Professional training for relationship therapists.

Building on what you learned in the Level 1 Training - you 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.
Professional Development & Practical Immersion:
* Take part in interactive presentations.
* Practice using Gottman Interventions in group role-plays; Receive personalized, 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
Who is this workshop for?  Participants working in the following fields will benefit from our training:
* Mental health providers
* Allied professionals
* Clergy
* Students and interns
* Family clinic staff
* Professors/teachers of couples therapy
* Researchers in the social sciences
* Employee assistance professionals
After the workshop you will complete a quiz to gain your official Gottman Method Couples Therapy Level 2 Training Certificate as well as a CPD certificate of 20 hours.