ELLYN BADER, Ph.D., is in private practice and is Co-Director of The Couples Institute in Menlo Park, California. Over the past 25 years she has conducted professional training programs in couples therapy and has trained therapists throughout the United States as well as Europe, Asia, South America, and Australia. She is a past president of the International Transactional Analysis Association and a recipient of the Clark Vincent Award for an outstanding literary contribution to the field of marital therapy from the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists. Dr. Bader is frequently invited to speak at national and international conferences. She and her husband, PETER PEARSON, Ph.D., coauthored the books, “In Quest of the Mythical Mate: A Developmental Approach to Diagnosis and Treatment in Couples Therapy” (Brunner/Mazel) and “Tell Me No Lies: How to Face the Truth and Build an Honest Marriage” (St. Martin’s Press).
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Ellyn Bader is the director of The Couples Institute and receives compensation as a consultant. She receives royalties as a published author. Ellyn Bader receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Ellyn Bader is a member of the American Psychological Association, the International Transactional Analysis Association, and the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists.
Alexandra H. Solomon, PhD, is staff clinical psychologist, member of the teaching faculty in the marriage and family therapy graduate program, and clinical assistant professor of psychology at The Family Institute at Northwestern University. In addition to her clinical work with couples and individuals, Solomon teaches graduate and undergraduate students. One of her courses is Northwestern University’s internationally renowned “Building Loving and Lasting Relationships: Marriage 101,” which combines traditional and experiential learning to educate students about key relational issues like intimacy, sex, conflict, acceptance, and forgiveness. Solomon’s work has been widely cited, and her articles on love and marriage have appeared in The Handbook of Clinical Psychology, The Handbook of Couple Therapy, Family Process, Psychotherapy Networker, and other top publications in psychology. Her work also appears in O Magazine and The Huffington Post, and she is a frequent interviewee and contributor for the Oprah Winfrey Network, Yahoo! Health, The Atlantic, CBS Early Show, NPR, Psychology Today, and WGN Morning News. She is a sought-after speaker for corporate, collegiate, and professional audiences on topics related to modern love. Solomon lives in Highland Park, IL, with her husband, Todd, and their two children, Brian and Courtney.
Dr. Tracy Dalgleish, PhD is a clinical psychologist, couples therapist, and sought-after relationship expert. For over fifteen years, she has provided direct clinical services to couples and has dedicated her time to researching, writing, and speaking about relationships. Her goal is to make the skills and tools she teaches her clients more accessible so they can build healthier relationships with themselves and with others. She is the founder of Be Connected Digital and the owner of a mental health clinic, Integrated Wellness. She lives in Ottawa, Canada, with her husband and two children.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Tracy Dalgleish the co-founder and therapist at Integrated Wellness. She receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Tracy Dalgleish is a member of the College of Psychologists of Ontario and the Ontario Psychological Association.
IBCT is a widely used evidence-based treatment for couples that was adopted by the US Department of Veteran’s Affairs as its evidence-based treatment for couple distress. The DEEP analysis guides the assessment of couples, feedback to them, and treatment of them in Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy (IBCT). Learn how to use this easy to implement assessment tool in couples therapy to target the issues couples need addressed.
Couples work can be challenging, and partners often come in wanting fast results. Meanwhile, the traditional 1-hour weekly session has proven to be both frustrating and limiting for many couples and their therapists. The start and stop of weekly sessions leave clients wondering “Are we getting anywhere?” In this presentation, we will introduce you to a model for providing couples intensives that condense months of therapy into several days, and how to add this type of therapy to your practice. Participants will receive several handouts to support this new way of working
Explore unnoticed burdens faced by dementia caregivers, impacting patient care. Master caregiver assessment tools like the Zarit Burden Interview and Caregiver Burden Index. Engage caregivers and apply insights to comprehensive care plans. Empower clinicians to improve patient outcomes while supporting caregivers. Transform your dementia caregiving practice.
Intimate relationships are inextricably tied to trauma recovery. Cognitive-behavioral conjoint therapy for PTSD (CBCT for PTSD) is a couple-based treatment for PTSD with the simultaneous goals of treating PTSD and enhancing intimate relationship functioning. This presentation will give you an inside look at this evidence-based treatment and the data supporting its effectiveness and discuss future treatment innovations to optimize the role of couple therapy in trauma recovery
Shame is a powerful emotion that can keep partners stuck in negative interaction cycles. If left un-addressed, interventions often fail. This session will teach you to identify the downward negative shame spiral many partners get stuck in when participating in couples therapy. Couples therapists will learn how to identify shame in both the more critical and more withdrawn partner. They will also learn different strategies using an integrative approach to addressing shame
While modern couples are heralded for being great workers, parents, friends, and community members, these relationships often (and unknowingly) can place intimate relationship at risk.
