Transformative Couples Therapy® Advanced Training Course - Hong Kong

This is an online course of experiential and didactic training for social workers, counselors and therapists in Hong Kong.

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

What You Can Expect:

This course can equip you to reach beyond your own internal working model as a therapist.  We will help you expand your capacity to make use of your selective perception, selective reception and selective expression for optimizing transformational treatment outcomes.

Transformative Couples Therapy® is a powerful treatment method with foundations in affective neuroscience and attachment theory.

You will learn new theory and skills through viewing powerful couple sessions on video. ​

You will experience using these skills by being part of realistic role-play as “couples”. You will be supported with expert moment-to-moment guidance from Experiential Assistants in small groups.

Objectives:​

This Advanced Course in Transformative Couples Therapy® will help participants 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 defenses 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 new Advanced Training Course series begins Sunday, February 4th, 2024

This course is currently under review for 24 CE from the APA.

Series dates - 8 monthly 2.75-hour sessions with an optional hour of review and discussion for a fee of US$85 per session:

2/4/24, 3/3/24, 4/7/24, 5/5/24, 6/2/24 then a summer break to 9/15/24, 10/13/24 and 11/10/24 from 8:00 AM-11:00 AM Hong Kong Time.

Additional information:

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

  2. This course offers 2.75 CE per session for eight sessions totaling 22 CE.

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

  4. Our schedule for this course is:

    8:00 – 8:20 AM PST Orientation and opening ten-minute Channels of Experience meditation

    8:20-8:35 AM Check-in and discussion of participant responses to the meditation and any breakthroughs or problems in treating their couples with the TCT method.

    8:35 -9:35 Presentation and discussion of a Power Point and then an edited and captioned video-taped clinical Transformative Couples Therapy session presented by David Mars

    9:35 – 9:45 AM Discussion, questions and preparation for transition into Experiential Groups with Experiential Assistants

     9:45 AM – 10:00AM break

    10:00 AM – 10:50 AM Experiential practice applying the skills learned in groups of four

    10:50 AM to 11:00 AM Summarize

  5. 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.

  6. 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 teaching the method 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

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

  8. CUE Management Solutions, LLC is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. CUE Management Solutions, LLC maintains responsibility for this program and its content.