Resource Guide
Couples Conference Edition
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For over 25 years, the Couples Conference has helped professionals learn the applications of the latest research on facilitating treatment with couples. With the world going through a global pandemic, we as people have had to learn to rely more on virtual settings. As a result, the Milton H. Erickson Foundation and the Couples Institute still plan to hold the Couples Conference online, so you can continue your education with couples therapy work and in turn, be able to connect with and help your patients with couples related issues.
We have an abundance of material that can help you prepare for this educational event, from audio recordings, streaming videos, and other CE products. Below are the faculty members that will be part of this conference and that you can find specific material from like we explained above.
Ellyn Bader, Ph.D. is a founder and director of The Couples Institute in Menlo Park, California. Here are 2 of the 70 conference recordings from Dr. Bader, the rest can be found here.
William Doherty, Ph.D. is a Professor and Director of the Marriage and Family Therapy Program in the Department of Family Social Science at the University of Minnesota. Here are 2 of the 15 conference teachings from Dr. Doherty, the rest can be found here.
CC15 Keynote 07 – Discernment Counseling for “Mixed Agenda” Couples – William Doherty, Ph.D.
CC11 Keynote 03 – Bad and Good Couples Therapy – William Doherty, Ph.D.
Harville Hendrix, Ph.D., and Helen LaKelly Hunt, Ph.D. are partners in life and work. They co-created Imago Relationship Therapy and co-authored 10 books on intimate partnerships. Here are 2 of the 56 conference recordings from Dr. Hendrix, the rest can be found here.
CC15 Workshop 02 – Core Features of a Conscious Partnership – Harville Hendrix, Ph.D.
Here are 2 of the 22 conference teachings from Dr. Hunt, the rest can be found here.
CC18 Workshop 08 – Curiosity and Wonder – Harville Hendrix, Ph.D. and Helen LaKelly Hunt, Ph.D.
Martha Kauppi, LMFT specializes in complex relational therapy, sex issues, and alternative family structures and is the founding director of the Institute for Relational Intimacy. Here are 2 of the 8 conference recordings from Dr. Kauppi, the rest can be found here.
Terry Real, LICSW is a nationally recognized family therapist, author, and teacher. He is particularly known for his groundbreaking work with men, male psychology, and his work on gender and couples. Here are 2 of the 38 conference teachings from Dr. Real, the rest can be found here.
CC16 Workshop 04 – Trauma and Intimacy – How Relationships Hurt and Heal – Terry Real, LICSW
Stan Tatkin, PsyD, MFT is a clinician, researcher, teacher, and developer of A Psychobiological Approach To Couples Therapy® (PACT) which has training programs both nationally and internationally. Here are 2 of the 57 conference recordings from Dr. Tatkin, the rest can be found here.
CC12 Workshop 14 – Focusing on Deficits in Couple Therapy: The Pact® Methodology – Stan Tatkin, PsyD
The 3 faculty members below do not have past conference teachings related to this event, however, you can always look through our library of Couples Conference teachings as a whole here. Here is a little snippet of information about the last faculty members.
Shawm Giammattei, Ph.D. specializes in working with LGBTQ couples and families with a focus on the specific issues that arise for transgender/gender-expansive (TGE) couples and TGE youth and their families.
Caroline S. Welch is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin Law School and she is the CEO of Mind Your Brain, Inc., and co-founder of MindSightMedia, Inc.
Joseph Winn, MSW, LICSW, CST-S graduated from Boston University with a Master’s Degree in Social Work and a specialization in group psychotherapy. While studying, his field placements focused on family therapy, adult mental health, substance abuse, and dependency, to name a few.
If you are thinking about or planning on attending this year’s Couples Conference, reference back to this blog post to get familiar with the current faculty and observe some of their brilliant audio and video recordings before you join in on the virtual fun June 5-6, 2021. Learn more about the 2021 Couples Conference at: www.couplesconference.com.
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A Guide for the Creative Pragmatist
by Rob Fisher
Type: Softcover
Ever read a book or attended a workshop and thought that the ideas were great, but then were lost when you tried to apply them yourself? This phenomenon seems to be particularly common in the field of psychotherapy. The charisma effect: when the words sound convincing and the teacher teaches well, but the concepts disintegrate in practice.
