Helping Couples Connect When Life Is Pulling Them Apart

Couples today are faced with increasing responsibilities, stresses, and time pressures. As a result, couples are stretched to the breaking point and often stop prioritizing their relationship. This workshop looks at the importance of relationship habits as the vehicle for creating a template of connection and intimacy. The presenters will describe a daily pattern of simple tools that will help couples invigorate their relationship with positive, loving energy.

This web conference is intermediate instructional level and designed to help clinicians:

1. Describe the neuorobiological basis for habits;
2. Assess the long-term ramifications of bad relationship habits;
3. Outline three new ways for couples to cope with conflict;
4. List three new habits that can help couples connect daily.

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Event Reviews from Members

I thought that this workshop was particularly well-done. I agree with Noah that the presenters modeled their approach in their presentation. I think that it really flowed in sequence...understanding how the brain functions and how habits are formed is a useful approach to promoting change. - Allene Kaplan, MA, LMFT

Continuing Education (CE) Information

1.5 CE credits will be provided by GoodTherapy.org for attending this web conference in its entirety.

GoodTherapy.org is also an Approved Education Provider by NAADAC, The Association for Addiction Professionals (provider #135463). Of the eight counselor skill groups ascribed to by NAADAC, this course is classified within counseling services.

GoodTherapy.org is an NBCC-Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEPTM) and may offer NBCC-approved clock hours for events that meet NBCC requirements.

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GoodTherapy.org, SW CPE is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #0395.

To receive CE credit hours for an archived event, you will need to complete a survey as well as a 12 or 15-question exam, verifying that you listened to or watched the event in its entirety. Archived CE events generally are considered "homestudy" by licensing boards.

Registration Information

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Mental health professionals who are not members can attend this live web conference for $30.95 or access the homestudy recording for $15.50. Sign up here to purchase this CE course and earn a CE certificate.

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Highlights

In couple relationships, most habitualized behaviors did not develop in the best interest of the couple and most certainly didn’t develop around optimizing intimacy or feeling connected. . . . The result is that many of these habits may actually be antithetical to a healthy, safe, connected, intimate partnership. . . . We want to stress that we have the ability to choose and develop habits that at once minimize conflict and maximize our feelings of intimacy and connection. - Daniel Arthur Bush, PhD

[Intimacy] basically is being transparent enough to be seen and to be heard, whatever those needs are. Someone with an avoidant attachment style might need more time alone, more time doing his or her own stuff as opposed to “Let’s be together all the time.” So connection does not mean “Let’s be joined at the hip.” It means, “I understand you, you understand me, we get each other, we see each other, and we accept each other,” and that’s really part of the backbone of connection. - Ashley Davis Bush, LCSW