You’re Living Through the
Hardest Era in Psychotherapy History

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Couples therapy has never been harder. More chaos. More demands. More pressure to perform on command.

Couples expect Netflix-speed transformation or they cancel you.

TikTok diagnoses get thrown around like facts.

AI companions are replacing human connection.

Private equity firms are eroding therapist incomes.

If you can’t lead in sessions, you’ll lose couples, and maybe your practice.

Don’t face this alone.

At The Couples Institute®, we’ve trained thousands of therapists to lead couples through the hardest challenges of their lives – and their own. We are the professional home for therapists who stand for leadership, growth, and integrity.

Hosted by: Ellyn Bader, Ph.D., co-founder of the Couples Institute®.

For 40+ years, Ellyn has consulted on more couples cases than any therapist worldwide, integrating differentiation theory, attachment theory, and neuroscience into practical tools that work in real situations.

Reserve My Seat for the FREE Live Online Workshop

Tired, Triggered, and Traumatized: Being a Therapist in the age of Dysregulation

September 26, 9am–12pm Pacific OR September 28, 1–4pm Pacific

Live on Zoom only. No replay.

This free online workshop is your chance to sharpen the leadership skills that keep couples moving forward. And keep you from burning out.

What You’ll Learn (and Get!)

Live clinical demonstrations of essential leadership skills in 3 extremely challenging situations:

Will a guilty infidelity partner do the necessary work?

Get shame-paralyzed partners to repair – even after betrayal

Interrupt repetitive fights without taking sides

How to move forward when a high-conflict couple is stuck in unresolved disillusionment

To have another child or not?

How to resolve decision gridlock on significant life issues

Plus, you’ll get these handouts:

3 Common Mistakes Even Experienced Couples Therapists Make and how you can avoid them

Why a Therapist Is Better than AI, how to talk to clients who wonder why they should pay for therapy when they could get AI for free

Ready to Go Client Email: send to hostile, fighting couples before their next session to set it up for success instead of an explosion

5 Essential Skills of a Powerful Couples Therapist

“Thanks to Ellyn, I can honestly say that I feel confident and grounded in knowing that I have many options on how to manage a couples session. I feel a sense of empowerment that I’ve never felt before and that means everything when doing the difficult work of
couples therapy.”

Elany Mueller, LMFT, Pasadena, CA

The future of therapy isn't you or AI. It's you and AI.

There are close to 250 million people currently reporting using AI companions. There’s real concern that AI will replace human relationships and human therapists. But here’s the truth: the ones who won’t be replaced will have two things:

1

5 essential leadership skills
(we’ll teach you these live)

The ability to use AI to supplement your work, not replace it

2

That’s why in this workshop, we’ll show you exactly:

How therapists are using our very own AI to enhance their clinical work.

How to use our confidential AI to analyze a couple’s patterns, brainstorm the next intervention, and present it in a non-pathological way that helps your clients feel relaxed and understood.

Why This Workshop Exists

Every September, we host a free training for therapists around the world. But this year, the profession’s footing feels unstable. Therapists are under pressure like never before.

Leadership in the room isn’t optional. It’s survival.

And if you could learn directly from the therapist who has consulted on more couples cases than anyone in the world… why wouldn’t you?

Training with Ellyn changed the outcome of one of my sessions today. I heard Ellyn in my head saying, the more dysregulated people get the more structure they need. I pulled out a handout and they both seemed to learn more about themselves and move to a next step in their relationship. I see so much value in what I'm learning.

Shari Keller, LMHC, Granger, IN

Yes, I Want the Leadership Skills & 5 Handouts

Choose your date. Show up live. Leave with the skills, tools, and confidence to swim in the Age of Dysregulation.

What Other Therapists Are Saying…

“Every time I utilize a new concept or exercise I feel so much more engaged and passionate about this work. Funny, suddenly I'm attracting couples out of the woodwork and I actually am building the confidence to really help them.”

— Diana Benjamin, MFT, Sherman Oaks, CA

“The training I have received with the Couples Institute® has filled in so many gaps, especially in terms of differentiation, helping clients tap into their motivation and hold on to them in really challenging sessions. I used to oscillate at times between watching them helplessly or speaking too passionately! I am now more able to think and not feel overwhelmed when Hostile Dependent couples act out.”
— Sue McEvoy, MBACP (Snr Accredited), Esher, Surrey, UK
“After my Master’s program, I felt very unprepared for couples – like I was thrown to the wolves! I have seen a complete change in my ability to do couples therapy; as a therapist overall; and in my own marriage as well. Now I want to specialize in couples therapy, and I ask that couples be given to me. I’ve seen how having this proper training has helped me make a difference in the lives of my couples and how I am actually able to help them and see improvement.”
— Christine Moore, MFT, Lawton, OK
Yes, I Want the Leadership Skills & 5 Handouts

Why No Replay?

Because a replay is a shadow of the real thing.

Live, you get the shared energy, the collective intelligence, and the chance to ask your questions.

That’s how breakthroughs happen.

This is your moment to step into leadership. If you can’t make space for yourself as a therapist, you’ll keep trying to face this new therapy
landscape alone.

And it’s too much to do alone.

Save My Seat & Teach Me Essential Leadership Skills

Choose your date. Show up live. Leave with the skills, tools, and confidence to swim in this Age of Dysregulation.