Janina Fisher, Esther Perel & Terry Real – Healing Trauma in Relationships: Expert approaches to overcome attachment wounds, shame, betrayal, and more – PESI

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Help clients overcome trauma and discover the safe, connected, intimate relationships they’ve always wanted!Join master therapists Janina Fisher, Esther Perel, and Terry Real

For clients with deeply rooted trauma, intimate relationships can be terrifying.

Especially when the trauma occurred in the context of another relationship, the pain of the past makes it incredibly challenging to develop healthy relationships again.

As therapists, it is not enough to treat the trauma…

…we also need to be able to help our clients work through the unexpected triggers, unhelpful ways of coping and feelings of isolation, shame and mistrust that have become barriers to developing the safe and loving connections they desire.

That’s why we’ve brought together three master therapists, Janina Fisher, Esther Perel, and Terry Real — whose cutting-edge approaches have provided a pathway to healing for traumatized clients and couples around the world.

Now in this groundbreaking online course, you have the unique opportunity to access the perspectives of all three therapy masters on how to guide your clients toward trauma recovery AND the close connections they’re seeking… regardless if you’re working with couples or individuals.

You’ll end this program with the insight, confidence and skills you need to take treatment beyond trauma healing – to restoration and lasting connection!

Never before has there been a training course like this!
Experience three unique therapy approaches in-action with real clients…
…plus get access to exclusive therapist-to-therapist conversations where you’ll learn the precise decisions that lead to deep relational healing…
…so you can be confident in working with even the most challenging cases!

WHAT YOU’LL DISCOVER IN THIS COURSE

Join these expert therapists for step-by-step learning sessions where they’ll guide you through the precise interventions to use in key situations with traumatized clients.

Then see the experts in action through their Master Class recordings that were specifically chosen to highlight how to use these skills with traumatized relationships. You’ll experience their approaches through real client demonstrations and get access to exclusive therapist-to-therapist interviews that provide the intricate details that will help you quickly integrate these skills.

Here’s just a sampling of what you’ll learn:

• Janina Fisher’s method of working with the nervous systems and internal parts to bring couples back into connection
• Esther Perel’s revolutionary use of eroticism and pleasure as a path to trauma healing
• Terry Real’s method for leveraging therapist authenticity and trust-building to quickly work through deep emotional wounds

Full Course Description

Module 1 | From Pain to Pleasure

Eroticism isn’t sex; it’s the landscape on which we play out our deepest thoughts, dreams, impulses, and even painful memories. It’s an elixir of curiosity and vibrancy that makes us feel alive. But when we experience deep wounding or traumatic stress, that erotic self often goes into hiding—we shut down and with it goes our sense of self-worth and ability to experience desire, responsiveness, and openness. The re-emergence of eroticism is often seen as an outcome that happens at the end of trauma treatment. But what if accessing eros is a catalyst that actually stimulates recovery from trauma? In this recording, you’ll discover:

• The effects of trauma in intimacy and sexuality
• How to include erotic recovery as part of trauma treatment and why it’s important in healing from traumatic stress of all kinds, including sexual, personal, societal, and intergenerational
• How to refocus trauma treatment from simply finding meaning in past experiences to reconnecting with new experiences
• Specific ways to incorporate erotic recovery in trauma treatment that encourages clients’ ability to reconnect authentically with themselves and others

Program Information

Objectives

Investigate the psychological connections between traumatic stress and sexuality.

Describe how and why erotic recovery can be an essential part of recovery from traumatic stress.

Construct a treatment pathway that emphasizes the creation of new corrective experiences.

Practice at least 3 interventions that focus on the recovery of the loss of sense of self in traumatic stress.

Outline

• The hidden connections between traumatic stress and eroticism
• How eroticism is lost in trauma
• How the recovery of eroticism after trauma can be an essential key in treatment

Target Audience

• Psychologists
• Physicians
• Addiction Counselors
• Counselors
• Social Workers
• Marriage & Family Therapists
• Art Therapists
• Nurses
• Other Behavioral Health Professionals

Module 2 | Esther Perel Master Class Session: Trauma and the Roots of Infidelity

DESCRIPTION:

The couple in this session comes to Esther for guidance on how to create a space of safety for physical intimacy. They are gay men who have been together for 14 years and were married only two weeks before the session.

