Beyond Communication: Helping Couples Explore and Deepen Their Intimate Bonds Online
While traditional couples therapy models such as Gottman and EFT offer essential tools for improving communication, many couples still struggle to feel truly seen, known, and connected. Communication alone is rarely enough. Beneath arguments over dishes or schedules often lies a more tender ache — the need for emotional closeness, physical intimacy, and a shared sense of erotic and relational vitality. This training invites therapists to move beyond communication as the sole focus of intervention and explore the deeper architecture of intimacy.
By combining foundational, evidence-based interventions with intimacy-centered approaches, participants will examine how emotional presence, embodied attunement, and relational safety allow for deeper repair and growth. Grounded in contemporary research and enriched with experiential tools, this course offers a clinical framework to help couples not only speak more clearly — but love more fully.
Training will include a variety of Gottman and EFT concepts/theories/assessments/interventions as well as information from Esther Perel and Emily Nagoski.
Presented by Ewelina Beardmore LCPC, CST, SEP and Stephen Heintz, LCPC
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This program, when attended in its entirety, offers 6.0 CEs for Psychologists, 6.0 IL CEUS for Counselors and Social Workers, 6.0 BBS California CEUs for LPCCs, LPSWs, and LMFTs, or 6.0 AASECT CEs for Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists.
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PROGRAM PRICING:
- General Admission: $80
- Student Admission: $40*
- The Chicago School Faculty, Staff, and Alumni: $64*
Please Note: This program is limited to 40 participants for in-person and 20 for online. Once attendance maximum is met, we will begin a waiting list.
(*Please email officeofce@thechicagoschool.edu for coupon code. Code must be entered at time of checkout to receive discount.)
Refund Policy: 100% of tuition is refundable up to one week before the program. Within one week of the program, tuition is nonrefundable.
- Date:
- Friday, March 27, 2026
- Time:
- 9:00am - 3:30pm
- Time Zone:
- Central Time - US & Canada (change)
- Online:
- This is an online event.
- Event URL:
- https://tcsppofficeofce.com/march_27_2026/
- Audience:
- All Graduate Students All Students Alumni Doctoral Students Faculty Masters Students Public The Chicago School Community Undergraduate Students