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Become a Certified Couples Therapist and be fully confident in your ability to work with couples and modern relationships
Join Dr. Tammy Nelson, Master Therapist and founder of The Integrative Sex Therapy Institute

Your chance to earn two certifications through this state-of-the-art program:

Become a Certified Couple Therapy Informed Provider (CCTIP) by completing the step-by-step on-demand modules.
Then take part in consultation groups to be certified in Tammy Nelson's Integrative Relationship Therapy (IRT) approach.

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Register today for just $599.99!

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Become a recognized expert in working with and couples and relationships through this exclusive, world-class training program!

Register today and you’ll get instant access to tailored instruction, comprehensive tools, and real in-session demonstrations, so you can be fully equipped to work with:

  • ✔ Individuals and couples experiencing relationship distress
  • ✔ Sex and intimacy
  • ✔ Separation and divorce
  • ✔ Trauma and attachment wounds
  • ✔ Polyamory and non-monogamy
  • ✔ And much more!

And since IRT incorporates the latest research and interventions from today's most powerful approaches (including Gottman Method, IFS Therapy, Imago relationship therapy, and Emotionally Focused Therapy)… you can be confident you're providing the best possible care.

Sign up today to become a recognized relationship expert who's truly on the cutting-edge of therapy!

Integrative Relationship Therapy Certification Training with Tammy Nelson, PhD


Valued at $1,844.99 – Register today for just $599.99!
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Plus, earn up to 34.5 CE hours! Click here for Credit details.
Your Dual-Certification in One State-of-the-Art Program!

Certified Couple Therapy Informed Provider (CCTIP)

This exclusive course includes all the training therapists need to be become a Certified Couple Therapy Informed Provider (CCTIP). Complete the fully on-demand training modules to earn your certification, and you’ll be a recognized couples therapist who has the skills to treat today’s complex relationship challenges.

Certified Integrative Relationship Therapy Professional (C-IRT)

Be part of exclusive consultation groups where you'll present your real cases and get live access to help from Tammy Nelson and her expert trainers.

Take your career to the next level by getting certified in Tammy Nelson’s acclaimed Integrative Relationship Therapy (IRT) approach. You’ll master the approach that Tammy Nelson and her colleagues at world-renowned The Integrative Sex Therapy Institute have used to help thousands find the deeply connected and passionate relationships they've always wanted.

As a Certified Integrative Relationship Therapy Professional (C-IRT), you’ll be part of The Integrative Sex Therapy Institute’s elite referral network!

Plus, the first year of each certification (a $249.99 value) is included with the price of the course!

See what leading therapy innovators are saying about
Tammy Nelson's groundbreaking work!
"At a time when life can feel so murky and chaotic, along comes Tammy Nelson with
guidance that is crisp and clear as it is hopeful and realistic."
— Esther Perel, NYT bestselling author and world-renowned expert on working with relationships
"Tammy Nelson is a master therapist who can help you find hope and opportunity, even in the multiple crises caused by an affair."
— Gina Ogden, PhD, LMFT, author of The Return of Desire and The Heart & Soul of Sex
"I can think of no better guide to lead couples through the journey of intimacy than Tammy Nelson."
— Ian Kerner, PhD, sex therapist and New York Times bestselling author of She Comes First
"The New Monogamy sets Tammy Nelson apart from many other therapists. She doesn't believe affairs simply involve a pathetic victim and an arrogant perpetrator―and that's why she can actually help couples navigate this difficult challenge."
— Marty Klein, PhD, author of Sexual Intelligence
"Many clinicians refer out for sex therapy, but Tammy Nelson provides wonderful resources that will help all clinicians feel better prepared to address sex, sexuality and pleasure with clients. She is a gift to our field, she is a pioneer in the work of understanding couple sexuality and ethical non-monogamy."
— Brittany Edge, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist

Integrative Relationship Therapy Certification Training with Tammy Nelson, PhD


Valued at $1,844.99 – Register today for just $599.99!
GET STARTED NOW
Plus, earn up to 34.5 CE hours! Click here for Credit details.
As a Certified Couples Therapist, you'll be a recognized expert in working with couples and relationships!
Course Schedule

Join Tammy Nelson for this exclusive program that's the culmination of her 35+ years of clinical work with relationships and intimacy.

You'll get instant access to five engaging modules that are specifically designed to equip you with a start-to-finish approach you can use right away with your clients.

First, you'll master the three, easy-to-follow stages of the IRT framework that serve as a roadmap you can rely on again and again, when dealing with relationship conflict.

Then you'll dive deep into navigating the complex challenges of today's relationships, including: working with sex, trauma, affairs, redefined definitions of monogamy, power struggles, and more.

Plus, you'll get access to free bonus resources, including e-books, meditation videos, handouts, and clinical exercises.

Module 1: Essentials of the Integrative Relationship Therapy Approach

In this first module, you will learn the core components of Integrative Relationship Therapy and find out which treatment modalities Tammy has found to be pivotal to successful relationship therapy. She’ll then show you exactly how she integrates key interventions from these approaches into a singular treatment approach and introduce you, step-by-step, to her 10-session IRT treatment model.

