Alexandra H. Solomon – Loving Bravely: Helping Clients Who are Single, Dating, & Single-Again

Description Of Loving Bravely: Helping Clients Who are Single, Dating, & Single-Again

The new rules of relationships and dating mean big changes for how we do therapy…

Online dating apps, ghosting, commitment phobia, pre-Googling, defining the relationship (DTR) …

Whether you’re an individual or a couples therapist, you’re working with relationships.

So when clients come to you for help with dating and relationships, do you know what to do?

This online course will bring light to some of the big issues your clients are dealing with in the new world of relationships … and arm you with an effective framework and practical tools so you can help them find the healthy romantic relationship they desire.

Sign up now and master easy-to-integrate tools to help clients who are dating, recovering from breakups, and figuring out when to commit.

You’ll get exclusive access to eight step-by-step sessions that will teach you exactly what to say and do when working with:

• shifting views around sex, sexuality, and gender
• long-distance and cross-cultural dating challenges
• breakups and divorce, rebounding, and re-entering the dating world
• knowing the difference between a red flag and an opportunity for relational growth
• and much more

You’ll end this training confident in your ability to help your clients navigate today’s complex dating world.

What You’ll Learn in Loving Bravely

Module One: Introduction to Relational Self-Awareness: From Outside-In to Inside-Out

• What You Need to Know to Help Clients in All Stages of Relationships
• Alexandra sets the stages of the course and outlines the fundamentals behind using relational self-awareness in the clinical setting with both individuals and couples.

Module Two: Mapping Your Client’s Love Template: From Fragmented to Coherent

• Helping Clients Prepare Themselves for Relationships & Stop Repeating Old Patterns
• Most couples therapy focuses on a relationship after it’s begun to fall apart, but many therapists don’t know how to help clients prepare for love or prevent problems. This session focuses on a unique way of helping clients understand how they love and its impact on their relationships.

Module Three: Self-Aware Sexuality: From Silence to Advocacy

• Helping Clients Develop Healthy & Conscious Sexual Relationships
• We are a culture obsessed with sex and sexuality, but many therapists are unsure of how to address a client’s sexuality. In this session, Alexandra teaches the keys that all therapists should know about when it comes to supporting a client’s sexuality during any stage of life.

Module Four: Self-Aware Dating: From Ghosting to Integrity

• What You Need to Know About Helping Clients Date in an Online Dating App World
• The way we date is undergoing massive changes with all new rules and standards. In this session, Alexandra makes sense of the changes with online dating apps, safety, boundaries, honesty, and personal integrity. She explores the ways in which this new world of dating is both challenging and clears the way for a new level of loving relationships.

Module Five: Self-Aware Conflicts: From Reactive to Responsive

• Helping Clients Understand & Navigate the Roots of Relationship Problems
• In this session, Alexandra presents her approach to handling relational conflicts in therapy from the perspective of relational self-awareness. She shares how to move to being responsive to partners without compromising your own integrity and handling conflict in a way that can strengthen a relationship.

Module Six: Self-Aware Breakups & Divorce: From Ambivalence to Clarity

• Helping Clients Make Decisions About Should I Stay or Should I Go?
• Not all relationships that end are failures. Alexandra will show you how to approach breakups and divorce with a variety of clients in different stages of life. You’ll walk away prepared to help clients answer the question, “should I stay or should I go?”

Module Seven: Self-Aware Recovery: From Rebounding to Ready

• Helping Clients Re-Enter Relationships after Breakups, Divorce, & Other Relationship Loss
• In this session, Alexandra guides you in how to help clients get ready for another relationship after breakup or divorce.

Module Eight: Self-Aware Cross-Cultural & Long-Distance Relationships: From Role to Soul

• Helping Clients’ with Relationships That Cross Cultural Differences & Geographic Distance
• In this final session, Alexandra will teach you how to effectively work with multi-cultural relationships and long-distance relationships so you can navigate the unique challenges of both of these situations.

About Alexandra H. Solomon

Alexandra H. Solomon, PhD, is staff clinical psychologist, member of the teaching faculty in the marriage and family therapy graduate program, and clinical assistant professor of psychology at The Family Institute at Northwestern University. In addition to her clinical work with couples and individuals, Solomon teaches graduate and undergraduate students. One of her courses is Northwestern University’s internationally renowned “Building Loving and Lasting Relationships: Marriage 101,” which combines traditional and experiential learning to educate students about key relational issues like intimacy, sex, conflict, acceptance, and forgiveness.

Solomon’s work has been widely cited, and her articles on love and marriage have appeared in The Handbook of Clinical Psychology, The Handbook of Couple Therapy, Family Process, Psychotherapy Networker, and other top publications in psychology. Her work also appears in O Magazine and The Huffington Post, and she is a frequent interviewee and contributor for the Oprah Winfrey Network, Yahoo! Health, The Atlantic, CBS Early Show, NPR, Psychology Today, and WGN Morning News. She is a sought-after speaker for corporate, collegiate, and professional audiences on topics related to modern love.

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