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Mapping a Couple’s Vulnerability Cycle: Validation and Challenge in Couple Therapy

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In couple therapy, two partners usually come in with very different stories about the problem, and both want to feel seen and understood. But how do you build an alliance with two people who see things differently? In this workshop, Dr. Fishbane and Dr. Solomon will teach an approach that bridges these seemingly incompatible needs by creating a case formulation that integrates Family-of-Origin dynamics, cultural factors, and interpersonal neurobiology. This relational framing will help you hold the tension between support and confrontation. You will learn: 

• How the therapeutic alliance in couple therapy differs from the therapeutic alliance in individual therapy 
• Why couple therapists need to integrate interpersonal neurobiology and family of origin dynamics to understand the blame-and-shame cycles that keep couples locked in despair and conflict. 
• How to develop a vulnerability cycle map