You’ll also discover how to:

  • ✔ Overcome common barriers to healthy relationships
  • ✔ Understand and work with different relationship and intimacy types
  • ✔ Integrate IFS Therapy, Emotionally Focused Therapy, Gottman Technique, Imago, and other approaches into your couples’ work
  • ✔ Incorporate sexuality into treatment
  • ✔ Use an IRT treatment approach, session-by-session
Module 2 - Healing from Affairs: Moving Past the Trauma of Betrayal and Infidelity

In this module, get the most up-to-date knowledge and skills you need to confidently guide your clients through affairs. You’ll move beyond the victim/perpetrator model and learn how to support clients as they work through intense feelings of anger, guilt, shame, disconnection, and mistrust.

Join Tammy for step-by-step guidance through videos and case examples that illustrate the varieties of affairs.

You’ll learn:

  • ✔ The three stage-model of affair recovery
  • ✔ Skills for managing countertransference and therapist triggers
  • ✔ The key building blocks to overcome attachment trauma and restore emotional and physical intimacy
  • ✔ How to determine if it's better for the partners to stay or split
  • ✔ How to create long-term sustainable relationship agreements to help couples move forward after an affair
Module 3 - Treating Trauma with the Integrative Relationship Therapy Approach

In this third module, you’ll learn how to adapt the IRT model to work with relationships impacted by the most common types of trauma. In addition to gaining additional trauma-specific skills, you’ll also receive specific guidance on navigating challenges around intimacy, sexuality, and pleasure.

You’ll discover how to:

  • ✔ Identify the symptoms of trauma, including those that are commonly missed
  • ✔ Develop a treatment roadmap to guide trauma recovery
  • ✔ Address the most common way trauma impacts relationships, including sexuality, intimacy and pleasure
  • ✔ Incorporate special considerations for childhood trauma
  • ✔ Avoid trauma triangulation when working with relationships
  • ✔ Discover special considerations for intergenerational trauma and systemic racism
Module 4 - Integrative Relationship Therapy and Monogamy Issues in Treatment

In this fourth module, you’ll learn how to use IRT when working with the most common issues related to monogamy, including non-monogamy, polyamory, separation, divorce and more. Discover how to help your clients navigate everything from identifying the dilemma in their relationship to moving beyond betrayal.

Through engaging teaching sessions and case demonstrations, you’ll learn

  • ✔ The central aspects of different relationship styles including Polyamory, Monogamy and Non-Monogamy and how to work with each
  • ✔ Strategies for improving communication among partners
  • ✔ How to guide clients in developing a monogamy agreement
  • ✔ How to talk through implications of separation, from changing finances to changing identity
  • ✔ How to help partners create a new vision for their future
  • ✔ How to help partners create a new vision for their future
Module 5 - Integrative Relationship Therapy and The Future: Interventions for Contemporary Psychotherapy

In the final module, you'll get insight into some of the most compelling topics in modern couple's therapy. Explore the rapidly developing world of sex, relationship technology, and the future of sex and learn to confidently work across the spectrums of gender, sexuality, and relationships.

Plus, you'll get insight into one of the most cutting-edge developments in couples therapy — psychedelics.

You’ll discover:

  • ✔ What to do when technology joins the relationship
  • ✔ The highs and lows of relationship with robots
  • ✔ How to work navigate some today’s complex issues: from reproductive rights and Post-Roe Abortion to Trans rights and Don’t Say Gay
  • ✔ How to work with couples’ around sexual desire
  • ✔ Use a step-by-step guide to Erotic Recovery that works for most relationshipse
  • ✔ Support couples in creating an Erotic Vision plan
Become Certified in Dr. Tammy Nelson’s Integrative Relationship Therapy Professional (C-IRT) approach.
Take your career to the next level …

Once you’ve completed the on-demand training modules, you can go on to become certified in the IRT approach. All you need to do is take part in three consultation groups to fulfill the IRT certification requirements. You'll be able to present your cases and get expert guidance, as well as share ideas and feedback with your colleagues. With multiple sessions occurring throughout the year, you'll be able to choose the opportunities that work best for your schedule.

This is your unique opportunity for Live Consultation from Tammy Nelson and her expert training faculty!

Once you're certified in the IRT approach, you'll have the opportunity to be added to Tammy Nelson's referral list of elite C-IRT clinicians, so you can expand your practice as an expert relationship healer!

Integrative Relationship Therapy Certification Training with Tammy Nelson, PhD


Valued at $1,844.99 – Register today for just $599.99!
GET STARTED NOW
Plus, earn up to 34.5 CE hours! Click here for Credit details.
Certified Couple Therapy Informed Provider (CCTIP) /
Certified Integrative Relationship Therapy Professional

C-IRT Badge CCTIP BadgeThe future of psychotherapy depends on clinical professionals who can effectively work with intimate relationships.

