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Virginia Association for Marriage and family therapy

The Relationship Experts


Upcoming events

  • Treating Trauma Relationally

    • 7 Feb 2025
    • 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
    • https://radford.zoom.us/j/99248793220
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    As a couples therapist, relational and complex trauma will inevitably show up in our therapy room. Perhaps historically we believed this trauma work would be best treated individually or hoped that individual therapy would ensure relational healing. However, what we know now is that relational trauma requires relational healing.

    This training provides clinicians with a framework and tools to address trauma within the context of couples therapy. When providers can gain an understanding of how trauma- including childhood trauma or relational betrayals- affects couples, they are more prepared to address the underlying issues instead of getting stuck treating symptoms. In this training, we will integrate trauma-informed practices, attachment theory, and evidence-based therapeutic interventions to help couples heal together.

    Learning Objectives:

    1. View the couple's dynamic through a trauma informed lens.
    2. Utilize trauma informed history taking to create solid case conceptualization.
    3. Develop interventions to increase a couple's window of tolerance and access to relational resources to improve couples therapy outcomes


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  • Ethics Training

    • 16 May 2025
    • 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
    • https://radford.zoom.us/j/97782051100
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    Learning Objectives:

    1. Review the specific ethical responsibilities of marriage and family therapists to ensure the welfare of clients, professional behavior, and the profession as they relate to seeing multiple members of a system
    2. Identify at least 3 common ethical challenges faced by marriage and family therapists when seeing multiple members of a system.
    3. Describe the challenges and importance of boundary management as an ethical issue
    4. Compare at least 2 ethical decision-making models
    5. Apply the steps of an ethical decision-making model to sample scenarios
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Welcome to the Virginia Association for Marriage and Family Therapy web site. We want this to be a place where marriage and family therapists and others seeking help with their relationships or who are professionals who work from a systemic perspective can find tools, information, and help. 

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