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A Road Map for Couples Therapy

Session #: 710-520
Presenter(s): Michele Scheinkman
Session Length: 2 hr. 00 min.
Event: 2010 Psychotherapy Networker Symposium
Date: March 25-28, 2010

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When troubled couples arrive in therapy, they're almost always caught in reactive cycles that they can't control and can't escape. In this workshop, we'll explore the ways in which partners' individual vulnerabilities can interlock to generate difficult impasses. We'll begin by looking at how to create a "holding environment" to help couples contain their anxiety and escalation, and then consider a multi-level approach that allows therapists to proceed sequentially through different dimensions of the presenting problem, from how partners communicate to their personal histories and unexpressed emotions. We'll focus on practical ways to help couples move beyond their reactivity and become capable of talking about their vulnerabilities, needs, and yearnings. You'll learn how to transform stalemates related to intimacy, sexuality, and jealousy, and how to facilitate negotiations that can yield a better emotional fit between the partners.

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