to prevent conflict escalation
Incorporating techniques such as like EFT's 'Hold Me Tight' conversations and Gottman's 'Love Maps' to improve connection
Emphasizing the importance of Gottman’’s ‘Fondness and Admiration’ building

Diversity and Cultural Sensitivity in Therapy

Applying EFT’s emphasis on emotional experiences across cultures
Utilizing Gottman’s principles of soft start-up to challenge and understand diverse relationship norms
Strategies for cultural understanding using Gottman's Sound Relationship House model

Advanced Clinical Skills for Conflict Management

EFT techniques for de-escalating and processing emotional responses
Gottman’s conflict blueprint for identifying solvable vs. perpetual problems
Skills for guiding couples to self-soothe and repair using EFT and Gottman methods
Create new positive interactions and strengthen bonds recognizing emotional triggers as outlined in EFT

Trauma-Informed Approaches to Couples Therapy

EFT's approach to addressing attachment injuries and trauma
Gottman's methods for building trust and commitment after trauma
Techniques for trauma-sensitive communication based on attachment and EFT
Gottman’s repair after infidelity and breaches in trust

Target Audience

Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselors
Marriage & Family Therapists
Psychotherapists
Psychologists
Social Workers

Copyright : 09/06/2024

Infidelity and Betrayal: Helping Couples Tend to Pain and Possibility

This course offers a compassionate, stage-based approach to working with infidelity and betrayal in couple therapy. Participants will explore the broader context of infidelity, learn how to support both the betrayed and betraying partners, and navigate common constraints to healing. Emphasis is placed on restoring trust, fostering emotional repair, and helping couples move toward post-traumatic growth and renewed connection after betrayal.

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Objectives

Explore the nature of infidelity, the impact on a couple, and how to work with infidelity in couple therapy.
Identify barriers to restoration of trust after a breach and discern whether and how a couple can rebuild
Promote post-traumatic growth in individuals and couples after infidelity, leveraging the crisis as an opportunity for personal and relational growth.

Outline

Big picture of infidelity and working with infidelity in couple therapy
Tending to the betrayed partner
Tending to the betraying partner
A stage-based model for recovery from infidelity in couple therapy
Constraints to healing from infidelity
Restoration of trust in couples post-infidelity
Post-traumatic growth after the experience of infidelity

Target Audience

Psychologists
Physicians
Addiction Counselors
Counselors
Social Workers
Marriage & Family Therapists
Nurses
Psychotherapists
Other Behavioral Health Professionals

Copyright : 12/17/2024

Obsessing After Infidelity: When One Partner Can't Move Forward

Therapists often feel challenged working with couples in the aftermath of infidelity. PTSD symptoms can surface in the form of unrelenting obsessing about the details of a partner’s affair. In this presentation, Ellyn will describe when and why obsessing is valuable and when it is not. She will also demonstrate via video how to start interrupting this negative ongoing traumatic pattern.

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Objectives

Describe 3 stages of infidelity treatment and what type of work matters most at each stage.
Recognize when obsessing about details is valuable and when it isn’t.
Interrupt patterns of conflict avoidance and move couples into deeper work
Theorize on risks and benefits of therapy with infidelity

Outline

The 3 stages of infidelity treatment

Recognizing PTSD and traumatic reactions in infidelity

Interrupting conflict avoidance patterns

Creating safety in couples therapy

Target Audience

Counselors
Social Workers
Psychologists
Psychotherapists
Therapists
Marriage & Family Therapists
Addiction Counselors
Case Managers
Physicians
Nurses
Other Mental Health Professionals

Copyright : 09/07/2023

Couples Therapy for Online Infidelity: Rebuilding Intimacy, Trust and Connection with Gottman Method, EFT, CBT and More

Emotional affairs, cybersex, OnlyFans, Ashley Madison. Betrayal is only a click away.

Far too often it’s shrugged off as harmless…it’s not “real” infidelity. But even when there’s no physical contact, even though it’s all happening online, let’s call it what it is – cheating.

And when clients are in your office, the work comes with all the real emotions and messiness of broken trust, confusion, and heartache.

That’s why if you work with couples you need this specialized training.

You’ll watch expert Dr. Tenille Richardson-Quamina. She’s a certified sex addictions Therapist and Gottman Level 1 trained therapist. After her own personal experience, she’s spent thousands of hours researching, training, and creating unique tools that will help you empower your clients to disconnect to reconnect.

And now in this training she’ll share the very best therapeutic tools from Gottman Method, CBT, Integrated Behavioral Couples Therapy (IBCT), Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) and more so you can confidently manage the intricate dynamics that online infidelity introduces into the therapeutic space.

You’ll end this program ready to:

Navigate rebuilding trust and overcoming denial
Uncover how online personas shape self-perception and the capacity to cheat
Strengthen commitment with clear boundaries for privacy and online conduct
Support partners in restoring their self-worth and confidence following digital betrayal
And much more!

And with exercises, scripts, intake assessment questions, worksheets and more you’ll have everything you need to get started.

This is such a common issue but is rarely addressed. If you work with couples, this is one training you can’t afford to miss.

Purchase now!

Program Information

Objectives

Differentiate online infidelity from other forms of infidelity, including physical infidelity.
Identify the implications for relationship boundaries and fidelity expectations around common online behaviors such as cybersex, exchanging sexual self-images, and sharing sexual fantasies.
Utilize emotionally-focused therapy (EFT) techniques to help couples affected by marital infidelity process underlying relational issues.
Utilize principles of Gottman’s therapeutic approach to guide interventions aimed at facilitating rebuilding relational trust post-infidelity.
Use techniques from Integrated Behavioral Couples Therapy to facilitate improvements in marital intimacy.
Evaluate the ethical considerations for therapists working with individuals and couples impacted by infidelity, including maintaining confidentiality, impartiality, and respect for autonomy.

Outline

How Technology Contributes to New Forms of Infidelity

AAA, ACE, and Cybersex model
Types of online infidelity
Emotional vs. physical online infidelity
How common
Betrayers, the betrayed, and third parties

Psychological Aspects of Online Infidelity

Motivations - emotional and sexual needs, thrill-seeking, insecurities, and dissatisfaction
Role of online friends, acquaintances, or potential romantic interests
Passive versus active infidelity
The experience of the betrayed partner and mental health consequences
Cultural and societal context of online infidelity

Assessment of Online Infidelity

Initiation, dissatisfaction, curiosity, or emotional needs
The revelation of online infidelity
Recognize online infidelity in behavioral cues, communication patterns, and more
Passive versus aggressive online infidelity
Case studies and practical application
Ethical considerations including confidentiality, privacy, and cultural sensitivity

The Online Infidelity Spectrum, Platforms and Secrecy

Spectrum of online infidelity and social presence theory
Online platforms, social media platforms, dating apps, and more
Secrecy and keeping online activities hidden

Treatment Strategies Toolbox for Couples Therapists

Intake paperwork questions
Coping mechanisms for individuals and couples during the healing process
Netiquette, negotiations, and pre and post infidelity agreements
Prevent relapse and sustaining positive change

Specific Therapeutic Approaches: Use Strategies from IBCT, EFT, CBT and Gottman Method in Treatment

IBCT strategies to enhance communication and intimacy
CBT to challenge irrational “not cheating” beliefs
Explore underlying emotions and vulnerabilities with EFT
Use Gottman Method to repair breaches of trust
Indications and contraindications
Research, risks and treatment limitations

Target Audience

Marriage and Family Therapists
Counselors
Social Workers
Psychologists
Therapists
Addiction Counselors
Case Managers
Nurses
Other Mental Health Professionals