Continuing Education courses in COUPLES THERAPY (AUPCT)
The AUPCT is a Continuing Education based program, offering a series of seminars and workshops focused on current and traditional relationship constellations. The option of earning an Advanced Certificate in Couples Therapy may also be possible as part of our program.
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FALL 2026
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9/9, 9/16, 9/23, 9/30 & 10/7/2026 (Wednesdays) | 6-8pm EST
Amy Begel, LCSW, LMFT
10 Contact hours
A Couple Is More Than Two People: Foundations of Systems Therapy
In this course, we will look at the dynamics behind the dynamics that couples bring to therapy. We will explore how subtle relationship patterns from the couples’ family of origin insert themselves into the lives of the couple and shape their interaction. These patterns include intergenerational patterns as well as present-day influences on the couple.
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9/15, 9/22, 9/29, 10/6 & 10/13/2026 (Tuesdays) | 3:30-5pm EST
Albert J Brok, PhD
7.5 Contact hours
Therapeutic Interventions That Facilitate Working With Couples
In this five week seminar, we address approaches that work best as a function of the idiosyncratic qualities of every couple that we see clinically. Our seminar includes initial discussion approaches; the importance of diagnostic understanding of the couple as a unit and the individuals that make up the couple; the application of Object Relations and other approaches; the use of dreams and phantasy material; how to decide when to work with the couple and when to focus on the individuals that comprise the couple; as well as dealing with our own comfort in using our experiences in session.
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9/25/2026 (Friday) | 10am-1pm EST
Suzanne Iasenza, PhD
3 Contact hours
Integrating Sexuality Into Couples Therapy
This course focuses on how to create safe rapport to inquire about sexuality in couple therapy. It will include how to utilize expanded models of sexual response, conduct a culturally sensitive relational sexual history, and help couples become more erotically connected.
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10/14, 10/28, 11/11, 12/2, 12/16/2026 &
1/6/2027 (Wednesdays) | 6:30-8pm EST
Melorra Sochet, LCSW, JD
9 Contact hours
Trauma-Impacted Couples: Attachment, Escalation, and Repair in Clinical Practice
This is an advanced clinical training that provides a trauma-informed framework for understanding and treating complex dynamics. Participants will learn how trauma reshapes attachment, emotional regulation, nervous system functioning, and relational meaning-making, causing present-day interactions to be experienced through the lens of past pain.
Integrating Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) and Internal Family Systems (IFS), this six-module course equips clinicians with practical strategies for assessment, de-escalation, attachment-based interventions, working with protective parts, and facilitating repair without retraumatization.
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11/6 & 11/13/2026 (Fridays) | 11am-1:30pm EST
M. Morrisey Rombone, PhD
5 Contact hours
Emotional Unavailability & Unrequited Love: On Mourning The Couple That Never Was
Some relationships never officially begin or have the opportunity to unfold, yet leave us
grieving as though they had. What makes certain impossible relationships so difficult to
relinquish? This course examines the psychology of emotional unavailability and unrequited love through multiple theoretical lenses, exploring what these relationships come to represent, what is truly being mourned, and how clinicians can help facilitate healing, growth, and transformation.
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1/20, 1/27, 2/3, 2/10, 2/17 & 2/24/2027 (Wednesdays) | 6:00-9:00pm EST
Eileen Donohue, PhD
18 Contact hours
Introduction to Emotioanlly Focused Therapy (EFT) for Couples
Participants will learn how the three stage model prioritizes emotion and how emotion and emotional regulation organizes interactions. Through interactional exercises, role plays, lecture and video presentations, students will learn to track the negative cycle, calm the cycle and create bonding conversations.
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1/21 & 1/028/2027 (Thursdays) | 6-7:30pm EST
Valerie Levy, LCSW
3 Contact hours
Secure Together: The Science of Attachment in Couples Therapy
This introductory class explores the foundational principles of attachment theory and its application to understanding adult relational styles. Participants will learn to analyze how these patterns manifest in relationships and clinical settings. Through lectures, case vignettes, group discussions, and guided readings, participants will deepen their ability to recognize attachment-related behaviors and consider their implications.
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2/22/2027 (Monday) | 5-7:00pm EST
Wendy Greenspun, PhD
2 Contact hours
Our House Is On Fire”: A Multiple Systems Approach To Couple Therapy In A Time of Climate Breakdown and Sociopolitical Uncertainties
As we find ourselves mired in multiple layers of uncertainty and alarm, including the unfolding climate and ecological crisis, ongoing sociopolitical harm and emergent political upheaval, how do we as couple therapists work with these realities as they emerge in the clinical landscape? In this workshop, a multiple-systems framework will be applied to consider complexities from various viewpoints, drawing on psychodynamic and systemic understandings to foster more productive communication, repair ruptures and embrace multiple viewpoints in our couples work. The workshop will include case examples and small and large group discussion.
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3/4 & 3/11/2027 (Thursday) | 5-8:00pm EST
M. Morrisey Rombone, PhD
6 Contact hours
Working With Addiction In Couple Therapy
This two-week workshop explores the complexities of working with couples affected by addiction, with a focus on relationship dynamics, recovery and therapeutic approaches.
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4/9, 4/16, 4/23 & 4/30/2027 (Fridays) | 10:00-1:00pm EST
Chris Scott, LCSW-R, CGP
12 Contact hours
Couples and The Neurobiology of Psychological Change: A Psychotherapist’s Perspective
There are many advances in neuroscience that can inform the psychotherapeutic process. In addition to reviewing some of these, the course also introduces psychoanalytically informed Relational Self Psychology and its approach to couple therapy. The overall goal of the course is to further elucidate the couple therapy process and to improve treatment efficacy.
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5/12 & 5/19/2027 (Wednesdays) | 6-9:00pm EST
Tasha Tyrell-Williams, LCSW-R, CST
6 Contact hours
Understanding and Working With The Invisible Toll of Race In Couples
The issue of race is very much in the therapy room, even when it goes unspoken. It quietly affects communication, conflicts, connection, and emotional safety that a couple experiences. As clinicians we can help the couple recognize when ruptures, defensiveness, and misunderstandings are rooted in their partner’s racial identity, lived experiences, and systemic stressors. Through case vignettes, education, and discussion, clinicians will recognize the role and toll of race in and on a couple; how to engage couples in conversations about race without creating rupture; and how to navigate their own biases and countertransference when working with racially diverse couples.
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This continuing education seminar, seminar instructor/s, and the Postgraduate Programs as the seminar’s sponsor, receive no commercial support for the content of instruction (e.g., research grants funding research findings etc.), or benefit for endorsement of products (e.g., books, training, drugs, etc.) that are known to present a conflict of interest.
Adelphi University is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Adelphi University maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Adelphi University, Derner School of Psychology, is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0024 and by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0607 and by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors #MHC-0185; for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0083; and for licensed psychoanalysts #P-0058.
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