Intermediate/ advanced training: hong kong

This is an online course of experiential and didactic training that includes small group role-play practice of your new skills ad they develop each time we meet, supported in groups of four by Experiential Assistants. This is a course for new and for long-dedicated TCT for social workers, counselors and therapists in Hong Kong, mainland China and Taiwan and beyond to the US, Canada and Australia.

Course Faculty: David Mars, PhD - Developer of Transformative Couples Therapy® - Director of the Center for Transformative Therapy.

Abraham Lim, Certified TCT Therapist, Supervisor in Training and Course Coordinator will be teaching as well.

What You Can Expect

This course equips you to stretch beyond your own internal working model as a couples therapist.  We will help you expand your capacity to expand your capacity to use of your selective perception, selective reception and selective expression for optimizing transformative treatment outcomes.

You will learn new theory and skills through viewing powerful couple sessions on video.

You will experience building your TCT skills by being part of realistic role-play each time we meet in a group of four in which a role-play “couple” emerges from the group. You will be supported through expert moment-to-moment guidance from your TCT Experiential Assistant.

SESSIONS BEGIN February 4, 2024 HKT

session calendar

Eight monthly three-hour sessions
Sundays 8am-11am HKT

  • February 4

    March 3

    April 7

    May 5

    June 2

    Summer Break

    September 15

    October 13

    November 10

cost

$85 USD per three-hour session by monthly subscription
Total cost $680 USD

continuing education

Objectives:

At the end of this program, participants will be able to:

  1. Identify three ways to help establish a secure base in treatment.

  2. Describe two ways to regulate emotional reactivity in both couple members.

  3. Detect the healthiest aspects of each couple member.

  4. Utilize two methods for couple members to process emotional experience.

  5. Design healing a portrayal to treat relational trauma.

  6. Define why affirmation of the self is important.

  7. Explain how clients can melt defense of intellectualization.

  8. Find shared matching values in couple members.

  9. Describe how to process warded-off emotional experience.

  10. Conduct meta-therapeutic processing when couples experience reparative experiences.

  11. Define the value of the core emotion of surprise in treatment.

  12. Integrate core affect through slowing down.

  13. Locate two ways to tailor treatment to a couple member’s attachment style.

  14. Select opportunities to help couple members to feel and show more positivity.

  15. Utilize openings to soften defenses.

  16. Define three early signs of dorsal vagal response.

  17. Demonstrate knowledge of two ways to regulate dorsal vagal response.

  18. Specify how the frequency of dorsal vagal response can be reduced in treatment.

  19. Distinguish methods for engaging avoidantly attached patients in treatment.

  20. Detect an example of a tough case in which an unexpected breakthrough occurred.

  21. Explain how a meditative state of mindfulness helps in treatment.

  22. Conduct a role play of meta-therapeutic processing.

  23. Explain the value of increased awareness in couple members. (*Iwakabe, S., Edlin, J., Fosha, D., Gretton, H., Joseph, A. J., Nunnink, S. E., Nakamura, K., & Thoma, N. C., 2020)

  24. Identify transformance striving in a session. (*Iwakabe, S., Edlin, J., Fosha, D., Gretton, H., Joseph, A. J., Nunnink, S. E., Nakamura, K., & Thoma, N. C., 2020)

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

On alternate monthly sessions there will be no video presentation and Power Point from David Mars, but instead three participants will share video of their TCT clinical work following the same time frame.


Cancellation policy: You may end your enrollment at any time and receive a refund for the remaining sessions of the course. Questions or concerns may be communicated to David Mars, PhD by email at davidmarsphd@gmail.com or by phone at 415-234-3821.


David Mars, PhD, the presenter for this course, holds a PhD in Psychology, is licensed as an MFT, and has taught Transformative Couples Therapy® (TCT) to psychotherapists since 2009. He is the developer of the TCT method and taught the method as a faculty member of the AEDP Institute for eleven years. He is the director of the Center for Transformative Therapy has been treating couples in private practice for over forty years. For a more complete bio, see https://cfttsite.com/david-mars-phd-mft


There are no conflicts of interest or external commercial support related to this course or any course offered by the Center for Transformative Therapy.

CUE Management Solutions, LLC is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. CUE Management Solutions, LLC maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Meeting schedule - all times HKT

8:00-8:20am: Orientation and opening ten-minute Channels of Experience meditation


8:20-8:35am: Check-in and discussion of participant responses to the meditation and any breakthroughs or problems in treating their couples with the TCT method


8:35-9:35am: Presentation and discussion of a Power Point and then an edited and captioned video-taped clinical Transformative Couples Therapy® session presented by David Mars


9:35-9:45am: Discussion, questions and preparation for transition into Experiential Groups with Experiential Assistants


9:45-10:00am: Break


10:00-10:50am: Experiential practice applying the skills learned in groups of four


10:50-11:00am: Summarize