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Couples Counseling Videos
DVDs for Teaching, Training, Self Study and Continuing Education
 
Observe master couples therapists in action and develop your skills in this challenging modality. We know you’ll be impressed with the quality of our DVDs.

Couples Therapy: An Introduction

Dan Wile, PhD, Ellyn Bader, PhD


In this video, you will learn what couples therapy is and what it is not. In numerous heartwarming stories, couples therapy experts Bader and Wile discuss key issues couples face when considering couples therapy, the positive changes that can occur in couples therapy, and common patterns of conflicts that can leave couples deadlocked.
CE Credits for Couples Therapy: An Introduction

Psychotherapy with Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Clients (7 DVD Series)

Ron Scott, PhD (Series Producer) and 27 Leading Mental Health Professionals


Finally, a comprehensive series dealing with the multitude and complexity of factors that arise in the psychotherapy with gay, lesbian and bisexual individuals, couples and families! This groundbreaking series reflects the contributions of 27 of the most influential and respected scholars and practitioners in the field as well as over 30 gay, lesbian and bisexual individuals who share their stories and perspectives.
CE Credits for Psychotherapy with Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Clients

The Angry Couple: Conflict Focused Treatment

Susan Heitler, PhD


The Angry Couple is a must have for students and seasoned couples therapists alike. It dramatically and effectively recreates key moments in the six-month course of therapy with a distressed couple whose marriage is threatened by a cycle of explosive anger and silent withdrawal. In this video, Dr. Heitler teaches how to quickly defuse anger and gain control of sessions, cut through impasses, model cooperative dialogue, and uncover core issues that block intimacy.
CE Credits for The Angry Couple: Conflict Focused Treatment

Couples Therapy for Addictions: A Cognitive-Behavioral Approach (Brief Therapy for Addictions Series)

Barbara S. McCrady, PhD


See Barbara S. McCrady work with a couple struggling with addiction in an actual couples therapy session. Dr. McCrady reminds us that alcohol and drug problems always exist in a context that includes families and relationships. She uses a cognitive-behavioral approach that helps the client change his or her addictive behaviors, helps the partner learn to respond differently, and helps the couple change the relationship itself.
CE Credits for Couples Therapy for Addictions: A Cognitive-Behavioral Approach (Brief Therapy for Addictions Series)

Gender Differences in Depression: A Marital Therapy Approach

Ackerman Institute, Peggy Papp, LCSW


In this video you will see key moments in couples therapy with a real couple struggling with depression. The team of therapists explain how depression differs for men and women and how emotional disconnection can flourish because of this. You will watch the therapist team help the couple reconnect and shifts their roles, which ultimately leads to emotional closeness, increased self-worth and alleviation of depression.
CE Credits for Gender Differences in Depression: A Marital Therapy Approach

Couples and Infertility: Moving Beyond Loss

Ackerman Institute, Constance Scharf, LCSW


Infertility is an issue that more couples are faced with each day. By watching key moments in couples therapy with a real couple, you will learn how infertility impacts couples creating marital dissatisfaction, sexual dysfunction and communication problems. You will also learn how to help couples move through their grieving process by telling their story, externalizing the problem, speaking the unspeakable and more.
CE Credits for Couples and Infertility: Moving Beyond Loss

High Impact Couples Therapy: How to Start and Sustain Positive Momentum (5 Audio CD Set)

Ellyn Bader, PhD


Introducing an album of 5 audio CDs and a companion workbook from Ellyn Bader and Peter Pearson, master couples therapists! Ellyn and Peter have developed a breakthrough new resource, revealing the secrets to starting and sustaining successful couples therapy—even when you are working with the “Couple from Hell.” Ellyn and Peter illustrate how to create a context for change that includes: illuminating the partners’ vision, changing the process for discussing highly charged issues, managing emotional reactivity, and resolving intrapsychic conflicts.

In Quest of the Mythical Mate (Audio CD Set)

Ellyn Bader, PhD and Peter Pearson, PhD


This practical model for successful couples therapy is a complete practice building kit in a box! Starting with 10-CDs and a 96-page workbook, this program teaches diagnosis, first sessions, managing tough couples and other specific techniques. It has lots of actual transcripts and clinical vignettes, and real examples of sessions sprinkled throughout the CDs to demonstrate what you are learning. It serves as a foundation for therapists of all theoretical orientations.