A402 To Leave or to Stay: Working with Couples on the Brink

Explore a step-by-step protocol for helping ambivalent couples decide whether to stay in a marriage that maximizes the chances that the relationship will survive and prepares spouses for the possibility of divorce.

William Doherty, Ph.D.

CE Credits: 3
Fee: Regular Price $90 
Online Member Discount: $80

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A214 Erotic Intelligence: Reconciling Sensuality and Domesticity

Learn to help couples find that “sweet spot,” combining both hot sex and loving intimacy, by coaching them to move beyond their comfort zones into a more exciting, genuinely adult, sexuality.

Esther Perel, M.A.

CE Credits: 6
Fee: Regular Price $139 
Online Member Discount: $129

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A207 Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy

Learn techniques based on attachment theory to improve your marital therapy outcomes and help couples achieve a deep and lasting emotional connection.

Susan Johnson, Ed.D.

CE Credits: 6
Fee: Regular Price $139
Online Member Discount: $129

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A414 Customizing Couples Therapy: A New Treatment Model

Most unhappy couples have too many issues and too little time. Learn to help them design their own treatment plan, focus on what matters most to them without mutual blame, and solve problems quickly and effectively in the present.

David Treadway, Ph.D.

CE Credits: 4
Fee: Regular Price: $104 
Online Member Discount: $94

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K107 The Experience of Connection

Learn how to apply the “science of love” in couples therapy.

Susan Johnson, Ed.D.

CE Credits: 1
Fee: $15

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A107 Bad Couples Therapy: How to Avoid Doing It

Laugh and cry at the foibles of your own profession, while reviewing practical steps for doing good couples therapy that help partners stay together and establish solid, happy relationships.

William Doherty, Ph.D

CE Credits: 5
Fee: Regular Price $119
Online Member Discount: $109

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A104 Couples Therapy with Intimacy Avoiders

Learn methods to help clients restore authentic intimacy and passion in their relationships and-- in the process-- heal childhood wounds that have made them fearful of closeness and attachment as adults.

Terry Real, L.I.C.S.W.

CE Credits: 6
Fee: Regular Price: $139
Online Member Discount: $129

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A314 The Heart of the Matter: A Clinician's Guide to Attachment Theory

Learn how to integrate the field’s most empirically validated approach to couples therapy into your own work with couples to help them achieve a deep emotional connection.

Susan Johnson, Ed.D.

CE Credits: 6
Fee: Regular Price $139
Online Member Discount: $129

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OL109: Rediscovering Pleasure: Eroticism and Couplehood

CE Credits: 3
Fee: Regular Price $36
Online Member Discount $30

Authors: Esther Perel, David Schnarch, Katy Butler

Since the days of Freud, our consulting rooms have been a place designated for straight talk about sexuality, where, presumably, psychological enlightenment could be counted on to prevail over the dark forces of repression...

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OL140: Mindfulness and the Art of Relationship

CE Credits: 2
Fee: Regular Price $24
Online Member Discount $20

Authors: Jerome Front, Molly Layton, David Treadway, Zindel Segal

From its very beginnings, therapy has almost always consisted primarily of talk, evolving from slow, ruminative talk during the heyday of psychodynamic practice to the faster-paced, therapist-directed, make-it-happen talk required in the 6 to 10 sessions that are now the norm...

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A211 The Space Between: A New Paradigm in Intimacy

Listen as three live couples learn a new dialogue that helps them transcend their usual approach-avoidance relationship and enter a new realm of intimacy and spiritual connection.

Hedy Schleifer, M.A.

CE Credits: 7
Fee: Regular Price $145 
Online Member Discount: $135

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A603 Bringing the New Science of Love into Everyday Life

Learn a brief, powerful approach based on the science of bonding and attachment that helps emotionally estranged and bitter couples reconnect on a deep, intimate level.

Susan Johnson, Ed.D.

CE Credits: 4
Fee: Regular Price $104
Online Member Discount: $94

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A408 Imago Relationship Therapy: Introduction to Basic Clinical Training, Part 1

Learn the basic principles of Imago Relationship Therapy while getting credit for the first 2 days of the 12-day Imago clinical training program.