• One of the partners has a history of PTSD with addictions and substance abuse.
• There were several infidelities on the part of that same partner one year before they came for this session.
• They want to stay together in spite of the infidelities.
• They have fairly consistent, defined roles—one is the talker; the other is the quiet caretaker.
• When they begin the session the quiet caretaker would like to understand more about his partner’s trauma so he can be sure not to trigger him and also be able to help him more. The talker wants to be better able to receive what is offered without being triggered.

OUTLINE:

What to listen for in this session

• Note the pacing. It’s very different from the other two sessions. It’s slow, rhythmic, subdued. Esther explains that this is her practice with trauma as she does not want to trigger or flood. She feels her way into an understanding of how much and at what pace to move forward.
• Look for Perel to follow up partners’ statements and get the intimate meanings behind them by asking for “more.”
• Notice how these partners, who’ve been together for 14 years, have never talked in depth about one partner’s trauma—a central emotional event—and how the partner who is talkative has asked almost no questions about his partner in that same time.

After introducing themselves, they tell the story of the benign birthday “surprise” tour which had to be abandoned when it triggered the partner with a trauma history, but it is clear they have talked little about the history behind the response. Perel says later she is curious about how the norms for how much or little to share were set. At the end of the segment, they talk about another trauma manifestation they’d both like to change— that the partner with a trauma history often flinches when his partner touches him. When the touch-focused partner reiterates that he wants to learn more about how his partner thinks so he can avoid triggering him, Perel replies Maybe he should learn from you.

In the analysis, Perel and Simon discuss trauma in relationships and whether this couple’s situation is unique. Perel explains that it is not and goes on to say how common it is to have only the manifestations of trauma in a relationship without any trauma history disclosed or even known.

Based on what she hears in this segment, including the constant use of the word “safe,” Perel is clear that this session needs a strong, solid, tender container and it is her responsibility to provide it. She comments that she asks fewer questions than usual because of the trauma except for when she wants to know more:

When I hear things like ‘He knows a little.’ I ask ‘What is a little?’ because it’s important to hear the intimate meanings behind the words.

In the analysis, Perel and Simon discuss how there is agreement in the field about the need to avoid re-traumatization but there is also vigorous debate about how much revelation is too much and what is not enough. She comments that people often present their approaches about this as if they have the definitive answer. Her approach is different:

With trauma like this, I think you feel it out, rather than come in with your    certainty.

She also goes into detail on the pacing and approach she uses in this session. Because of the trauma history, she maintains a rhythmic and slow pace. She talks less, asks fewer questions, and is less directive than she might otherwise be. She pays special attention to checking the boundaries—between the partners and between them and herself.

She already has a clear sense of real imbalance in the relationship, so the questions she does ask are about the couple’s complementarity and power dynamic.

• How did they create their interrelatedness of roles?
• How do they communicate closeness and distance?
• How do they deal with vulnerability?
• How do they express caring and needs?   

In the third segment she begins to normalize some of the feelings and reactions related to the partner’s past trauma. He asks and she respond that these reactions are normal for someone with his history. This is where some modeling begins. Perel does some work to help the traumatized partner integrate his words with affect and his body. She then works individually with the other partner who for the first time in this session, acknowledges that he has his own vulnerabilities.

This is the pattern for the rest of the session—individual work with one partner alternating with the other. She points out that while working with one partner, she is also modeling for the other.  

In the analysis, Perel uses the Vulnerability Cycle to explain the partners’ profound though not uncommon dysfunction:

• Tender touch triggers one partner’s survival strategy–to freeze.
• When he freezes, the other partner’s survival strategy of withdrawl kicks in.
• So they both end up feeling isolated.

