Couples & Addiction Recovery Training

When:  Oct 18, 2022 from 09:00 to 16:30 (ET)

In an Australian-first, Dr Robert Navarra is partnering with The Relationship Therapy Centre to run his Couples & Addiction Recovery Training face-to-face in the classroom in Sydney. This is a not to be missed event!

Couples and Addiction Recovery is a ground-breaking new training for therapists, counsellors, and professionals. While current models for treating couples impacted by addiction discourage any type of relational approach in early recovery, couples need help sooner rather than later. It’s time to change how we treat couples in recovery.

This course is for anyone working with couples struggling with addiction as well as couples in recovery from alcohol, drugs, and/or behavioural addictions. It draws from the fields of addiction treatment, mental health, and couples counselling, and integrates current research findings with knowledge from clinical practice.

It combines more than a decade of research by Dr Robert Navarra with the Sound Relationship House model, developed by Drs John and Julie Gottman. 

This training provides interventions and tools for a relational approach to healing that addresses three different but overlapping recoveries: the person with the addictive disorder, the partner, and their relationship.

You will learn a research-based approach to help couples:

  • Identify addiction
  • Break through denial
  • Navigate the challenging road from active addiction to recovery
  • Improve conflict management skills
  • Learn the difference between “codependency” and “interdependency” and how to identify and set appropriate boundaries
  • Develop a relationship recovery, while supporting their partner’s recovery and strengthening their own individual recovery
  • Heal from the aftermath of addiction
  • Move toward wellness as individuals and as a couple​


Presented by Robert Navarra, PsyD, LMFT, MAC

Dr Navarra has worked in addiction recovery for over 25 years. He holds an Advanced Drug and Alcohol Certification and a national certification as a Master Addiction Counsellor through the Association of Addiction Professionals (NAADAC).

Dr Navarra is very well known as a key figure at The Gottman Institute and has put together this Couples & Addiction Recovery 1-Day workshop in collaboration with Drs John & Julie Gottman. Dr Navarra was also instrumental in developing the official Level 2 Gottman Training, by writing and designing the addiction & co-morbidities module. 

Dr Navarra is a popular presenter at national conferences, has trained therapists nationally and internationally on treating couples in recovery and has co-authored numerous articles and chapters with Drs John and Julie Gottman.

You will receive:

  • Full day of training delivered by Dr Bob Navarra with Q&A
  • 6 CPD points
  • 186 page Couples and Addiction Recovery Manual which includes:
    • Thorough assessment protocol 
    • 14 ready-to-use interventions for couples, exclusive to this training
  • Access to live and online peer-supervision groups within Australia with fellow participants

 
Cost:
Early bird discount pay only $290 +GST.
Full fee $390 +GST

Location

Johnson Hall, The Crows Nest Centre
2 Ernest Place
CROWS NEST, NSW 2065