LIVE ONLINE EVENT! |Neurodivergent Friendly Couples Therapy (NFCT): Working with difference to resolve conflict and deepen connection
Develop Your Own Neurodivergent Friendly Couples Therapy Practice in Just 3 Days... Even if You Have NO Prior Neurodiversity Experience!
When one or both members of a relationship are neurodivergent and process information differently...
Communication breakdowns can cause enormous distress, resentment, and even contempt.
What’s worse, many neurodivergent couples report that standard approaches to couples therapy make them feel even less understood and more despairing than before.
For these couples, the therapy room can become yet another place where their needs aren’t met...
Where the therapist and/or the therapeutic process shames them for their differences instead of offering understanding and compassion.
That’s why Neurodivergent Friendly Couples Therapy (NFCT) is essential to your practice.
Developed by Robyn Blake-Mortimer over 20 years of working with all kinds of couples...
NFCT adds a compassionate lens to the best parts of Drs John & Julie Gottman’s Method, TEAM-CBT, Neurodiversity Affirming Therapy, and the Myhill-Jekel method...
So that all couples can find the relief and healing they’re longing for—and deserve.
Register today for this live online training with Robyn Blake-Mortimer so you can learn NFCT from the developer herself.
Discover how to create unconditional positive regard for both partners...
In a therapy environment that ensures success with neurodivergent couples.
Save your seat now!
Neurodivergent Friendly Couples Therapy (NFCT):
Working with difference to resolve conflict and deepen connection
Presented by Robyn Blake-Mortimer, BA (Hons), Grad Dip Ed, Grad Dip Spec Ed, Grad Cert Gifted Ed, M Psych Clinical, Dip Clin Hypnosis, MAPS
30-31 August & 1 September 2023 | 09:00 AM - 04:30 PM AEST
$665.94 Value
Just $399.00 today — Stunning Savings!You'll also earn up to 21 CPD Hours
Can't attend live? Click here to pre-order the self-study version of this
summit!
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- Why we need a new model of couples therapy
- Definitions of neurodiversity and limitations of the medical model in couples counselling
- Introduction to the model of ‘Neurodivergent Friendly Couples Therapy: It’s in Your Hands!’
- How to create safety and equality
- Provide unconditional positive regard and respect for difference
- Sources of feedback to repair ruptures in the therapeutic relationship
- The 5 secrets of effective communication to respond to negative feedback
- Use self-disclosure appropriately so your role model acceps your own vulnerabilities and areas of struggle
- Explore your own biases and assumptions about disability before doing this work
- Value collaboration and show humility to their knowledge of the interaction and issues
- Physical adaptation of therapy room, using different forms of communication
- Going beyond DSM-5 TR. What’s in a name?
- Valuable sources of information with Monique Mitchelson, Devon Price, Chloe Hayden
- Likelihood of comorbidities with anxiety and trauma
- Theory of mind versus double empathy
- Strengths of many ND people
- Activity: What is wrong with this identification checklist item? How can you make it more inclusive?
- Fundamental attribution error (It’s not my fault, fix the other)
- David Burn's notion of working with resistance to change yourself
- Demonstration of the Cost Benefit Analysis of having to let go of blaming the other for the problems
- Options available to couples and likely outcomes
- Sitting with open hands: Respect their choice not to do this work
- Myhill and Jekyll model
- Goal to improve communication, manage conflict and meltdowns, modify the environment, and improve emotional connection
- Provide psychoeducation about what challenges result from neurology. Normalising their experience
- Provide memory aids or summaries. Worksheets, take photos with phone
- Duck/bunny image and other visual illusions to build acceptance of different viewpoints
- Gottman resources at an elevated level of sophistication. Dreams within a conflict, the aftermath of a fight, and compromise circles
- Inevitability of trial and error. Underpin standard approach with teaching to recognise emotions in each other
- Demonstration of how to introduce ‘time out’ when conflict is escalating
- Additional skills with one-minute drills and the Relationship journal
- Develop their own Neurodivergent Couples Safe house tailored to their needs
- Deciding when to phase out and ‘graduate’ from therapy
- Maintenance kit for relapse prevention
- Recap: Avoid these behaviours, do these behaviours
Digital Seminar presented by Certified Gottman Therapist & Trainer Liz Neal | Click here for information about Elizabeth (Liz) Neal
Dr John Gottman describes a foundationally secure partnership like a house: It has weight-bearing walls and levels that each person builds on to create a sturdy bond.
