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Beyond Communication: Helping Couples Explore and Deepen Their Intimate Bonds

Title of Event: Beyond Communication: Helping Couples Explore and Deepen Their Intimate Bonds
 
Description of Event:
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.
 
Date of Event: November 14, 2025
 
Time of Event: 9am-3:30pm CT (7am-1:30pm PT/ 10am-4:30pm ET)
 
Location: Online or In Person
 
In-Person Address: 
The Chicago School
325 N Wells Street
Chicago, IL 60654
ROOM 407/412
 
Sex Therapy (ST) Training:
ST1. Theory and methods of sex-related psychotherapy, including several different models.
ST3. Theory and methods of approach to intervention in relationship systems experiencing sex and intimacy problems.
 
Presenter/Speaker: Ewelina Beardmore LCPC, CST, SEP and Stephen Heintz, LCPC
 
Company/Organization Sponsor: Soleil Psychotherapy 
 
Contact Name: Christine Whitt
 
 
 
AASECT Approved CEs: 6.0

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