Description:
OPD Points: 12
Key Learning Objectives / Outcomes:
Building on what you learned in the Level 1 Training, you will review how to assess a couple’s Friendship Profile, Conflict Profile, and Shared Meaning Profile. You will be provided with a toolkit of interventions that couples can use as antidotes to the Four Horsemen and soothe physiological flooding. You will apply six modes of changing the Attack/Defend System in a couple’s interactions, and learn how to assist couples in establishing dialogue about their gridlocked conflicts. You will learn how to select and implement interventions to help couples deepen their Friendship System with rituals of connection, select and implement interventions to help couples create a shared system of values and meaning, and identify and implement five different co-morbidities common to couples using Gottman assessments and interventions.
Presenter / Provider:
Elizabeth Neal and Jenny Sanbrook
Presenter Qualifications:
Elizabeth nNeal (AAPi) and Jenny Sanbrook (AMHSW) Liz Neal is a psychologist, Certified Gottman Couples Therapist, Advanced Clinical Trainer & Consultant for The Gottman Institute and the Director of The Relationship Therapy Centre. Liz is the creator of Parenting as a Team as well as The Couple & The Child Clinical Training. She works in private practice and integrates contemporary attachment theory into her clinical work with couples. She is keenly interested in how reflective function capacity influences and shapes relationships. Jenny is an Accredited Mental Health Social Worker and Certified Gottman Couples Therapist with almost 30 years of counselling experience, providing therapy to clients experiencing emotional and relationship difficulties. Jenny holds a degree in Social Work and Masters in Couple and Family Therapy from the UNSW. Jenny has recently trained in Canada to be a Level 1 Gottman Therapy Presenter. Jenny began her career in mental health in hospital and community settings and has been in private practice for the last 16 years. She uses a combination of individual therapeutic techniques such as CBT, DBT, Schema, Mindfulness techniques, parenting, attachment and family of origin models and Gottman Method couples therapy. Jenny provides supervision to other therapists and continues to be an accredited member of the AASW and upholding professional development, standards and ethics as required.
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