Webinar: Slicing Down: Deepening Emotional States in Couples Therapy
Overview
“In Gestalt therapy the phenomenology of emotions guides our contact experience and shapes our interactions” Peter H. Dreitzel
Successful couples therapy pivots around deepening awareness of emotions between partners: Deepened emotions, disclosed in a new way, creates new contact experiences of positive reaching and responding between partners.
Although often a stalwart of individual therapy, many couples therapists can struggle with knowing how to support partners and the relationship into deeper primary emotional states. Where working phenomenologically and within field orientated approaches can become lost in the conflict and negative interactions of the couple.
This presentation will provide a snapshot and overview that will add insight to your work with couples from a Gestalt psychotherapeutic and emotionally focused approach. It will be of benefit to practitioners working with individuals, couples or families.
It will offer opportunities for group discussions. Sharing techniques and interventions that attendees use, in their work towards supporting relationship repair and healing.
This presentation will benefit you in:
- Understanding the significance of primary and secondary emotions within the context of couples dynamics
- Discuss tracking & focusing on the cues, the meanings and the action tendency of emotions within relationships
- Explore working with experiment to deepen emotions within couples dynamics
- Support working with heightened emotions and conflict in couples therapy
- Resourcing the relationship dynamics through distilled emotional interactions
What Others Say:
“ Sean’s experience, passion and knowledge gave me many practical and useable tools to take away. I so appreciated his comfortable and authentic presence” – L.O.
“This presentation has given me many extra skills for my therapy work. The gentle and attuned facilitation was outstanding and i left very inspired ” – A.H.
Cost & Location
Full Fee: $95
GANZ Members: $45
Online
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