Running the Matrimonial Gamut – A Trilogy of Couples in Conflict

This webinar will focus on three areas on the “marital spectrum”: 1. Couples in marriage/couple counseling in high conflict situations 2. Marital Crisis Consultation – (similar to discernment therapy, making tough decisions) 3.Divorce Mediation as best option when possible (a more constructive solution when a marriage has to end). This workshop will first look at marriages in the stage in which conflicts have developed but that the couple still wants to work on together in therapy. We will discuss EFT couple therapy as an example of how to more effectively do the work to try to help couples...Read more de-escalate. A vignette will be explored about a couple in crisis threatening to divorce one another and how EFT technique helped to dissipate an explosive juncture point. Marital Crisis Consultation: (similar to discernment therapy) is a model used to help couples in an acute crisis in which one or both are strongly considering separation/divorce but haven’t quite decided yet, i.e. they haven’t yet “pulled the trigger”. We will discuss consultations designed to help couples walk through different scenarios and ultimately gain more clarity as to which direction to pursue, i.e. couple counseling to work further on the marriage, explore a temporary separation, or go straight to a divorce. If separation, how… trial separation? Mediation? Collaborative? Divorce methods will also be discussed including collaborative divorce and traditional adversarial approach. Less...

Learning Objectives

List three of the basic elements of Sue Johnson’s theory of EFT couple therapy.
Describe two techniques from EFT about how to help de-escalate a high conflict situation with a couple
Describe two scenarios couples often struggle with that would trigger a referral to Marital Crisis Consultation
Explain divorce mediation as a form of alternative dispute resolution and will list two major advantages that the team mediation approach has to offer couples who are separating/divorcing.
List three principles and techniques used in mediation to help reduce conflict and improve communication, e.g. caucusing

Learning Levels

Intermediate to Advanced

Thursday, September 02, 2021

Live Interactive Webinar

01:00 PM EDT - 04:15 PM EDT

EARN 3 CE Credit Hours

About the speaker

Alan L. Frankel, LCSW

Private Practice

Alan L. Frankel, LCSW is a clinical social worker/psychotherapist. He maintains a private practice in Mt. Kisco, NY (Westchester County) and has over forty years of clinical experience working with a wide array of people and problems. He works with children, adolescents, individual adults and couples. He specializes in helping children and families undergoing the difficult transition of a separation or divorce and has extensive experience doing conflict resolution. Additionally Al Frankel is a divorce mediator. He has been co-mediating with attorney-mediator Jill Sanders-DeMott for almost 30 years. Al Frankel is a Certified EFT Couple Therapist. He also provides marital crisis consultations for couples in the early stages of considering whether to try to stay together or possibly separate/divorce. Additionally he is an adjunct professor in The Human Services Dept. at Westchester Community College, where he has been teaching courses in Human Behavior and Social Development since 1992. Alan Frankel graduated from Cornell University in 1976. He earned his Masters in Social Work from the University of Pennsylvania in 1978. Al Frankel was trained in psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy at The Institute For Contemporary Psychotherapy in NYC, in 1986. He received postgraduate training in child and adolescent therapy, as well as in couples and family therapy. He also received additional training in EFT (emotionally focused couple therapy) in 2008. Most recently he completed training in sex therapy at The University of Michigan School of Social Work in their Sexual Health/Sex Therapy Certificate Program in 2018.

CE Information - Earn 3 CE Credit Hours

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