
Eric Smith welcomes you to this accredited couples counselling and therapy course designed using the Gottman method with a solution based approach to counselling and therapy.
Explore the accredited couples counselling and therapy course outline, detailing three sections with key topics on methods, benefits, signs, skills, and downloadable worksheets.
Explore the Gottman method for couples therapy, grounded in the sound relationship house theory, with nine healthy elements, empathy, and improved communication, including the four horsemen and home practice.
Explore the sound relationship house framework with eight floors and love maps. Learn to turn toward, build fondness, manage conflict, and foster trust and commitment.
Explore how couples therapy deepens connection, builds communication skills, and reduces conflict. Develop strategies for trust, healthy boundaries, intimacy, and constructive conversations with a mediator.
Explore why you need couples therapy to deepen emotional and physical intimacy, rebuild trust after hurt, resolve conflicts, and navigate life transitions like parenthood, financial problems, and career pressures.
Identify signs of relationship problems, such as spending less time together, minimal communication, mutual criticism, defensiveness, neglecting long-term plans, and prioritizing other things over the relationship.
Engage in a pre-counselling activity with a 15-second breathing exercise to focus on your partner and positive memories. Reflect on what attracted you and reasons to reconcile.
Improve communication through deep listening and empathy, describing innermost thoughts without judgment. Define needs and boundaries around money and intimacy, and foster quality time.
Identify the main issues in a relationship and explore common problems like communication, trust, money, sex, and conflict, with strategies to manage them.
Learn integrated therapist techniques for couples therapy, using a partner questionnaire to build safety, identify feelings, explore the past, and develop anger management, problem solving, and conflict resolution skills.
Develop practical problem-solving strategies for couples, from improving communication and listening without interruption to planning intimacy, budgeting, and fair chores, while addressing conflicts, trust, and growth.
Explore relationship exercises and activities for couples, including icebreakers, the game of truth, music share, book swap, intimacy bucket practices, and six second kiss.
Accredited Couples Counselling & Therapy Course is based on The Gottman Method approach to couples therapy, created by psychologist Dr. John Gottman. Interventions used in the Gottman Method are research-based and grounded in the Sound Relationship House theory, which specifies nine elements of a healthy relationship.
This course focuses on improving empathy within a couple's relationship and works to enhance overall communication and intimacy. It’s ideal for couples where one or both participants are unsure of counselling because it encourages couples to continue working on their relationship at home.
This course consists of 3 sections. Starting with Section 1, which includes introduction and the Gottman Method Techniques, followed by the benefits, reasons, signs and skills you can learn in couple therapy. Section 2, of this course deals in identifying the Issues and therapy techniques.
The last section i.e., Section 3, covers the treatment for resolving the Issues and relationship exercises & activities. Furthermore, downloadable resources like forms and worksheets for practice and therapy are attached with the relevant lectures.
Quizzes have been formulated after every section / lecture, which will enable you to recap and check your understanding.
All the best and I am sure that this course will have a positive impact on your relationship.