Presented by: Ginger M. Sullivan, MA, LPC, CGP, AGPA-F
Are you looking to add an exciting and potent treatment modality to your clinical practice?
Join us for an exciting day of exploring all things couples group therapy – the what, the why and the how.
In the morning, we will explore the odd-yet-winsome unique blend of modern analysis and Relational Life Therapy (RLT), a form of couple’s therapy which espouses full-respect living, with a heavy emphasis on truth telling. RLT sets the frame and tells the story. Modern analysis rewrites the story. We will identify relational styles and how it detracts from psychological maturation and satisfying connection. Essential concepts, such as grandiosity and shame, will be demonstrated experientially and didactically.
After lunch, these concepts will come to life in an Experiential Mock Couples Group Therapy.
Whether you plan to run a couple’s therapy group or not, the combination of these approaches can provide new and creative ways of working with individual couples.
Ginger M. Sullivan, MA, LPC, CGP, AGPA-F is in private practice in Washington, DC where she specializes in psychodynamic individual therapy, modern analytic group therapy and Relational Life Couples therapy. She is on Faculty at the Center for Group Studies in New York and author of the book, The Road Out: Musings of A Southern Wanderlust. Her work with couples consists of traditional on-going therapy and Weekend Intensives for those that want a private time-condensed experience. She is also the creator of an online educational program, Give It One More Chance. You can find out more about Ginger at: http://www.gingersullivan.org.
Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of this workshop, the attendee will be able to:
Apply RLT (Relational Life Therapy) principles as a supplemental and beneficial frame to modern analytic work in a couples group setting.
Describe the four relational patterns as derivatives from the center of health.
Differentiate and utilize the wounded child, the adaptive child and the functioning adult as identified in the group process.
Structure and organize a working couples group in a clinical setting.