Gottman Method Couples Therapy Clinical Training: 

Level 1: Bridging the Couples Chasm

Presented By Gottman Certified Therapists and Trainers: 

Sinead Smyth, LMFT & Mike McNulty, PhD, LCSW

Help couples in your practice manage conflict and deepen intimacy! This is the first step in learning Gottman Method Couples Therapy. A truly inspiring workshop, Level 1 Training will give you new insights into treatment for couples who struggle, using research-based assessments and effective interventions. Includes a 300+ page Level 1 Clinical Training Manual.

Workshop Description

When couples enter the therapy office, they sting with pain and despair. They look to the clinician to referee chronic conflicts, fix their partners, and rebuild burned bridges. Now, based on Dr. John Gottman’s 40 years of compelling research with over 3,000 couples, there’s a practical and highly effective approach to guiding couples across the chasm that divides them.

In this workshop, you will be provided with a research-based roadmap for helping couples compassionately manage their conflicts, deepen their friendship and intimacy, and share their life purpose and dreams.

Apply Gottman Method Couples Therapy to help couples strengthen:

• The Friendship System – the foundation for intimacy, passion, and good sex
• The Conflict System – the basis for helping couples identify and address solvable problems, and understand and manage irresolvable differences
• The Shared Meaning System – the existential foundation of the relationship that helps partners discover their shared purpose for building a life together

As a result of taking this training, you will learn:

• Research-based strategies and tools to help couples successfully manage conflict
• Skills to empower partners to dialogue about their worst gridlocked issues by uncovering their underlying dreams, history, and values
• Methods to help couples process fights and heal their hurts
• Techniques for partners to deepen their intimacy and minimize relapse
• New assessments and effective interventions to help understand couples’ struggles

Participants working in the following fields will benefit from this training:

• Mental health providers
• Allied professionals and clergy
• Students and interns
• Family clinic staff
• Professors/teachers of couples therapy
• Researchers in the social sciences
• Employee assistance professionals

Completion of Level 1 is a prerequisite to attending Level 2 or 3. 

Continuing Education Hours: 12

For CPD, The Gottman Institute will issue a Certificate of Completion for each level. The presenters will issue a certificate at the end of Level 1 confirming the number of hours attended.

Included in the registration price is a clinical manual, which contains the core Gottman Method Couples Therapy assessments and interventions.

• 300+ page Level 1 Clinical Training Manual
• Gottman Method Couples Therapy Level 1 Training Certificate of Completion
• The Gottman Insitute provides a certificate of completion for up to 12 CE hours.