Looking at the counselor’s own models of relationship and capacity for intimacy; developing empathy and intuition; learning to work with high conflict couples; developing sense of confidence, groundedness and trust in yourself; working with countertransference in psychodynamic, somatic and energetic levels.
How to work somatically and experientially with couples; Effective Interventions - contact, empathic reflection, crossing interventions; how to use mindfulness and experiential exercises.
What makes couples counseling different from individual therapy or coaching, and what is required from the counselor; an integrative framework that combines Attachment and Differentiation; goals and frame of couples counseling.
Understanding what makes us feel loved; communication as a cycle and the structure of conflict; main challenges couples bring to counseling.