Upcoming Gottman Level 1 | Professional Training | Thousand Oaks, CA
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Gottman Level 1 Professional Training
August 15, 2025 - August 16, 2025
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Best Western Plus Thousand Oaks Inn
A truly inspiring workshop, Level 1 Training will give you new insights into treatment for couples who struggle, using proven assessment techniques and intervention strategies
Our practical, emotion-focused, and highly effective approach is based on Drs. John and Julie Gottman’s four decades of research with more than 3,000 couples. It is the most extensive study ever done on marital stability and divorce prediction.
Created by The Gottman Institute | For Professionals | Clinical Training
Training Description
Frequently Asked Questions
You will learn research-based strategies and tools to help couples successfully manage conflict.
You will gain skills to empower partners to dialogue about their worst gridlocked issues by uncovering their underlying dreams, history, and values.
You will gain tools to help couples process fights and heal their hurts, and techniques for partners to deepen their intimacy and minimize relapse.
This training is for mental health providers, allied professionals and clergy, students and interns, family clinic staff, professors/teachers of couples therapy, researchers in the social sciences, and employee assistance professionals. There are no prerequisites.
Included in the registration price is a clinical training manual, which contains the core Gottman Method Couples Therapy assessments and interventions. You will be awarded a Certificate of Completion with an assessment score of 80% or better from The Gottman Institute.
- 300-page digital Level 1 Clinical Training Manual
- Gottman Method Couples Therapy Level 1 Training Certificate of Completion.
- Up to 11 CE Hours available
- Videos for online lectures and interventions included
- Eligibility to continue to Level 2 Training
Training Objectives
At the completion of this training, you will be able to:
- Summarize the research that allows us to predict future relationship stability.
- Describe the seven levels of the Sound Relationship House Theory.
- Conduct a couple’s therapy assessment using elements of the couple’s narrative, the Oral History Interview, written questionnaires, observations of conflict and individual interviews.
- Describe two interventions to help strengthen a couple’s conflict management.
- Describe two interventions to enhance a couple’s friendship system.
- Describe two interventions to explore a couple’s system of shared meaning.
- Explain why physiological self-soothing is essential for a healthy relationship.
- Create a therapeutic contract with a couple, discuss and decide on goals and include a summary of the couples strengths and areas that need improvement.
- Describe the Philosophy of Therapy and including assumptions, overview of techniques and goals of therapy.
- Describe the Rapoport Intervention and when to use it.
- Describe the process of therapy, including the structure of a session.
Help Couples In Distress
Flexible Study
Format
Training Reviews
More than 50,000 clinicians worldwide have completed Level 1 Training in Gottman Method Couples Therapy. Here’s what some of them have said about the training.
Caralee Frederic, LCSW
Your Presenter
Caralee Frederic, LCSW
- Certified Gottman Couples Therapist & Presenter
- Advanced Gottman Trainer for L1, L2 and L3
- Certified Clinical Trauma Professional
- Founder of Principle Skills Relationship Center
- 20+ Years of Therapy & Counseling Experience
- Master's Degree in Social Work
- Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Discount Eligibility
Student discount: For students and instructors of related health fields. Must show ID at the door.
Military discount: For active-duty, reservists, retirees, veterans, and first-responders. Must show ID at the door.
Information
Bonus Offer:
Bonus Offer:
$200 Credit to Attend Couples Workshop With Your Partner
Venue
Venue: Best Western Plus Thousand Oaks Inn
Venue Phone: (805) 497-3701
Venue Website: https://www.bestwestern.com/en_US/book/hotels-in-thousand-oaks/best-western-plus-thousand-oaks-inn/propertyCode.05651.html
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Description:
Discover this historic full-service Thousand Oaks, California hotel nestled at the base of the Santa Monica Mountains with convenient access to Malibu, California Lutheran University, Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza and Ronald Reagan Library. The friendly, accommodating, and caring staff at the Best Western Plus Thousand Oaks Inn are here to welcome you to the Conejo Valley as our friend, our family, our Ohana. The relationships we build with you and our community are vital in providing a home when you travel, because we believe you are not just staying at a hotel, but you are staying with us.
Know Before You Go
Free onsite parking & hot breakfast, in the heart of Thousand Oaks.
$30 per day incidental deposit is required on arrival and $150 deposit for all suites, along with photo ID and credit card. Any person booking 10 or more rooms must book through Group Sales. The individual reservations will be subject to cancellation
