Couples Therapy Training and Education Program (CTTEP) Curriculum and Faculty
Couples Therapy Training and
Education Program (CTTEP)
Curriculum and Faculty, 2022-2023
Didactic Courses: Fridays, 12:15pm – 1:45pm
Week One: Sept 9th
Orientation: Getting to Know You Lunch
Weeks Two - Eight: Sept 16th, 23rd, 30th; October 7th, 14th 21st and 28th
How to Keep Your Head When They’re Losing Theirs: Theory of Technique
Shelly Goldklank, Ph.D.
Week Nine: November 4th
Visiting Lecturer: A Tavistock Approach
Julie Friend, LCSW
Week Ten: November 11th & 18th
Somatic Experiencing in Couples: Bringing the Body into Couples Therapy
Stacy Malin, Ph.D.
Weeks Eleven: December 2nd
Unconscious Coupling: Taped session analysis 1
Shelly Goldklank, Ph.D.
Week Twelve: December 9th
Practice what we've preached: Taped session analysis 2
Week Thirteen: December 16th
Candidate questions about theory and practice : Recapitulating Theory of Technique Shelly Goldklank, Ph.D. & Ethan Graham, Ph.D.
Week Fourteen: January 6th
Diversities in Work with Couples: Curiosity and Radical Openness
Anton Hart, Ph.D.
Week Fifteen and Sixteen: January 13th and 20th
Race Matters in Couples Dynamics
Monique Bowen, Ph.D.
** Please note on January 13th, there is a mid-year group check-in meeting from 11:15-noon (prior to usual class start time)
Week Seventeen and Eighteen: January 27th and February 3rd
Talking About Sex in Couples Therapy
Shoshana Bulow, Ph.D.
Week Nineteen: February 10th
Negotiated Power Dynamics and Sexual Play: BDSM/Consensual SM in Couples' Work
Avgi Saketopoulou, Psy.D.
Week Twenty: February 17th
Dynamics in Lesbian Couples
Suzanne Iasenza, Ph.D.
Week Twenty-One: February 24th
When Couples Seek Treatment as Parents
Pasqual Pantone, Ph.D.
Week Twenty-Two: March 3rd
Dynamics in Gay Male Relationships
Kenneth Pound, Psy.D.
Weeks Twenty-Three - Twenty-Seven: March 10th, 17th, 24th and 31st & April 14th
High Conflict Couples
Susan Flinn, Ph.D.
Week Twenty-Eight: April 21st
Climate Change and Couples Therapy
Wendy Greenspun, Ph.D.
Week Twenty-Nine: April 28th
Candidate questions about theory and practice: Recapitulating Theory of Technique Shelly Goldklank, Ph.D. & Ethan Graham, Ph.D.
Week Thirty: May 5th
Wrap Up
Shelly Goldklank, Ph.D. & Ethan Graham, Ph.D.
(** Graduation at 3-5PM, following the case conference)
Clinical Case Conference: Fridays, 2:00 – 3:00
Weeks One – Ten: Sept 16th, 23rd, 30th; October 7th, 14th, 21st, and 28th; November 4th, 11th, and 18th
Faculty: Ethan Graham, Ph.D.
Weeks Eleven – Twenty: December 2nd, 9th, and 16th; January 6th, 13th, 20th, and 27th; February 3rd, 10th and 17th
Robert Bartlett, Ph.D.
Weeks Twenty-One – Thirty: Feb 24th; March 3rd, 10th, 17th, 24th, and 31st; April 14th, 21st and 28th; May 5th
Shelly Goldklank, Ph.D.
Individual Consultants: Once weekly consultation hours for thirty weeks between Sept 17th – May 13th. Consultation time and day are to be determined between Consultant and student for a minimum of thirty sessions.
Bob Bartlett, Ph.D.
Don Brown, M.D.
Sheila Feig Brown, Ph.D.
Lawrence O. Brown, Ph.D.
Shoshana Bulow, Ph.D.
Roberta Caplan, Ph.D.
Tiziano Colibazzi, M.D.
Debra Farbman, Ph.D.
Richard Fulmer, Ph.D.
Deborah Glazer, Ph.D.
Francine Godet, Psy.D.
Ethan Graham, Ph.D.
Mara Heiman, LCSW
Sharon Kofman, Ph.D.
Elizabeth Krimendahl, Psy.D.
Stacy Malin, Ph.D.
Susan Shimmerlik, Ph.D.
Elena Skolnick, Ph.D.
** Please note that the above may be subject to change.
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