Couples Therapy Training for Mental Health Professionals

Whether you’re just starting out or looking to deepen your expertise, this 3-day immersive training will equip you with practical tools, a structured framework, and powerful insights to transform your couples work.

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What You Will Gain:

• A Comprehensive Assessment: Master a thorough assessment process to identify key relational dynamics, strengths, and areas for intervention.

• A Specific Roadmap: A clear structure and pathway to guide your sessions and coach couples across all stages of their relationship

• Powerful Language for Change: How to identify and name relational dynamics, vulnerabilities, and unhelpful behaviours that fuel negative cycles.

• Therapist Insight & Timing: Know when to shift from skills coaching to deeper therapeutic work addressing in-room dynamics to help couples defuse, develop insight and foster change.

• Evidence-Based, Holistic Approach: An understanding of the research and theory behind the MLYL System—drawing on traditional and positive psychology to reduce negative cycles and build lasting, protective patterns in relationships.

 

Why The MLYL System:

Rooted in evidence-based models including Attachment Theory, Schema Therapy, Family Systems, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, The Strengths-Model, Mindfulness and Positive Psychology, the MLYL System brings together the best of therapeutic science with practical tools you can use immediately in the therapy room.

 

Meet Your Trainers: 

Helen Robertson & Shahn Baker Sorekli — Clinical Psychologists, couples therapists, co-authors of The 8 Love Links, and creators of the My Love Your Love couples coaching app — are a dynamic team both in practice and in life. Married and deeply experienced, they bring warmth, wisdom, and practical insight to training.

• Helen is an Advanced Certified Schema Therapist and Supervisor

• Shahn has over 20 years of experience working with couples in a variety of therapeutic settings

• Both Helen and Shahn have worked in a variety of settings including public mental health services and private practice. 

 

Training Details:

Ready to elevate your couples therapy practice?

• 9am - 4.30pm.

• 25th, 26th, 27th March 2026

• $858 (inclusive of GST). Get the early bird rate of just $740 when you book before 1st January 2026.

• 3-day in-person training.

• Digital Intervention Booklet provided (includes everything needed for your roadmap to couples therapy) 

• Copy of the The 8 Love Links book included.

• 2 complimentary group supervision sessions post training

• Lunch and snacks provided.

• At Centred (373 Castlereagh Street Sydney) - a beautiful space in the heart of Sydney, just minutes from Central Station.

• Open to psychologists and mental health professionals of all levels of experience.

• 19.5 CPD hours.

 

Can’t make those dates? No problem! Just send us an email to let us know, and we’ll make sure you’re the first to hear about the next round of training.