Jette Simon, Lic and Maya Kollman, M.A.

CE Credits: 16
Fee: Regular Price $269 
Online Member Discount: $259

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OL110: Treating Sexual Issues in Psychotherapy

CE Credits: 3
Fee: Regular Price $36
Online Member Discount $30

Authors: David Schnarch, Michele Weiner-Davis, Barry McCarthy, Richard Schwartz, Katy Butler

Every therapist who works with couples inevitably works with sexual issues...

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K105 The Relational Paradigm: The Myth of the Separate Individual

Learn how to move from an isolated “me” to the connection of “us.”

Harville Hendrix, Ph.D.

CE Credits: 1
Fee: $15

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A507 Helping Couples Become Conscious Partners

Learn to help couples make the transition from unthinking relationship to conscious partnership by coaching them to become more present to each other and engaged with what happens in the sacred space between them. 

Harville Hendrix, Ph.D.

CE Credits: 6
Fee: Regular Price $139 
Online Member Discount: $129

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A413 How to Improve a Marriage without Talking: Finding Love Beyond Words

Learn how understanding the latest research on gender differences can help you break the classic back-and-forth of female criticism and male withdrawal to foster emotional connection.

Pat Love, Ed.D. and Steven Stosny, Ph.D.

CE Credits: 6
Fee: Regular Price $139 
Online Member Discount: $129

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OL107: The Cutting Edge of Couples Therapy

CE Credits: 4
Fee: Regular Price $48
Online Member Discount $40

Authors: William Doherty, Terry Real, Gay Hendricks, Michele Weiner-Davis, Marian Sandmaier

The dirty little secret in our field is that couples work may be the hardest form of therapy...

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OL130: The Decision to Divorce

CE Credits: 4
Fee: Regular Price $48
Online Member Discount $40

Authors: William Doherty, Barry McCarthy, Jerome Price, Jay Lebow, Rob Waters, Maria Isaacs, Laura Markowitz

The most critical life decision most therapists deal with in their everyday practice is helping couples decide whether to dissolve a marriage or try to save it...

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K103 Why Him? Why Her?: The Secret Code of Attraction

Explore the pivotal role temperament plays in romantic relationships.

Helen Fisher, Ph.D.

CE Credits: 1
Fee: $15

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A205 The Heart of Loving: Sexuality and Intimacy in Couples Therapy

David Treadway, Ph.D.

CE Credits: 6
Fee: Regular Price $139
Online Member Discount: $129

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OL106: The Art of Intimacy: Understanding the Couple's Bond

CE Credits: 4
Fee: Regular Price $48
Online Member Discount $40

Authors: Susan Johnson, Pat Love, Richard Schwartz, Michael Ventura, Laura Markowitz

In the mass media, love is typically dished up as an endless celebration of brand new, gloriously uncomplicated ardor. But the fact is that most of us are pitifully unprepared for life after infatuation...

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OL108: The Crisis of Infidelity

CE Credits: 3
Fee: Regular Price $36
Online Member Discount $30

Authors: Frank Pittman, Emily Brown, Shirley Glass, Don-David Lusterman, Leo Fay

Even today many therapists tip-toe around the subject of infidelity...

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A708 A Male Friendly Approach to Couples Therapy

Learn how to engage emotion-phobic men in couples therapy by reducing their shame and dread of failure, appealing to their core values, and evoking their own attachment styles.

Steven Stosny, Ph.D.

CE Credits: 6
Fee: Regular Price $139
Online Member Discount: $129

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OL133: The Art and Science of Couples Therapy

CE Credits: 7
Fee: Regular Price $84
Online Member Discount $70

Authors: Katy Butler, Susan Johnson, Esther Perel, Jay Lebow, Ashley Prend, Rosalind Barnett, Caryl Rivers

If most individuals and their problems are complex and difficult, what general conclusions can possibly be drawn about treating the average marriage in trouble?...

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