Program:
Couples & Sex Therapy Training Program
Course:
Part I: InterAnalytic Couples Therapy (IACT)
On Demand Online
Courses
Description
Part I: InterAnalytic Couples Therapy (IACT) is offered to all mental health professionals, and is designed to incorporate multiple instructional levels (introductory, intermediate and advanced). IACT incorporates concepts from Right Brain Psychotherapy into the treatment of common couples issues including Affect Dysregulation, Conflict/Communication, Closeness/Attachment, and Transference. These On Demand courses feature a lecture with a Power Point slideshow, demonstrations and role plays, articles, and client handouts.
Educational Goals
- Provide mental health professionals with techniques that effectively integrate couples therapy and sex therapy in a clinical practice.
- Provide new competencies and knowledge to mental health professionals by presenting new research findings (i.e. interpersonal neurobiology, affect regulation, right brain psychotherapy) and integrate these findings into existing education, theoretical models, and clinical approaches to the field of couples and sex therapy.
- Advance existing skills and competence in the field of couples and sex therapy to better equip mental health professionals to serve the needs of the public.
- Promote research endeavors by mental health professionals in the field of couples and sex therapy in order to contribute to the discipline of psychology as a whole.
Topics
- Right Brain Psychotherapy with Couples
- The Dialogue of Emotional Intimacy
- Conflict/Disconnection
- Closeness/Attachment
- Transference
- High Conflict Couples/Intimate Partner Domestic Violence
Coming soon to On Demand….
- Specific Challenges in Couples Therapy
- LGBTQ+ Relationship Therapy
- Different Types of Couples Therapy
- Separation and Divorce
- Consensual Nonmonogamy
- Nonconsensual Nonmonogamy
- Couples and Sex Therapy
- Trauma and Couples Therapy
- Culturally Diverse Couples Therapy
Instructors
Wendy Cherry, PsyD, 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 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.” 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 Burbank, CA specializing in couples and sex therapy.
Patrick Jensen, LMFT, is Co-Director of AACAST and an AACAST Clinical Supervisor. He was instrumental in the development of AACAST as a membership organization and was among the first clinicians certified directly by AACAST co-founder Dr. Walter Brackelmanns. Patrick maintains a private practice in Burbank, California, where he specializes in depth-oriented psychotherapy with individuals and couples. His work integrates psychodynamic psychotherapy, Internal Family Systems (IFS), and the AACAST model of couples and sex therapy to help clients understand and transform longstanding relational and emotional patterns. His clinical training includes psychodynamic psychotherapy with individuals, families, and children at The Maple Counseling Center in Beverly Hills, as well as relational, culturally responsive psychotherapy at the LA LGBT Center in Hollywood. He has received advanced training in trauma treatment and is an EMDRIA Certified EMDR Therapist, an IFS Level 1 trained therapist, and an AACAST Certified Couples and Sex Therapist. In addition to his clinical practice, Patrick is Co-Director of the Couples and Sex Therapy Training Program within the departments of adult psychiatry at both USC and UCLA, where he teaches psychotherapy to psychiatry residents. He also provides individual and group clinical consultation to therapists seeking advanced training in couples and sex therapy through the AACAST model.
Certificate of Completion
Participants who successfully complete this online course will receive a Certificate of Completion documenting their participation and completion of the course requirements. This course is not approved for continuing education (CE) credit, and no CE credits will be awarded. The Certificate of Completion should not be used to satisfy professional licensure, certification, or renewal requirements.
Refund Policy
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Accommodations for Disabilities
Participants who have a disability and require special assistance should contact us by email at info@aacast.com or by phone at (818) 540-8657.
Grievances, issues, or concerns should be addressed in writing and submitted to info@aacast.com.
