A CASE-BASED APPROACH TO LEARNING and PRACTISING: Couple Therapy ​Online Training & Supervision Groups

A CASE-BASED APPROACH TO LEARNING and PRACTISING: 
Couple Therapy ​Online Training & Supervision Groups

Sign up for a 7-session series

ONGOING REGISTRATION

Ongoing Start Date: Beginning January 6, 2025
Event Time: 10 - 11:15 a.m. ET (Other times may become available)

Congruence Couple Therapy (CCT) harnesses the couple relationship as a resource to create profound and significant clinical and relationship outcomes. It is an evidence-based model that outperformed individual treatment for gambling and alcohol-used disorders, but also applicable to other couple and individual concerns. This systemic relational model reduced life stress while improving communication and emotion regulation in both partners. 

CCT fluidly interweaves four dimensions of the couple system to raise self and other awareness including the impact of adverse childhood experiences, emotional and cognitive states and enhanced self-worth. Counsellors reported that they found a new aliveness in working with couples and learned to trust their own creativity and intuition while quickly engaging with both partners. Clients said CCT led them to a compassionate understanding of their condition that removed shame and restored their worth, safety and connection.

This systemic method is suitable for individual work using a systemic form of exploration.

Format:
Guided by an e-workbook and facilitated by the developer of CCT, you will engage in pre-session readings. Counsellors will bring in a case when it is their turn. Using a structured presentation of the case, group discussion, role-plays and input by the supervisor, CCT principles and interventions will be explained and put into practice.

Objectives:
* Enliven the therapist's creativity and intuition in engaging clients
* Assess couple communication using a Congruent Communication Typology
* Apply the Circle of Communication Cards to expand Couple Communication
* Use a structured process to identify session goals and make every session count towards change
* Make linkages to raise awareness of the FOUR CIRCULAR DOORS of interpersonal, intrapsychic, intergenerational and universal-spiritual dimensions of CCT in every intervention.

Audience:
Marriage and Family Therapists, Counselors, Psychologists, Social Workers, and graduate students in counselling fields are welcome.

Presenter & Facilitator:
Bonnie Lee, RSW, RMFT-S, PhD is Professor in Health Sciences at the University of Lethbridge, Alberta and a Board of Governors Research Chair. She is a respected leader in the field of addiction treatment and the developer of the integrative Congruence Couple Therapy evidence-based model. A Registered Marriage and Family Therapist and Supervisor, she founded the Graduate Certificate Program in Couple and Family Counselling Studies to equip upcoming generations of practitioners in health and social services with a systemic paradigm to view challenges and create multi-dimensional solutions. Throughout her distinguished career, Dr. Lee has published widely in international journals and has been a sought-after speaker and trainer at both national and international conferences.

Registration:
Please register with your information using this link: https://forms.gle/GB5w4htMYjuKFgBMA 

Fee & Payment:
* $60 CAD/session ($48/hr). Student rate available.
* The Congruence Couple Concept and Method e-workbook is available at a discount of $20 CAD for Training/Supervision participants
* Payment from within Canada by e-transfer from your bank to abimft@gmail.com
* Payment from US and countries outside of Canada, go to https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/openheartinc and indicate email openheartcouples@gmail.com
* Paypal will convert your payment into CAD

Prerequisites:
Participation in the Two-Part LIVE Webinar, "Healing Together in Trauma and Addiction: A Integrative Couple Therapy Approach," hosted by Dr. Bonnie Lee on January 17 & January 24, 2025 
OR by permission of the Facilitator

Any questions, please email openheartcouples@gmail.com. We are happy to help!
The Online Link will be sent to you closer to the start date.

Certificate of Completion:
A Certificate of Completion will be awarded upon completion of each series.