Esther Perel – Couples in Quarantine: Staying Together Apart

Description Of Couples in Quarantine: Staying Together Apart

Esther Perel, MA, LMFT, will discuss what her experience has been working with couples since the quarantine times have begun. Perel will discuss the conversations she is having in supervision and with her clients. Perel will discuss what forms of therapy she has found to be effective, especially during times of crisis and disaster.

What you’ll learn in Couples in Quarantine: Staying Together Apart

Objectives

1. Develop an understanding of Systemic Family Therapy and Contextual Couples Therapy and how they apply to the current climate of world and couples during these times.
2. Develop an understanding of families in crisis during a disaster and the impacts (negative and positive) this can have on relationships.

Outline

Systemic Family Therapy

• Stimuli
• Pulls within relationships

Differences in couple relationships

• Complimentary
• Polarization
• Differences = strengths

Contextual Couples Therapy

• Impacts on where relationships are at
• Impact of morals
• Impacts of heightened stress

Parenting

• Our own childhood experiences
• Adult children

Virtual Space

• How to connect
• Affordable
• Podcasts

Relationships

• Intimate
• Work

Types of family responses

• Catastrophic
• Difficult but optimistic
• Manageable
• Small compared to previous disaster

Continuity Principle

• Role continuity
• Relational continuity
• Historical continuity

Who is Course for

• Psychologists
• Physicians
• Addiction Counselors
• Counselors
• Social Workers
• Marriage & Family Therapists
• Nurses

About Esther Perel

Esther Perel is a Belgian psychotherapist of Polish-Jewish descent who has explored the tension between the need for security (love, belonging, and closeness) and the need for freedom (erotic desire, adventure, and distance) in human relationships.

Perel promoted the concept of “erotic intelligence” in her book Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence, which has been translated into 24 languages. After publishing the book, she became an international advisor on sex and relationships. She gave a TED talk in February 2013 called “The secret to desire in a long-term relationship,” and another in March 2015 called “Rethinking infidelity… a talk for anyone who has ever loved.”

Perel is the host of the podcast “Where Should We Begin?”, which is based inside her therapist’s office as she sees anonymous couples in search of insight into topics such as infidelity, sexlessness and grief.

Speaker Disclosures:

Financial: Esther maintains a private practice. She has employment relationships with Columbia University, Ackerman Institute for the Family, Norwegian Institute for the Expressive Arts Therapies, and 92nd Street Y. She receives royalties as a published author. Esther receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.

Non-financial: Esther is a member of the American Family Therapy Academy and the American Association for Sex Educators, Counselors and Therapists.

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