( HS Faller 096435 2025) The High-Conflict Couple

Course overview

Working with highly escalated couples and families can be scary and exhausting. Often, our best attempts at creating positive change fall flat. Sometimes, us trying to guide sessions into a safe zone even leads to more entrenched silence or further criticism.¿When negative cycles take over, and we find ourselves faced with shut down withdrawers and hostile pursuers, how do we shift them out of reactivity and into responsiveness? This workshop draws on proven interventions from Emotionally Focused Therapy and the neuroscience of human attachment to help you navigate the recurring blocks and common triggers therapists encounter in couples and family work. Youll walk away with new tools that will empower you to shift the reactivity and mis-attunement that so often derails work with highly escalated partners and families. Youll discover how to Help clients shift from blaming their partner to sharing their vulnerability Transform negative cycles of interaction into positive cycles of responsiveness Help partners to recognize and put words to their inner experiences Immediately incorporate powerful techniques to reduce client reactivity and begin the process of healing