The Soul of Couples Therapy: Make Love, Not War CE Webinar for therapists, counselors, psychologists, social workers, marriage and family therapists

 

The Soul of Couples Therapy: Make Love, Not War - 1 hour


When & Where:

  • Date: Thursday, August 27, 2026
  • Time: 12:00pm - 1:00pm Eastern Time
  • CE Hours Included: 1 (please see below for details)
  • Location: Live Interactive Webinar ("Synchronous") on Zoom
  • Investment: FREE!!!
  • Presented by: David Woodsfellow, Ph.D. (see bio below)
  • Workshop Recording: A recording of this workshop is available to review for 60 days after the presentation. However, participants must attend live to receive the "Synchronous" CE Certificate.
  • Instruction Level: Intermediate
  • Target Audience: Psychologists, Counselors, Social Workers, Marriage & Family Therapists, Athletic Trainers, Pastoral Counselors

Learning Objectives:

After completing this workshop in its entirety, you will be able to:

  • Diagram a couple’s fear cycle
  • Write a word for each person’s action and emotion on the diagram

Workshop Description:

What’s the single most important part of couples therapy? I think it’s helping the couple get out of their worst negative cycle. Their therapy will succeed if we can do this; it will fail if we can’t. That’s why I call this the “soul” of couples therapy. In this one-hour workshop, you will be introduced to a simple yet powerful idea called the Fear Cycle and a simple yet powerful tool for diagramming it. You will see these in action.

Workshop Agenda:

  • Love Cycles and Fear Cycles (15 mins)
    • Systemic thinking
    • Changing negative cycles
    • What is a Love Cycle
    • What is a Fear Cycle
  • Some classic Fear Cycles (15 mins)
    • Isolator/Clinger
    • Distancer/Pursuer
    • Blamer/Placator
    • Controller/Manipulator
  • Demonstration of a Fear Cycle intervention (15 mins)
    • Live demonstration of working on a Fear Cycle
  • One method for diagnosing a couple’s Fear Cycle (15 mins)
    • The “Four Word” method
    • “What’s the worst thing?”
    • The cycle of actions and feelings

Presented by: David Woodsfellow, Ph.D.

Dr. David Woodsfellow is a licensed psychologist whose practice is 100% couples therapy. He has been seeing couples -- only couples, no individuals -- since 1999, and teaching other therapists about couples therapy for well over 20 years. His workshops are highly engaging and immediately usable.
Dr. Woodsfellow received his B.A. from Harvard, his M.Ed. from Antioch New England, his M.A. from UC Santa Barbara, and his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Georgia State University. He did his clinical psychology internship at the Neuropsychiatric Institute of UCLA Medical School. Dr. Woodsfellow has been personally trained by Drs. Harville Hendrix, John Gray, John Gottman, Sue Johnson, and Mr. Terry Real. He holds a Master Certification in Relationship Empowerment Therapy and has previously been a Certified Imago Relationship Therapist. He has taken Advanced Training in Gottman-Method Relationship Therapy and Emotionally-Focused Therapy.

Workshop Schedule (Eastern Time):

  • 11:30am - 12:00pm | Sign-In and Welcome
  • 12:00pm - 1:00pm | Session
  • 1:00pm | Continuing Education Certificates Available

1 CE Hour Included - Details by License Type Below:

  • PSYCHOLOGISTS: The Knowledge Tree, A Summit Professional Education Company is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Knowledge Tree, A Summit Professional Education Company maintains responsibility for this program and its content. For more detailed information on the current CE ruling in Georgia, or if you are licensed in another state or country, please click here.
  • COUNSELORS: The Knowledge Tree, A Summit Professional Education Company has been approved by the National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC) as an Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEP), ACEP No. 7153. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. The Knowledge Tree, A Summit Professional Education Company is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. Please click here for more detailed information.
  • SOCIAL WORKERS: The Knowledge Tree, a Summit Professional Education Company, provider #2470, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 1/14/2026-1/14/2027. Social workers completing this course receive 1 clinical continuing education credits. Please click here for more detailed information.

Registration: To register for individual workshops, you may use our online payment option, or to pay by check you may print and complete the Registration Form and mail or fax it to our office. The registration form is available on our website: www.theknowledgetree.org. Registration is permitted until the time the workshop begins, unless otherwise specified.

Multiple Workshop Special: There is a 10% Discount with registration for two workshops. There is a 15% Discount with registrations for three or four workshops. There is a 20% Discount with registration for five or more workshops.

Refund/Cancellation Policy: If you can no longer attend a workshop you have registered for, you can either receive a credit for another workshop or receive a refund if you are within the refund policy period. Refunds will be given for cancellations received at least five days prior to the workshop. More information about refund/cancellation can be found here.

Attendance Policy: 100% attendance and completion of a course evaluation is required at any CE program in order to receive credit for that CE program. No partial credit is given. Certificates of completion will be available in each attendee’s account once the broadcast has ended and the course evaluation completed.

ADA Requests: We will make every effort to accommodate any reasonable ADA request. Please call or email us at least two weeks prior to the event. Payment and registration are required to fulfill an ADA request.

No Conflict Policy: Neither The Knowledge Tree nor its speakers have received any commercial support for this program or its contents and will not receive any commercial support prior to or during this program. 

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