He calls this structure the Sound Relationship House (SRH), and for more than 20 years, it’s given countless couples the tools they need to have happy, healthy relationships.
In this FREE training Elizabeth (Liz) Neal reveals how the Sound Relationship House offers the crucial underpinning from which to work.
You’ll better understand intimate relationships in terms of the 3 relationship systems...
And you’ll know how to describe the difference between happy and unhappy couples in terms of how conflict is managed, what occurs in terms of connection, and how they build a life with a sense of meaning and purpose.
Neurodivergent Friendly Couples Therapy (NFCT):
Working with difference to resolve conflict and deepen connection
Presented by Robyn Blake-Mortimer, BA (Hons), Grad Dip Ed, Grad Dip Spec Ed, Grad Cert Gifted Ed, M Psych Clinical, Dip Clin Hypnosis, MAPS
30-31 August & 1 September 2023 | 09:00 AM - 04:30 PM AEST
$665.94 Value
Just $399.00 today — Stunning Savings!You'll also earn up to 21 CPD Hours
Can't attend live? Click here to pre-order the self-study version of this
summit!
Robyn Blake-Mortimer, BA (Hons), Grad Dip Ed, Grad Dip Spec Ed, Grad Cert Gifted Ed, M Psych Clinical, Dip Clin Hypnosis, MAPS
Robyn Blake-Mortimer is a Clinical Psychologist with 20 years of experience providing therapy and counselling to individuals, couples, and families from diverse backgrounds within a variety of settings.
She was the co-founder of ABC Psychology, a generalist group practice in Goodwood. Since December 2019, Robyn specialises in working with couples and grief, as the founder of Tuned In Couples, a small private practice in Glenside, South Australia.
Click here for information about Robyn Blake-Mortimer
Elizabeth (Liz) Neal, Registered Psychologist (MAAPi). Certified Gottman Couples Therapist. BA (Psych), M.Hlth.Sci (Beh Sci): USYD
Liz Neal’s professional focus is on relationships and how they affect us as individuals. She leans towards psychological models that help clients understand engrained patterns that are limiting, unhelpful, and harmful.
Liz Neal is the 8th Australian to become a Certified Gottman Therapist and only the 3rd with approval from The Gottman Institute to train therapists in Gottman Method Couples Therapy. Her trainings and credentials include:
- Certified Gottman Couples Therapist – The Gottman Institute, Washington USA
- The Circle of Security Parenting Facilitator – Circle of Security International, Sydney
- The Core Sensitivities – Circle of Security International, Sydney
- The Adult Attachment Interview - The Family Relations Institute
- Art and Science of Love Workshop Leader – The Gottman Institute, Washington USA
- Attachment and Psychopathology – Patricia Crittenden, Sydney
- Cognitive Processing Therapy for PTSD – Jon Finch, Sydney
- CBT Fundamentals - Australian Psychological Association
- Registered Psychologist - Australian Health Practitioners Registration Agency
Click here for information about Elizabeth (Liz) Neal
Neurodivergent Friendly Couples Therapy (NFCT):
Working with difference to resolve conflict and deepen connection
Presented by Robyn Blake-Mortimer, BA (Hons), Grad Dip Ed, Grad Dip Spec Ed, Grad Cert Gifted Ed, M Psych Clinical, Dip Clin Hypnosis, MAPS
30-31 August & 1 September 2023 | 09:00 AM - 04:30 PM AEST
$665.94 Value
Just $399.00 today — Stunning Savings!You'll also earn up to 21 CPD Hours
Can't attend live? Click here to pre-order the self-study version of this
summit!
Register for this intensive training course without risk. If you're not completely satisfied, contact us at info@pesi.com.au or call 1300 887 622
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