Therapist Weekend Retreat – 10 CE

A clear, structured framework for stabilizing ruptures and guiding clients through relational repair.

Trust breaks in many ways — broken promises, secret-keeping, financial breaches, emotional abandonment, or moments a partner wasn’t there when needed. These ruptures destabilize individuals and couples, leaving therapists searching for a grounded, effective roadmap.

This training teaches how to assess and stabilize ruptures, reduce emotional intensity, and guide clients through the early aftermath and long-term repair.

🧠 What You’ll Learn

🟢 Core Foundations

• Betrayal as relational trauma
• How rupture affects identity, safety, and meaning
• Why session stabilization matters
• How to present realistic “choice points” after trust breaks

🟢 Pattern Recognition

• Rage, looping, obsessing, defensiveness, avoidance
• How each partner makes meaning
• Shame, fear, and withdrawal in the betraying or deceitful person
• Predictable repair obstacles

🟢 Clinical Tools

• Strategies for stabilization
• Reducing defensiveness & increasing transparency
• A step-by-step trust-rebuilding process
• Managing overwhelm, confusion, and narrative spirals
• Addressing moments when explanations are misheard as blame

🟢 When to Use

• When clients seek safety, clarity, or closure
• When couples are ambivalent about staying
• When the therapist feels stuck in the middle
• When communication tools are insufficient

🟢 Outcome

A clear, structured process you can use immediately with individuals and couples navigating betrayal or significant relational injury.

An experiential method to resolve internal conflict and restore clarity & agency.

Clients often arrive stuck, ambivalent, or expecting the therapist to decide for them. Two-chair work externalizes internal conflict, surfaces hidden fears, and creates emotional movement.

This module teaches a modern, accessible version of two-chair dialogue that is safe, structured, and highly effective.

🧠 What You’ll Learn

🟢 Core Foundations

• Why clients get stuck
• Competing internal positions
• How two-chair work clarifies ambivalence
• How to introduce the exercise with ease

🟢 Pattern Recognition

• “I don’t know” vs. “I’m afraid to know”
• Internal conflicts around safety, loyalty, identity
• Avoidance, procrastination, and incomplete homework
• How internal splits create repetitive cycles

🟢 Clinical Tools

• Step-by-step structure
• Pacing to prevent overwhelm
• Prompts that reveal deeper truth
• Helping clients access a grounded self
• Integrating insights into ongoing sessions

🟢 When to Use

• When clients can’t decide
• When therapy stalls
• When clients rely on therapist direction
• When defensiveness or resistance blocks progress

🟢 Outcome

A powerful experiential tool for creating movement, clarity, and responsibility — with individuals or couples.

A practical, identity-informed approach for helping clients move out of self-abandonment, approval-seeking, and relentless self-pressure.

Perfectionism and people-pleasing are two of the most common — and most misunderstood — adaptations clinicians encounter. They show up as chronic over-functioning, emotional suppression, conflict avoidance, resentment, shame, or performance-based worth… yet underneath these patterns are tender identity wounds and old survival roles clients don’t yet know how to step out of.

This module offers clear, accessible, research-informed tools to help clients understand these patterns, interrupt self-sabotage, and return to authenticity.

🧠 What You’ll Learn

🟢 Core Foundations

• How perfectionism and people-pleasing form in early relational environments
• The identity adaptations beneath “high-functioning” presentations
• How fear-based meaning-making shapes self-worth
• The neuroscience of self-criticism, approval-seeking, and emotional suppression
• How clients confuse performance with connection

🟢 Pattern Recognition

• The perfectionistic loop: fear → pressure → shame → overcompensating
• The people-pleasing loop: fear → appeasing → resentment → collapse
• How these patterns show up in session (and in the therapeutic relationship)
• The link between attachment, boundaries, and over-functioning
• Signs clients are abandoning themselves in real time

🟢 Clinical Tools

• Techniques to interrupt self-criticism and perfectionistic loops
• Language that reduces shame and increases self-awareness
• How to help clients notice and repair moments of self-abandonment
• Tools for strengthening boundaries without triggering shame or collapse
• Interventions that create emotional permission & internal safety
• How to work with parts (without full “parts therapy”) when clients are conflicted

🟢 When to Use

• When clients are overwhelmed by pressure, guilt, or unrealistic expectations
• When clients “disappear” emotionally in relationships
• When clients over-function, over-apologize, or over-accommodate
• When clients fear disappointing others or being misunderstood
• When clients feel resentful but afraid to speak up
• When progress stalls due to shame or identity-based self-protection

🟢 Outcome

A grounded, practical framework for helping clients release old survival roles, rebuild inner authority, increase emotional honesty, and reconnect with their authentic self — without triggering shame, collapse, or defensiveness.

A core relational framework for helping any client stay grounded, connected, and emotionally responsible — in therapy and in life.
Communication problems rarely come from “poor skills.”
They come from:

• nervous system activation

• distorted interpretations

• fear-based meaning-making

• emotional fusion

• old identity patterns

• protective habits

• felt threat

This training shows you how to intervene at the actual level of breakdown — where reactivity, misinterpretation, and emotional safety collide.

It is equally effective for individual adults, couples, and clients navigating family or workplace communication challenges.

🧠 What You’ll Learn

🟢 Core Foundations

• How communication breaks down at the level of interpretation, not content
• How reactivity hijacks listening and distorts meaning
• What emotional safety truly requires (clinically, not conceptually)
• How to help clients stay connected without collapsing or overpowering
• How to support clarity without rescuing or taking sides
• Differentiation — explained in therapist-friendly language anyone can apply

🟢 Pattern Recognition

• Reactivity styles: fight, flight, freeze & appease — in communication
• How the nervous system shapes tone, pacing, and phrasing
• Common misinterpretations clients default to under stress
• Why shutdown, defensiveness, and volatility are predictable patterns
• How early experiences shape conflict templates in adulthood

🟢 Clinical Tools

• Micro-interventions that instantly reduce reactivity
• The “interpretation pause” technique to reduce personalization
• Emotional responsibility scripts clients can use immediately
• How to slow communication and increase felt safety
• Tools for clients who talk over each other, shut down, or spiral
• Moment-to-moment language that shifts defensiveness into clarity

🟢 When to Use

• When clients repeat the same conflict cycle
• When individuals struggle with communication at home or work
• When clients take things personally — or assume negative intent
• When emotional escalation blocks repair
• When clients collapse their identity into the conflict
• When misinterpretation is driving the distress

🟢 Outcome

A grounded, robust relational framework that helps clients:

• reduce reactivity

• regulate through conflict

• communicate from clarity instead of fear

• unite over differences instead of divide

• build emotional safety in real time

This module strengthens your ability to de-escalate, interrupt misinterpretations, and restore connection — whether you work with individuals, couples, or systems.