Please join us to explore this important topic with Martha Edwards, PhD, from the Ackerman Institute for the Family.

Close relationships are challenging. In families with young children, the coparenting couple provides the foundation for their development. At the same time, children can both add to the joy of coupling as well as create greater stress. This workshop is a primer on how to work with the couple relationship in the context of working with children and families. In it we will: (1) look at what makes partners unhappy in their relationships and the sources of conflict and disconnection; (2) explain how couples can strengthen their bond to be able to weather the inevitable storms of life and love; and (3) describe and illustrate therapeutic techniques for guiding couples into a more satisfying way of being together.

Participants of this webinar will be able to:

• Articulate the three needs that can also become the hidden agendas of couple relationships and underlying conflict
• Guide couples in a process of communication
• Map the vulnerability cycle that underlies couple conflict
• Distinguish between primary (core) and secondary (defensive) emotion

This webinar is for all of those working in the perinatal period as well as children birth to 5 and their families.

Date & Time

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM ET

Thursday, April 16, 2026