Date & Time:

• Day 1: 7th of April 2022, 8.30am - 4.30pm
• Day 2: 8th of April 2022, 8.30am - 4.30pm
• Day 3: 9th of April 2022, 8.30am - 4.30pm

What is it about?

Deepen your understanding of Gottman Method Couples Therapy. Expand your strategies & interventions with couples!

Professional Development & Practical Immersion:

• Take part in interactive presentations.
• Practice using Gottman Interventions in group role-plays; Receive personalized, supportive coaching
• View new demonstration films from the Gottmans’ clinical office
• Participate in extensive discussions with Senior Certified Gottman Therapists and clinicians from around the world.
• Refine your clinical skills and expand your strategies and interventions in your work with couples
• Learn to internalize and integrate the powerful, research-based Gottman Method Assessment and Intervention techniques.
• Gain insight as to when to use these methods and when couples therapy is contraindicated.
• Engage in vital dialogue regarding Gottman Couples Therapy.
• Gain confidence in using the techniques through personal immersion

What will you learn?

• Assess a couple’s “Friendship Profile,” “Conflict Profile,” and “Shared Meanings Profile”
• Develop interventions that couples can use as antidotes to the “Four Horsemen”
• Help couples to soothe physiological flooding
• Apply six modes of changing the “Attack/Defend System” in a couple’s interactions
• Assist couples in establishing dialogue about their grid-locked conflicts
• Select and implement interventions to help couples deepen their “Friendship System” with rituals of connection
• Select and implement interventions to help couples create a shared system of values and meaning
• Identify and implement five different co-morbidities common to couples using Gottman Assessments and Interventions.

What is included in the registration price?

• 500+ page Level 2 Clinical Training Manual containing the core Gottman Method Couples Therapy assessments and interventions.
• Gottman Method Couples Therapy Level 2 Training Certificate of Completion awarded by the Gottman Institute.
• Up to 20 CE hours
• Eligibility to continue to Level 3 training

About Trish Purnell-Webb:

Trish has a Master of Clinical Psychology degree through Charles Sturt University, and was the first person to become a Certified Gottman Therapist as well as a Master Trainer and Consultant for the Gottman Institute in Australia.

Trish has over 20 years’ experience working with couples in a range of clinical and non-clinical settings, she brings a wealth of experience working with complex couples struggling with trauma, mood disorders, personality vulnerabilities, anger management issues, affair recovery, and alcohol use. She is also an experienced clinical supervisor and assessor for the Australian Health Practitioners Regulation Authority.