Terry Real is an internationally recognized Family Therapist and Author and founder of the Relational Life Institute (RLI), offering workshops for couples, individuals and parents around the country along with a professional training program for clinicians wanting to learn his RLT (Relational Life Therapy) methodology.

A senior faculty member of the Family Institute of Cambridge in Massachusetts and a retired Clinical Fellow of the Meadows Institute in Arizona, Terry has worked with thousands of individuals, couples, and fellow therapists. Terry has been featured on Good Morning America, the Today show and ABC News, New York Times and Oprah.

In this session, you will find out about:

• His philosophy of couples therapy and his methodology of Relationship Life Therapy and relationship empowerment.
• How he uses his methodology of ‘joining through the truth’.
• Why not all couples have a 50:50 split in terms of the distribution of responsibility towards the unhelpful dynamic.
• His unique approach to using ‘time outs’ with couples.
• How he deals with angry hostile couples to de-escalate aggression.
• How he uses concepts of the ‘latent’ and ‘blatant’ to understand difficult couple dynamics.
• Resources he recommends for therapists wanting to learn more about his approach to couples therapy.

As an added bonus, Terry has also shared his latest article that was featured in a recent edition of The Psychotherapy Networker magazine recently called: Joining Through the Truth in the show notes.