Join Chelsea Wakefield, Ph.D., for an eight-week course that explores couple development and how deepening the “six crucial love capacities” changes everything. Wakefield’s Interdynamic Couples Therapy™ helps therapists see beyond the conflicts, anxieties, power struggles, disengagement, and betrayals that couples bring in. There is a normal process of development in a couple’s life that kicks off a bewildering interplay of underlying dynamics that gradually erodes the early hope of the love. Come and learn how to help couples out of the quagmires of love into a soulful connection.
- Locating a couple on the developmental Relationship Roadmap
- Beyond the honeymoon- normalizing the common quagmires where couples get stuck
- Inviting couples into a development process where they begin personal and interpersonal growth.
- Working with unconscious under-currents – story-lines, maladaptive schemas and protective coping patterns, anxiety, avoidance, and the impact of projection.
- Assessing and Deepening the Six Love Capacities – why this changes everything
- Soothing the Kids Behind the Curtain and Creating Exit Ramps off the Conflict Highway
- Working with well-behaved, disconnected, conflict avoidant couples.
- Archetypal interplay – the mix and match of two “inner casts of characters”
- Individuation in Connection
Begins Jan. 14, 2022 on Friday mornings online for 8 weeks, 8 AM to 9:30 AM, with 15 minutes for questions and case conferencing (unrecorded).
Teaching portion will be recorded and available for later viewing. 12 Social Work Contact Hours available.
Cost of Program – $297
Chelsea Wakefield, Ph.D., LCSW, is the founding director of the UAMS Couples Center, a trusted clinical educator, AASECT certified sex therapist, and innovative practitioner who works with couples of all kinds. She is also the author of three books including her most recent book “The Labyrinth of Love – The Path to a Soulful Relationship.”