“The workshop has worked wonders for us. We were at a
breaking point, and now have hope for a future together.” Advanced
Cognitive Therapy of New York offers an exciting option for couples who
are either married or in a committed relationship seeking to improve their
relationship.
The New York Times reported on the latest trends in couples
therapy, highlighting the effectiveness of new therapeutic techniques
that combine education and therapy:
“Couples are better off taking marriage [or relationship]
education courses—practical workshops that teach couples how
to get along and that do not ask them to bare their souls or air their
problems to a third party.”
[The New York
Times, April 19, 2005] |
The ACT Couples Workshop is a brief, intensive two-part
course that emphasizes managing your relationship problems.
The first half of the workshop will help you and your
partner/spouse build and maintain connection, love, and respect in your
relationship, and improve the quality of sex, romance, and passion.
The second half of the workshop will help you communicate
and manage conflict more effectively and engage in constructive, rather
than destructive, conflicts. The workshop, offered in Manhattan, employs
many of the successful new techniques described in The New York Times
article, helping you and your spouse/partner take the first crucial steps
toward reinventing your relationship. Working with your spouse/partner,
you will learn valuable insights into the factors that destroy relationships,
and learn specific skills and techniques that will help you protect against
separation or divorce.
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Receive personalized instruction.
Each workshop is limited to 6 couples, so you and
your partner/spouse will receive targeted instruction to increase
your level of connection and create a buffer against distress.
Learn new techniques. You and your partner/spouse
will have a chance to practice new skills and techniques to help
you:
- Communicate and manage conflict more effectively.
- Build and maintain connection, love, and respect.
- Improve the quality of sex, romance, and passion.
- Engage in constructive, rather than destructive, conflicts.
- Identify what matters most to each other. Support each other’s
hopes and aspirations and build a sense of purpose in each other’s
lives together.
- Reduce the risk of relapsing into the same old patterns.
Work Privately. You and your partner/spouse will
work through exercises privately, with the guidance of a highly
experienced therapist, to help each other manage stress in your
relationship and learn how to effectively repair the damage of conflicts.
The seminar is educational, not group therapy; no public
disclosure is necessary.
Save Time and Money. The workshop takes couples
through skills and techniques that would otherwise take numerous
individual couples sessions to complete.
Anticipate a Highly Experienced Leader. The workshop
is led by Travis W. Atkinson, L.C.S.W., an expert in marriage and
couples therapy; he is compassionate, understanding, and nonjudgmen-tal.
He is specially trained in clinically proven models of couples therapy
rec-ommended in The New York Times. He is affiliated with the Cognitive
Therapy Center of New York, and is the co-author of the latest schema
mode therapy inventory, the Young-Atkinson
Mode Inventory.
Mr. Atkinson recently presented with Dr. Jeffrey Young, the founder
of schema mode therapy, at the New England Educational Institute,
training other couples therapists in the latest schema therapy techniques
for couples therapy. You can be assured he uses the latest empirically
validated therapeutic techniques and skills, has broad experience
in your area of concern, and genuinely wants to help you improve
your relationship.
Find a Solid Place to Start. Even couples in distress
can make significant progress on their relationship by combining
a workshop with couples therapy, and may require significantly fewer
individual couples sessions after the workshop. |
The couples workshop is not appropriate for couples experiencing physical
abuse or battering. If that is your situation, please contact the Karen
Horney Clinic for more information on appropriate programs at 212-838-4333
or by email at karenhorneyclinic@aol.com.
Workshops are held on Saturdays from 10:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
| BONUS:
Register online now, attend the Loving at Your Best Workshop, and
receive a FREE copy of Reinventing Your Life:
The Breakthrough Program to End Negative Behavior and Feel Great Again,
by Jeffrey E. Young, Ph.D., a $15.00 value (on-line
orders only for a limited time). |
Space is extremely limited and workshops usually sell out. Register
Now to assure your place in one of these upcoming
seminars:
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Workshop 1: Loving at Your Best
(Sat. 10:00 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.) |
• December 12th
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• January 30th
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Register
Now >>
To register for Workshop 2: Connecting at Your Best, please call the office directly at (212) 725-7774
If you have further questions about about the ACT Couples Workshop, please
call (212) 725-7774 or
(888) 4-ACT-NYC.
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