Build the clarity, confidence, and developmental insight you need to transform even the most reactive couples sessions.

You'll walk away with the skills to:

• Interrupt reactive blame-defensiveness cycles in real time so you can stabilize sessions and keep both partners engaged
• Match interventions to the couple's emotional capacity and developmental relationship stage
• Stay steady in high-intensity moments, redirect unproductive patterns, and guide couples toward meaningful change

Master the ethical and countertransference challenges unique to couples therapy — from defining the relationship as the client to navigating power dynamics, secrets, sexual issues, and more.

You'll walk away with the skills to:

• Use clean, consistent rules for consent, neutrality, and secrets
• Handle high-stakes moments with confidence using simple, repeatable clinical moves
• Assess for substance use, IPV risks, and safety concerns to make sound referral or termination decisions

Stop missing mixed neurotype dynamics—learn the affirming tools that help these overlooked couples feel seen, understood, and supported. You’ll walk away with the skills to:

• Spot mixed neurotype dynamics fast using targeted questions that reveal communication patterns, processing differences, and hidden relational strengths. 
• Confidently navigate diagnosis conversations, knowing how and when to discuss autistic traits in a way that reduces shame and increases insight. 
• Apply validation based tools to strengthen intimacy, empathy, and connection between differently wired partners.

Learn to identify hidden addiction in couples therapy and use the Developmental Model to integrate recovery, repair relational harm, and help partners build a healthier future.

You'll walk away with the skills to:

• Assess hidden addiction dynamics using clear behavioral cues and clinically grounded inquiry techniques
• Intervene with confidence and precision through therapist-led interventions that support accountability and disrupt addictive relational patterns
• Use the Developmental Model to guide recovery by pinpointing developmental "stuck points," strengthening differentiation, and helping partners repair harm

Lead couples through breakups, separation, and divorce with confidence — and help partners end with clarity, respect, and care.

You'll walk away with the skills to:

• Confidently guide couples on the brink using Discernment Counseling and other proven frameworks
• Navigate "boomerang couples" who cycle between breaking up and reconciling
• Help couples end with clarity, respect, and care so they can move forward without unnecessary conflict or harm

Cut through the chaos of betrayal and guide couples from crisis to clarity with a structured, emotionally grounded approach to healing after infidelity.

You'll walk away with the skills to:

• Quickly assess and organize the emotional chaos of infidelity — including anger, shame, betrayal, and conflicting narratives — into a clear, therapeutically effective plan
• Use targeted interventions to contain crisis, confront avoidance, regulate escalation, and guide each partner toward more differentiated engagement
• Help couples rebuild safety and connection by addressing underlying developmental stuck points and promoting genuine repair

Transform your clinical impact by learning to recognize, regulate, and ethically use your emotional, somatic, and relational responses in the therapy room.

You'll walk away with the skills to:

• Identify how your own history, values, and attachment patterns show up in the room
• Use ethical, targeted self-disclosure to deepen alliance and repair ruptures
• Regulate your own emotional reactions to stay grounded, present, and therapeutically effective

Learn the screw-ups therapists make most often in couples therapy (and why), and walk away with practical, immediately usable skills to avoid them — no matter your model or experience level.

You'll walk away with the skills to:

• Apply in-session corrections that immediately steady and strengthen the couple's process
• Avoid subtly taking sides or reinforcing stuck patterns
• Run cleaner, more effective sessions with practical tools for pacing conflict, managing reactivity, redirecting derailments, and repairing your own missteps

Deliver truly effective, culturally responsive couples therapy by uncovering the historical and contemporary forces that uniquely shape African American relationships.

You'll walk away with the skills to:

• Assess for power dynamics, racial stress, gendered expectations, and cultural mistrust
• Integrate culturally grounded, strengths-based interventions
• Use powerful, culturally responsive interventions that build safety, honor lived experience, and help African American couples strengthen connection

Move beyond cultural awareness into true intercultural practice by confidently addressing race, identity, and power in couples therapy.

You'll walk away with the skills to:

• Map cultural dynamics early using tools like cultural genograms and targeted identity questions
• Interrupt bias and cultural camouflage in real time by tracking subtle shifts in alignment, deference, or distancing
• Adopt an intercultural stance that's active, not neutral — skillfully bringing race, identity, and power into the conversation

Experience the power of Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (EFCT) that blends attachment science, master-level interventions, and therapist attunement to move couples from disconnection to secure, lasting bond.

You'll walk away with the skills to:

• Apply the EFCT roadmap to help partners access and share core attachment emotions
• Use the EFT Tango to guide clients from reactive cycles into moments of emotional engagement and bonding
• Leverage therapist attunement as an active intervention, adjusting pacing, presence, and responsiveness to create immediate safety

Discover how to support overwhelmed couples who love each other deeply but are drowning in stress, mental load, and life transitions that leave little room for intimacy or repair.

You'll walk away with the skills to:

• Interrupt hidden stress loops before they escalate into chronic disconnection
• Equip couples with fast, realistic regulation and repair tools they can use even when life is chaotic
• Address transition-based vulnerabilities head-on — from postpartum wounds to shifting roles