Help Couples Move from Conflict to Connection: A Collaborative Change Model
by Mary Jo Barrett

Webinar Series: Deepening Your Clinical Skills

Couples counseling is deeply challenging work, and even more so when complex childhood trauma enter the clinical frame. In this webinar replay, MaryJo Barrett demonstrates how to integrate her Collaborative Change Model to help couples heal from childhood trauma and sexual abuse.
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Clients who experienced childhood trauma carry those wounds of sexual abuse, neglect, and abandonment forward, often resulting in fractured adult relationships. These relationships are often characterized by conflict, confusion, and a lack of effective communication, empathy, and problem-solving skills. Clinicians working with these clients need a common-sense, effective model with techniques aimed at healing their wounds and building hope. In this rich webinar experience renowned couples expert, Mary Jo Barrett, in conversation with Psychotherapy.net’s Editor, Lawrence Rubin, will provide you with powerful clinical tools for doing just that.

Developed over the course of an extensive clinical career deeply grounded in systems theory and practice, Barrett’s Collaborative Change Model is an engaging and accessible blueprint for creating change that will help you address clients’ childhood wounds and vulnerabilities. In the process, you will learn to augment their strengths within the therapeutic context of structure, predictability, safety, and compassion.

By watching her work with Willow and RJ, adult survivors of developmental trauma, discuss her work in real time with Rubin, and field questions from a global audience, you will learn how to help couples to replace defensiveness, withdrawal, anger, and confusion with what Barrett calls, “the 8 pillars of healthy relationships”—communication, respect, trust, friendship, humility, wisdom, generosity, and collaboration. You will also learn not only effective techniques, but how to incorporate spontaneity, presence, self-disclosure, and even humor into your work with challenging couples. As a result, you will be able to:
  • Integrate psychoeducation into your trauma-focused couples work
  • Strengthen connection with clients through by building safety
  • Replace a hierarchical relationship with one of collaboration 
  • Build Barretts’ ingredients of change into your treatment plan
  • Enhance client communication, empathy, and problem solving skills
You will come away from this powerful learning experience better prepared to enter this challenging clinical realm, and with the confidence to integrate the core components of Barrett’s model into your own practice with deeply wounded couples.    

Psychotherapy.net Webinar Series Deepening Your Clinical Skills

Join us as special guest experts demonstrate their work and discuss their unique strategies for working with clients. This Psychotherapy.net webinar series features experts from across the field of mental healthcare sharing the tools and techniques of their craft. Through case consultations, clinical sessions. and demonstrations you'll learn...
  • Tools developed by specialists for working with unique clients and diagnoses
  • Expert insight and wisdom garnered from a lifetime of work
  • In-session exercises that you can begin using immediately
  • Tips for working with specific needs and client populations
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Length of video: 01:28:04

Group ISBN-10 #: 1-60124-794-X

Group ISBN-13 #: 978-1-60124-794-0

Mary Jo Barrett, MSW, is the Founder and Director of The Center for Contextual Change (CCC), located in Metro Chicago; a clinical Training Center specializing in The Collaborative Stage Model-a component phase model working with individuals, families, and groups.

Ms. Barrett is a nationally prominent expert in the treatment of trauma and traumatic violence in the family and in our communities who works extensively with helping therapists prevent Compassion Fatigue and heal from Vicarious Traumatization. She is a leading authority on family violence, including the physical and sexual abuse of children, neglect, incest, spouse abuse, and neighborhood gun violence, and has been working on these issues in since 1974. Ms. Barrett has co-authored Treating Complex Trauma: A Relational Blueprint for Collaboration and Change (with Linda Stone Fish) and has co-authored two books with Dr. Terry Trepper: Treating Incest: A Multiple Systems Perspective and The Systemic Treatment of Incest: A Therapeutic Handbook. She provides consultations, workshops, and courses, nationally and internationally, to families, lawyers, psychotherapists, social service providers, staff of residential treatment facilities and staff of governmental agencies.   

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