Dare to Be Great
This Mentoring Program is designed to create a higher level of success in your practice and your life - a level of success aligned with your values and aspirations.
This Mentoring Program is designed to create a higher level of success in your practice and your life - a level of success aligned with your values and aspirations.
Join an elite group of therapists and learn from two of the world’s foremost couples therapy pioneers, Dr. Ellyn Bader and Dr. Peter Pearson.
Bring Your Vision to Life
Grow your business
Increase clinical expertise
Overcome your personal blocks
- Business Proficiency to help you build your business and marketing skills.
- Personal Transformation that supports exciting new levels of professional success.
- Increased Clinical Expertise to strengthen your skills and leverage your work into new and more profitable areas.
Dr. Peter Pearson and Dr. Ellyn Bader
Path 1
Business Proficiency
Are you interested in:
Enjoying the satisfaction of helping even more people and having more impact in the world?
Teaching, writng, training, speaking, or consulting?
Going beyond living a life hoping you will get enough referrals and that clients will find you and your website?
Creating your own institute, further leveraging your time, skills and income?
Learning the business and marketing skills to bring your voice and talents to a larger audience?
Martha Kauppi, MFT
Madison, WI
Nancy St. John, H.Dip. Counseling
Tullamore, Ireland
Paula Dennan, Diploma Psychology Clinical
Auckland, New Zealand
Path 2
Clinical Expertise
You will master vital clinical skills to use with very difficult couples.
Linda Dulan, LMFT
Bellevue, WA
Sue Diamond Potts, RCC
Vancouver, B.C.
Janae Munday, LCSW
Phoenix, AZ
Path 3
Personal Transformation
Everybody has one or more persistent voices of fear, doubt, uncertainty, or unworthiness that are misguided attempts at self-protection that cripple personal growth.
Janice McWilliams, LCPC and MDiv
Baltimore, MD
Kelly Scharver, LPC
Virginia Beach, VA
Paul McCandless, MFT
Fullerton, CA
This program is for you if you are:
- A talented therapist who wants to have more impact.
- An achievement oriented therapist who wants to leverage assets you have created.
- Eager for a year of profound personal and professional growth.
- Willing to tackle the change that comes with business and personal growth.
- Ready to strive for your ideal clinical practice.
- Ready to push for more clinical competence with couples.
- Willing to learn and apply tested marketing skills.
- Open to being part of a very sharing community.
- Looking for an active community to support you.
The program is NOT for you if you are:
- Satisfied with your career and the size and impact of your business.
- Wanting just a few email marketing strategies and operations insights to help your business.
- Unlikely to share and open up to others in a safe setting.
- Not so interested in couples and relationship dynamics.
Here's what you receive in our
year-long Mentor Program
Work on Identifying Your Priorities for the Year and Gain a Roadmap to Achieving These; In Person and Virtual Retreat Workshops; and Office Hours Throughout the Year with Couples Institute Faculty
Sample Mentor Program
Summary Schedule
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
Notes
Over the Course of the Calendar Year, You Will:
Discover new leadership skills
Get an effective website in place
ideal clients
training materials
Deliver a sustainable offering to
your audience
- RESULT:
your sessions
your clients
- RESULT:
the same
- RESULT:
Here’s what you need to be prepared to give:
- Your focus for one year!
- Willingness to gain insight into barriers blocking your success.
- Collaboration, not competition: This is a supportive community where you support others, and they support you.
And here are the invaluable career resources you’ll have at your fingertips upon joining the group:
- Free access to Ellyn’s year-long Developmental Model of Couples Therapy online training program.
- Or Free access to Ellyn’s online Advanced Training program.
- When you are ready, you will have full use of Ellyn’s training curriculum to run Developmental Model first-year training/consultation groups or workshops for therapists in your community.
- Full use of Pete’s Coming from the Heart Couples Workshop materials and exercises, which you can use as a “workshop in a box” or modify to fit your situation. Now you can do half day, or even 1 or 2 day workshops for couples. the structure is done for you.
- A website analysis from our webmaster.
Alexa S. Elkington, M.A., MFT
Las Vegas, NV
FEATURED IN
What Is the Investment in the Mentor Program?
You have read this much and by now you must be wondering what this program costs. It costs a lot. It is reassuringly expensive. Members are dedicated to making their professional and personal lives better, and we are prepared to help you work on both.
The next step is completing the application, which will help sharpen your clarity for greater success. In the application you will learn what the tuition is. And you will be able to see how this program might serve you and whether the time is right for you to make this investment.
After 7 years of shepherding members through the Mentor Program, we know the value of it. Talking to us will help you decide if it is worth it for you. We would welcome having that conversation with you. And then we would love to welcome you aboard.
What does the Mentor Program cost?
What’s the most important aspect of the program?
Frequently Asked Questions
Through this program you can focus on all three areas, but we are particularly interested in building a community of therapists who are trying to expand the impact of their practice. This can take many forms, such as building out the size of your practice; becoming a trainer yourself of other therapists (such as with an online course or other offering); writing a book; building out an email program to expand your reach; taking on speaking engagements; launching a focus on intensives or another area of specialization; or other areas of growth and increased impact.