Mentoring

I offer individual and small group mentoring for therapists and coaches wishing to learn or deepen their skills in Relational Life Therapy. Please email me with any inquiries.

Teaching

I teach short on-line courses on specific topics.

Courses have limited enrolment, in an effort to ensure the opportunity for everyone to engage and ask question.

Course topics are illustrated with clips from my clinical work. For this reason, they are not recorded and made available outside of the course time.

The Therapist’s Use of Self in Relationship Counselling 

It has been asserted that “the qualities and capabilities of the person offering the treatment are more important than the treatment itself” (Sprenkle et al., 2009, p.4). While the research regarding this assertion is somewhat muddy, there is no question that the way therapists presents themselves matters. In this course we will look at two concepts elemental to building confidence in how one uses oneself as a therapist – the notion of balancing stress and safety, and the idea of the therapist as a participant observer. This will be followed by an elaboration of ways to be oneself primarily spontaneously (e.g. humor, metaphor, amplification) as well as more deliberately (e.g. self-disclosure, taking sides, ‘joining through the truth’ and sustaining). Concepts will be demonstrated with footage of therapy sessions from the instructor.

Working with the Relationship Grid in Individual and Couple Counselling

• History of Related Concepts
• Basics of Self-Esteem
• Basics of Boundaries
• Self-Esteem and Boundaries Across Cultures
• Tying First and Second Consciousness into the Grid
• Using the Grid to Diagnose a Couple’s Dance
• Demonstrations (from videotaped sessions)

Navigating the Three Phases of Relational Therapy

In this course we will discuss the elements of each phase and how to move between them according to the data received from the couple. I will share video footage of work from each phase.

• Phase One: Diagnosis and Reconnection
• Phase Two: Working with Adaptations
• Phase Three: Skills Work

Note: I can prepare a course on any Relational Life Therapy topic for interested parties.

If there are no dates listed for any of the above courses, please email me for further information.