Meet the Course Supervisor, David Mars, Ph.D.
We will focus on the AEDP for Couples model of therapy, which privileges finding and amplifying the felt experience of love in the room from the first session and evokes powerful transformance drives for healing.
Teaching will focus on accelerated methods for creating safety and treating the underlying attachment level trauma that underlies marital distress and disconnection. We will be deepening the skills necessary to hold dyadic affect regulation within couple sessions, so couples can transfer these skills into their lives every day. Working with couples in these ways presents new learning challenges and opgportunities to therapists, as well as powerful new methods to evoke accelerated transformational healing of historical trauma and deprivation that inevitably “pops up” in committed relationships.
Topics for this year’s Core Training include:
- Treating couples recovering from affairs
- Addressing sexual issues within the marriage
- Treating the impact of financial betrayals
- Transforming patterns of chronic dissociation
- Reviving and restoring “stale and bitter” relational patterns
- Help hot and cold conflict transform to bring peace and justice to the whole family
- Conducting healing portrayals within couple therapy sessions
A major theme of our work will be to catalyze couple therapists’ capacities to bring more experiences of dignity, deep fairness and the “undoing of aloneness” of young sub-parts of couple members that were historically neglected or abused. David will expand on and deepen the theory and practice of AEDP for Couples on the Saturday morning of each module with evocative videotape of a couple in treatment. Prior to each weekend of training, David will send participants a transcript with a micro-analysis of the session that will be presented, identifying the key interventions that emphasize how to apply the Four States and Three State Transformations of AEDP in couple treatment. Also featured each weekend will be invitations to practice deepening witnessing capacity for perceiving, receiving and expressing in the Seven Channels of Experience. (See the Transformance Journal or CFTTsite.com for more information.)
As a participant in this core training you will be sharing your own videotaped couple session each training weekend. You will receive supervision, constructive group witnessing and focused assistance directed by your request. You can also choose the opportunity for “live role-play re-dos” with alternative interventions to keep fine-tuning your work with couples. It is part of the intention of this training series to support those who practice EFT, PACT and other methods of treating couples to integrate the AEDP for Couples model into your palette of skills as a couple therapist.
Weekend 1: October 24 and 25, 2015
Weekend 2: December 5 and 6, 2015
Weekend 3: January 9 and 10, 2016
Weekend 4: March 19-20, 2016
Weekend 5: May 21-22, 2016
Continuing Education Credits
This program is eligible for 70 hours of continuing education credit through our co-sponsor R. Cassidy Seminars. To view the CE accreditation statement click here. CE Credits are included in the fee.
Course Location
The Center For Transformative Therapies
705 Fourth Street, Ste 200
San Rafael, CA 94901
Course Fee
The fee for the AEDP Couples Core Training is $3,300. Course size is limited to 10 participants. A $200 discount is available if full payment is made at the time of registration.
A one-year financial commitment is required. View our cancellation/refund policy.
Registration
RegisterTo secure your spot and arrange for a payment plan, please contact Karen at 866-992-9399 x105