Intro to Discernment Counseling RECORDING

Couple’s therapy is especially difficult when one person wants to “save the marriage” and the other is ambivalent about wanting to stay or wants to end the relationship. This class will be an introduction to Bill Doherty’s Discernment Counseling of working with complex couples on the brink. It provides a protocol to help each partner look at their motivations for staying or going and to help them clarify whether to keep things the way they are, to separate or divorce, or to look deeply at necessary personal change and commit to six months of intensive couple therapy. This is not a training toward certification in Discernment Counseling.

The course will help you:

• Understand the common mistakes couples therapists make with mixed agenda couples
• Differentiate the goals of discernment counseling and Imago therapy
• Clarify the different approaches with leaning in and leaning out partners
• Use some of the techniques with mixed agenda couples