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Enhance Your Counseling Skills: Intro to Working with Couples – January 24th & January 31st, 2025

Dec 21, 2024 | Brave Play, Upcoming Event

Date & Time: Part 1: January 24th, 2025, 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM CST & Part 2: January 31st, 2025, 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM CST
Location: Live Webinar
Cost: $175.00 (Payment link will be emailed once you register)
8 NBCC Contact CE Hours: NBCC ACEP Provider No. 6763

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Workshop Description:

This comprehensive training offers practical tools and expert guidance to help you confidently address challenges in couples therapy. Whether you’re new to working with couples or seeking to enhance your approach, this program provides essential skills for effective counseling.

Schedule:

Day 1: Friday, January 24, 2025

Topic: Navigating Individuals for the Sake of the “Couple”
Presenter: Jessica Fairfax, LMFT
Time: 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM CST (11:00 AM – 1:00 PM EST)
Objectives:

  1. Strategies for when individuals shut down during couples sessions.
  2. Addressing dynamics when one client feels “outnumbered.”
  3. Effective confrontation techniques for couples work.

Topic: Play Therapy with Couples
Presenter: Dr. Garrett, PhD, LPCS, RPTS
Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CST (1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EST)
Objectives:

  1. Play therapy as an assessment tool.
  2. Three impactful play therapy activities focusing on attachment, communication, and intimacy.

Topic: Integrating the 5 Love Languages in Couples Counseling
Presenter: Jessica Floyd, LPC
Time: 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST (2:00 PM – 3:00 PM EST)
Objectives:

  1. Overview of the 5 Love Languages.
  2. Using the 5 Love Languages assessment in counseling.

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Day 2: Friday, January 31, 2025

Topic: Overview of the Gottman Research to Couples Therapy
Presenter: Caroline Ross, LPC, Level 2 Gottman Certified
Time: 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM CST (11:00 AM – 1:00 PM EST)
Objectives:

  1. Gottman method fundamentals.
  2. Utilizing the Gottman Assessment Tool.
  3. Applying proven Gottman techniques in sessions.

Topic: Sex Therapy in Couples Work
Presenter: Leah Simmons, LPCS, RPTS, Sex Therapist
Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CST (1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EST)
Objectives:

  1. Addressing the most common sexual issues in couples counseling.
  2. Assessment tools for sexual concerns.
  3. Practical techniques to navigate sensitive topics.

Topic: Ethical Issues in Couples Counseling
Presenter: Dr. Garrett, PhD, LPCS, RPTS
Time: 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST (2:00 PM – 3:00 PM EST)
Objectives:

  1. Navigating ethical guidelines (ABEC/ACA Code of Ethics).
  2. Best practices for documentation, session notes, treatment goals, and diagnosis.

Brave Play offers continuing education for mental health professionals that is interactive and experiential. You’ll come away with more knowledge, new skills to enhance your practice, renewed energy, and meaningful connections. In today’s fast-paced world and complex mental health systems, many practitioners feel overwhelmed and experience burnout and other health problems. Our professional training is designed to offer you a safe space with unique opportunities to nourish your personal and professional selves. For information about our speakers visit us here.

*Garrett Counseling has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6763. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Garrett Counseling is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs NBCC ACEP Provider No. 6763.
*Garrett Counseling is approved by APT to provide continuing education. Garrett Counseling maintains responsibility for this program and its content. APT Approved Provider 15-430.
*By registering for this event you are giving Brave Play / Garrett Counseling permission to use video and photography for advertisement on all marketing material, including social media. You understand that all of GCC property is being recorded and all common areas have voice and video recordings. By registering and attending you are giving permission to GCC for both voice and video recordings on company property.

Cancellation Policy: If you contact us before the program date, you may exchange for a certificate to attend another program or a tuition refund less a cancellation fee of $10.00. Occasionally, changes are made due to unforeseen circumstances or participant demand. While Garrett Counseling will do everything possible to ensure participant satisfaction, Garrett Counseling’s liability is limited to the tuition fee only. If you cancel, 10 business days before the event, you will receive a full refund. Cancellation must be received in writing and can be faxed to 1-256-217-4162 or emailed to garrett@garrettcounseling.com. If cancellation is not received in writing, you will be charged the full amount of tuition.