Professional development opportunities online
Healing the Space Between: Relational Work with Couples and Families
6 days of training from April to June 2026
2:30 pm to 8:00 pm Pacific Time
Online via Zoom
Healing the Space Between: Relational Work with Couples and Families
With Kate Gomboc, MA, CCC, Assisted by Jennifer Nagel, MA, RCC-ACS
Healing the Space Between is an experiential professional development program designed for helping professionals seeking greater confidence and effectiveness in couples and family work. Grounded in systemic and relational practice, this six-day online course offers a structured yet flexible approach to working with the “space between” people—where meaning, connection, and change emerge.
Participants will develop practical skills for working with both moderate and high-acuity couples and families, including assessment of relational patterns, use of Satir’s coping stances, and discerning when to listen, interrupt, reframe, or teach skills. The program explores change focus and change meaning techniques, immediacy, reframing with attention to nobility and impact, rituals for connection, decoding language through the Personal Iceberg, and supporting relapse recovery.
Through experiential learning, discussion, and skills practice, participants strengthen their ability to target growth areas within systems, facilitate honest conversations, and anchor both themselves and their clients in internal resources. Emphasis is placed on shifting therapeutic focus from pathology to possibility while increasing clarity, confidence, and clinical presence.
This program is open to counsellors, therapists, and professionals in the helping fields who are interested in deepening relational dialogue and supporting meaningful, sustainable change in couples and families. Sponsored by the Satir Institute of the Pacific
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