Discover how to achieve deep and sustainable relational change in Australia with Imago Relationship Therapy. This CPD course offers practical insights.
For Australian psychologists and counsellors working with couples, Caroline Bernhardt-Lanier shows how to deepen change in Imago Relationship Therapy. The course draws on clinical examples and video demonstrations to illustrate how the Imago Dialogue builds safety, regulation, differentiation, empathy and responsiveness between partners. Participants learn to help couples look beneath the presenting conflict at its emotional roots, then turn insight and longing into concrete relational practice. A strong thread is clinical judgement, deciding whether to remain with the present moment, explore earlier relational history or help partners focus on the relationship they want to create together.
This talk explores how Imago Relationship Therapy can support deep and sustainable relational change by working with the present relationship space, the emotional roots of reactivity, and the future partners want to create together. Caroline Bernhardt-Lanier examines how the Imago Dialogue can support safety, regulation, differentiation, empathy, and greater responsiveness between partners.
Through clinical examples and video demonstrations, participants will see how therapists can help couples move beneath recurring conflicts toward deeper emotional meaning and then translate insight and longing into concrete relational practice. The talk highlights clinical judgment throughout: when to remain with present-moment connection, when to explore earlier relational experience, and when a couple may be ready to move toward requests, behavior change, and a more conscious shared future.
By the end of this talk, participants will be able to: