Treating Two Histories of Complex Trauma in Couple Therapy: Out of Prison and into Love
AEDP for Couples
with David Mars, Ph.D.
Senior Faculty of the AEDP Institute and The developer of Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy for Couples
September 10, 2016
at IAIA in Santa Fe for AEDP Southwest
9 AM to 5 PM
Powerful and unique aspects of AEDP for Couples include:
- An emphasis on the experience of felt love as a key agent of change in couples work
- Use of the self of the therapist in transformative work with even severe and complex trauma
- A focus on healing attachment trauma in the couple as well as in each individual within it
- Showing how cutting edge neuroscience informs this accelerated method of treating trauma
As we witness the moving clinical videotape showing the couple’s arc of treatment, Dr. Mars, will demonstrate ways to:
- Generate and strengthen the secure base required for transformative couple treatment
- Employ an effective Early Warning System to treat dissociation quickly and re-regulate both members
- Expand the window of affect tolerance
- Resolve shame about what each couple member has done and what each was helpless to prevent being done to them
- Help therapists expand their capacity to attune somatically to their couples and clients
- Use healing portrayals as a means to accelerate healing and to bring lasting relief and improve the capacity to feel and deal in daily life
You will witness how this experiential and somatically based AEDP for Couples work powerfully impacts and engages both the couple members on video and the therapists in the audience.
To learn more about AEDP for Couples go to cfttsite.com
Meet the Presenter
David Mars, M.F.T., Ph.D.
David Mars, Ph.D. is the developer of AEDP For Couples. He has specialized in the somatically focused treatment of couples and groups for four decades, as an innovator in developing process-oriented, somatically, and empathically focused couple treatment. David has trained, supervised and consulted with Dr. Diana Fosha, the originator of AEDP since 2005.
David develops and presents training seminars and workshops nationally and internationally that focus on the AEDP for Couples model. He is the lead supervisor of the AEDP for Couples Core Training. He teaches at AEDP Immersion Courses, the Essential Skills Program and leads two ongoing AEDP for Couples supervision groups. He is one of the founders of AEDP West. David is also on the adjunct faculty of the California Institute for Integral Studies in San Francisco where he infused AEDP into his teaching of courses on the Clinical Relationship.
David’s style as a presenter is described as inspiring, warm and deeply personable. He quickly evokes trust from his audiences, which ushers in a deep level of transparent exchange of ideas and points of view about how therapists can more effectively treat the historical trauma and deprivation that underlies marital dysfunction. Perhaps most importantly, participants are moved to apply what they learn in these training programs, due to the depth of experience they take in while witnessing videos, live demonstrations and engaging in experiential practices.
Location
IAIA | Institute of American Indian Arts
83 Avan Nu Po Rd, Santa Fe, NM 87508
(505) 424-2300
Registration begins at 8:30 a.m.
The workshop begins promptly at 9:00 a.m. and ends at 4:30 p.m.
Breakfast, lunch and afternoon snack will be provided.
6 CEUs available for therapists, counselors, and social workers
Cost
- $155 Students and Groups of 3 or more
- $170 Early Bird Special (14 days prior to event)
- $190 Regular Workshop Fee
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Date/Time
09/10/20169:00 am - 5:00 pm