Neuroscience in the Consulting Room: Enhancing the Impact of Couples Therapy – Daniel Siegel and Susan Johnson

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Understanding the neurobiology of the brain not only explains how change happens, it also translates into more effective psychotherapy. In this dynamic workshop, a psychotherapist and a neuropsychiatrist offer a dialogue demonstrating the relevance of neuroscience to the process of repairing couples’ relationships. Together, the presenters will review recorded couples therapy sessions to explore how neurobiological insights can inform and help shape a therapist’s moment-by-moment decision-making. You’ll discover how to:

• “Read” clients’ facial and body language as outward signs of their brain function and emotional processing
• Use this knowledge to select and time interventions more effectively
• Make your interventions more efficient by tapping into the processes of relational regulation
• Determine when clients can’t self-soothe or access higher brain functions and intervene accordingly

1. Discover how to “read” clients’ facial and body language as outward signs of their brain function and emotional processing.
2. Discover how to use this knowledge to select and time interventions more effectively.
3. Discover how to make your interventions more efficient by tapping into the processes of relational regulation.
4. Discover how to determine when clients can’t self-soothe or access higher brain functions and intervene accordingly.

• Overview of couple’s therapy
  • Recognizing EFT in therapy
  • Using a clear, systematic approaches to get the best outcomes – Attachment Theory
• Experiencing couple’s therapy: discover how relationships affect the brain with Daniel Siegel
  • Exposure to a recorded couple’s therapy session
  • Discussion of interventions and change processes with Dan Siegel
  • Intervention exercises to be completed by participants
• Concluding remarks with Sue Johnson and Daniel Siegel
  • Explaining client vulnerabilities and what it means for treatment
  • Techniques to help couples change and grow through each other for a better sense of self