The Neurobiology of Healing Relationships: Trauma Work Meets Couples Therapy

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Terry Real, LICSW Related seminars and products

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Terry Real, LICSW, New York Times bestselling author of Us: Getting Past You and Me to Build a More Loving Relationship and founder of Relational Life Therapy (RLT), has spent over 30 years challenging the cultural forces that erode our capacity for authentic love. Known for his fierce compassion and groundbreaking work in men’s issues, Real brings both clinical wisdom and raw humanity to the deepest questions of how we live and love.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Terrence Real is the founder of Relational Life Institute, maintains a private practice and has an employment relationship with Family Institute of Cambridge. He receives royalties as a published author. Terry Real receives a speaking honorarium, recording, and book royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Terrence Real has no relevant non-financial disclosures.

Juliane Taylor Shore, LMFT, LPC, SEP Related seminars and products

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Objectives

1. Assess the states of your client's brain that impede emotional connections.
2. Create a working relationship with your client’s brain on multiple levels to promote trauma recovery and healthy relationships simultaneously.
3. Apply memory reconsolidation principles to couples therapy.

Outline

• Identify the states of your client's brain 
  • Define the locations and functions of the subcortical and cortical systems
  • Identify integrated and disintegrated states in the brain
  • Define the relationships between these systems and why working with a subcortically lead brain state (disintegrated) is so difficult
  • Assess disintegration vs integration.
  • Use tools that work with the brain to end this state and come back to regulation and connection
    • 2nd consciousness 
    • Time outs 
    • Relational jujitsu 
• Create a working relationship with your client’s brain on multiple levels to promote trauma recovery and healthy relationships simultaneously 
  • Your client’s ability to choose an integrated brain state is essential to them utilizing skills that will help them to heal.
    • Using inner child work in couples’ sessions 
    • Use the witnessing of personal work to shift relational dynamics 
• Apply memory reconsolidation principles to couples therapy 
  • Define and explain memory reconsolidation 
  • Identify emotional schemas that are problematic 
  • Learn couples interventions that bring the ability to rewire these emotional schemas home with your couples. 
    • Core negative image 
    • Dead stop contracts 

Target Audience

• Counselors
• Social Workers
• Psychologists
• Psychotherapists
• Therapists
• Marriage & Family Therapists
• Addiction Counselors
• Case Managers
• Physicians
• Nurses
• Other Mental Health Professionals

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