Perel is very concrete with the couple about how to change this dynamic. She encourages the partner who freezes, to take his time, “reset his dial” to accept the tender touch. To the partner who withdraws, she advises:

Stay steady while he resets his dial. When you stay steady, then you will both       have what you want.

From this point on, Perel is clear that her work is to help them recalibrate their relationship for more balance and a start on the road to greater intimacy.

The fourth segment begins with both partners saying that they’ve been much more honest and open since the discovery of the infidelities. Perel turns her attention to work with the caretaking partner. She asks him what is was like to step up and ask for something—which he did in the wake of his partner’s infidelity. And she continues to follow the thread—Where did you learn to refrain from asking, wanting, needing. And he begins to tell his story which is also about his own trauma.

Perel continues to work with him modeling for his husband how to ask questions and learn about his partner. Then she passes the baton to the partner by saying Ask him. From that point on, Perel coaches him.

Her goal is for each partner, she explains, is to have an experience that is the opposite of their usual. The one who is always taking center stage will have to reach out, recognize, give and ask about his partner’s needs. The caretaker will learn to ask for what he wants—not just for crumbs and not only in a crisis—and he must then receive.

The fifth segment increases in intensity as the quiet partner talks about coming out. Perel, in a classic “more” moment, follows his story.  When he says he never came out to his father who has since died, Perel has him tell his father now. He said his father answered I know. What’s the big deal? Perel asks for more—What’s it like for you? He said that one part is OK with it. And the other part? asks Perel. He answers: Why don’t you want to get to know me better? and he cries.

Then she turns to his partner who is leaning in and asks if he’d like to come closer and then Do you want to do what you said? (hug him) and he does. Perel picks up the pace turning from one to another coaching each in this new behavior of the partner comforting his care-taking partner. 

In the analysis, she talks about the moment when he said: Why don’t you want to get to know me better. This is the line that takes him into the vortex of pain, says Perel and in the unedited session she had him repeat it many times so he can fully go into that place and then experience the release of tears.

She also walks through every step of the breakthroughs in this segment She explains how she’s using the 7 Basic Verbs of Relationships— to ask, to give, to take, to receive, to imagine or play to share and to refuse—and she describes how therapists can use these words in their own work. This is how Perel summarizes the progress to this point:

What this couple asked for when they came in was more of the same—the            same behaviors that had kept their relationship unbalanced for 14 years. But       now the one who was the giver is learning to ask and receive and the one who         took center stage is giving and listening with empathy.

The final section stays with this change and reinforces the shift. Perel works again with the partner who’s suffered sexual abuse encouraging him to say I feel instead of It feels. She explores how he feels when his partner holds his hand and eventually suggests his partner hold his face, locking eyes, and in that experience there is a breakthrough. While his partner assures him he is safe, the tears come.

Perel then begins teaching the partners how to reinforce these new behaviors going forward. In the analysis, she says that the key to effectively reinforcing a new behavior is to say something short and positive in the moment. Quick and direct is best: I like you doing this, That’s nice, Let’s do this again, Thank you, This is right.

She describes the 3-step process of learning new behaviors— imitating, identifying and then internalizing. This practice helps with the internalizing.

In the analysis, Esther and Rich do a deep dive into the topic of couples and sexual trauma. Perel talks about seeing that part of the difficulty for the partner who’d experienced sexual trauma was that whatever “feels good” has been contaminated by the sexual abuse.  She does not move any further into that area, but keeps her focus narrow and goes instead for a new embodied experience. She works on a piece of recovery for the partner who’s been traumatized and by doing that in the presence of the other partner she also works on the erotic re-connection of both.

The goal of working on sexual trauma, says Perel, is not only to deal with pain but also to validating sexual pleasure. That is the erotic recovery. If you cannot experience sexual pleasure, then the integration of safety and eroticism in not yet complete.

OBJECTIVES:

Articulate 5 of the 7 Basic Verbs of Relationship and explain how to use them to help clients talk about sexuality and relationships.

Articulate two strategies partners can use to reinforce each other’s positive behavior changes and I can explain why they’re effective.

