Overview

Deepen your understanding of Gottman Method Couples Therapy… Expand your strategies & interventions with couples!

NOTE: You must have completed Gottman Level 1 Professional Training or Home Study Program before attending Level 2.

Recommended Pre-requisites

• Conditional registration as a Psychologist with AHPRA
• Member of AASW
• Member of ACA
• Member of PACFA
• Mental Health training
• Counselling training

Professional Development & Practical Immersion:

• Take part in interactive presentations.
• Practice using Gottman Interventions in group role-plays; Receive personalised, supportive coaching
• View new demonstration films from the Gottmans’ clinical office
• Participate in extensive discussions with Senior Certified Gottman Therapists and clinicians from around the world.
• Refine your clinical skills and expand your strategies and interventions in your work with couples
• Learn to internalize and integrate the powerful, research-based Gottman Method Assessment and Intervention techniques.
• Gain insight as to when to use these methods and when couples therapy is contraindicated.
• Engage in vital dialogue regarding Gottman Couples Therapy.
• Gain confidence in using the techniques through personal immersion

 

 

Learning Outcomes

Participants will be able to:

• Assess a couple’s “Friendship Profile,” “Conflict Profile,” and “Shared Meanings Profile”
• Develop interventions that couples can use as antidotes to the “Four Horsemen”
• Help couples to soothe physiological flooding
• Apply six modes of changing the “Attack/Defend System” in a couple’s interactions
• Assist couples in establishing dialogue about their grid-locked conflicts
• Select and implement interventions to help couples deepen their “Friendship System” with rituals of connection
• Select and implement interventions to help couples create a shared system of values and meaning
• Identify and implement five different co-morbidities common to couples using Gottman Assessments and Interventions.

 

Presenter(s)

Trish Purnell-Webb, Clin Psych, Certified Gottman Therapist, Advanced Gottman Clinical Trainer & John Flanagan, AMHSW, MGT, Certified Gottman Therapist, Advanced Gottman Clinical Trainer

About the presenter(s)

Trish and John are Advanced Gottman Clinical Trainers & Consultants for the Gottman Institute. They have facilitated over 200+ training events including 50+ Gottman Level 1 - 50+ Gottman Level 2 - 25+ Gottman Level 3 workshops. Trish is a clinical psychologist with over 20 years experience of working with both couples and individuals. Trish brings a wealth of experience working with complex couples struggling with trauma, mood disorders, personality vulnerabilities, anger management issues, affair recovery and alcohol use and is also an experienced clinical supervisor and assessor for the Australian Health Practitioners Regulation Authority. John also has an extensive experience in service delivery with couples, families and young people, as well as in organisational development, keynote speaking and training. Over the last 15+ years, John has provided a range of psycho-education group programs to Australian Veterans and their families in areas such as trauma, depression, anxiety and resilience as well as providing gold standard therapy to couples from all around Australia, SE Asia and NZ. Both Trish & John's guiding principles, are to utilise sound, evidenced-based approaches to support people in building, repairing and rejuvenating strong, sustainable relationships. They are also committed to developing and training relationship therapists across Australia, NZ, and Asia. They are published authors, and are both asked to regularly appear in print, podcasts and key note speaking.

Website/s

https://relationshipinstitute.com.au/events/professional-training-workshops/assessment-interventions-and-co-mobidities/