Introducing my new book:
The Hesitant Couples Therapist: How to Overcome Your Fear and Treat Couples
Are you a relatively new therapist afraid to see couples? Are you a more seasoned therapist who has had a bad experience working with couples? Are you unsure about doing couples counseling by telehealth? You may already be a “Marriage and Family Therapist” yet feel unprepared to do anything other than individual psychotherapy. Are you afraid of conflict even in your own relationship? Do you wish you had the courage and tools to get over your fear and give it a try? You may be a supervisor struggling to help a new therapist work with couples.
If you answered yes to any of these questions, this book could help you from the inside out, to transform your fears into action and make the leap into becoming an effective couples counselor.
Book Description
Many therapists feel drawn to couples work but are also intimidated by it. The Hesitant Couples Therapist: How to Overcome Your Fear and Treat Couples is written for clinicians who want to help couples but fear the conflict, intensity, and complexity inherent in relational therapy. Drawing on clinical experience, Kathleen Haley, MFT gently but directly addresses the fears that keep therapists from seeing couples and offers a clear, practical roadmap for developing confidence, competence, and sustainability in couples counseling.
Blending clinical wisdom, real-world business guidance, and heartfelt encouragement, this book walks readers through choosing a model of couples therapy, therapist self-regulation, core interventions, ethics, telehealth, burnout prevention, diversity and building a financially viable practice.
Kathleen weaves in personal experience growing up with her father, the family therapist Jay Haley. With warmth, honesty, and respect this book invites therapists to take the leap into couples work, one step at a time, and become the kind of couples counselor the world needs now.
