What dynamics make change so challenging and hard to transcend?
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I am stuck at home with COVID when I had planned to be in a beach house with Pete and our grandchildren. I’m feeling tired, disappointed, and
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How The Initiator-Inquirer Process Helps Partners Develop Themselves
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In a recent training session, an experienced therapist presented a case about working with a heterosexual married couple who were deeply enmeshed with one another. Both partners
Highlights from Couples Conference 2022
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In spite of the challenges of putting on another covid era conference, we had a stellar faculty of 10 discussing a wide variety of dynamic topics. Speakers
Why the Developmental Model is A Perfect Fit for Working With Sex Issues and Polyamorous Clients
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By Martha Kauppi, LMFT and AASECT-certified sex therapist Picture this: I’m a therapist newly in private practice, with a schedule filled with tough relational therapy cases, and
Using a Developmental Approach and the Initiator-Inquirer Process with Cases of Infidelity
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Few situations are as painful for a couple, and as difficult for a couples’ therapist to work through as the experience of infidelity. The bottom-line questions you’ll
Working with Couples Where One Partner Has A Severe Anxiety Disorder
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When you apply the Developmental Model in your work with couples, sometimes you will encounter issues that add an extra layer of complexity. Examples of this include
Using Initiator-Inquirer to Support Growth in Couples
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One of the reasons I find the Initiator-Inquirer process especially valuable in our work with couples is that it exposes so much about where they are developmentaly.
6 Steps to Developing Leadership in Couples Therapy
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If I could recommend just one skill for you to develop to become a successful couples therapist, it would be leadership. Leadership is the number one skill
Working with Couples Who Are Stuck – How The Developmental Model Helps You
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As relationships grow and develop, we often see couples who have gotten stuck in a particular developmental stage. In a previous blog post, I outlined what I
A Developmental Model for Healthy Couples
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Throughout my experience as a couples therapist, I’ve observed that couples relationships typically progress through 5 normal and predictable stages. In healthy relationships, a couple’s development closely
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