I learned very quickly in my work as a therapist that couples benefit from learning how to stay in love, learning how to connect, learning how to communicate, and gain self-awareness & insight. I have created this course to guide you to learn all of these necessary tools to grow your relationship!
Based on over two decades of work with couples, teaching college students and focus of study on relationships in my doctoral program – I have created this course for you.
I mentioned learning with movie clips and I would like to share a New York Times Article with you. The article discusses research about the benefit of watching movies to strengthen a relationship!
This unit contains 6 lessons in which you will learn and gain necessary self-awareness. You will also learn the skills of validation and empathy which are vital for connection and growth in a relationship. You will also learn about blame and projection, two challenges that appear in all relationships, how to recognize when they appear and how to respond in productive ways to blame and projection.
Learning takes time, especially relationship learning. Keep in mind that you will be learning new ways of communicating and new ways to understand your relationship. While you will learn things that you can immediately apply to improve your relationship, there will be other aspects of your learning that will take time. It is a commitment to wanting to grow your relationship. It is like many things in life, we are trained for jobs and we keep learning new things. We learn new things all the time even with hobbies! We seek out learning in our work and hobbies! Anything that we want to do well in life, we have to learn how to do it well. Taking this course puts you on a very important path of becoming a ‘growth-oriented person’.
Absolutely not!! It is a mistake to believe that relationships that are in turmoil are bad relationships. More often than not, it is simply a relationship that needs guidance. The problem is – no one has taught us how to be in a relationship. We are expected to know how to have a successful relationship without ever being taught! That is incredibly unfair to both of you.
And, your relationship does not need to be in turmoil to take this course. Start now, before any major challenges begin.
No, you do not need to take this with your partner. You may decide to take this alone and that is perfectly fine. You will be learning and applying new ideas to your relationship and your partner can learn from you. It is sort of like a ‘trickle effect’, your learning can trickle toward your partner and your partner can learn too! And of course, your partner can take it at a later time (you will have this course forever!) If you decide to take it together, you can do it together or even do it ‘separately’ together.
Taking a course is a different way of learning. If you are in therapy, this course will complement the work that you are already doing. You can process what you learn in this course with your therapist. Therapy and online learning work beautifully together.
Absolutely! All of us can benefit from learning how to be in a relationship. And the good news is that you can apply much of what you will learn in this course to other relationships as well.
When our relationships are in turmoil, it makes it challenging to function productively in other areas in your life. Ask yourself this “what is the cost of not getting the guidance and support regarding your relationship?” The financial and emotional cost of divorce and relationship endings are high – too high.
Healthy marriages are good for couples’ mental and physical health. They are also good for children; growing up in a happy home protects children from mental, physical, educational and social problems. However, about 40 to 50 percent of married couples in the United States divorce. The divorce rate for subsequent marriages is even higher.
This course is the synthesis of thousands of hours of my work with clients since 1996, and it offers information, guidance, support, and tangible tools that you will have forever, and three sessions with me is more than the cost of this course.
And keep in mind, we cannot be expected to be successful in anything without learning how to do so.
No, this course is not religious affiliated. Any and all faiths and those who do not follow a particular faith can benefit from taking this course.
You will have lifetime access to this course. The only thing that I cannot guarantee lifetime access is the ‘movie clips’. I do not have control over access to the clips. If you are still uncertain, you can contact me directly by using the contact form at the bottom of this page and ask me any brief questions that you have about the course.