Requirements for Imago Clinical Relationship Therapist Certification
- Proof of license to practice psychotherapy if required by the state, province, or country
- Proof of membership in a recognized professional association.
- Insurance to practice, and/or whatever your legal requirements are in your country, province or state.
- Complete Imago Basic Clinical Training Level 1.
- Attend a Getting the Love You Want Workshop for couples OR a Keeping The Love You Want Workshop for individuals.
- Complete six months of supervision following the Level 1 class hours, presenting multiple recordings of your work with couples.
- Assist at a Getting the Love You Want Workshop.
- Submit a passing video of a full clinical session working with clients in a committed romantic relationship along with your written evaluation of your work.
Note: Cost for the requirements below vary depending on the state, province, or country.
Continuing Education Credits and Tuition: Imago Continuing Education is required every two years.
Requirements for Imago Professional Facilitator or Educator Certification
- Complete Imago Professional Facilitator Training Level 1.
- Attend a Getting the Love You Want Workshop for couples or a Keeping The Love You Want Workshop for individuals.
- Complete six project development meetings and a final project which demonstrates your skills as an Imago facilitator or Imago Educator.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- Learn the transformational Imago skills to facilitate connection with committed partners to move relationships into passionate, safe and intimacy.
- Learn the four relational lenses that will help you make sense of the attraction and conflict you see in a couple and will help you to guide the couple towards a more conscious relationship.
- Experience a revolutionary, safe, and empowering supervision process that will help you build confidence and competency in working with couples.
After this training, participants will be able to:
- Discuss childhood stages of development and wounding as well as resulting characterological adaptations in primary relationships.
- Discuss the concept of the Imago and the role it plays in partner selection and subsequent stages of adult relationships.
- Work with a couple’s resistance, flow with it and keep volatile couples in dialogue.
- Demonstrate dialogical skills to assist couples in restructuring conflict and frustration, resolving adult and childhood rage, bringing them into a healing relationship, and guiding them from unconscious to conscious relating (moving them from reactivity to intentionality).
- Demonstrate skills to assist couples in increasing validation and empathy and achieve a deeper level of commitment and intimacy.
- Focus on their own personal Characterological Growth and thus be more able to deepen client’s affect, getting them in touch with childhood pain, and thus helping them find healing in the adult intimate relationship.
- Empower couples to continue the work of healing after therapy is terminated.