Trauma-Informed Couples Therapy
March 11th, 2025 with Patrick Monette, LMHC, CASAC
Being a trauma informed therapist is a critical component in working with couples in today’s world. This innovative training provides current evidence-based research to create an effective new approach for healing trauma in couples-based therapy. This course demonstrates step-by-step guidelines on how clinicians can conceptualize and deliver trauma focused care in their work with couples. This course includes a deep dive into defining and understanding what trauma is and how it (and any other mental health related issues) can impact the dynamics of relationships.
Following a description of trauma informed care, this course provides guidelines with the primary focus to help clinicians learn how to better understand trauma informed care and mindfulness practices. Using trauma focused language and recommendations for teaching specific coping skills, strategies and techniques it will help you assist your couples to better understand the impact trauma may have on their relationship.
Key Features:
1. Offers a framework for providing trauma informed care for couples therapy based on EMDR therapy's AIP model
2. Provides step-by-step approaches to help assess client’s mental health and trauma history and the impact it may have on the couple’s presenting issue/s
3. Includes evidence based coping skills and skills to help decrease couple’s maladaptive coping skills and increase their adaptive coping tools to improve the emotional wellness of their relationship
4. Implements a trauma informed process to expand knowledge of trauma informed in a clinical setting (individual or couple), based on the AIP Model
5. Teaches 3 to 4 adaptive resourcing /copings strategies to share with clients (applicable for all clinicians) (Phase 2 for EMDR therapists)
For the two-day course which incorporates EMDR applications, click here.
This course takes place live on Zoom. Check out this link for Zoom requirements.
Registration Deadline: March 10, 2025
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Course Description
FREE PREVIEWTraining Schedule
FREE PREVIEWZoom Information
Learning Objectives
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About Course Recordings
Clench and Release Script
Clench and Release Demo
Lighstream for Couples Script
Lightstream for Couples Demo
Calm Space for Couples Demo
Container for Couples Demo
Receiving your CE certificate
We offer tiered pricing for all of our trainings in order to make our courses accessible to as many practitioners as possible. If you are unsure which tier of payment is right for your financial situation, please read through our FAQ section below or visit our website.
Please reach out to us at [email protected] if you are interested in a multi-month payment plan. We are always happy to create a custom payment plan to make it more feasible for everyone to participate in our courses.
Times shown in Eastern Time
Start time: 10:00 am
15 minute break: 11:45 am
Lunch: 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Finish time: 5: 30 pm
Upon completion of this workshop, participants will be able to:
Participation in all training sessions and submission of a course evaluation is required to receive a CE certificate for this course. Course evaluations are made available after all live sessions have been completed within the course portal. After completing the evaluation, participants will be able to submit a request for their CE certificate. This training offers 6 CE credits.
It is your responsibility to verify CE coverage in your State or Province.
The Touchstone Institute for Perinatal Training is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Touchstone Institute for Perinatal Training maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
The Touchstone Institute for Perinatal Training, Inc. has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7346. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Touchstone Institute for Perinatal Training, Inc. is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
The Touchstone Institute for Perinatal Training, [provider number:1876], 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. The Touchstone Institute for Perinatal Training maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: [1/19/2024-1/19/2025]. Social workers completing this course receive 6 continuing education credits.
This course is approved by Postpartum Support International (PSI) for continuing education towards obtaining and maintaining the PMH-C
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Yes! We are happy to work with you to create a payment plan that fits your needs. Please reach out to us over email with a brief description of the length of the plan that you are interested in using to pay for this course: [email protected].
Please visit our website for more information on our approach to pricing our trainings: www.touchstoneinstitute.org/pricing.
More than 14 days notice is required for a full refund minus 7% administrative fee. Cancellations made within 14 days of training are eligible for a 50% refund or full transfer to another training within The Touchstone Institute. Only 1 transfer to another training is allowed. If you can not attend the transferred training your fee will be forfeited. No-shows are not eligible for a refund or transfer. Exceptions to this policy are limited to medically documented circumstances or family bereavements. Failure to attend without prior notification (no-shows) will not qualify for a refund.
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