Develop Your Counseling Skills, Get Better Results
and Build Your Practice!

When you work with couples, you don’t always hear much positive feedback. In fact, most of sessions are probably spent with angry partners who want you to referee the fight of the week.

How would you like to change that?

Imagine hearing more and more couples telling you, “Thank you for working with us. I believe you saved our marriage.” Or things like, “You have a real gift for what you do,” “We don’t know how to thank you for what you have done,” or, “I was’t sure it was possible to get to where we are. You are a genius!”

You will hear all these things and many more like them, when you integrate what you learn from this powerful new resource into your practice. “In Quest of the Mythical Mate” from Doctors Ellyn Bader and Peter Pearson helps your couples’ practice really take off.

This practical model for successful couples therapy is a complete practice building kit in a box! Starting with 10-CDs and a 96-page workbook, this program teaches diagnosis, first sessions, managing tough couples and other specific techniques. It has lots of actual transcripts and clinical vignettes, and real examples of sessions sprinkled throughout the CDs to demonstrate what you are learning. It serves as a foundation for therapists of all theoretical orientations.

Best of all, it is an integrated approach—not just a technique here and there. This program gives you a complete overview of the developmental model of couples’ relationships, and it’s the only place you can find complete training on the Initiator-Inquirer Process that Ellyn and Peter developed.

Therapists worldwide now successfully use this process to get better results with their clients. It will help you diagnose, assess and intervene with couples in a targeted and precise way.

You’ll learn the parallels between couples’ relationships and childhood development. You’ll also learn the role of attachment in personality development, and the four developmental issues that most impact a partner’s ability to evolve in a healthy relationship.

Ellyn and Peter demonstrate how to maintain control and focus with an angry, combative couple. They also describe the characteristics of seven other dominant types of couples, so you can recognize them when they come into your office. Then they highlight the difference between differentiation and practicing, and why this makes a crucial difference for effective diagnosis and treatment.

This training resource also includes the “paper exercise.” This is a rapid technique to diagnose six major problems in handling anger, negotiation and differentiation. This exercise reveals these problems in only five minutes! You even get transcripts with examples, to help you better apply this to treatment.

Real-World Information from Experts Who Know What They’re Talking About!

For more than 20 years, Ellyn and Peter have been helping couples resolve issues and create strong, loving relationships. They are considered by many to be the preeminent experts in couples therapy training in the world today. They are creators of The Developmental Model of Couples Therapy, and directors of The Couples Institute here in Menlo Park, California. Their model teaches you how to diagnose, intervene and significantly help troubled relationships.

Ellyn and Peter are the authors of the classic text, In Quest of the Mythical Mate: A Developmental Approach to Diagnosis and Treatment in Couples Therapy. The California Association of Marriage & Family Therapists awarded the book the “Clark Vincent Award” for its outstanding contribution to the field of marital therapy. (You may even have studied it in your training, because it’s used in graduate schools across the country.)

Ellyn and Peter maintain an active lecture and workshop schedule for both couples and professionals. Ellyn served as president of the International Transactional Analysis Association, and spent eight years on the Clinical Faculty at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Peter is a Consulting Associate Professor at Stanford University.

Ellyn and Peter are unusual among couples therapists in that they are a couple themselves, and have confronted many of the challenges that they write and speak about.

Best of all, Ellyn and Peter still run a thriving private practice, so the knowledge you learn here is what is working today.

No theories, nothing abstract—just specific applicable techniques to get better results with your clients, and attract more of them. You’ll learn many breakthrough steps which will help your couples communicate more effectively about highly sensitive topics.

A Complete Resource to Develop and Improve Your Practice . . .

This powerful resource also includes some additional materials to enhance your clients' results, and grow your practice faster. Along with the 10 CDs and workbook, you also get a package of 25 Initiator-Inquirer coaching cards, which you can utilize with couples in your practice when you use the I-I process with them.

Ellyn and Peter have taught this I-I process to thousands of therapists, who are now using it successfully. These coaching cards will make it easier for you.

You also receive 100 “Above and Beyond the Call of Duty” (“ABCD”) cards. These are another tool which you can give to your clients to get better results with them.

You give ABCD cards to couples who are learning some new behavior and forgetting to practice it at home. They’re so stuck in their old patterns that they need something really clever and different to help them remember it.

So you give them a few of these cards to give to each other when they get that new behavior right. It helps them three ways: first a partner has to remember to do the new behavior; then the other partner has to notice; and finally, that partner takes the time to acknowledge the behavior with a card. It’s simple but ingenious.

And the fifth card in the deck, “Get out of jail free” is everybody’s favorite. It’s a perfect way to practice forgiveness and keep things friendly when someone slips up.

Your kit also includes 50 “Stepping Stones” brochures. Use them to develop more business, by giving them to new clients, as well as any inquiries you receive from the phone directory, ads, or referrals. These are then exact brochures we use to build our successful practice here at The Couples Institute. They add credibility to what you do, encourage people to seek counseling, and explain how couples counseling can help them.

This kit is a complete tool to help you develop your own counseling skills, get better results for the couples you work with, and grow your practice . . .

You’ll find lots of real transcripts and clinical vignettes spread through the CDs. Best of all, you can play and replay the CDs to study the interventions. Take them in the car and turn your commute into productive time.

Earn CEU credits . . .

California Therapists can earn 10 CE units by completing study of In Quest of the Mythical Mate. This allows you to meet some of your requirements without traveling to more expensive seminars. Many other states recognize the standards set for California mental health professionals and will honor your certificate of completion. Please check with your licensing board for the qualifications in your area.

The kit includes:

• 10 Audio CDs
• 96-page workbook;
• 25 Initiator-Inquirer coaching cards;
• 50 “Stepping Stones” brochures for your practice; and,
• 100 “Above and Beyond the Call of Duty” cards for working with couples at all stages of development.

What’s the investment?

By now you’re probably thinking that a resource this powerful and complete is going to set you back several thousand dollars. It probably should. But fortunately for you, this is not the case...

Ellyn and Peter have a large, successful practice in their own right. So they don’t make their living selling to therapists. They’re more concerned with getting this information out there, and making sure that the therapists who need it can get it and use it to improve their practice and the lives of their clients.

Get it today for just $347!

Still not convinced? Learn more about the Practice Development Kit.