2026 Working with Couples
A Gestalt Therapy Approach
Online
This workshop is designed for counsellors, psychologists, Gestalt therapists, Art therapists, Play therapists, and Social workers who work with couples or wish to deepen their skills in relationship-focused practice.
Working with Couples – A Gestalt Therapy Approach- Online Workshop
Working with couples can be complex, challenging, and deeply meaningful.
This online workshop offers a Gestalt Therapy perspective on couple work, supporting practitioners to deepen their understanding of relationship dynamics, conflict, intimacy, and contact. We will explore the relationship as a living system, where two individuals meet, differ, and co-create meaning together.
The workshop is suitable for practitioners supporting couples across different life stages, cultures, family structures, and relational configurations. This includes couples with children, blended families, and diverse sexual and gender identities.
It is ideal for counsellors, therapists, psychologists, and mental health professionals who are already working with couples, as well as those beginning to integrate Gestalt principles into their clinical practice.
Join us for a reflective and experiential space to expand your confidence, awareness, and skills in working with couples.
If you cannot attend live, you can register to receive the recording.
Registrants can obtain their CPD /OPD hours (non-endorsed activities)
Your Association - CPD Hours
AASW CPD hours
ACA OPD hours
PACFA CPD hours
Day: April 18th
Time: 4 pm to 6 pm (Brisbane- Australian time) AEST- Australian Eastern Standard Time. UTC/GMT +10 hours
Objectives of the workshop:
Develop a clear Gestalt Therapy framework for understanding couple relationships as dynamic systems rather than individual problems
Support practitioners to work with differences in couples, including gender, age, culture, life stage, parenting, blended families, and personal dreams, without pathologising diversity
Strengthen the ability to recognise and work with conflict as a form of contact, using awareness rather than control or avoidance
Introduce the two trains metaphor as a clinical and educational tool to support differentiation, autonomy, and connection in couple work
Enhance practitioners’ capacity to identify where couples become blocked within the Cycle of Experience and to intervene with clarity and presence
Build confidence in working with polarities, contact and withdrawal, and the paradoxical theory of change in couple dynamics
Support ethical and grounded exploration of sexuality as a relational language of connection, difference, and vulnerability
Equip participants with practical strategies to help couples develop self-support, take responsibility, and create healthier patterns of communication and repair
The Inner Couple/Partner Introyect
The Inner Couple refers to the internalised relational archetypes we all carry within us, shaped by early experiences with parents and caregivers, cultural norms, social expectations, religion, media, and romantic narratives from films and stories. These inner figures influence how we love, argue, desire, withdraw, and attach, often operating outside conscious awareness. Conflict arises when our inner partner does not match the stereotypes or expectations we have absorbed about how a partner should be, how love should look, or how relationships are meant to function. In such moments, tension is not only between two people, but between lived relational experience and inherited ideals.
From a Gestalt perspective, working with the Inner Couple invites awareness of these internalised images, allowing individuals and couples to differentiate what truly belongs to them from what was learned, projected, or idealised, opening space for more authentic contact and choice in relationship.
Cost:
Members of the Gestalt Art Therapy Center
Participation: $150Aud
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General participants
Participation: $210Aud
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Workshop REGISTRATION HERE
► This workshop will be recorded, allowing participants who cannot attend due to time zone differences to access the content later. By participating in this workshop, you agree to these conditions.
If you need a Certificate of Participation for CPD purposes but cannot attend the live event, you are still eligible for the certificate. To qualify, you must watch the recording, complete the proposed activities, send us a picture of your creations, and complete a feedback form.
We are not registered for GST.
Zoom (After registration and payment, you will receive the Zoom link )
System:
System and Materials you will need for the workshop participation:
- Internet connection
- Having installed the Zoom program (Download here)
- PC, Laptop, Tablet with webcam & audio
- Paper to write
- Felt pens, or other colored pens that you like
Workshop only for adults.
More information:
Gestaltarttherapycentre@gmail.com
Online Workshops
Please note that if we do not have the minimum number of participants on the day of the workshop, the live workshop will not proceed.
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If the minimum number of live participants is not reached, the organisers reserve the right to postpone or cancel the event. In this case, all payments will be fully refunded. Please note that PayPal commissions are not refundable.
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Please note that this workshop will be recorded. By registering and attending, you agree to be recorded and waive any future claims regarding the use and distribution of the video. The recording will be made available to current and future registered participants.
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