Program Information

Target Audience

Psychologists, Counselors, Social Workers, Case Managers, Addiction Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, Educators and other Mental Health Professionals

Module 3 | Healing Trauma in Couples Therapy

Childhood trauma leaves survivors with a fundamental mistrust in the safety of relationships. As adults, they develop defenses against vulnerability, commitment, and emotion—either shutting down or getting stuck in mutually escalating conflicts with their partner. This session will demonstrate two very different styles of intervention with these clients. One will emphasize challenging the couple’s ability to be emotionally authentic; the other will focus on the importance of somatic communication in helping couples connect. You’ll discover how to:

• Help partners identify the role of trauma in their troubled relationships
• Challenge them to move beyond their stories and automatic responses
• Use nonverbal communication to reduce conflict and connect safely
• Evoke a couple’s inherent capacity for authentic emotional connection and expression

Program Information

Objectives

1. Evaluate two different approaches toward approaching trauma in troubled relationships.
2. Devise two different strategies for helping couples re-work their automatic responses to each other.
3. Demonstrate how to use nonverbal communication to reduce conflict.
4. Demonstrate how to evoke a sense of safety and connection within a couple’s relationship.

Outline

• The long-term legacy of early traumatic attachment experience
• The “dance of trauma:” how trauma affects intimate relationships
• Challenging trauma-related patterns in couples without loss of attunement
• Disrupting cycles of blame or disconnection
• Teaching couples how to have new conversations
• Communicating emotionally
• Communicating without the use of words
• Capitalizing on the healing potential of relationship

Target Audience

• Psychologists
• Physicians
• Addiction Counselors
• Counselors
• Social Workers
• Marriage & Family Therapists
• Art Therapists
• Nurses
• Other Behavioral Health Professionals

Module 4 | Janina Fisher’s Treatment in Action: Working with a Traumatized Couple

Join world-leading trauma expert and author Janina Fisher and get an inside understanding of her proven approach to trauma treatment, which is based on 40+ years of research and clinical practice. Experience in action how Fisher addresses trauma in the context of a couple, helping them to break free from the past, feel safe and calm in the relationship, and thrive in life. Then join Networker editor Rich Simon as he sits down with Fisher to take a deep dive into the nuts-and-bolts of a therapy session, with thought-provoking questions that get to the heart of her approach so you can learn to implement it into your own work.

Program Information

Objectives

1. Apply learned skills to successfully address anger in a relationship.
2. Distinguish childhood trauma as it arises in relationship dynamics.
3. Apply sensorimotor interventions for trauma survivors in couple’s therapy.

Outline

• Introductory comments
• Treatment challenges when working with trauma within an intimate relationship
• How trauma can sabotage an intimate relationship
• Working with a couple who have previous individual trauma histories and trauma within the relationship
• Understanding and re-framing a couple’s conflicts
• Being able to self-soothe in intimate relationships

Target Audience

• Psychologists
• Psychotherapists
• Addiction Counselors
• Counselors
• Social Workers
• Marriage & Family Therapists
• Nurses
• Other Behavioral Professionals

Module 5 | The Neurobiology of Healing Relationships: Trauma Work Meets Couples Therapy

Our ability to navigate hard conversations and find the courage to risk deep intimacy depends on our ability to access the brain states that foster an emotional connection. But when a brain has experienced serious trauma, it can easily be triggered into dysregulation, limiting our capacity for intimate relationships. This recording will explore the neurobiology of how trauma can affect intimacy and review evidence-based approaches to assist with a couple’s emotional re-connection. You’ll discover how to: 

• Identify which brain states will impede your clients from engaging in relational health and using the tools you are trying to give them  
• Create a working relationship with your client’s brain to promote trauma recovery and healthy relationships simultaneously 
• See how applying memory reconsolidation in couples therapy can undo emotional schemas that make relationships feel scary and painful 

Program Information

Objectives

1. Assess the states of your client’s brain that impede emotional connections.
2. Create a working relationship with your client’s brain on multiple levels to promote trauma recovery and healthy relationships simultaneously.
3. Apply memory reconsolidation principles to couples therapy.

