Working with Difficult Couples
advanced consultation group
with Dr. David & Deborah Woodsfellow
starting Friday Sep 7, 2018

Register Now!

7 Fridays, 9:30 to 11:30 a.m.
Sep 7 & 21, Oct 5 & 19, Nov 2, 16 & 30

Atlanta, Georgia, Near I-85 and North Druid Hills Road
minutes from I-75 and GA 400

Limited to 10 participants
Prerequisites: at least 2 previous sessions of this consultation group
a practice that includes couples

$75 per meeting, one free miss
2 CEs per meeting
APA-approved for psychologists
Related hours for social workers, counselors,
and marriage and family therapists

In this consultation group we will discuss challenging couples and how to work with them in couples therapy.
 
Among the topics we'll cover are:
- narcissism, grandiosity, and entitlement
- verbal and emotional abuse
- affairs and betrayals
- intimidation, contempt and stonewalling
- power struggles and vicious cycles
- separation and divorce
- handling secrets
- the non-motivated partner
- the problem of stable misery

My practice is exclusively couples therapy.  In the last 25 years, I've worked with over 2,000 couples.  I've trained directly with Harville Hendrix, John Gray, John Gottman, Terry Real, and Sue Johnson -- and I've integrated these approaches into my own style of couples therapy.  I'll be glad to share my training and my experience with you so you can learn more about difficult situations in couples therapy.

Each week we'll discuss one or two cases.  If you would like, you can bring cases of yours that you'd like some help with. You can present your case in any way that you'd like - formal or informal.  Some people bring handouts and genograms and assessments; others just come with a clinical question.    

Most of our cases won't have easy answers.  However, our collective clinical thinking may help you come up with a new approach to try.  You may even learn some things about your own blind spots -- so you can help your next couple even more.  You may also get some consolation about the limits of our clinical influence and the difficulties of couples therapy. 

Register Now!

David Woodsfellow, PhD is a licensed psychologist whose entire practice is couples therapy. He has been seeing 100% couples for 25 years. Educated at Harvard, Antioch, and Georgia State University, David did his clinical internship at the Neuropsychiatric Institute of the UCLA Medical School. He holds Master Certification in Relationship Empowerment Therapy.  He is a certified Imago Relationship Therapist, certified Mars Venus Counselor, and has taken advanced training in Gottman Method Marital Therapy and Emotionally-Focused Therapy. The Woodsfellow Training Program in Couples Therapy is currently in its twentieth year.