Psychotherapy and couples counseling: What’s similar, what’s different, and how to do each better.

Title of Event: Psychotherapy and couples counseling: What’s similar, what’s different, and how to do each better.

Description of Event: 

From start to finish, how are couples counseling and individual therapy different, and how are they similar?

In this webinar, we’ll look at specific dimensions of therapy–its goals; its structure; the role of the therapist, and self-disclosure; holding clients’ pain & conveying empathy; working with people we don’t like, and more. If therapy isn’t just about giving advice (or “just listening”), what exactly do we have to offer?

We’ll keep focusing on the question we all have: How do we make therapy more effective? And how do we make it more satisfying for ourselves?

Topics include:

* The intake process & therapeutic goals
* Differential diagnosis & power dynamics
* Homework, note-taking, & other practitioners
* Cultural issues & ethics
* Transference & countertransference
* Summary: What exactly do you have to offer?

Date of Event: 2/7/26, then available until 12/31/26

Time of Event: 10am-1pm PST

Location: Online: synchronous; afterwards, asynchronous on-demand

Sexuality Counseling (SC) Training:

SC1. Theory and methods of personal/individual counseling.
SC3. Theory and methods of different approaches to intervention in relationship systems.
SC4. Theory and methods of decision-making concerning sexually related medical interventions.
SC6. Theory and practice of consultation, collaboration and referral.

Sex Therapy (ST) Training:

ST1. Theory and methods of sex-related psychotherapy, including several different models.
ST2. Techniques of sex-related assessment and diagnosis of the Psychosexual Disorders described in the current edition of the DSM.
ST3. Theory and methods of approach to intervention in relationship systems experiencing sex and intimacy problems.
ST4. Theory and method of approach to medical intervention in the evaluation and treatment of psychosexual disorders.
ST5. Principles of consultation, collaboration and referral.

Presenter/Speaker: Marty Klein, Ph.D

Company/Organization Sponsor: Zur Institute

Contact Name: Marty Klein

Contact Telephone Number: (650) 773-2425

Contact Email: Klein@SexEd.org

Event Website: https://www.zurinstitute.com/webinars/psychotherapy-and-couples-counseling-similar-different/

AASECT Approved CEs: 3