Helping your clients through the horrendous effects of PTSD, addiction, and domestic violence is challenging enough on its own...

When working with couples facing these issues, treating these symptoms becomes significantly more complex.

You’re tasked with identifying and treating layers of complex trauma within the individual, how that trauma has snaked its way into their relationships and family, and how to help them all heal.

But when you register for our Official Gottman Method Level 2 Training, Certified Gottman Therapist and Trainer Elizabeth Neal will translate her years of experience into powerful interventions and advanced skills you can use with every couple in these complicated situations.

By the end of this LIVE training you’ll have your very own toolkit of skills and strategies based on the evidence-based gold standard method of couples therapy...

So you’ll know EXACTLY what to say and do with highly dysfunctional couples.

PLUS, secure your spot today and get exclusive access to a live Level 2 consultation with Elizabeth Neal PLUS a FREE bonus training.

You’ll leave this training as an Official Level 2 Gottman Method Couples Therapist with a Certificate of Completion directly from The Gottman Institute.

Do NOT wait to get the skills you need to untangle these complex situations. Register today!

**Registrants must have completed the Gottman Level 1 Accreditation Training to attend. Haven’t completed Level 1 yet? Click here to register for our Level 1 and Level 2 Online Training Package!

 

Elizabeth Neal is also offering a live, in-person training, 19-21 July 2023 in Crows Nest NSW!

PLEASE NOTE: Elizabeth Neal’s face-to-face training is NOT offered through PESI AU. All registrations and customer service go through The Relationship Therapy Centre.

Click here to get details and register. (Link will take you to a different website.)

 

Also included in your registration:

• A clinical Level 2 training manual
• Lifetime access to Gottman demonstration videos and resources via your own Gottman Institute Account
• Gottman Method Couples Therapy Level 2 Training Certificate of Completion
• Eligibility to continue to Level 3 Training
• Bonus training: Sex & Intimacy in Relationships: Psychology, Biology and Relationship Interplay
• A live Level 2 consultation with Elizabeth Neal
• 30 CPD Hours

 

Developed by Drs John and Julie Gottman and used by clinicians for more than 40 years, Gottman Method Couples Therapy is a step-by-step roadmap that leverages the most extensive research ever done on marital stability and divorce prediction...

And translates that insight into a comprehensive assessment process, a series of practical interventions, and resources clients can use outside the therapy room.

The Gottman Method also delves into the neurobiology of relationships, which helps clients understand why they behave the way they do.

Put that all together and you get a proven approach you can use from the first session to help couples lovingly manage their conflicts, deepen their intimacy, share their life purpose...

And heal from complicated situations involving co-morbidities, affairs, PTSD, addiction, and domestic violence.

 

This training is for mental health providers, allied professionals and clergy, students and interns, family clinic staff, professors/teachers of couples therapy, researchers in the social sciences, and employee assistance professionals.

Completion of Level 1 Training is required.

 

DAY ONE | Wednesday 11 October

INTRODUCTION

• Overview of Workshop

BASICS OF OBSERVATION

• Emotions in the Human Face
• Tension in the Voice
• The Words Themselves

BIDS AND TURNING

• Overview
• “Spain Without Interest,” “Bread With Interest”
• “Greg and Jennie—Northwest Afternoon”

SESSION #1: ASSESSMENT

FRIENDSHIP PROFILE: ORAL HISTORY INTERVIEW

• The spirit of the interview
• Content and Questions in the interview
• Coding notes
• Oral History Benchmarks
• FILM: “Oral History Interview Samples”

EVALUATING CONFLICT AND REPAIR

• Setting up a Conflict Discussion
• Evaluating Conflict
• Gridlocked Conflict
• Videotaping and Physiological Flooding

SESSION #1: PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER

• FILM: “Initial Session”
• Couple’s Narrative
• Oral History Interview
• Conflict Discussion
• Group role play practice: Oral History Interview

SESSION #2: INDIVIDUAL INTERVIEWS

• FILM: “Assessment Individual Session - Michael & Trudi”
• Assessment Questionnaires and Scoring
• Scoring Summary Sheet

SESSION #3: GIVING FEEDBACK AND TREATMENT PLANNING

FEEDBACK SESSION

• Overview
• Feedback Session benchmarks Clinician’s Checklist for Relationship Assessment
• Sound Relationship House Theory
• Gottman Method Clinical Hours Documentation Form
• Gottman Treatment Plan Form
• FILM: “Masters and Disasters”
• Group Role Play Practice: Feedback Session

GOTTMAN METHOD INTERVENTIONS

INTERVENTION OVERVIEW

• Intervention benchmarks
• Three qualities every therapist needs

INTERVENTIONS TO MANAGE CONFLICT

INTERVENTION: GENTLE START-UP

CASE INTRODUCTION: STEVE AND CRYSTA

• FILM: “Family Dinner”
• FILM: “Four Horsemen Examples”

INTERVENTION: LABEL THE FOUR HORSEMEN AND REPLACE THEM WITH THEIR ANTIDOTES

• FILM: “Four Horsemen examples”

 

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DAY TWO | Thursday 12 October

INTERVENTIONS TO MANAGE CONFLICT

INTERVENTION: FLOODING

• FILM: “Flooding & Soothing”
• Group Role Play: Flooding

INTERVENTION: GOTTMAN-RAPOPORT EXERCISE

• FILM: “Gottman-Rapoport Intervention”
• Group Role Play Practice: Gottman-Rapoport

INTERVENTION: THE DAN WILE INTERVENTION

• FILM: “Dan Wile Intervention”
• Group Role Play: Dan Wile

INTERVENTION: INTERNAL WORKING MODEL

• FILM: “Internal working Model”

INTERVENTION: COMPROMISE

• FILM: “Compromise”
• Group role play practice: Compromise

INTERVENTION: DREAMS WITHIN CONFLICT

• FILM: “Dreams Within Conflict”
• Group role play practice: Dreams Within Conflict

INTERVENTION: AFTERMATH OF A FIGHT OR REGRETTABLE INCIDENT

• FILM: “Aftermath of a Fight”
• Group role play: Aftermath of a Fight

INTERVENTIONS TO STRENGTHEN FRIENDSHIP AND ROMANCE

• Overview
• Turning Towards Exercises

INTERVENTION: WORKING ON FONDNESS AND ADMIRATION “I APPRECIATE...” ADJECTIVE CHECKLIST

• FILM: “Working on Fondness & Admiration”

 

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DAY THREE | Friday 13 October

INTERVENTIONS TO STRENGTHEN FRIENDSHIP AND ROMANCE (continued)

INTERVENTION: STRESS REDUCING CONVERSATION

• FILM: “Stress Reducing Conversation”
• Group role play exercise: Stress Reducing Conversation

INTERVENTIONS TO CREATE SHARED MEANING

INTERVENTION: CREATE SHARED MEANING AND BUILD RITUALS OF CONNECTION

• FILM: “Rituals of Connection”

RELAPSE PREVENTION

CO-MORBIDITIES

DEALING WITH AFFAIRS

DEALING WITH ADDICTION

PTSD

DEALING WITH DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

• “Pit bulls”
• “Cobras”
• “CTAV Collage Video”

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