Virtual - Powerful Gottman Method Couples Therapy Tools

Join Diane Foy, M.Ed., for a virtual detailed overview of John Gottman’s Sound Relationship House and how to integrate the research findings into couples therapy. Participants will have time to interact and practice skills of interrupting couple interaction and assisting clients with incorporating relationship maintaining skills.

Objectives

• Explain the research of John Gottman and how this research differs from other research on couples therapy.
• Describe the Sound Relationship House Theory developed by John Gottman after his decades of research with couples.
• Incorporate concepts from the Sound Relationship House Theory in working with couples in psychotherapy.
• Describe and explain the 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse as a dynamic that develops within couples.
• Identify the 4 Horseman through use of video presentation and/or case vignettes.
• Learn how to interrupt and assist couples with the antidotes to the 4 Horsemen by practice through role play.
• Learn the importance of Repair Attempts and maintaining positivity during relationship conflict.
• Identify Repair Attempts during couple interaction and how to assist couples to integrate repair attempts during conflict.
• Learn how to assign homework appropriate for couples therapy clients

Meet the Speaker

Diane Foy is a Licensed Psychologist in private practice in Wayzata, MN. Diane also provides couples intensive weekend retreats. Diane has been in the mental health field for over 30 years. She began her career as a child, adolescent and family therapist and gradually began focussing her clinical practice towards helping couples after reading John Gottman’s book, The 7 Principles for Making Marriage Work in the mid 1990’s. Diane has completed the Gottman Institutes Gottman Method of Couples Therapy training Levels 1, 2 and 3 as well as the Gottman Method for Treating Trauma and Affairs and The 7 Principles Leader Training. Diane has worked in adolescent residential and day treatment centers as well as in county mental health centers before beginning her private practice.

Seminar Schedule (applying for 6.5 CEUs)

7:30am - 8am - Online login/check-in

8am - 12pm - Seminar (Includes 15min break)

12pm - 1pm - Lunch On Own (1hr Break)

1pm - 4pm - Seminar

Applying for CEUs from the following boards:

• MN Board of Behaviorla Health: LPC/LPCC & LADC: Pending
• MN Board of Marriage and Family Therapy: Pending
• MN Board of Social Work: CEP-622
• MN Board of Psychology: Pending
• Iowa Board of Certification: Pending

Training shoudl satisfy licensure requirements for the following boards:

• Missouri Committee for MFT, LPC/LPCC, Pscyhology
• Wisconsin DSPS

**Providers are responsible for knowing their licesning boards CEU requirements and pre-approval process.