Successful Couples Communication: Why the 'How' and 'What' Matter
The purpose of this webinar is to highlight the significance and effect that language, tone, body language, and your reactions to your partner can have on the emotional safety of the relationship. When you have emotional safety, you have trust, and when you have trust, you can be your truest authentic self, without defensiveness, or hidden agendas.
Learning Objectives
- Self Awareness and Reflection - Am I listening to what my partner is saying? Have I clarified it? Or am I placing my own judgment on their request, statement or suggestion? Have I taken this personally?
- Why Defensiveness is a relationship killer.
- Have I validated my Partner? Did I make them feel heard? Did I empathize with them?
- Why tone matters.
- How body language can feed emotional safety (especially if intimacy is not reciprocated in the moment).
- Empathy- Am I able to show my partner that while I may not fully understand their position, I can try to imagine what it could be like in their shoes.
This webinar is not eligible for continuing education hours.
About Instructor
Jenny Moss is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who takes a humanistic approach to her sessions: the belief that all beings are innately good and possess the capacity to create the life they wish to lead. She works with individual clients ages 6-100 years old, as well as couples and families. She specializes in the treatment of anxiety disorders, depression, as well as couples counseling. Other common areas of treatment include low self-esteem and self-doubt, school and work stress, life transitions, identity concerns, and interpersonal struggles.
By utilizing her skills in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), Imago, Narrative Therapy, Family Systems, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Jenny helps clients find immediate symptom relief while also helping them gain insight into how past experiences have shaped their present identities and situations. In addition, she helps clients break down negative narratives and replace them with more adaptive mindsets so they can move toward self-actualization. Jenny holds a Bachelor of Arts in Health and Wellness from Farmingdale State College where she was on the President’s List and inducted into the Social Justice Scholar Academy, and a Master of Arts degree in Marriage and Family Therapy from Hofstra University.
