These workshops offer 6 Live Interactive Continuing Education Credits

Full Day Webinar

April 24th, 2025

10:00 AM - 4:45 PM EST

The cost of the full program is $99.99, an individual class is $59.99

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Class 1

10:00 AM - 1:00 PM EST

Repairing Ruptures in Couples Therapy: A Mind-body Approach

This presentation will NOT be recorded for playback review.

Couples therapy is challenging because there are two people who are in distress, each wanting more from their partner and to be understood. A common denominator in treating couples is verbal communication, which relies on what is available cognitively to the couple. However, sources of tension and disconnection are often outside of their awareness, limiting the effectiveness of the treatment. When couples become emotionally charged or shut down it’s because they’re feeling threatened, by something inside of themselves or something between them and their partner.                                

This presentation focuses on how to use the natural workings of the autonomic nervous system to help couples engage more effectively with each other. Key components are the structure of a session, strategies for nervous system regulation, tracking the body for signs of nervous system activation and intervening effectively. This somatic-based approach enables couples to identify the true sources of distress, repair ruptures, communicate more effectively and solve problems, and sets the conditions for memory reconsolidation to take place.

(Trainer - Deborah J. Fox, LICSW, is in private practice in Washington, DC. She is an AASECT Certified Sex therapist providing individual and couples psychotherapy. She conducts seminars and consultation groups on the integration of couples and sex therapy and the treatment of sexual trauma, with an emphasis on somatic intervention strategies. She has taught the integration of somatic intervention into couples therapy through PESI and the Psychotherapy Networker. She conducts consultation groups on couples therapy, sex therapy and sexual trauma. Her most recent publication is The Integration of Somatic-based Strategies into Couples Therapy. Clinical Social Work Journal Oct 2023.)

3 Hours

Class 2

1:45 PM - 4:45 PM EST

Ambushed by Betrayal: Helping Clients on their Healing Journey to Healthy Intimacy

This training is an introduction to the theory and practice of clinical interventions in the treatment of betrayal trauma. The method is particularly known for its effectiveness in working with betrayed partners due to infidelity and out-of-control sexual behaviors which affect a relationship.  Of the many areas addressed in the field of psychology, there is relatively little research and understanding whether out-of-control sexual behavior is truly a disorder and worthy of treatment. Traditional approaches include behavioral, cognitive, and psychodynamic methods based on a client’s willingness to change behavior. In past years, the codependency model postulated that the betrayed partner was somehow also at fault. These approaches have been found to be ineffective in treating out-of-control behaviors.  A more effective treatment model has been developed to focus on trauma caused by the betrayer and its effect on the betrayed partner.

This training is designed to advance our understanding in working with betrayed partners and their desire to heal from betrayal trauma while contemplating whether to stay in the relationship. Research indicates that focusing on reducing the effects of trauma while educating the betrayed partner about behavioral addiction is a more effective method for repairing the relationship. The presentation offers an innovative scientific model, based on the presenter’s 22 years of clinical experience treating couples suffering from the trauma of betrayal, leading them on a path toward reconciliation, forgiveness, and hope.  It is through this model that we gain insight into the power of mindfulness-based and experiential methods for treating betrayal trauma.

The training will offer a framework for understanding the nuances of out-of-control sexual behavior and infidelity and what attachment styles and family of origin dynamics typically lead to such behavior. Once this understanding is established, the betrayed partner is introduced to interventions which help them work through their trauma caused by the partner and how to journey through the pitfalls of broken trust, anger, fear of relapse toward eventual reconciliation and forgiveness.

During this webinar, we will cover the origins of out-of-control sexual behavior and infidelity, we will discuss why partners betray the people they love, the interventions that help the betrayed partner express anger and grief, and the author’s journey toward healing, featuring mending a tattered heart, reflection and reconciliation, forgiveness, release and restoration.

(Trainer - Allan J. Katz, LPC, CSAT is a Licensed Professional Counselor in the states of Tennessee and Mississippi. He is a Certified Sexual Addiction Therapist with over 10 years of experience seeing individuals and couples struggling with sex, porn and love addiction, internet addiction, intimacy disorders, depression, anxiety and trauma-related disorders.)

3 Hours

This One Day Seminar includes two excellent classes, a total of 6 CEs. You may attend an individual class for $59.99.