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Terry Real, LICSW

Private Practice


Terry Real, LICSW, is an Internationally Recognized Family Therapist, Speaker and Author. Terry founded the Relational Life Institute (RLI), offering workshops for couples, individuals and parents around the country along with a professional training program for clinicians wanting to learn his RLT (Relational Life Therapy) methodology.

A family therapist and teacher for more than 25 years, Terry is the best-selling author of I Don’t Want to Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression (Scribner), the straight-talking How Can I Get Through to You? Reconnecting Men and Women (Scribner), and most recently The New Rules of Marriage: What You Need to Make Love Work (Random House). Terry knows how to lead couples on a step-by-step journey to greater intimacy – and greater personal fulfillment.

A senior faculty member of the Family Institute of Cambridge in Massachusetts and a retired Clinical Fellow of the Meadows Institute in Arizona, Terry has worked with thousands of individuals, couples, and fellow therapists. Through his books, the Institute, and workshops around the country, Terry helps women and men, parents and non-parents to create the connection they desire in their relationships.

Terry’s work, with its rigorous commonsense approach, speaks to both men and women. His ideas on men’s issues and on couple’s therapy have been celebrated in venues from “Good Morning America,” “The Today Show” and “20/20,” to “Oprah” and The New York Times.

A proponent of “full-throttle marriage,” as described in The New Rules of Marriage, Terry has been called “the most innovative voice in thinking about and treating men and their relationships in the world today.”

The New York Times book review described Terry’s work as: “A critical contribution to feminist psychology (that) brings the Men’s movement a significant step forward.” Robert Bly hailed it as “moving onto new ground in both story and song. Exhilarating in its honesty.”

Terry’s Relational Life Institute grew out of his extensive and empathic experience. He teaches people how to make their relationships work by providing products and services designed to teach the principles of Relational Life™, so that everyone can enjoy full respect living and craft a healthy life legacy.​


Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Terrence Real is the founder of Relational Life Institute. He receives royalties as a published author. Terry Real receives a speaking honorarium, recording, and book royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Terrence Real has no relevant non-financial disclosures.

The Dilemmas of Divorce: New Approaches for Helping Couples on the Brink


Faculty:
William Doherty, PhD |  Richard Simon, Ph.D. |  Terry Real, LICSW |  Tammy Nelson, PhD |  Michele Weiner-Davis, MSW |  Elana Katz, L.C.S.W. |  Patricia Papernow, Ed.D.
Duration:
6 Hours 28 Minutes
Copyright:
Oct 02, 2015
Product Code:
NRS001076
Media Type:
Online Course
Price:
$159.95 Normal Price: Standard - $359.95

New Frontiers in Couples Therapy: Working with changing norms for intimacy, commitment, and sexuality


Faculty:
John M. Gottman, PhD |  Richard Simon, Ph.D. |  Julie Schwartz Gottman, PhD |  Esther Perel, MA, LMFT |  William Doherty, PhD |  Pat Love |  Terry Real, LICSW |  Tammy Nelson, PhD
Duration:
8 Hours 7 Minutes
Copyright:
Jul 13, 2013
Product Code:
NRS001062
Media Type:
Online Course
Price:
$199.95 Normal Price: Standard - $279.00

New Ways to Work with Last-Chance Couples with Terry Real: The Relational Life Therapy Approach to Couples Therapy


Faculty:
Terry Real, LICSW |  Richard Simon, Ph.D. |  David Schnarch, PhD |  Harville Hendrix, PhD |  Helen LaKelly Hunt, PhD |  Pat Love, Ed.D.
Duration:
8 Hours 13 Minutes
Copyright:
Oct 04, 2016
Product Code:
NRS001142
Media Type:
Online Course
Price:
$199.95 Normal Price: Standard - $389.95

2021 Psychotherapy Networker Symposium Highlights Package


Faculty:
Richard C. Schwartz, PhD |  Deborah Dana, LCSW, LICSW |  Daniel Siegel, MD |  Susan Johnson, EdD |  Mary Jo Barrett, MSW |  Terry Real, LICSW |  John M. Gottman, PhD |  Bessel A. van der Kolk, MD |  ....
Duration:
40 Hours 7 Minutes
Copyright:
Jun 23, 2021
Product Code:
NRS001453
Media Type:
Online Course
Price:
$399.95 Normal Price: Standard - $2,159.85

2021 Psychotherapy Networker Complete Symposium Recording Package


Faculty:
Janina Fisher, PhD |  Richard C. Schwartz, PhD |  Stephen W Porges, PhD |  Lisa Ferentz, LCSW-C, DAPA |  David Kessler, MA, RN, FACHE |  Manuela Mischke-Reeds, MA, LMFT, CHT |  David Jobes, PhD, ABPP |  Frank Anderson, MD |  ....
Duration:
131 Hours 36 Minutes
Copyright:
Dec 29, 2021
Product Code:
NRS001440
Media Type:
Online Course
Price:
$499.95 Normal Price: Standard - $3,999.95

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