Increase your confidence and excel in your couples therapy skills when working with challenging couples…
An online course with international couples therapy expert, Dr. Ellyn Bader from the esteemed Couples Institute.
A Self-Study Course with over 10 hours of pre-recorded content.
The good news is that you can become competent at helping couples with anger by participating in this couples therapy training.
“Before I started training in the Developmental Model, I often felt completely overwhelmed when working with couples, especially those who would attack each other. I didn’t have the skills to contain their conflict and stop the painful reenactments they repeated with each other.
Thankfully, I found the Developmental Model of Couples Therapy, and my couples therapy work was transformed. Since working with this model for over 18 years, I have become a passionate, skilled, and well-respected couples therapist and trainer in The Developmental Model.”
Addictions and Couples Therapist; Certified Developmental
Couples Therapist & Trainer, Vancouver, BC
Intensely Hostile Couples Can Cause Even Experienced Couples Therapists To Want To Run for The Hills Or Become Paralyzed With Fear
When angry and bitter couples start acting out their anger in the therapy room, it can seem like bullets are flying around so fast that it’s impossible to stop them.
Working with these difficult couples can lead to feelings of incompetency and severely hamper your ability to help them.
Treating Couples Who Avoid Conflict Are Often More Challenging To Work With Than High-Anger Couples
This fact may surprise you.
Conflict-avoidant couples may appear easier to work with because their anger isn’t explicitly expressed. Hence, they are often not as overwhelming or scary to work with.
You may feel more in control of sessions with the conflict-avoidant couple but still find it challenging to move them forward. These couples typically have a deep investment in hiding or suppressing any intensity. Breaking through their denial is far from easy.
“Ellyn’s training helped me tremendously. Before I took her awesome course, I lacked the skills to work with couples effectively. I was intimidated by hostile couples and often didn’t realize the problems my conflict-avoidant couples were not revealing. They just seemed nice.
Thanks to Ellyn’s course, I discovered how to lead and structure sessions with hostile couples, so they stop hurting each other. I also now know how to help conflict-avoidant couples bring their conflicts to the surface so they can be resolved.
I now specialize exclusively in couples therapy and love it! I am forever grateful to Ellyn, Pete, and the Developmental Model of Couples Therapy.”
Couples Counselor,
Virginia Beach, Virginia
This online course will equip you with the essential knowledge, skills, and tools required to help couples resolve anger, saving many relationships.
You’ll learn a framework and methods to ground you in your work with couples, helping you become a more confident and effective couples therapist.
You’ll be highly respected by your clients and colleagues. Your reputation will grow, as will your caseload, if you have a private therapy practice.
Experienced
Couples Therapists
Like other experienced therapists who train with Dr. Bader, you might be surprised to learn how much you can improve your skills when dealing with angry and conflict-avoidant clients.
New Couples Therapists Or Those Wanting to Become a Couples Therapist
If you’re new to couples therapy, this training will provide tools and a grounding in how to work with anger in couples therapy. You’ll be thankful to have these tools and skills at your disposal as you gain experience in couples therapy.
Individual Therapists
Deepening your understanding of how partners provoke anger in each other will prevent you, as an individual therapist, from falling into the trap of getting pulled solely into one client’s perspective. This increased awareness will make you a much better individual therapist.
Many models of couples therapy focus solely on the dynamics of the couple relationship.
The Developmental Model helps couples build strong relationships by addressing both the intrapsychic problems of the individuals within the relationship and the interpersonal dynamics between the partners.
This integration makes it easier to improve couples’ relationships and help them grow as individuals.
Attachment Theory
The developmental model helps couples therapists assess each partner’s attachment pattern and then provides strategies for helping couples develop a more secure attachment.
Differentiation Theory
This theory shows couples therapists how to help couples manage their differences and grow as individuals,
so their relationship does not
become stagnant or wounding.
Neuroscience
The developmental model teaches couples therapists to utilize
some of the latest findings on the brain and make those easy for their clients to understand and use to help them improve their relationships.
“Ellyn’s Developmental Model is very helpful when working with couples. I really like how she focuses on attachment and differentiation. A lot of couples have poor boundaries, past trauma, past developmental deficits, and blame each other for their problems, etc. Her model identifies these issues and provides a structure for working with them right from the first session.
I use her Initiator-Inquirer exercise regularly with couples and find it hugely helpful. It is deeper and more sophisticated than most other listening exercises I have used with couples. Ellyn provides great value for the cost of her courses. She is a skilled and authentic therapist and a great trainer.”
Marriage and Family Therapist,
Vancouver, B.C.
Ellyn has trained thousands of couples therapists across North America, Australia, Europe, and South America. She is also the author of 2 successful books.
Ellyn’s textbook, In Quest of the Mythical Mate, is now in its 18th printing. It has been used in graduate schools in the US and Canada since 1988. It won the Clark Vincent Award from the California Association of Marriage & Family Therapists for its outstanding contribution to the field of marital therapy.
Ellyn and her husband, Peter, have successfully been practicing couples therapy for over 35 years.
Ellyn and her husband have many therapists trained in the Developmental Model who work with them throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.
Ellyn is a therapist who practices what she preaches.
She has been married to couples therapist, Dr. Peter Pearson, her co-founder of the Couples Institute, for over 45 years. Ellyn and Peter have built a strong marriage by applying the principles of the Developmental Model to their relationship.
Overview Of The Developmental Model Of Couples Therapy (90 Minutes)
How To Work With Hostile Angry Couples (90 Minutes)
How To Work With Conflict-Avoidant Couples (90 Minutes)
2 Pre-Recorded Sessions Where Dr. Bader Answers Common Questions (120 Minutes)
This course includes 2 pre-recorded sessions where Dr. Bader answers some of the most common questions asked about working with couples in conflict.
