Join Couples and Sex Therapy expert Wendy Cherry, PsyD and gain new knowledge and skills you can take directly to your therapy office! Multidisciplinary research illuminates cycles of emotional reactivity, both within individuals and in a relational context. There are automatic, implicit, non-verbal, bodily based processes which drive habitual and reactive couple interactions. Brain structures, hemispheric differences, and the role of the nervous system in couple interactions are presented. Affect regulation and dysregulation styles and responses are also explored. The integration of these findings can empower the couples therapists and the couple to make mindful choices about their interactions, affecting lasting change. Both explicit and implicit affect regulation skills are necessary to facilitate interpersonal synchrony and effective emotional connection and communication. Clinical vignettes demonstrate theoretical concepts presented.
Wendy Cherry has been hailed by Allan Schore, Ph.D., author of "Right Brain Psychotherapy," as "a gifted teacher, she is a master at explaining complex neuroscience in comprehensible terms, and in practically applying regulation theory to individual and couple psychotherapy. Studying with her will enhance the clinician’s relational and emotional skills in working in the psychotherapeutic relationship itself, with a wide variety of psychiatric patients and personality disorders.”
Dr. Cherry currently teaches Couples and Sex Therapy to psychiatric residents at both UCLA and USC, and also speaks for numerous organizations and companies. She is also a longstanding member of Dr. Allan Schore's Los Angeles Right Brain Psychotherapy Study Group.
In just one hour, you will gain new knowledge and skills you can immediately incorporate into your clinical work. The importance of a working knowledge of affect regulation theory and Right Brain Psychotherapy from the groundbreaking work of Dr. Allan Schore is foundational to work with couples, but will transform your work with individuals, groups, and families too.
Objectives:
Target Audience:
1. Mental Health Professionals
2. Marriage & Family Therapists
3. Psychologists
4. Social Workers
5. Counselors
6. Nurses
7. Medical Professionals
| InterAnalytic Couples Therapy (IACT): Right Brain Psychotherapy with Couples Slide Handout (2.2 MB) | 19 Pages | Available after Purchase |
| Right Brain to Right Brain Psychotherapy - Schore (1.1 MB) | 12 Pages | Available after Purchase |
| The Implicit Realm in Couples Therapy - Lapides (374.8 KB) | 9 Pages | Available after Purchase |
Wendy Cherry, Psy.D, a licensed psychotherapist, is the co-founder and Executive Director of The American Association of Couples and Sex Therapists (AACAST), and the Co-Director of the Couples and Sex Therapy Training Program at UCLA. She is an accomplished educator, lecturer and public speaker for numerous universities, organizations and businesses. Wendy trained with renowned couples therapist Dr. Walter Brackelmanns for seventeen years and furthers her knowledge in the field of Interpersonal Neurobiology with membership in Dr. Allan Schore's Right Brain Psychotherapy study group. Wendy combines an empathic therapeutic stance with a straightforward approach. It is her goal to help her patients feel better as soon as possible. This is accomplished through balancing an understanding presence with the actual "work" of therapy. Wendy believes good therapists are life-long students, and enrich and expand their experience by continuing to educate themselves in emerging theories and techniques in the field of psychology. Dr. Cherry has a private practice in Encino, CA specializing in couples and sex therapy.
Patrick Jensen, MFT was fundamental in the creation of AACAST as a membership organization and also one of the very first AACAST Certified Couples and Sex Therapists, trained directly by AACAST co-founder Dr. Walter Brackelmanns. Patrick received training in psychodynamic psychotherapy working with individuals, families and children at The Maple Counseling Center in Beverly Hills, CA, as well as training in solution-focused, LGBT-affirmative psychotherapy at the LA LGBT Center in Hollywood, CA. He has also received specialized training in working with trauma and anger management issues, an ABIP-certified Domestic Violence Counselor, and an EMDRIA-certified EMDR Therapist. Previously the Director of Marketing, Patrick is currently Co-Director of the Couples and Sex Therapy Training Program of the Department of Adult Psychiatry, the Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Patrick's approach to therapy is both relational and solution focused, and includes information about the skills and self awareness needed to establish and maintain healthy relationships. His work is characterized by intuition, compassion, optimism and collaboration. Patrick is straightforward without being harsh, and encouraging without applying pressure. Patrick is in private practice in Hollywood, CA.
