You don’t need more techniques. You need a way to break through what keeps couples stuck.
Most couples therapy trainings focus on communication skills or techniques, but not the key to helping couples restore trust and intimacy. The obstacle to healing broken trust for couples is not communication. The obstacle is projective identification—unconsciously induced in partners and the couple therapist, leading to the experience of a zero-sum power struggle in which only one partner can be correct or to blame.
If the therapist cannot recognize and work with this kind of emotional entanglement in real time, even the best techniques will fail and both the couple and the therapist will become exhausted with feeling stuck, confused, even enraged at the repetitions of entanglements.
Dialogue Therapy is designed to meet this challenge directly.
A DIFFERENT KIND OF TRAINING
Dialogue Therapy is a structured, evidence-informed method rooted in psychoanalysis, mindfulness and psychodrama developed by Polly Young-Eisendrath, PhD and her late husband, Ed Epstein, and comprehensively presented by Polly and co-author Jean Pieniadz in their 2022 book: Dialogue Therapy for Couples and Real Dialogue for Opposing Sides.
Dialogue Therapy does not add more techniques. It trains you to:
Recognize and interrupt projective identification
Stay grounded and effective under emotional pressure
Transform conflict into clarity, trust, and mutual recognition
From leading psychoanalytic author Dr. Nancy McWilliams: “[Dialogue Therapy] is both inspiring and quintessentially practical. I recommend [the method] to all therapists who work with couples as well as to professionals in the fields of coaching, consulting, and conflict resolution.”
From the best-selling author of Conscious Uncoupling and Calling in the One, Katherine Woodward Thomas, MFT: “As someone who has worked for years to help heal the broken-hearted, and offer hope to those who steadfastly believe in love despite many bumps and bruises…I am thrilled to discover this graceful, heartfelt, compellingly simple, yet brilliantly deep work to awaken our ability to grow…”
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
Work effectively with emotional threat as it emerges in session
Move clients from reactivity to recognition and mutual trust
Strengthen a grounded, clear, and responsive clinical presence
WHAT’S INCLUDED
A fully supported, advanced clinical training experience:
Four immersive 3-day intensives
Direct teaching and live demonstration
Structured small-group practice with faculty support
Opportunities for live supervision and feedback
Training materials and guided exercises
CE eligibility (depending on licensure)
DESIGNED FOR
Licensed clinicians and advanced trainees
ENROLLMENT IS LIMITED
To preserve depth of practice
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