Outline

• Identify the states of your client’s brain 

• Define the locations and functions of the subcortical and cortical systems
• Identify integrated and disintegrated states in the brain
• Define the relationships between these systems and why working with a subcortically lead brain state (disintegrated) is so difficult
• Assess disintegration vs integration.
• Use tools that work with the brain to end this state and come back to regulation and connection

• 2nd consciousness 
• Time outs 
• Relational jujitsu 
• Create a working relationship with your client’s brain on multiple levels to promote trauma recovery and healthy relationships simultaneously 
• Your client’s ability to choose an integrated brain state is essential to them utilizing skills that will help them to heal.

• Using inner child work in couples’ sessions 
• Use the witnessing of personal work to shift relational dynamics 
• Apply memory reconsolidation principles to couples therapy 

• Define and explain memory reconsolidation 
• Identify emotional schemas that are problematic 
• Learn couples interventions that bring the ability to rewire these emotional schemas home with your couples. 

• Core negative image 
• Dead stop contracts 

Target Audience

• Counselors
• Social Workers
• Psychologists
• Psychotherapists
• Therapists
• Marriage & Family Therapists
• Addiction Counselors
• Case Managers
• Physicians
• Nurses
• Other Mental Health Professionals

Module 6 | Terry Real’s Treatment in Action: An Abusive Bully Faces His Own Trauma

Join master clinician Terry Real as he works with Cindy and Jerome, a married couple of 4 year.. Watch Terry in action as he uses his unique treatment approach to help Jerome uncover how his past trauma impacts his relationship. Experience just how quickly Terry’s techniques can take a couple from conflict to healing. Then, listen to Terry break down his method through questions and answers with Networker’s Rich Simon.

Program Information

Objectives

1. Prioritize adjunctive interventions when one partner is damaged by prior trauma.
2. Demonstrate each partner’s stance into their family of origin, working with childhood trauma in front of one another.
3. Discover how to have the confidence to trust your own intuition and training in a session with a couple.

Outline

Working to increase intimacy 

• Dynamic of interaction – rage vs silence
• Making realities collide

Evaluating relative positions – selecting specific points of intervention

• Beginning with positive vision, evaluation of relational stance
• Moving from complaint to request

Approaches to confrontation – preparing and asking permission

• Addressing affective dissonance
• Breaking up the dance – searching for something new
• Monitoring reactions to confrontation – modulating affect

Diagnostic phase of interview – assessing reactions

• Siding with conflicting perceptions
• Role of therapist in session – necessity of personal investment
• Reactive anger vs characterological anger

Control and dependency in abusive relationships

• Roots in family of origin – adaptive nature of stance
• Facilitating trust and open expression
• Parallels with trauma work – empathic reversal
• Impact of prior trauma on current relationship – role of abandonment feelings

Approaches to wounded child, adaptive child and functional adult roles

Basic phases of Relational Life Therapy – therapist stance

When one partner is damaged – adjunctive care options

Closing sessions – summary and closure

Target Audience

• Counselors
• Social Workers
• Psychologists
• Psychotherapists
• Therapists
• Marriage & Family Therapists
• Addiction Counselors
• Case Managers
• Physicians
• Nurses
• Other Mental Health Professionals

The Sexual Fallout from Trauma and PTSD: Restoring Healthy Sex for Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse

Imagine a client entering therapy saying she has no desire for sex and hasn’t had sex for the past 5 years of married life. Her husband is losing patience. They are beginning to fight and she is concerned that this is going to ruin her marriage. The therapist suggests getting a babysitter more often, scheduling date nights, improving couple communication – but nothing seems to help.

You feel stuck… your client feels frustrated and hopeless. What to do next?

Perhaps the sexual problem in the present relates to sexual trauma from the past?

How do you start exploring that possibility?

And what are the dos and dont’s to help survivors and their partners address the emotional and sexual impact of childhood abuse?

