Level 3 Clinical Training

Gottman Method Couples Therapy

Practicum Training

 

Gottman Method Couples Therapy: Practicum Training (Virtual Only)

Mary Beth George, Alysha Roll, Julie and John Gottman

Gottman Level 3 Clinical Training

Level 3 Practicum Training is a three day training.  Through clinician cases of real couples, hands-on role plays, demonstrations of assessments and interventions, and nuanced discussion of technique, the Level 3 Practicum significantly expands your understanding of when and how to use Gottman Method approaches.

We cap attendance to provide a small-group setting where you will have the opportunity to practice and refine your use of Gottman Method therapy and receive personalized guidance in developing a roadmap for clinical decisions.

Level 3 Practicum content represents the true resistances and co-morbidities we face as therapists and how we can transform them into effective healing methods for the couple.

The workshop is structured to help create a safe and secure environment so participants can learn and practice while feeling free of criticism and negative judgment.

Upcoming Training Dates: TBD, 2027
Location:  Online/virtual from the comfort of your own home

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As a result of taking Level 3 Training you will learn:

  1. Effectively use the Oral History Interview during a couple’s assessment and understand its implications
  2. Clearly explain to a couple their strengths and challenges in terms of the “Sound Relationship House”
  3. Help partners identify their own “Four Horsemen” and understand the antidotes
  4. Select and utilize appropriate tools to help a couple deepen their “Friendship System”
  5. Clarify a couple’s conflicts in terms of solvable, perpetual, and grid-locked problems
  6. Use the “Dreams Within Conflict” technique to help a couple feel hopeful and to achieve break-through with their perpetual conflict
  7. Successfully intervene when one or both partners are flooding
  8. Help a couple reach solutions using the Compromise Ovals intervention
  9. Sensitively intervene when co-morbidities are present

Clinician Participation

Case Discussion in Certification Practicum

Participants are asked to bring case studies of difficult and challenging couples to the Level 3 workshop. The therapist’s work with the couple will not be critiqued. The purpose will be to use these couples to illustrate how the Gottman Method can be applied to tough cases.  Participants will have the opportunity to practice using these interventions in a supportive small group setting, with other participants’ role playing the couples from the case studies.  

Cost 

Registration ends April 20, 2026

Clinicians: $1200 (Early Bird registration: $1100)

Students: $1000 (Early Bird registration: $950)

Military: $1000 (Early Bird Registration: $950)

Level 3 Refresher: $650 (Early Bird registration: $600)

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Who Should Attend this 3-Day Training

This workshop is appropriate for people who have master’s or doctoral degrees OR current enrollment in a graduate program within a mental health-related field who have completed Gottman Level 1 and Level 2 Live Training or DVD Home study.  Therapy experience is highly recommended, but not required.

Already attended Level 3 and want a refresher?  If you attended Level 3 in the past and would like a refresher course, or if you are in Certification Track and want to “reset your clock”, you may attend our Level 3 for $650.  

Continuing Education: 20 CEUs are available for this workshop. This event is co-sponsored by CBI Center for Education.

CBI Center for Education is approved by the American Psychological Association tosponsor continuing education for psychologists. CBI Center for Education maintains responsibility for this program and its content. CBI Center for Education is notresponsible to verify that American Psychological Association continuing education credits are approved by an attendee’s respective state licensing board.

 If you wish to get CEUs for this event, the cost will be $50, paid to CBI after the event ends. 

Participants must have paid registration fees, signed in/out, and attended the entire workshop to receive a continuing education certificate. Failure to sign in or out will result in forfeiture of credit for the entire course. No exceptions will be made. Partial credit is not available.

 

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