“Do You Find Couples’ Therapy Challenging?”

“Are You As Effective As You Could Be”?

“Interested in ‘Turbo Charging’ Your Couples’ Therapy Skills?”

Dear Clinician,

Couples’ therapy can be one of the most rewarding types of therapy to do. Helping a relationship to heal, watching two people re-establish their love for each other, seeing problems melt away…even for us trained clinicians it can seem like magic at times.

But why doesn’t it always work? What is it that separates successful relationship interventions from those that are less successful? How can we really know that our sessions are working and that the changes will generalize?

Most importantly: What do you do with seemingly “unsolvable” marriage and relationship problems?

If you are curious about the answers to these questions:

Whether you are an experienced therapist looking for a “tune up” or a new therapist looking for a step-by-step approach to couples’ therapy join us and get specific techniques and strategies that you can put to use instantly and that work fast including:

• Helping couples to increase empathy, emotional resonance, and connection.

• Maintaining constructive dialogue with couples both during and after the session.

• Short, but effective interventions that get relationships (and therapy sessions) back on track FAST.

• How to get out of conflict even in the most difficult situations.

• What Do When A Couple “Explodes” In Your Office (And How To Stop It From Happening In The First Place)

And MUCH more as you will see below with our panel of internationally-known and highly-experienced and respected therapists.

This is not a conference full of “theories” and abstract ideas on couples’ therapy, but one that is filled with practical, easy-to-implement and useful techniques and strategies that you can put to use instantly regardless of your skill level or experience dealing with couples.

We know how valuable your time is, how pressing your practice can be and how important it is for you to get the most “bang for your buck” with your continuing education dollars. That’s why we developed these online conferences (no airfare or hotel costs!) and why we find – and push – for our conference presenters to share with you their most practical wisdom, their most cutting-edge ideas, and the case studies that will help you to have those “aha” moments that lead to both insight and action that improves your results.

But as always – don’t take out word for it. We – Rob McNeilly and Ryan Nagy – stand behind what we sell and offer an unconditional money back guarantee. If you are not happy with this conference for any reason contact us for a refund no questions asked. When you register for the conference you get Ryan’s personal email address and can contact him at any time.

Take A Look At What Our Presenters Offer You:

Bill O’Hanlon

“Rewriting Love Stories”

Bill O'Hanlon, MS. LMFT

For many of you reading these words, Bill O’Hanlon needs no introduction. A prolific author, international workshop leader and a guest on hundreds of radio and television shows, Bill has an easy-to-understand, “no nonsense” approach to couples’ therapy. We asked Bill to give you his most effective strategies and techniques for couples’ therapy and that is exactly what he has done. Here’s a small sample of what you will learn from Bill:

1) The power of acceptance and validation. Learn how to acknowledge and validate each partner’s points of view and feelings without necessarily agreeing with them.

2) Encouraging action talk and sensory-based video talk: Keep your clients out of analysis and blame and direct them into action.

3) Helping your clients determine clear boundaries and limits for acceptable and unacceptable actions.

4) Discovering ways to help each partner in an interaction change their part of the pattern so that relationship can evolve.

Bill O’Hanlon is a pioneer in brief and strategic interventions for couples. Bill has written over 30 books on the subject of change and has appeared on countless radio and television shows including the Today Show and Oprah. Bill is clinical member of AAMFT (and winner of the 2003 New Mexico AMFT Distinguished Service Award), certified by the National Board of Certified Clinical Hypnotherapists and a Fellow and a Board Member of the American Psychotherapy Association..

Ellyn Bader, PhD

“Developing Relationships”

Ellyn Bader, PhD

In this session – an interview of Ellyn with Rob McNeilly, Ellyn shares her 30 years experience of working with couples – her journey so far, her thoughts about why so many marriages fail, why so many couples’ therapy sessions fail, four theories that form the basis of her approach [Development theory; Attachment theory; Differentiation theory; Brain science].

Ellyn also offers directions for you to add to your effectiveness in working with couples, shares specific techniques which are integral to her approach and which you will be able to easily include in your own clinical work.

1) Why long-term relationships fail. (And how knowing can improve your couples’ therapy.)

2) How to engage the “repair” process in relationships.

3) The importance of skill learning in couples’ therapy.

4) The biggest difference between couples’ therapy and individual therapy.

5) Getting clear about your role in couples’ therapy.

6) The biggest mistakes that Dr. Bader has seen in couples’ therapy and how you can make sure that you are not making them.

Ellyn Bader has helped couples create extraordinary relationships for more than 20 years. With her husband Peter Pearson she co-founded The Couples Institute where they teach their Developmental Model of relationships. Ellyn teaches throughout the United States, Europe, South America, Australia and Asia. Acclaimed as a leader in the field, she can help you quickly evolve as a couple’s therapist. Ellyn co-authored a classic textbook for therapists, In Quest of the Mythical Mate now in its 15th printing and also co-authored Tell Me No Lies about being honest with compassion in your marriage. She has been featured in national medial such as the Today show and CBS Early Morning News plus over 70 other national and local news media.

Carolyn Daitch, PhD

“Enhancing Affect Regulation and Attuned Connection in Couples’ Therapy”

Carolyn Daitch, PhD

Therapists who work with couples have long been challenged by the difficulty of teaching partners to negotiate conflict without succumbing to emotional flooding and the ruptures in connection which can then result.

Even when couples do learn to initiate and maintain constructive dialogue within the therapist’s office, all their therapeutic tools can quickly fall by the wayside in the heat of the moment when conflict arises outside the therapy room. Don’t let this happen in your work!

In her work with couples over the past 30 years, Dr. Daitch has developed a method you can use to help couples. You will learn to:

1) Decrease the emotional flooding that can lead to an escalation of conflict as well as a loss of connection.

