ImagoInsights

Couple's therapy is especially difficult when one person wants to "save the marriage" and the other is ambivalent about wanting to stay or wants to end the relationship. This class will be an introduction to Bill Doherty's Discernment Counseling of working with complex couples on the brink. It provides a protocol to help each partner look at their motivations for staying or going and to help them clarify whether to keep things the way they are, to separate or divorce, or to look deeply at necessary personal change and commit to six months of intensive couple therapy. This is not a training toward certification in Discernment Counseling.

The course will help you:

• Understand the common mistakes couples therapists make with mixed agenda couples
• Differentiate the goals of discernment counseling and Imago therapy
• Clarify the different approaches with leaning in and leaning out partners
• Use some of the techniques with mixed agenda couples

Cheryl Dolinger Brown, LCSW has been practicing as a psychotherapist in New York City for over thirty-five years with individuals, couples and groups in addition to presenting workshops and supervising therapists. She directed wellness services in a national Employee Assistance Program where she developed and presented over 45 corporate seminars. She has written articles for the magazine, Social Work Today, and was an adviser on their editorial board.

Cheryl believes in life-long learning and has been certified as a Psychoanalyst, Certified Imago Therapist® (Advanced Clinician and Consultant), and a Somatic Experience Practitioner in addition to training in PACT (Psychobiological Approach to Couples Therapy) and Discernment Counseling. Since a balanced life is so important to her, she practices yoga and meditation, cooks and bakes, creates jewelry in a weekly beading group, is in a book group and loves playing with friends and family.

Unfortunately, Continuing Education (CE) Credits will not be available for these courses.

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