CE Workshop with Carmen Knudson-Martin, PhD, LMFT
Online via Zoom Video

Lisa Kays PLLC invites you to attend this course, which explores what happens as societal context, power, and emotion converge in couple therapy. Participants will be introduced to Socio-Emotional Relationship Therapy (SERT), an approach that centers relational justice as an important component of ethical, culturally competent clinical practice and challenges implicit bias and inequities related to societal power positions and a culture that privileges individuality at the expense of relationships. The presenter will use video examples to illustrate the three phases of the SERT clinical sequence: (1) position therapy toward relationality, equity, and mutual support, (2) create relational safety by interrupting the flow of power, and (3) embody relational practices that transform destructive power imbalances and create relational possibilities based on equity and mutual support. Participants will consider SERT as a comprehensive approach, while also learning practical strategies to incorporate issues about gender, culture, power, and intersectionality into other approaches to therapy.