Watch renowned sex therapist Suzanne Iasenza, PhD, and learn how to assess childhood sexual trauma. Learn the signs you should be looking for and specifically what questions to ask — and what to avoid.

Once identified, how should treatment proceed? In this interactive live webinar Dr. Iasenza with share with you the approach she’s honed over many years helping individuals overcome deeply embedded sexual difficulties resulting from traumatic experiences.

You’ll be given a three-step approach that includes:

• How to conduct a relational sexual history to assess for childhood sexual abuse.
• Helping the clients (and partner) understand and manage the impact of trauma on their sex life.
• Provide behavioral interventions that help the couple co-create sexual healing.

In this seminar, you’ll learn clinical techniques that help individuals and couples experience sexual healing. Case material will demonstrate an integration of couple systems and cognitive-behavioral approaches.

Don’t miss this chance to learn from a master sex therapist and help clients live more fulfilling lives.

Program Information

Objectives

1. Create a safe therapeutic environment for survivors of childhood sexual abuse.
2. Evaluate the effects of childhood sexual abuse on adult intimacy and sexuality.
3. Conduct a relational sexual history to identify known and unknown trauma.
4. Assess for boundary transgressions in childhood experience.
5. Prepare a treatment plan to address emotional and sexual impact of childhood sexual abuse.
6. Apply clinical techniques that help individuals and couples experience sexual healing.

Outline

Making A Safe Therapy Environment for Your Client

• Create structure for therapy
• Transparency, control, and pace of treatment
• A contract for communication and confidentiality
• Maintaining boundaries
• Effective use of homework assignments

Childhood Sexual Abuse & PTSD

• The right way to obtain a relational sexual history with your client
• Boundary transgressions (sexual & emotional)
• Triggers, flashbacks, and recovery needs
• Sources of shame connected to abuse
• Create an effective inquiry on childhood abuse
• Abuse as relates to adult sexuality

Dealing with Sexual Shame

• Deciphering shame and guilt reactions
• Overcoming the challenge of childhood self-blame and false beliefs
• Sexual shame and identity development
• Impact of shame on sexual desire, arousal, and orgasm
• Managing shame during adult sexual relating

Create a Collaborative Treatment Plan with Client

• Goal setting including behavioral guideposts
• Use of bibliotherapy and videotherapy for psychoeducation
• Exercises to create safety and connection
• Work through avoidance and aversion
• Sexual willingness as the pathway to sexual desire
• Safe containers for sexual behavioral homework

Support Client Sexual Resilience

• Utilize an expansive sexual menu
• Mindful touch exercises to maintain calmness
• Coping strategies for difficult sexual experiences
• Enhancing sexual connection practices

Target Audience

• Counselors
• Psychologists
• Social Workers
• Marriage and Family Therapists
• Addiction Counselors
• Psychotherapists
• Case Managers
• Nurses
• Nurse Practitioners
• Physicians
• Other Medical Professionals

Meet the Course Experts

Janina Fisher, PhD

Janina Fisher, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist and former instructor at The Trauma Center, a research and treatment center founded by Bessel van der Kolk. Known as an expert on the treatment of trauma, Dr. Fisher has also been treating individuals, couples, and families since 1980.

She is the past president of the New England Society for the Treatment of Trauma and Dissociation, an EMDR International Association Credit Provider, Assistant Educational Director of the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute, and a former Instructor, Harvard Medical School. Dr. Fisher lectures and teaches nationally and internationally on topics related to the integration of the neurobiological research and newer trauma treatment paradigms into traditional therapeutic modalities.

She is co-author with Pat Ogden of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Interventions for Attachment and Trauma (2015) and author of Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Internal Self-Alienation (2017) and the forthcoming book, Working with the Neurobiological Legacy of Trauma (in press).

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Janina Fisher has an employment relationship with the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute. She is a consultant for Khiron House Clinics and the Massachusetts Department of MH Restraint and Seclusion Initiative. Dr. Fisher receives royalties as a published author. She receives a speaking honorarium, recording royalties and book royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. Dr. Fisher has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Janina Fisher is on the advisory board for the Trauma Research Foundation. She is a patron of the Bowlby Center.

