At this therapeutically oriented and highly-interactive seminar, Kathleen Mates-Youngman, author of best-selling Couples Therapy Workbook: 30 Guided Conversations to Re-Connect Couples, specifically confronts these questions and demonstrates through a client session, how she navigates through these challenges to provide effective therapy. She will also address case vignettes brought in by delegates, covering a wide gamut of couple therapy challenges ranging from conflict to infidelity.

The seminar is part of our newly launched Therapy Session Masterclass (TSM) Series and follows the format described below.

Therapy Session Masterclass (TSM) Series

“What would you have said to the client in this situation?” is a question that delegates often ask the speaker when attending training sessions hosted at nscience. While, as therapists, we can learn a lot from exposition and case illustrations, our learning can be significantly enhanced if we were to have the opportunity to watch senior clinicians and experts in their therapy sessions with clients – we can observe how they manage the narrative, how they respond to complex situations, what overall approach they follow and their individual format for therapeutic interactions.

With this approach in mind, we’ve launched the Therapy Session Masterclass (TSM) Series – a regular programme of evening sessions (each of which can be individually attended as a stand-alone event), moderated and led by Dr Jan McGregor Hepburn, where we will be inviting leading experts in Psychotherapy & Counselling – to let us observe them in clinical settings. Each of the sessions will have dedicated time for a demo therapy session (either video recorded or a live role-play), which will be followed by moderated interactions with delegates. Not only will delegates have the opportunity to see the invited experts in clinical settings but will also have a chance to quiz the expert on their choice of therapy methods.

As participants, we can also bring our own brief case vignettes that may be related to the topic at hand. A selection of these will be discussed by the invited expert.

For the first session (TSM 1) which is an online webinar on 18 Nov 2021, our invited guest is Kathleen Mates-Youngman, author of best-selling Couples Therapy Workbook: 30 Guided Conversations to Re-Connect Couples. The live role-play will feature an interaction with a client who is attending the session on her / his own without their partner. The therapist will be called upon to ‘piece together’ a narrative for Couple Therapy without having the opportunity to meet / talk with the partner. This is a dilemma we often face in our therapeutic interactions and at the session, we will be able to observe how Kathleen navigates the challenge.

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