(WC 150422 EARNSHAW - 2025) 2-Day Intensive Couples Therapy Level 1 Training: An Accelerated Approach to Repair, Stabilize

Course overview

Traditional 50-minute sessions often limit the progress couples can make-particularly when emotional flooding, conflict cycles, and unfinished conversations stall momentum. Intensive couples therapy offers a longer, uninterrupted format that allows couples to fully engage in deep clinical work, practice regulation skills in real time, and leave with a clearer path forward. In this free 2-day virtual training, Elizabeth Earnshaw, LMFT, CGT, will present a structured framework for conducting effective couples intensives. You'll learn how to determine client fit, set up the logistical and ethical foundations, facilitate change-oriented interventions, and close intensives with a plan for ongoing support. Over two days, you will gain practical, applicable skills for: Structuring an intensive: purpose, goals, clinical indications, and contraindications Assessing fit: identifying when intensives are appropriate and when they are not Pre-session preparation: informed consent, scheduling, payment, and consult calls Day One protocols: joining with couples, conducting assessments, and presenting feedback Day Two protocols: facilitating enactments, managing dysregulation, and pacing deep work Ethical decision-making: knowing when to pause or discontinue an intensive Closure and follow-up: planning, referrals, and clinical handoffs Elizabeth will walk you through four detailed case studies that illustrate common presentations, intervention strategies, and outcomes: Alex & Priya - Chronic low-grade conflict and existential drift Marcus & Dani - Post-baby relational strain and resentment Linda & Charles - Later-life relationship under stress Jordan & Ray - Coupleship in recovery under threat These examples will show how assessment, intervention selection, enactment facilitation, and regulation skills unfold across the two-day intensive format.