At the end of this program, participants will be able to:

• Identify three ways to help establish a secure base in treatment.

• Describe two ways to regulate emotional reactivity in both couple members.

• Detect the healthiest aspects of each couple member.

• Utilize two methods for couple members to process emotional experience.

• Design healing a portrayal to treat relational trauma.

• Define why affirmation of the self is important.

• Explain how clients can melt the defense of intellectualization.

• Find matching values in couple members.

• Describe how to process warded-off emotional experience.

• Conduct meta-therapeutic processing when couples experience reparative experiences.

• Define the value of the core emotion of surprise in treatment.

• Integrate core affect through slowing down.

• Locate two ways to tailor treatment to a couple member’s attachment style.

• Select opportunities to help couple members to feel and show more positivity.

• Utilize openings to soften defenses.

• Define three early signs of dorsal vagal response.

• Demonstrate knowledge of two ways to regulate dorsal vagal response.

• Specify how the frequency of dorsal vagal response can be reduced in treatment.

• Distinguish methods for engaging avoidantly attached patients in treatment.

• Detect an example of a tough case in which an unexpected breakthrough occurred.

• Explain how a meditative state of mindfulness helps in treatment.

• Conduct a role play of meta-therapeutic processing.

• Explain the value of increased awareness in couple members.

• Identify transformance striving in sessions.

Special Needs - If you require ADA accommodations please contact our office 30 days or more before the event. We cannot ensure accommodations without adequate prior notification.

The course will be conducted in the delivery format of synchronous distance learning. Interactions will include recorded clinical video, role play, PowerPoint and live interactive group discussion.

Cancellation policy: You may end your enrollment at any time and receive a refund for the remaining sessions of the course.

Complaints, questions or concerns may be communicated to David Mars, PhD by email at davidmarsphd@gmail.com for prompt attention.

David Mars, Ph.D., the presenter for this course, holds a Ph.D. in Psychology, is licensed as an MFT, has taught Transformative Couples Therapy® (TCT) to psychotherapists for over sixteen years. He is the developer of the Transformative Couples Therapy® method and a former faculty member of the AEDP Institute who taught this method for eleven of those years. He is the director of the Transformative Couples Therapy® Institute has been treating couples in private practice for over forty years. Click here to see a more complete bio.

There are no conflicts of interest or external commercial support related to this course or any course offered by the Transformative Couples Therapy® Institute.

All Times Below are in Pacific Time

8am-8:10am: Orientation and opening three-minute Channels of Experience meditation

8:10am-8:20am: Check-in and discussion of participants’ responses to the meditation and any breakthroughs or problems in treating their clients with TCT

8:20am-9:00am: On the first, fourth and eighth monthly session there will be a presentation of a clinical video demonstrating the theory and practice of Transformative Couples Therapy@ presented by David Mars. On all other sessions a participant shares video of a session for supervision and supportive consultation during this time frame.

9:10am-9:50am: A participant shares video of a session for supervision and supportive consultation

9:50am-10am: Closure, including metaprocessing this Core Training session.

Participants must complete all sessions to be awarded CE. Cameras on Zoom must be left on, with only brief exceptions. An evaluation will be required prior to CE being awarded. Attendance will be taken and documented each session by the course Coordinator, Abraham Lim. No specific assignments are required, other than reading the course materials sent out before we meet each session. Any questions can be addressed to davidmarsphd@gmail.com. To attend this live, interactive course you must have access to a working computer, a room with sufficient privacy to protect the confidentiality of couple members whose clinical work is shown and internet connectivity sufficient to maintain a stable connection to Zoom.

At the end of the course, CE can be applied for via this link

Credits.Education, #1032827, is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and LEPs. Credits.Education maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.  Course meets the qualifications for 16 hours of continuing education credits for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

Please check with your state board to confirm if CAMFT CE apply to your licensure in your state.

The cost for 16 Continuing Education (CE) credits will be $40. An email will be sent to all participants who complete the course from Credits Education.