Imago Clinical Training

The trainee will work with couples in a clinical setting and be qualified and allowed by law to to clinical work depending on the state, province, or country of their residence.

• Agreement signed with Imago International Training Institute (IITI) regarding training materials, logo, advertising, and titles.
• Application
  • CV or resume
  • Copy of malpractice insurance and license or authorization to do clinical work with couples

• Learn the Imago dialogue skills and processes that create connection, safety, and transformation in intimate, committed relationships
• Learn the four theories that provide insight into attraction, conflict and change in relational dynamics
• This training will help you as a therapist gain practical clinical skills
• Experience Imago’s safe supervision process to increase your clinical competency and confidence in working with couples
• Learn about your own family and romantic relationship dynamics

• Name the four stages of a relationship
• Be effective at facilitating the dialogue steps of mirroring, validation and empathy
• Demonstrate the skills and processes to work with reactivity
• Discuss that relational impact of developmental stages, unmet needs and character adaptations
• Explain the role of neurobiology in conflict and connection
• Discuss how lost, denied and shadowed parts of the self impact attraction, partner selection and conflict
• Discuss the role of the “Imago match” in attraction, partner selection, and conflict
• Use tools to manage our own reactivity and challenging feelings that arise when working with couples
• Apply Imago theory and the concepts above to your personal journey in relationships