Course Description:

• Small group setting using demonstration, role-plays and feedback to refine case formulation and clinical process using the Gottman method.
• Video sessions of real couples, guided role-plays, and nuanced discussion to clarify implementing various Gottman method skills.
• Demonstration and Q & A for working with resistance and co-morbidities of couples.
• Learning in a professional, safe and secure environment (20 CE credits available).

Learning Objectives:

• Use the Oral History Interview during assessment of a couple

• Assess a couple and develop a therapy plan using Sound Relationship House theory
• Help couples recognize the “Four Horsemen” and substitute antidotes
• Develop skill intervening when flooding occurs in a couple in therapy sessions
• Identify and apply appropriate tools for deepening couples’ Friendship System
• Assist couples to clarify and address solvable, perpetual and gridlocked conflicts
• Apply “Dreams Within Conflict” to elicit hope and to transform perpetual conflict
• Resolve lingering negative experiences with Aftermath of Regrettable Incident
• Facilitate solving problems by applying “Compromise Ovals”
• Sensitively recognize and intervene when co-morbidities hamper emotional closeness and conflict management

Training Prerequisites

• Master’s or doctoral degree OR current graduate enrollment in mental health field
• Completed Level 1 Live Training or DVD Home study (Documentation required)
• Completed Level 2 Live Training or DVD Home study (Documentation required)
• Therapy experience highly recommended, but not required