Transformative Couples Therapy®: Online Therapist Training Center
Six therapists describe their experience at a Therapist Training Intensive. All therapist training is now online via Zoom
Transformative Couples Therapy® helps therapists evoke and amplify the power of the felt experience of love in the couples we treat.
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To begin the process of transforming relationships, the therapist guides couple members to talk directly to each other from the first moments of the opening session.
For many couple therapists of other orientations this is a stretch: “What if they start escalating?”
When therapists practice out methods they report being surprised that safe, authentic, and regulated interactions emerge within their sessions and between sessions as well.
Therapists, in combination with our Transformative Couples Therapy® therapist training center, help couples break through stuckness and reactivity and evoke the flexible trust and resilience which has been so much needed.
This way of engaging neuroplasticity prepares the therapist to help couples to shift away from patterns of hot and cold conflict and loneliness. They build new body-based pathways of connection and healing every session.
Features of the Transformative Couples Therapy® method:
Attachment-based, affective neuroscience-informed.
A body-oriented model based on the Seven Channels of Experience.
Enlivening biological drives that mobilize healing, repair, love, and connection.
The four-state transformational model of AEDP: Defense, Core Affect, Mastery and Vitality Affects and Core State
Life-changing interventions that begin in the first session: Couples learn to say what they want with each other and let go of patterns of criticism.
They move away from focusing on what is wrong, to discover and express what they long for with each other instead.
When the Going Gets Rough
We forge resilient connections during periods of hot and cold conflict.
We open selective somatic awareness through Seven Channels of Experience as an alternative to judging and projecting.
When Triggered: Whose Face Do You See Behind His or Her Face?
We transform patterns of reactivity and brittleness by accessing the roots of historical trauma and create new endings to formerly stuck memories by completing healing portrayals in the presence of the partner.
Illuminate, repair and re-wire trauma-based self-protective adaptations through healing unresolved trauma and deprivation.
Toward the End of Treatment: Stabilizing and Fortifying Change for lasting results
When change has happened and old patterns reassert themselves, we anticipate these bumps in the road, slow down, and facilitate healing repairs. This is similar to the process of tempering steel: we teach therapists to help couples replace patterns of hot reactivity and cold brittleness with more resilient earned secure attachment.
At our therapist training center, the final phase of treatment involves couple members mindfully practicing the new methods they have developed with each other during treatment with sessions spaced further apart. Self-facilitated, skillful attunement and repair of small disruptions along the way become the new-normal in daily life.