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Digital Seminar

Terry Real's Couples Therapy Immersion Training

Getting Started with Relational Life Therapy
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Faculty:
Terry Real, LICSW
Duration:
6 Hours 01 Minutes
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Audio and Video
Copyright:
Jun 25, 2026
Product Code:
POS150753
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Digital Seminar
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Description

In this exciting new training, you'll observe Terry Real work with a real couple in crisis to show—in detail—the steps of a relational intervention for couples on the brink that no one has been able to help.

For over a decade, couples have flown from across the US to work with Terry in these 2-day intensives—and be successfully pulled back from the ledge. This is the work that created Terry's unique and powerful method: Relational Life Therapy (RLT).

Now it's your chance to learn how to conduct these transformative 2-day intensives with your own couples and discover the fundamentals of this remarkably effective therapy at the same time.

RLT is known for producing deep, permanent change quickly. It transforms not just the relationship but the character of each partner. As you observe, Terry will demonstrate the three research-based relationship interventions and phases of treatment, collectively known as Relational Life Therapy.

One of the wonderful aspects of RLT is that you cannot learn this work without experiencing the benefits for yourself. This training introduces you to the powerful techniques that will turn around your clients' relationships and the essential relational skills to transform your own.

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Terry Real, LICSW's Profile

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RELATIONAL LIFE INSTITUTE

Terry Real, LICSW, is an Internationally Recognized Family Therapist, Speaker and Author. Terry founded the Relational Life Institute (RLI), offering workshops for couples, individuals and parents around the country along with a professional training program for clinicians wanting to learn his RLT (Relational Life Therapy) methodology.

A family therapist and teacher for more than 25 years, Terry is the best-selling author of I Don’t Want to Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression (Scribner), the straight-talking How Can I Get Through to You? Reconnecting Men and Women (Scribner), and most recently The New Rules of Marriage: What You Need to Make Love Work (Random House). Terry knows how to lead couples on a step-by-step journey to greater intimacy — and greater personal fulfillment.

A senior faculty member of the Family Institute of Cambridge in Massachusetts and a retired Clinical Fellow of the Meadows Institute in Arizona, Terry has worked with thousands of individuals, couples, and fellow therapists. Through his books, the Institute, and workshops around the country, Terry helps women and men, parents and non-parents, to help them create the connection they desire in their relationships.

Terry’s work, with its rigorous commonsense approach, speaks to both men and women. His ideas on men’s issues and on couple’s therapy have been celebrated in venues from the “Good Morning America”, “The Today Show” and “20/20”, to “Oprah” and The New York Times.

A proponent of “full-throttle marriage,” as described in The New Rules of Marriage, Terry has been called “the most innovative voice in thinking about and treating men and their relationships in the world today.”

The New York Times Book Review described Terry’s work as: “A critical contribution to feminist psychology (that) brings the Men’s movement a significant step forward.” Robert Bly hailed it as “moving onto new ground in both story and song. Exhilarating in its honesty.”

Terry’s Relational Life Institute grew out of his extensive and empathic experience. He teaches people how to make their relationships work by providing products and services designed to teach the principles of Relational Life™, so that everyone can enjoy full respect living and craft a healthy life legacy.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Terrence Real is the founder of Relational Life Institute, maintains a private practice and has an employment relationship with Family Institute of Cambridge. He receives royalties as a published author. Terry Real receives a speaking honorarium, recording, and book royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Terrence Real has no relevant non-financial disclosures.

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Objectives

  1. Articulate how to get past the presenting problem in couples therapy and identify each partner’s relational stance.
  2. Understand and describe the 3 phases of Relational Life Therapy and how they work to guide couples through the process of relational healing and recovery.
  3. Articulate how to empower the enabling partner in couples where there’s a power imbalance.
  4. Understand how to join through the truth, forming an alliance with difficult clients using the art of loving confrontation.
  5. Identify how to develop strategies to gain and use leverage, motivating each partner to move beyond their comfort zone.
  6. Describe the 3 parts of the psyche and how they reveal themselves in therapy. 
  7. Use techniques to move from the present difficulty to early childhood experience (Family of Origin).
  8. Understand how to introduce and perform deep inner child work in the couple’s context.
  9. Communicate how to introduce and teach new relational skills to couples like empathy, vulnerability, and accountability.

Outline

  • What makes this different from other approaches to couples therapy
  • The foundations of this approach, based on research and clinical experience
  • Three phases of Relational Life Therapy
  • Gathering data through interviewing the couple
  • Identifying the common dysfunctional relational stances
  • Core skills of confrontation and alliance building
  • Inner child and parts work with couples
  • Building relational skills with couples for relational living

Target Audience

  • Addiction Counselors
  • Counselors
  • Marriage and Family Therapists
  • Physicians
  • Nurses
  • Psychologists
  • Social Workers

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