Despair to Repair

When addressing a couple’s crisis, therapists can employ three complementary perspectives:

• The Interpersonal Perspective: This approach focuses on the dynamics occurring “between” partners, emphasizing the relational space and interactions.

• The Neurobiological Perspective: Utilizing relational neuroscience, this viewpoint provides a framework for understanding and fostering inner attunement within each partner.

• The Self-of-the-Therapist Perspective: This aspect addresses the therapist’s own countertransference and strategic use of self in the therapeutic process.

The integration of these perspectives equips therapists with a comprehensive skill set to guide couples from states of despair and rupture towards repair and renewed connection. By applying principles of both interpersonal and intrapersonal attunement, therapists gain a roadmap for navigating couples through crises. Furthermore, incorporating a structured approach to exploring countertransference reactions enhances the therapist’s ability to facilitate healing and growth for couples experiencing relational distress. 

This multifaceted approach provides a robust framework for effective crisis intervention and relationship restoration in couple’s therapy.

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After this training, you will be able to:

• Analyze and explore their own experience with crisis in their relationships & how they reacted to it.  

• Analyze different ways to move from dysregulation into regulation & how to apply that information while sitting with a dis-regulated couple.   

• Explain and comprehend in depth about the human nervous system and techniques to move couples back into regulation. 

• Utilize Imago processes to promote secure attachment and emotion regulation in an insecure, dysregulated couple system.

• Formulate a deep understanding of the therapist’s own nervous system and situations that trigger their defenses.

• Find and internalize an understanding of the various resources that the therapists can use when they feel themselves reactive with a couple.

• Integrate their understanding of the Lost Self & identify it in themselves and with their couple

• Practice integrating the new possibilities of claiming Lost Self

• Identify how dialogue can regulate reactivity.

• Define and facilitate the various Imago Processes (Goodbye Process, Amends Process, Forgiveness Process, Repair Process).

• Recite the differences between reactivity and responsiveness

• Construct an introduction to deliver to clients for stepping into the various Letting Go processes.

• Summarize Unconscious Collusion as a dynamic in relationships

• Question the origins of this collusion

• Review the beliefs operative when couples experience a great anxiety concerning the fears of disappointing and being disappointed.

• Practice the Dialogues of Letting Go.

• Analyze the thinking behind watching a couple struggle with dysregulation.

• Describe efforts that have been made to be effective in intervening with dysregulation.

• State interventions that have been made that didn’t work towards dysregulation.

• Identify successful interventions that have occurred. 

• Describe the road to recovery and forgiveness.

• Evaluate your own roads to recovery in your history.

• Explain the therapist’s role in establishing a safe and empathic structure when couples are polarized and in crisis.

• Describe the Imago-based model of interpersonal and inner attunement for working with couples in crisis

This training is intended for Imago Therapists, Imago Professional Facilitators and therapists in general at the advanced level.

CUE Management Solutions, LLC is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. CUE Management Solutions, LLC maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

CUE Management Solutions, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed. psychologists #PSY-0242.

Participants can earn 24 CE credits upon successful completion of this training. Full attendance is required; no partial credits will be offered for partial attendance.

Please note: While APA CE credits are widely accepted, participants should verify with their specific state licensing board to ensure these credits meet their continuing education requirements.

Imago Relationships North America (IRNA) serves as an administrative sponsor for this training by providing application processing, registration, and logistical support. All decisions regarding eligibility, admission, successful completion, and any certification or designation as a Workshop Presenter are made solely by Imago International Training Institute (IITI) and the course faculty. IRNA does not grant or guarantee any certification or professional credential.

By registering for this course, you acknowledge that IRNA’s role is administrative only and that IITI and course faculty are solely responsible for admission, evaluation, and certification decisions.

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