TCT Core Training 2024

All four of these Core Training courses are open for enrollment.

Monday series begins January 22nd, 2024

Wednesday Series Begins January 24th, 2024

Thursday series begins January 18th, 2024

Hong Kong Series - begins TBA, 2024

Course Supervisor: David Mars, Ph.D. - Developer of Transformative Couples Therapy® - Director of the Center for Transformative Therapy​

Online Core Training Sessions

Transformative Couples Therapy® is a body-oriented and affective neuroscience and attachment-based method.

This course will present the theory and practice of Transformative Couples Therapy™ through lively teaching from David Mars that incorporates inspiring video-recorded demonstrations of the work.

This Core Training provides supervision and consultation for each group member's video-recorded session work to help participants learn to better track and affectively regulate two people at a time in couple treatment.

Every second month of Core Training Transformative Couples Therapy®  will be taught for two hours from an edited and subtitled clinical video over Zoom with a brief PowerPoint.  These didactic and experiential training sessions help participants to learn the application of the TCT model in a range of challenging clinical situations.

The rest of our time will be dedicated to group members sharing clinical video to receive constructive support, suggestions and guidance  Each participant will receive 40 minutes of focused attention each time they share their work. 

We will be using Process Language and Channels of Experience throughout each training session to build safety and develop optimal skillful communication for creating the necessary secure base for learning how to generate transformative outcomes for your couples and patients.

Objectives

At the end of this program, participants will be able to:

  1. Identify three ways to help establish a secure base in treatment.
  2. Describe two ways to regulate emotional reactivity in both couple members.
  3. Detect the healthiest aspects of each couple member.
  4. Utilize two methods for couple members to process emotional experience.
  5. Design healing a portrayal to treat relational trauma.
  6. Define why affirmation of the self is important.
  7. Explain how clients can melt defense of intellectualization.

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  1. Find shared matching values in couple members.
  2. Describe how to process warded-off emotional experience.
  3. Conduct meta-therapeutic processing when couples experience reparative experiences.
  4. Define the value of the core emotion of surprise in treatment.
  5. Integrate core affect through slowing down.
  6. Locate two ways to tailor treatment to a couple member’s attachment style.
  7. Select opportunities to help couple members to feel and show more positivity.
  8. Utilize openings to soften defenses.
  9. Define three early signs of dorsal vagal response.
  10. Demonstrate knowledge of two ways to regulate dorsal vagal response.
  11. Specify how the frequency of dorsal vagal response can be reduced in treatment.
  12. Distinguish methods for engaging avoidantly attached patients in treatment.
  13. Detect an example of a tough case in which an unexpected breakthrough occurred.
  14. Explain how a meditative state of mindfulness helps in treatment.
  15. Conduct a role play of meta-therapeutic processing.
  16. Explain the value of increased awareness in couple members. (*Iwakabe, S., Edlin, J., Fosha, D., Gretton, H., Joseph, A. J., Nunnink, S. E., Nakamura, K., & Thoma, N. C., 2020)
  17. Identify transformance striving in a session. (*Iwakabe, S., Edlin, J., Fosha, D., Gretton, H., Joseph, A. J., Nunnink, S. E., Nakamura, K., & Thoma, N. C., 2020)

Four 2024 TCT Core Training Groups

These courses have between 32 and 36 CE under review.

MONDAY series

18 two-hour sessions meeting approximately twice a month - begins 1/22/24

This course has 32 CE under review

1/22/24, 2/1, 2/15, 2/29, 3/14, 3/28, 4/11, 4/25, 5/9, 5/23, 6/6, 6/20/24 then after a summer break 9/5/24, 9/19, 10/3, 10/17, 11/14, 12/2/24. Mondays from 8-10 AM PT.

This Core Training series consists of approximately twice-monthly two-hour sessions with a maximum of six participants: $100 per session with an sixteen-session commitment. Once confirmed as a participant in these online training courses, you may pay with a subscription of 16 payments of $100 per month or pay in full, which includes a $100 discount - $1,500.

