Learning Objectives

• Identify ways to establish a secure base in therapy.

• Describe methods to regulate emotional reactivity in couples.

• Learn how to use the Seven Channels of Experience to help partners build and deepen connection

• Explain how to help couples process emotions to completion.

• Define the significance of surprise and joy as core affects.

• Emphasize the role of slowing down to integrate core affect.

• Recognize early stress signs of dorsal vagal response and strategies for regulation.

• Identify methods to engage avoidantly attached clients.

• Explain how mindfulness and somatic awareness benefit couples and therapists.

• Define transformance striving and learn how to recognize it.