Stephen teaches why the practice of NIRI is centred in relational-interconnectivity and demonstrates how all aspects of the couple relationship is indelibly influenced by and imbedded within cultural, economic, and relational contexts - filled with tremendous expectations, obligations, norms, and responsibilities. When couple therapists isolate, disembody, and divide intimate couple relationships off from these relational and contextual complexities, they act to privatize relational conflict and suffering within just the couple relationship itself.
The work of NIRI involves a deliberate political, philosophical, and ideological practice shift away from individualizing couple conflict and moves towards an ecology of interlocking post-structural non-individualist theoretical ideas and therapeutic practices engaged with:
In this workshop we will uncover a novel model of love that emerged through decades of research and clinical experience of working with couples across 41 countries. Many couples face disillusionment in their quest for fulfilling love. This session introduces participants to the Emergent Love model as an addition to what we know from the Greek categories of love. It will also delve into the concepts and tools to work with "love blueprint”; “8 common relational configurations” and identifying “six essential ingredients for cultivating enduring love”. It will offer practical strategies to help couples reshape their perceptions, experiences, and expressions of love. Participants will be equipped with transformative insights to empower couples towards deeper connection and fulfillment in their relationships.
What do our relationship structures begin to look like as we transition from paradigms of ‘needing’ one another for survival, to embodying the space of partnering for the purpose of authentic relational desire? For centuries, relationships – especially between men and women – have been rooted in codependent templates. The societal structures created dynamics where women were dependent on men for their financial stability, and men were dependent on women for their emotional stability. But as we are evolving into a society where women are able to procure more financial independence, there has been minimal conversations – especially in the sphere of couples work, about how this has impacted relationship dynamics.
Men are still socialized to utilize their partner as a primary source of emotional support, and as we continue to challenge patriarchal frameworks for what cultivates relational fulfillment – this has leads to glaring discrepancies in what men and women are experiencing as authentic intimacy. This workshop will explore why I believe a shift from attachment focused models, to supporting couples in models rooted in differentiation, is the key to an interdependent way of relating in an evolving world
Join your hosts Zach Taylor, Director of Psychotherapy Networker, & Alicia Muñoz, MA LPC, Senior writer for Psychotherapy Networker, along with surprise faculty to de-brief the conference sessions together.
The more our lives are guided by predictive technology, the less we are able to cope with the natural uncertainties of life. And no where is there more uncertainty in our day-to-day lives than in our relationships – meeting new people, developing friendships, and trusting intimate partnerships all require facing ambiguity and uncertainty. Many are choosing to dis-engage to avoid this anxiety and may miss out on the richness that comes from deep and meaningful relationships. In this session, we’ll explore:
Our own traumatic reactions are triggered more often in our intimate relationships than any other place in our lives. Yet trauma treatment remains highly individualistic, often seeing recovery as a pre-requisite to intimacy. But what if healing trauma can happen most effectively within relationships?
In this provocative clinical workshop, we’ll unpack the relational nature of trauma recovery, and show that rather than intimacy being merely a result of recovery, it can be the doorway that gets your clients there. In this session you’ll learn about the three-part system of the psyche, how they each operate in relationships, and how clients can learn specific skills to use their relationships as a crucible for recovery.
Adults with ADHD are over-represented in therapy offices—and especially over-represented in couples therapy. If the couples therapist does not recognize the impact of ADHD on the couple’s dynamic, they will fall into the same disempowering trap that the partners are stuck in. Fortunately, an informed therapist can apply specific interventions to break the couple out of the under/over-functioner dynamic and promote each partner’s agency to make positive changes. Some of this involves helping the partners actively manage the ADHD in order to reduce its impact on daily life. The rest involves helping the partners do the universal work of negotiating different preferences, but through the lens of how ADHD impacts relationship functioning. Because ADHD can exacerbate common relationship dynamics, knowing how to work with couples with one ADHD partner will make you a better therapist with every couple you see.
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