When a couple comes to you in the aftermath of an affair, their entire world has been shattered.
It’s your job to help them pick up the pieces.
But your clients are in so much pain as they grapple with intense, conflicting emotions...
And if you don’t have the right skills to help them, you risk doing more harm.
If you've ever been in-session and felt the flutter of uncertainty in the pit of your stomach, then we have good news...
In this new 8-week programme, leading couples therapy expert Steven Dromgool, MCouns, MNZAC, reveals a clear roadmap to help couples heal from betrayal.
Inside this focused training, you’ll discover a powerful process you can use right away to help clients recover from affairs and rebuild trusting, loving relationships.
When you finish this programme, you'll:- Feel confident and prepared to work with affairs and betrayals
- Have practical tools to stop couples from spiraling in the aftermath of a betrayal
- Choose practical interventions to skillfully manage both partner’s emotions
- Know when to intervene and when not to
- Do less and achieve more in each session
If you want to help couples heal and reconnect after a betrayal or affair, register now!
Integrating the Gottman Method, Imago, EFT and more
$1,109.55 Value — Just $149.95 Today - Stunning Savings!
Plus, earn up to 20 CPD Hours
Your 8 weeks of live online training starts on 8th October, 2024. Live sessions will be held each Tuesday 9:00am-11:30am AEDT for 2 hours of training, followed by a 30-minute Q&A.
You’ll also get lifetime access to each of the session recordings, for complete flexibility. If you need to miss a session, the recording will be waiting for you. And you’ll be able to review your training whenever you wish.
- The surprising truth about the prevalence of affairs and relationship betrayal
- Common myths about betrayal – and what most clinicians don’t know
- How to work with the subtle – and important – ways culture and gender shape your clients’ experiences
- The problem with implicit fidelity agreements
- What you need to know about comorbid factors: addiction, safety, and mental health crises after betrayal
- How the brain responds to betrayal
- A practical approach to organise your treatment plan for an affair
- The most essential tool to regulate the emotions of overwhelmed couples
- Key interventions to stop the ‘Betrayal Spiral’
- How to understand safety in the context of betrayal
- What you need to know BEFORE you create a Safety Plan
- How to facilitate safer check ins
- Recognize and respond to suicidal ideation after betrayal
- The clinician’s role in managing secrets
- Engaging the Betrayer
- Engaging the Betrayed
- Managing Dual Alliance: when your client is the relationship
- Dealing with Ambivalence
- The essential role of co-regulation for couples
- Orientation
- Attunement
- How to repair the sexual relationship after an affair
- Total apology and amends dialogue
- Repairs, declarations, goals and promises
- How to work with therapeutic separations
- Your role as therapist in challenging gaslighting
- Key steps to manage shame
- How to resolve ambivalence
- When and why to give homework
- Training in co- and self-regulation
- Identifying environmental support and stressors
- How ‘why questions’ and interrogation by the betrayed perpetuate betrayal problems
- Prepping for disclosures
- Developmental and sexual blueprints
- Staggered disclosures
- Disclosure models
- Prepping for fuller disclosures
- Using the 5 stage therapy progress model
- Building an alliance
- Scaffolding communication
- Titrating treatment - intensives, individual and extended sessions
- Invitations to responsibility
- Nurturing the new relationship
- Preparation for closure
Integrating the Gottman Method, Imago, EFT and more
$1,109.55 Value — Just $149.95 Today - Stunning Savings!
Plus, earn up to 20 CPD Hours
Steven Dromgool, MCouns, MNZAC, is the founder and Clinical Director of Relate, New Zealand’s largest specialist relationship counselling and therapy service. He has worked with couples for over 2 decades specialising in working with couples, individuals and families struggling with issues ranging from sexual abuse and offending, affairs and betrayal, communication, new relationship preparation, navigating relationships with Autism Spectrum Disorder, anxiety and depression. Steven is committed to ongoing professional development and training over the past decades has trained to advanced levels in over 5 of the top approaches to couples therapy, contributed to the development of another approach and led the Relate team in the development of Presence Oriented Relationship Therapy which has been taught around New Zealand and internationally in locations as diverse as Alaska, Qatar, Hungary and Greece.
Click here for information about Steven Dromgool.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.
We’re that confident you'll find this learning experience to be all that's promised and more than you expected.
Integrating the Gottman Method, Imago, EFT and more
$1,109.55 Value — Just $149.95 Today - Stunning Savings!
Plus, earn up to 20 CPD Hours