The Anatomy of Intimacy Workshops with David Mars, PhD.
in collaboration with the UCI Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
Transforming Interlocking Trauma in Couple Treatment: New Lives, New Selves in a Rediscovered Marriage with David Mars, Ph.D.
October 1, 2016
Irvine, California
Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy for Couples is an innovative, somatically focused model which effectively treats the relational trauma and deprivation that underlies much marital dysfunction. By powerfully creating a safe container for even highly dysregulated couples to relate to each other in a more attuned way, new responsiveness begins from the first session.
Dr. Mars will illustrate key moments of how to work through trauma to heal shame-based blocks to couple intimacy. Extensive clinical videotapes of treatment over time will be used to unpack the dyadic change processes central to AEDP and show the progression of therapy. He skillfully addresses both deactivating (avoidant) and hyperactivating (anxious/ambivalent) attachment strategies. Practical course materials help simplify how to effectively use this approach. You will head back to work armed with immediately applicable interventions.
Powerful aspects of AEDP for Couples include:
- Focus on healing attachment trauma in the couple as well as in each individual
- Use of self of the therapist in transformative work with chronically traumatized couples
- Cutting edge neuroscience that informs the accelerated treatment of relational trauma
- Cultivating whole body “witness consciousness” of perceiving and expressing “the seven channels of experience”
In this workshop, you will learn how to:
- Generate and strengthen the secure base required for transformative couple treatment using a somatic focus
- Employ an effective Early Warning System to treat dissociation & hyper-reactivity
- Resolve shame about what each partner has done and was helpless to prevent being done to them
- Expand the window of affect tolerance.
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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:
Newkirk Alumni Center
University of California, Irvine
450 Alumni Court
Irvine, California 92617
949.824.2586
Event Details:
Date/Time
10/01/20169:00 am - 5:00 pm
Location
Newkirk Alumni Center - University of California, Irvine450 Alumni Court
Irvine, California,