We run a number of dedicated seminars on sex, sexuality, psychosexual therapy and couples therapy, including relationship enhancement. We support and teach on the London Diploma in Psychosexual and Relationship Therapy, a two year training accredited by COSRT and Middlesex University.

For a direct link to the website of the London Diploma click here.

Advanced Diploma in Couples Therapy
The intention of the Advanced Diploma in Couples Therapy is threefold: 1) to support clinicians in working with couples presenting with more complex issues such as symbiotic or enmeshed pathologies; 2) to integrate relationship enhancement models such as PAIRS or IMAGO into couples therapy; 3) to deepen developmental and transpersonal approaches to working with intimate systems.      

Seminars are scheduled for one day intensives per month over a year plus 3 weekends workshops. 

Faculty (tbc)
Bernd C. Leygraf, Prof Andrew Samuels, David Schnarch (tbc) (author of Constructing the Sexual Crucible, Resurrecting Sex and Passionate Marriage) & Joan Lachkar, Ph.D  (Marriage and Family therapist in private practice in Brentwood and Tarzana, California, who teaches psychoanalysis and is the author of the upcoming The Disappearing Maleas well as How to Talk to a Borderline, How to Talk to a Narcissist (2007), The V-Spot: Healing Your Vulnerable Spot from Emotional Abuse, The Many Faces of Abuse: Treating the Emotional Abuse of High -Functioning Women (1998), The Narcissistic/Borderline Couple: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Marital Treatment (2nd Edition) (1992), Jaap Westerbos, Judi Keshet-Orr, Judith Hemming. Dominic Davies et al.

Dates
3 weekends plus 13 Saturdays. November 2013 to December 2014. Times: 10.00 - 16.30 hrs. 19 days in total. For more details: see full course content.

Fees

£2450.00 for the year. Payments can be made monthly by standing order over 10 months. Applicants who are able to pay for the year ahead in one lump sum, are offered a 10% reduction in fees. Early bird application (contracts signed by the end of May 2013) receive a 15% reduction.

Venue

Regent's College, London

• Full Course Content

  • Indicative course content

    Whilst the overall framework will be Integrative the course will mainly focus on three particular approaches to couples work.

    - Developmental

    - Transpersonal (to include some imago work plus Hollis)

    - Relationship enhancement (PAIRS, IMAGO and others)

     

    The course will enable you to work with the more complex couple presentations which may, at times, require practitioners in medium to long term work with couples. Attention will be given to the work of Lachkar, Schnarch, Zinker, Bader and Pearson, Hollis and others. The full course content will be available nearer the time.

    
    

    Group supervision and professional development groups will be interspersed with didactic teaching and skills training.

     

    Curriculum

    - A developmental framework for couples work

    - Stages of Couples Relationship: symbiosis to differentiation, practicing, rapprochement to mutual interdependence

    - Diagnosis of the couple's stages

    - Principles for Intervention

    - The re-decision school within TA (M. and B. Gouldings)

    - A critical review of the co-dependency model

    - Narcissistic-Borderline couples

    - A comparison of Developmental and Transpersonal models of relationships

    - Relationship enhancement models vs. couples therapy

     

    Entry requirements

    Candidates will either have successfully completed the London Diploma in Psychosexual and Relationship Therapy or an equivalent course of no less than 1 year duration. Candidates may be considered who wish to work solely with couples issues rather than psychosexual presentations.

    
    Assessment
    One case study of 3500 words, 85% attendance, payment of all fees. 

    
    Dates

    3 weekends plus 13 Saturdays and 1 Sunday afternoon. November 2013 to December 2014. Times: 10.00 - 16.30 hrs. 19,5 days in total.
    
    Introduction Day: Sunday 3 November, 13.00 - 17.00
    Day 1 + 2: Weekend 1, Saturday 9 and Sunday 10 November, 2013
    Day 3: Saturday 23 November, 2013
    Day 4: Saturday 21 December, 2013
    Day 5: Saturday 1 February, 2014
    Day 6: Saturday 1 March, 2014
    Day 7: Saturday 26 April, 2014
    Day 8 + 9: Weekend 2, Saturday 3 and Sunday 4 May, 2014
    Day 10: Saturday 24 May, 2014
    Day 11: Saturday 7 June, 2014
    Day 12 + 13: Weekend 3, Saturday 12 and Sunday 13 July, 2014
    Day 14: Saturday 13 September, 2014
    Day 15: Saturday 4 October, 2014
    Day 16: Saturday 11 October, 2014
    Day 17: Saturday 1 November, 2014
    Day 18: Saturday 15 November, 2014
    Day 19: Saturday 6 December, 2014

     

    Fees

    £2450.00 for the year. Payments can be made monthly by standing order over 10 months. Applicants who are able to pay for the year ahead in one lump sum, are offered a 10% reduction in fees. Early bird application (contracts signed by the end of May 2013) receive a 15% reduction.

     

    Enquiries and Application

    If you want more information, please fill in an application form (click here).

    We will contact you as soon as possible.

    
    

    All applicants are required to complete the application form. This will be followed by a telephone interview. If offered a place, a course contract will have to be completed and an initial deposit of £100 to secure a place.

    
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