Esther Perel, MA, LMFT

Esther Perel is a Belgian psychotherapist of Polish-Jewish descent who has explored the tension between the need for security (love, belonging, and closeness) and the need for freedom (erotic desire, adventure, and distance) in human relationships.

Perel promoted the concept of “erotic intelligence” in her book Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence, which has been translated into 24 languages. After publishing the book, she became an international advisor on sex and relationships. She gave a TED talk in February 2013 called “The secret to desire in a long-term relationship,” and another in March 2015 called “Rethinking infidelity… a talk for anyone who has ever loved.”

Perel is the host of the podcast “Where Should We Begin?”, which is based inside her therapist’s office as she sees anonymous couples in search of insight into topics such as infidelity, sexlessness and grief.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Esther Perel maintains a private practice. She has employment relationships with Columbia University, Ackerman Institute for the Family, Norwegian Institute for the Expressive Arts Therapies, and 92nd Street Y. She receives royalties as a published author. Esther Perel receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Esther Perel is a member of the American Family Therapy Academy and the American Association for Sex Educators, Counselors and Therapists.

Holly Richmond, Ph.D.

Holly Richmond, PhD, is one of North America’s leading sex therapists, and author of Reclaiming Pleasure: A Sex-Positive Guide for Moving Past Sexual Trauma and Living a Passionate Life.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Holly Richmond maintains a private practice. She receives royalties as a published author. Dr. Richmond receives a speaking honorarium from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Holly Richmond has no relevant non-financial relationships.

Terry Real, LICSW

Terry Real, LICSW, is an Internationally Recognized Family Therapist, Speaker and Author. Terry founded the Relational Life Institute (RLI), offering workshops for couples, individuals and parents around the country along with a professional training program for clinicians wanting to learn his RLT (Relational Life Therapy) methodology.

A family therapist and teacher for more than 25 years, Terry is the best-selling author of I Don’t Want to Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression (Scribner), the straight-talking How Can I Get Through to You? Reconnecting Men and Women (Scribner), and most recently The New Rules of Marriage: What You Need to Make Love Work (Random House). Terry knows how to lead couples on a step-by-step journey to greater intimacy – and greater personal fulfillment.

A senior faculty member of the Family Institute of Cambridge in Massachusetts and a retired Clinical Fellow of the Meadows Institute in Arizona, Terry has worked with thousands of individuals, couples, and fellow therapists. Through his books, the Institute, and workshops around the country, Terry helps women and men, parents and non-parents to create the connection they desire in their relationships.

Terry’s work, with its rigorous commonsense approach, speaks to both men and women. His ideas on men’s issues and on couple’s therapy have been celebrated in venues from “Good Morning America,” “The Today Show” and “20/20,” to “Oprah” and The New York Times.

A proponent of “full-throttle marriage,” as described in The New Rules of Marriage, Terry has been called “the most innovative voice in thinking about and treating men and their relationships in the world today.”

The New York Times book review described Terry’s work as: “A critical contribution to feminist psychology (that) brings the Men’s movement a significant step forward.” Robert Bly hailed it as “moving onto new ground in both story and song. Exhilarating in its honesty.”

Terry’s Relational Life Institute grew out of his extensive and empathic experience. He teaches people how to make their relationships work by providing products and services designed to teach the principles of Relational Life™, so that everyone can enjoy full respect living and craft a healthy life legacy.​

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Terrence Real is the founder of Relational Life Institute. He receives royalties as a published author. Terry Real receives a speaking honorarium, recording, and book royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Terrence Real has no relevant non-financial disclosures.

Juliane Taylor Shore, LMFT, LPC, SEP

Juliane Taylor Shore, LMFT, LPC, SEP, is a teacher of interpersonal neurobiology.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Juliane Taylor Shore is the founder and clinical director of IPNB Psychotherapy. She maintains a private practice. She receives a speaking honorarium from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Juliane Taylor Shore is a member of the Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing International Association, the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy, and the Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute.

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