Transformative Couples therapy® Research training Course
sessions begin February 21, 2025
Transformative Couples Therapy® is a body-oriented, affective neuroscience and attachment-based method. These courses will present the theory and practice of Transformative Couples Therapy® through lively teaching from David Mars that incorporates inspiring video-recorded demonstrations of the work. The Research Training Course also provides supervision and consultation for each group member's video-recorded session work to help participants learn to better track, inspire and affectively regulate two people at a time in couple treatment. The group members share their own clinical video to receive constructive support, reflection and guidance. Each participant will receive 40 minutes of focused attention each time they share their work. The beauty of these Research Training Group sessions is in the way we safely develop ourselves and our work with each other by using communication based on embodied witnessing through the seven channels of experience. This is a relieving alternative to "feedback" with it's inherent judgement and projection. Instead, we will use Process Language throughout each training session to build safety and develop optimal skillful communication for creating a secure base in ourselves at the same time as learning how to generate transformative outcomes for your couples.
These training sessions help participants to learn the application of the Transformative Couples Therapy® model in a range of challenging clinical situations in addition to learning how to be a part of a team of therapists who help to collect data for a published paper on the effects of the model.
To discuss joining the Research Training Course, please contact Dr. Mars using the link below to schedule your interview.
COURSE COMPLETION REQUIREMENTS:
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. 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 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 (CE) 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.
An email will be sent to all participants who complete the course from Credits Education.
Transformative Couples Therapy® Core Training is pending approval by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program to be offered by Transformative Couples Therapy® Institute as an individual course ASWB # 6114. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE course approval period: February 8, 2025 to December 4, 2025. Social workers completing this course receive 16 clinical continuing education credits.
Here is another option to receive CE via www.heiselandassoc.com
If instead you prefer to gather your CE after each session, TCT Institute will pay for this instead of CAMFT CE. To use Heisel and Associates method, you will need to fill out an evaluation for each session as you go along in the course. It is important that you first register at: https://transformativecouplestherapy.heiselandassoc.com. This URL will take you directly to the Transformative Couples Therapy® page on Heisel’s website. You should then click on the page, scroll to the bottom of the page and click on “Click here” to register an account with Heisel and Associates”.
Heisel and Associates, Provider Number 1253, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Heisel and Associates maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 5/3/2023 to 5/3/2026.
Heisel and Associates has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP #6603. Programs that do not quality for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Heisel and Associates is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
This course has been approved by Heisel and Associates, an NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #111326, Heisel and Associates is responsible for all aspects of the programs.
Heisel and Associates is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Heisel and Associates maintains responsibility for these programs and their content.
Transformative Couples therapy® Research Training course Schedule
Friday Training series
Sixteen two-hour sessions meeting once a month: No fee with the agreement that members of the course meet with and couples for half their normal clinical rate.
8am-10am PTCredits.Education has CAMFT approval to co-sponsor this course for CEs.
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February 21, 2025
March 7, 2025
March 21, 2025
April 4, 2025
April 18, 2025
May 2, 2025
May 16, 2025
May 30, 2025
June 13, 2025
June 27, 2025
July 11, 2025
July 25, 2025
August 8, 2025
Break
September 5, 2025
September 19, 2025
October 3, 2025
Training Objectives
At the end of this program, participants will be able to:
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.
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.
Session Details
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.
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 Center for Transformative Therapy.
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: A participant or I share a 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 session.