WEDNESDAY series

18 two-hour sessions meeting twice a month - begins 1/24/24

This course has 36 CE under review.

1/24/24, 2/7, 2/21, 3/6, 3/20, 4/3, 4/17, 5/1, 5/15, 5/29, 6/12/24 then a summer break until 9/4/24, 9/18, 10/2, 10/16, 10/30, 11/13/24 and 11/27/24 on Wednesdays 8 AM to 10 AM PT.

THURSDAY series

18 two-hour sessions meeting twice a month

This course has 36 CE under review

1/18/24, 2/1/24, 2/15/24, 2/29/24, 3/14/24, 3/28/24, 4/11/24, 4/25/24, 5/9/24, 5/23/24, 6/6/24, 6/20/24, then after a summer break, 9/5/24, 9/19/24, 10/3/24, 10/17/24, 11/14/24 and 12/12/24. Thursdays from 8-10 AM PT

These Core Training series are limited to six participants: $100 per session with an eighteen-session commitment. Once confirmed as a participant of these online training courses, you may pay with a subscription of eighteen payments of $100 twice monthly or pay in full which includes a $100 discount - $1,700.

18 CE Hong Kong group - FRIDAY series

9 two-hour sessions meeting once a month - begins 2/10/23 Hong Kong Time/Dates-Course fully enrolled

9 two-hour sessions meeting once a month 2/10/23, 3/29/23, 6/3/23 with a break until 9/21/23, 10/7/23, 10/19/23, 11/2/23, 12/7/23 and 12/14/23

Fridays 8:30 to 10:30 AM Hong Kong Time.

This Core Training series consists of nine monthly two-hour sessions with a maximum of five participants: $100 per session with a nine-session commitment. Once confirmed as a participant in these online training courses, you may pay with a subscription of nine payments of $100 per month or pay in full - US$900.

 

To schedule an interview to discuss possible membership in a TCT Core Training series, click the interview button below.

 

Additional information:

  1. This course is designed for intermediate to advanced learners.

  2. Our target audience is Psychologists, MFTs, Licensed Professional Counselors, Psychiatrists, Licensed Social Workers and Pastoral Counselors.

  3. Our schedule for this course is:

    8:00 AM to 8:10 AM PT Orientation and opening eight-minute Channels of Experience meditation=

    8:10-8:20 AM PT Check-in and discussion of each participant’s response to the meditation and any breakthroughs or problems in treating their clients with TCT

    8:20 to 9:00 Presentation and discussion of video-taped clinical Transformative Couples Therapy session and/or Power Point presented by David Mars

    9:10 AM to 9:50 AM PT Participant shares video

    9:50 AM to 10:00 AM PT Closure, including metaprocessing the training session.

    *Note: On three out of four bi-weekly sessions, there will be no training video and Power Point from David Mars, but instead two participants will share video of their clinical work to receive supervision from David Mars and consultation from their colleagues following the same time frame.

  4. Our cancelation is policy is that you may end your enrollment at any time and receive a refund for the remaining sessions of the course. In terms of grievances, questions or concerns may be communicated to David Mars, Ph.D. by email at davidmarsphd@gmail.com or by phone call to 415-234-3821​.

  5. David Mars, Ph.D., the presenter for this course holds a Ph.D. in Psychology, is licensed as an MFT and has taught Transformative Couples Therapy® (TCT) to psychotherapists internationally. He is the developer of the TCT method and was formerly a faculty member of the AEDP Institute teaching the TCT method under the name AEDP for Couples for eleven years. He is the director of the Center for Transformative Therapy has been treating couples in private practice for over forty years. For a more complete bio, see https://cfttsite.com/david-mars-phd-mft

  6. There are no conflicts of interest or external commercial support related to this course or any course offered by the Center for Transformative Therapy.