TCT International Experiential Training Series for 2024

Tuesdays, 8 monthly sessions: 1/30/24, 2/27/24, 3/26/24, 4/30/24, 5/28/24, 6/25/24 then a break until 9/24/24 and 10/22/24 from 8 AM PT to 11 AM PT

The first two hours of this new series will feature clinical training videos of “unlikely transformations” with couples moving through complex issues, combined with teaching in the theory and practice of Transformative Couples Therapy® (TCT). As a clinician, I imagine you know the experience of asking yourself: “How can I possibly help this couple to find a stable and loving contrast to how they have been living?” Productively answering this compelling question is at the heart of our motivation for this new series.

The third hour of each training session will focus on applying the skills you just learned into meaningful application with a live role-play couple. This “couple” will emerge from within each participant group, which takes place in a Zoom breakout room with four members and a trained TCT Experiential Assistant.

Two TCT Certified therapists, one from Hong Kong and one from the US, are joining David Mars in teaching the course to broaden the cross-cultural application of the method.

Objectives:

  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)

This course is approved by R. Cassidy.com for 22 CE: https://www.academeca.com/CEUReg/Order.aspx?selectedId=5105&offerGuid=33ee544b-09f5-4bb7-ade6-3ea224701b99

8 sessions, three hours each month: 1/29/24, 2/26/24, 3/25/24, 4/22/24, 5/19/24, 6/17/24, 9/16/24 and 10/21/24 from 8 AM to 10 AM PST

For the series of 8 three-hour sessions: $800 (Discounted payment may be made in full in $750 or by a subscription of 8 monthly payments of $100 each.)

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 PT 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 questions about TCT

    8:20 AM PT to 9:00 AM PT Presentation and discussion a Power Point on Transformative Couples Therapy presented by David Mars

    9:10 AM PT to 9:50 AM PT Dr. Mars shares captioned clinical training video for presentation and discussion

    9:50 AM to 10:15 Break

    10:05 to 10:55 Preparation and transition into Breakout rooms for Experiential Exercise

    10:55 AM PT to 11:00 AM PT Regathering, closing discussion

  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, has taught Transformative Couples Therapy® (TCT) to psychotherapists for over thirteen years. He is the developer of the TCT method and was formerly a faculty member of the AEDP Institute and taught the 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.