Well, now Rob Fisher steps forward with a new book entitled Experiential Psychotherapy with Couples: A Guide for the Creative Pragmatist, in which he not only describes the approach, he explains step by step how to put it into action. Depth and brevity are the two guideposts of the writing, and ample case material and innovative exercises clarify the experiential techniques presented as well as their underlying principles. Fisher’s approach helps to move clients (and therapists) from insight to impact as it uncovers opportunities to access and then shift the couple’s negative interactive impulses – by engaging them thoughtfully rather than denying their purpose — toward creating a more satisfying and balanced relationship.
For therapists of any discipline, this book offers practical ways both to understand and to intervene with couples across several dimensions simultaneously. Since issues exist on many levels, so too should therapy if it is to be truly effective and enduring. Rob Fisher’s goal? For readers not only to find the book “interesting,” but for them to be able to customize and employ what they learn within their own clinical practice.
Rob Fisher has performed the delicate task of integrating classical theories & techniques of couples psychotherapy with such important innovations as non-violence, mindfulness, and bodymind holism. His advocacy of freeing ourselves from character strategies that cripple our capacity for relatedness rings true. Using lots of clear clinical examples, he guides the reader through experiential methods of assessing couples problems, and shares experiential means to unravel them. Accessible and imminently usable, this book can be used by therapist and couple alike to plumb the depths of relational intimacy. I plan on assigning it to both my students and clients. Christine Caldwell, Ph.D., LPC Director, Somatic Psychology Department Naropa University Boulder, Colorado author of Getting in Touch: The Guide to New Body-Centered Therapies.
Using Themes And Metaphor To Mobilize Change
Peggy Papp, M.S.W., is a Supervising Faculty Member of the Ackerman Institute for the Family and also maintains a private practice in family therapy in New York City. Founder and director of the Ackerman Institute’s Depression and Gender Project, she is a recipient of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy’s Lifetime Achievement Award.
After quickly identifying the themes of survival and responsibility underlying her client couple’s troubled union, master couples and family therapist Peggy Papp demonstrates how to use metaphor to free the pair from old patterns and to playfully introduce new ideas into the system.
by Jon Carlson and Len Sperry
Type: Hardcover
More than 100 books on brief therapy have been published in the past decade. . . . Although the number of publications is remarkable, their clinical utility has generally not been all that remarkable. Ironically, some of the longest books on brief therapy do little more than ponderously review theories of [brief therapy], while the very short books say little more than that brief therapy has great promise and applicability. Few offer much information or guidance about actually doing brief therapy, about actually applying its stategies in day-to-day clinical practice with adults.
–From the Editors’ Introduction
Now, setting a new standard for publishing in the area of brief therapy, there’s Brief Therapy Strategies with Individuals and Couples, a sourcebook that brings together in a single place all the most effective strategies and interventions–across orientations–for time-effective treatment of individuals and couples. Each strategy is carefully described and then clearly illustrated with clinical case materials.
The chapter authors include 20 of today’s leaders in the field of brief therapy–Frank Dattilio, Michael Hoyt, Luciano L’Abate, Arnold Lazarus, Wade Luquet, Leigh McCullough, Scott Miller, and David Scharff among them.
Unique both in its scope and its clear clinical focus, Brief Therapy Strategies with Individuals and Couples will prove an invaluable resource for all clinicians seeking to maximize not just their clients’ time, but also their own. Readers across the field will benefit from Carlson and Sperry’s decision to gather and distill the best treatment strategies across orientations–cognitive-behavioral, multimodal, constructivist, Ericksonian, psychodynamic, psychoeducational, and pharmacological–into a single, well-organized, case-filled volume.
Critical Acclaim
This groundbreaking book addresses a major need of almost all practicing therapists: efficacious brief therapy. Representing a wide range of counseling perspectives, the contributors to the book explain, with the help of familiar clients, how therapy can be shortened using their particular approach. The value of this book is in its clarity and detail. Practitioners may select practices that are compatible with their own beliefs and immediately put them to use in their offices. If you are in practice, this is a book you should not miss.
–William Glasser, M.D.
Author of Reality Therapy in Action
Sue Johnson (2009) Patsy and Josh are a volunteer couple, already in Emotionally Focused Therapy. They are further helped through an EFT session with Sue Johnson. Patsy, suffering from deep wounds of the past, is vulnerable and fearful, and often shuts down—even though she knows her actions prevent connection with Josh. Her husband tries to be caretaker and nurturer. Johnson helps them stay with emotion, expand their connection and shapes their interaction bringing both to a safer, more loving place.
Educational Objectives:
To describe how EFT can be used with partners with attachment injuries.
To list three of the main elements in Emotionally Focused Therapy.