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Emotion Regulation in the Context of Developmental Couple Therapy for Complex Trauma

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Includes a Live Web Event on 02/04/2026 at 2:00 PM (EST)

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Presented in collaboration with the Canadian Register of Health Service Psychologists

Couples come into therapy to address challenges and conflicts in their relationships. Underlying these challenges and conflicts, deficits in emotion regulation capacities are often present. For many couples, engaging in the day to day navigation of couple life becomes painful and distressing in part due to struggles to regulate overwhelming and intolerable emotions that interfere with their ability to work through and resolve conflicts. These are more exaggerated and severe for trauma impacted couples. Developmental Couple Therapy for Complex Trauma (DCTCT) is an evidence based approach to couple therapy for trauma impacted couples that places emphasis on the development of emotion regulation capacities as one avenue for the resolution of relationship distress. Participation in this workshop participants will have the opportunity to gain a greater understanding of the role of emotion regulation difficulties in the development and maintenance of couple distress and how focus on building emotion regulation capacities can help couples benefit from the therapeutic process and grow into a couple that can engage in the normal challenges and conflicts of daily relational life with flexibility, creativity, and resilience.

Upcoming webinars are offered live ("Live Webinar" course component) and archived ("Archived Webinar" course component) for CE.

Continuing Education Information

1 CE Credit, Instructional Level: Intermediate

1 Contact Hour (New York Board of Psychology)

Disclosures: Presenter has no conflicts of interest to disclose. Generative AI was not used for the development or content of this presentation.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Develop an understanding of emotion regulation, causes and impacts of emotion regulation deficits, and the role of emotion regulation and dysregulation in the development and maintenance of couple distress.
  2. Build beginning competency in the psychoeducation and skills building stages of Developmental Couple Therapy for Complex Trauma in relation to Emotion Regulation

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The National Register of Health Service Psychologists is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0010

Heather B. MacIntosh, PhD, C.Psych.

Heather B. MacIntosh, PhD, C.Psych., is a clinical psychologist, Associate Professor, and Director of the Couple and Family Therapy Clinic at McGill University where she is the recipient of the H. Noel Fieldhouse Award for Distinguished Teaching. Dr. MacIntosh is author of the recently released book: Healing Broken Bonds: A couples workbook for complex trauma and Developmental Couple Therapy for Complex Trauma: a Manual for Therapists from Routledge Press. She leads an actively funded research programme examining the impact of early life trauma on the process and outcome of couple therapy. She is the author of over 60 peer reviewed journal articles and book chapters in the intersecting fields of psychoanalysis, couple therapy, and trauma. Dr MacIntosh lives and works on land of the Crawford Purchase Mohawk territory “purchased” for settlement by United Empire Loyalists at the end of the American Revolutionary War. MerryMac Farm is in Eastern Ontario, Canada, where she strives to live with the land in peace, and to bring healing through therapy offered in relation with her Icelandic horses, three Ojibwe Spirit Ponies, and a cadre of other creatures who bring joy, hilarity, and love to life.

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