becoming A Master therapist.
Relational warmth + evidence-based methods = great results.
Want to be a great therapist?
maximizing your skills involves learning how to deepen safety and connection in the therapy relationship while also challenging your clients to grow utilizing the latest science-based methods.
While great therapy is partly the fit between client and therapist, there are ways to deepen your skill set to increase the depth and results of your work. Common factors that enhance therapeutic value include working through the client-therapist relationship and developing it as a resource as well as deepening your presence as a therapist. Helping your client prepare for deep work and bring the right client factors to their process can also help organize the arc of treatment. John’s training will help you learn how to work through your presence rather than just through methodology, and will give you the latest neuroscience-informed protocols for most presenting concerns. By combining a warm and trusted relational presence with the appropriate level of challenge and science-based methods, you can achieve an optimal blend of science and art in your therapy work.
Training programs and study groups can help you with case consultation and understanding appropriate interventions for a variety of individual issues. John’s training includes those resources but also goes beyond the norm to provide you with an in-depth understanding of relational issues in the work, systemic factors involved in presenting concerns, and advanced therapy techniques that are useful with both couples and individual clients. You’ll learn advanced practice topics such as working with diverse populations, non-traditional relationship structures, neuro-informed protocols, and courageous experiential interventions that can speed up progress and results.
couples therapy.
John specializes in couples therapy and imparting advanced training to practitioners based on PACT, EFT, Imago, Gottman Method and other models. John’s primary approach is PACT, but he also uses an eclectic blend of assessment and interventional styles informed by neuroscience and his many years of practical experience working with a wide range of couples. You’ll learn how to improve relationship skills quickly in your couples, increase hope, and assess for secure functioning in a wide variety of presenting styles. You’ll learn how to design custom experiential interventions tailored to your clients’ needs to affect their habits quickly and increase relational security.
“couples therapy is being on the front lines of love. you have to be willing to be as intimate emotionally and in your presence as you’re asking your clients to be with each other. you create a training ground for secure skills that develops consistent safety, emotional care and romantic connection according to your clients’ needs.”
— John Howard, LMFT