As a Certified Couple Therapy Informed Provider (CCTIP) and Certified Integrative Relationship Therapy Professional (C-IRT) through The Integrative Sex Therapy Institute and Evergreen Certifications, you'll be able to demonstrate your advanced skills and knowledge in working with couples and relationship challenges.

When you complete this program, you'll be awarded your printable certification to display to your clients and colleagues.

Check out the glowing review from your colleagues on what certification has meant for their practices:

"The certifications have provided me with career opportunities I never thought I could achieve."
— Stephanie, LMHC

"Certification has really boosted my clientele. Now, I have a full practice with an extensive waiting list."
— Jack, LPC, NCC

"Evergreen Certifications has changed my life by allowing me to be recognized for my work, knowledge, and expertise."
— Liliana, LPC, NCC

In just four easy steps, you can become a Certified Integrative Relationship Therapy Professional (C-IRT).

Step 1: Watch the online course.
Step 2: Complete the CE tests and instantly print your CE certificates.
Step 3: Take part in three consultation groups with Tammy Nelson and her relationship experts.
Step 4: Submit the Certification Questionnaire and required documents, and your application is complete.*
 

That's it! No hidden fees. No catch. Just certification made EASY.

*Professional standards and consultation requirements apply. Learn more at www.evergreencertifications.com

We partner with Evergreen Certifications to include certification with some of our products. When you purchase such a product, we may disclose your information to Evergreen Certifications for purposes of providing services directly to you or to contact you regarding relevant offers. Evergreen Certifications is owned by PESI, Inc.

 

Meet Your Course Teacher and Guide
Tammy Nelson

Tammy Nelson, PhD, is a licensed psychotherapist in private practice, a relationship expert and international speaker, an author, a faculty member and teacher with a Doctorate in Philosophy in Clinical Sexology. She is a Board Certified Sexologist, a Diplomate of the American Board of Sexologists, a Licensed Professional Counselor, an AASECT Certified Sex Therapist, a Registered Art Therapist, a Licensed Alcohol and Drug Counselor, a Certified Imago Relationship therapist and an Advanced Imago Clinician as well as an ISTI Certified Sex and Couples Therapist.

Dr. Tammy is the author of six books including Open Monogamy: A Guide to Co-Creating Your Ideal Relationship Agreement (2021), Integrative Sex & Couples Therapy: A Therapist's Guide to New and Innovative Approaches (2020), When You're the One Who Cheats, Ten Things You Need to Know ( 2018), The New Monogamy: Redefining Your Relationship After Infidelity (2013), Getting the Sex You Want: Shed Your Inhibitions and Reach New Heights of Passion Together (2008), and What's Eating You?: A Workbook for Anorexia and Bulimia (2004). She is also creator of Date Night Card Deck (2023), a TEDx speaker, host of the podcast "The Trouble with Sex," and founder and Executive Director of the Integrative Sex Therapy Institute.

Click here for information about Tammy Nelson.
Frequently Asked Questions

To be effective with relationships, you need to have the right skills and understanding, or you'll end up feeling frustrated and lost.

This is your opportunity to sit alongside a true master on this topic and learn exactly what to do and say in every step of the therapy process.

You'll get access to comprehensive training and walk away with a complete framework for you to use right away with your cases.

Plus, this program includes real in-session demonstrations, so you're prepared for the nuances and complexity of even the most challenging cases.

If you're ready to become a true expert in working with couples and relationships, this course is for you!


Immediately! You can get started with this training as soon as you register.

Your access to this course is unlimited for as long as you have your account.

The live calls are scheduled approximately once a month. Within your course tab you will have the option to select the date that works best for you.

No! If you're working with intimate relationships, whether with an individual or both partners, you'll learn important insight and skills you can use right away in your practice.

Yes! This course was developed to be compatible with some of the most popular relationship approaches available today, including IFS Therapy, Emotionally Focused Therapy, Imago Therapy, and more.

Integrative Relationship Therapy Certification Training with Tammy Nelson, PhD


Valued at $1,844.99 – Register today for just $599.99!
GET STARTED NOW
Plus, earn up to 34.5 CE hours! Click here for Credit details.
The Next Steps in Advancing Your Practice
 
Watch your email for your order confirmation, and get instant access to all course materials, including the bonus materials. Click here for course objectives and outline.
 
Review the course materials at your own pace and at your convenience! You'll have unlimited access to all course videos and materials online forever. Plus, use the PESI Mobile app to access the course content on your phone or tablet. Choose video or audio-only versions of online courses from the world's best instructors, and complete your CE requirements anywhere, anytime, at your own pace.
 
Instantly collaborate with other professionals on the course materials through interactive message boards. You'll be part of a community of hundreds of practitioners all focused on integrating the most effective trauma techniques, providing valuable opportunities to share insight and experiences and to build your professional network.
 
Complete your online CE tests and earn up to 34.5 CE hours! Click here for Credit details and credit details specific to your profession.
 
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Integrative Relationship Therapy Certification Training with Tammy Nelson, PhD


Valued at $1,844.99 – Register today for just $599.99!
GET STARTED NOW
Plus, earn up to 34.5 CE hours! Click here for Credit details.
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