If, after watching all the modules and the bonus materials, you still have questions, you can easily scan the questions in these sessions looking for answers.
“Ellyn has helped me to become a competent couples therapist. Working with couples can be anxiety provoking. You never know what you’re going to be confronted with and how someone is going to react to what their partner might say or do.
I now feel confident and grounded in knowing I have many options for managing hostile-angry and conflict-avoidant couples. I feel a sense of empowerment that I’ve never felt before, which means everything when doing the difficult work of couples therapy.”
LMFT,
Pasadena, California
to all the course materials in our learning center. AND you can download them to your computer and have them forever.
AND, there’s more…
Bonus 1:
Rethinking First Sessions [Audio & Transcript]
In this audio, couples therapist and husband of Dr. Bader, Dr. Peter Pearson, shares common mistakes couples therapists make when asking questions in first sessions. They show you how to ask the right questions to facilitate relief in the couple and set them up for future growth.
Bonus 2:
Affairs in Couples Therapy [Audio & Transcript]
In this audio recording, Dr. Ellyn Bader discusses how to evaluate the meaning of an affair, core treatment issues, including the value and pitfalls of obsessing about the affair, and how to create a treatment plan for affair recovery.
Bonus 3:
How to Work with Anger and Addiction in Couples Therapy – Juliet Austin Interviews Therapist, Sue Diamond
[Video, Audio & Transcript]
In this interview, Juliet Austin from the Mind Body Training Institute interviews therapist Sue Diamond. Sue shares her experience using the developmental model of couples therapy with hostile-dependent, conflict-avoidant, and couples where one or more partners have had or currently have an addiction.
Sue is the Director of the Good Life Therapy Centre in Vancouver, BC. The center focuses on helping couples and individuals create loving relationships in the aftermath of addiction and trauma. Sue has over 40 years of experience as a therapist and is certified in the Bader-Pearson Developmental Model of Couples Therapy. She trains therapists in Vancouver and internationally on the model.
Bonus 4:
Working with Gay Men in Couples Therapy with Clinton Power [Video, Audio & Transcript]
In this interview with Juliet Austin, Clinton Power shares his wisdom about working with gay men in couples therapy. He discusses the different types of gay relationships and the specific issues therapists need to be aware of when doing therapy with gay men.
Clinton stressed the importance of therapists needing to be more than “gay friendly” and instead be “gay informed.” Also, he explains why therapists need to watch their assumptions about gay men and their lives, as all relationships are different.
Clinton also shares common problems gay men bring to therapy, including issues around open relationships and differences in the stages of coming out amongst couples.
Finally, he discusses how he combines several couples therapy approaches to help gay men resolve their relationship troubles and shares an interesting case study.
“Before taking this course, I was frustrated to see how the attachment and differentiation models were often pitted against each other. Finally, I discovered Bader and Pearson’s work at The Couples Institute. It seemed like a comprehensive approach, and I knew I wanted to commit to being trained in the Developmental Model.
Incorporating differentiation, attachment, and neuroscience, as well as the developmental stages, seemed to have it all, and I was right.”
LMFT
Grass Valley, CA
Feel empowered knowing that you can help couples develop deep empathy for each other, become collaborative partners, and strengthen their love and commitment.
“ Ellyn’s training has helped me become more confident and competent in applying the Developmental Model in my practice. Her integration of 4 theories gave me a much clearer understanding of what I need to do to be an effective couples therapist with an angry couple or a hostile partner in a couple.
I have trained in 7 different couples therapy approaches, and one of the distinguishing traits of the Developmental Model is that it is very user-friendly and comprehensive while providing a flexible, overarching framework. The model also has useful tools/handouts for both therapists and clients, something which is lacking in some of the other models I’ve trained in.
Ellyn has done an excellent job of integrating neuroscience, developmental theory, differentiation theory, and attachment theory. I highly recommend her training.”
M. Counselling & Clinical Supervisor,
Sydney, Australia
Sign up for the course, and if you decide it’s not what you want, we’ll refund 100% of your fee.
It’s a self-study program. All the modules and video bonuses are pre-recorded. You’ll have access as soon as you register. You can watch the videos, listen to the audios, and/or read the transcripts at your convenience.
There is a total of 10 hours of pre-recorded videos.
4.5 hours of the core modules
2 hours of Dr. Bader answering common questions
3.5 hours of bonus recorded bonus interviews
1 PAYMENT of $297 $197
Unless you are a Canadian, Australian, or New Zealand resident, you will pay in USD.
Canadian residents pay in Canadian Dollars (CAD), and Australian and New Zealand residents pay in Australian dollars (AUD).
NOTE: Australians will also pay GST
Unless you are a Canadian, Australian or New Zealand resident, you will pay in USD.
Canadian residents pay in Canadian Dollars (CAD), and Australian and New Zealand residents pay in Australian dollars (AUD).
NOTE: Australians will also pay GST.
All requests for refunds must be given within 7 days of purchase.
North America
We are not officially approved for CEU’s in the USA and Canada. However, we will give you a certificate of completion upon successful completion of a short quiz. You’ll have to check with your professional association or licensing board to see if they will give you credit for the program.
*Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association (CCPA) Members: CCPA will give you credit if you give them the certificate for the course.
Australia
This event has been endorsed for 10 Category A CPD points for members of PACFA (Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia) and 10 OPD points for members of the ACA (Australian Counselling Association).
Certificate of PD Hours
You’ll need to successfully complete a short quiz to receive your certificate for 10 professional development hours.
You will have access to the materials for 180 days (6 months) in the learning center.
However, you can download all materials and save them forever.
10 hours of training for $197?
YUP.
It is one heck of a deal.
There are courses out there that cost DOUBLE, TRIPLE, OR MORE than this for only a couple of hours of training.
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