2) Increase shared empathy, emotional resonance, and attuned connection in your sessions.

3) Help your clients to apply these tools consistently in their daily lives.

In this workshop Dr. Daitch shares this therapeutic approach with you in a manner that makes it easy to understand and use. The course includes demonstrations and a case example; so that you can both experience some of these interventions first-hand and get a sense of how they can be implemented in your couples’ therapy sessions

Carolyn Daitch is the director of the Center for the Treatment of Anxiety Disorders in Farmington Hills, Michigan and is an internationally known expert on anxiety disorders and couples’ therapy. She speaks worldwide on anxiety disorders, affect regulation, and relationship therapy. In addition to articles and book chapters on anxiety, she is the author of Anxiety Disorders: The Go-To Guide for Clients and Therapists (W.W. Norton, 2011) and the award winning Affect Regulation Toolbox: Practical and Effective Hypnotic Interventions for the Over-reactive Client (W.W. Norton, 2007). Carolyn is currently writing a new book, Anxious in Love: Skills to Manage Your Anxiety, Improve Your Relationship, Reduce Conflict and Foster Intimacy for New Harbinger Press.

She is an elected fellow and approved consultant of The American Society of Clinical Hypnosis (ASCH), recipient of two Presidential Awards from ASCH for her writing, teaching, and contributions and is also a past-president of the Michigan Society of Clinical Hypnosis, which honored her with a lifetime-achievement award, and holds an elected position on the Division 30 Executive Committee of the American Psychological Association.

Lilian Borges Zeig, MA, LPC

“Solving conflicts in relationships:”

Lilian Borges-Zeig

Is it the nature of relationship to have conflicts? All relationship certainly seem to have conflicts. Whether it is a relationship with yourself, with an authority, a subordinate, a peer or a relationship between countries, conflicts will rise some day.

Conflicts have a specific pattern and also a specific way to end. In this workshop, you will learn the patterns of conflict, how to get your clients (or yourself) out of the conflict even in the most difficult situations and how to improve communication after a conflict has damaged you or your client’s relationship.

Lilian Borges Zeig is a licensed Professional Counselor with more than 18 years of experience working with couples and teaching couples’ therapy. She is trained in both Ericksonian hypnosis and brief therapy.  An invited teacher at the Milton Erickson Foundation in their extensive hypnosis training programs, she also teaches Medical Psychology and Medical Hypnosis for med students in Arizona.

Lilian conducts seminars in the US and internationally and is licensed psychotherapist both in Brazil and the US. She currently has a private practice in Phoenix, Arizona, where she sees couples, individuals and families. Lilian has a vast multicultural knowledge and conducts programs in English, Spanish and Portuguese.

Rob McNeilly, MD

“Transforming Individual Problems Into Shared Solutions in Couples Therapy”

Rob McNeilly

We usually think of couple’s therapy as finding shared solutions and helping couples work on their “relationship”. Yet, couples come for counselling as separate individuals with individual perspectives of their relationship difficulties. As a therapist how can you balance and integrate these multiple perspectives?

In this session, Rob draws on more than 30 years of his clinical practice inviting an exploration of ways you can bring a solution approach into your therapy sessions, circumventing the emotionally charged problem solving that individuals have been struggling with.

He demonstrates simple, elegant steps to help recreate couples as a couple and reconnect them with their shared resources and wishes, often delightfully, rapidly and respectfully.

You will learn:

1) Questions you can use to reconnect your clients – as individuals and as a couple.

2) Steps to help couples access their shared resources

3) Moves you can use to help your patients consolidate their shared outcomes

Rob offers a number of clinical examples to allow an easy translation of the talk into clinical practice.

Rob McNeilly is known for providing experiential learning which is practical, relevant and down to earth. Rob has the ability to teach immediately useful skills to therapists and the public. A former licensed medical doctor, Rob now focuses exclusively on teaching and training. Widely known throughout Australia, New Zealand and Southeast Asia, Rob is the author and co-author of several books and DVD’s series on empirically-based methods for learning effectiveness in therapy. In this practical and immediately useful presentation Rob will not only share his theories and ideas for looking past the “presenting problem” and seeing the whole person, but also lead you through some gentle yet effective experiences that will give you first-hand knowledge of processes that can directly help you in your couples therapy sessions.

Enhancing Attunement by Connecting to Mature, Compassionate Parts of Self by Dr. Carolyn Daitch. A hypnotic exploration. This audio session was specifically created by Dr. Daitch for this conference and is not available anywhere else. It demonstrates a powerful hypnotic intervention that helps couples move into a state of calm so that they can contact mature, compassionate parts of self. In doing so, couples both increase empathy for one another and learn to respond to one another from their “better selves:” those parts of themselves that are most compassionate, understanding, and loving. Dr. Daitch has found that this intervention also promotes connection and positive affect by allowing clients to appreciate those qualities in their partners that are most endearing.

A Hypnotic Session to Reconnect A Couple by Dr. Rob McNeilly. In this session Rob invites any couple or either partner individually to put aside the usual limiting experiences, and reconnect with past present and future possibilities to enhance their relationship.

Resolving Conflict by Dr. Lillian Borges-Zeig. We took the final few minutes of Lilian’s presentation – which is a self-hypnosis session for resolving conflict – and created a separate audio file from it.

Transcripts of ALL the Bonus sessions. We thought you might want an easy way to recreate, adapt or otherwise use the bonus sessions above so we have included word-for-word transcripts.

Chapter 10, Application of Tools Within Marital/Committed Relationships from Dr. Daitch’s book Affect Regulation Toolbox: Practical and Effective Hypnotic Interventions for the Over-Reactive Client

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