RLT Training and Certifications
RLT Certification
Become an RLT certified therapist, secure a listing on our website, and benefit from our strong referral network. If you want to master the RLT approach, dive deep into the methodology, and cement your confidence with intensive practical experience, the RLT certification is for you.
Benefit from 70 hours of live, virtual training with our expert faculty in addition to 30 hours of video training direct from RLT creator Terry Real.
Special Topic Courses
We have an extensive range of short online courses to help professionals deepen their work with couples—from grandiose women to multi-generational trauma.
All special topic courses are open to all therapy practitioners, whether or not you are familiar with the Relational Life Therapy model.
Real Life: Continuous Education
Real Life is an online professional development community for couples therapists and practitioners to explore the RLT model more deeply, create connections, and build confidence.
We come together twice a month for 60-minute interactive calls to share case studies, ask questions, and learn from Terry Real and each other.
FAQs
Explore the most-asked questions about the RLT certification and trainings—from how to get listed on the website to how long it takes to complete.
What is Relational Life Therapy?
Discover the integrative approach to couples therapy created by distinguished therapist Terry Real that equips people with the lifelong skills to forge more authentic, honest, and intimate connections.
As human beings, we crave connection, community, and closeness. Yet, we’ve never lived in a world that’s been more disconnected or individualistic.
We’re in the midst of a disconnection epidemic: we yearn for meaningful relationships, but we don’t have the skills to realize them. At no time in history has it been more apparent that intimacy is life’s holy grail.
As therapists, we can help people forge the intimate connections they so deeply desire. We can bring deep relief, healing, and change to relationships that are “on the brink,” catapulting couples to new levels of closeness.
When you train in Relational Life Therapy (RLT), you’ll learn the cutting-edge tools to transform relationships, help individuals heal from long-held trauma, and equip them with the skills to live relational, fulfilling lives—accountability, vulnerability, empathy.
And you know what else? These skills can profoundly affect your own relationships, allowing you to enjoy deeper, richer interactions with your partner, family, and friends.
RLT is a powerful method that, once mastered, can transform your life both professionally and personally.
Shall we begin?
Cutting-edge tools to transform relationships
Transforming the Face
of Couples Therapy
Learn the lifelong skills to cultivate more authentic, honest, and intimate connections with Relational Life Therapy.
What Is Relational Life Therapy?
There’s a new way we can relate
Many people want to have great relationships, but society hasn’t taught them how. In a world that’s more disconnected than ever, we desperately need to shift into a relational, connection-building culture—and that starts in the therapy room.
Changing how we see ourselves in relation to our partner. It involves changing some fundamental aspects of our identity, even changing how we think of ourselves to begin with, but doing this is vital to creating meaningful connections with others.
Building deeper, more intimate connections with ourselves and others is at the heart of Relational Life Therapy. Created by renowned couples therapist Terry Real, this unique, integrative therapy can profoundly and permanently transform individuals by helping them forge fiercely intimate connections in their relationships. RLT educates as much as it heals to equip people with the lifelong tools to live fully-connected, fearlessly authentic lives.
RLT breaks many of the rules of traditional therapy to go deep quickly and help clients make rapid and significant changes. RLT therapists are real, open, and honest. We set the bar high for our clients. We expect rapid, dramatic change, and to a remarkable degree, we get it.
How RLT Works
Catapulting couples to new levels of closeness, trust, and solidarity
Using a range of powerful diagnostic and transformative tools, RLT helps people to first reconnect to themselves—their feelings, needs, and desires—to build a stronger, more intimate connection with their partner.
Step 1: Waking Up
RLT therapists use loving confrontation to wake clients up to their negative behaviors in a direct but compassionate way. We show clients the difficult truths about how they are harming their relationships in a way that builds trust rather than resistance.
Step 2: Healing & Transformation
Swiftly get to the root of negative behaviors, understand them, and overcome them. Unique to RLT, deep trauma and inner child work is done in the presence of the partner. This allows individuals to go deeper and couples to grow closer.
Step 3: Relational Skills For Life
RLT equips people with the powerful tools they need to continue building authentic, healthy relationships long after their time in therapy is over—the key to creating change that lasts.
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RLT Is Perfect For:
Therapists & Coaches Looking to Expand Their Offering
Learn how to work effectively with couples and utilize your clients’ relationships as a crucible for individual transformation.
Therapists & Coaches Looking to Expand Their Offering
Learn how to work effectively with couples and utilize your clients’ relationships as a crucible for individual transformation.
Therapists & Coaches Looking to Expand Their Offering
Learn how to work effectively with couples and utilize your clients’ relationships as a crucible for individual transformation.
Therapists & Coaches Looking to Expand Their Offering
Learn how to work effectively with couples and utilize your clients’ relationships as a crucible for individual transformation.
Therapists & Coaches Looking to Expand Their Offering
Learn how to work effectively with couples and utilize your clients’ relationships as a crucible for individual transformation.
What Our Graduates
Have To Say
“Before RLT I felt like something was missing as a therapist.
The things I was taught in school were not practical and I felt stuck in my practice. I’m so grateful for the experiences I have had with the RLT training. I now see relationships in a way that finally makes sense to me and I have more confidence working with couples because I have something that is realistic and I believe works and more importantly my clients are able to grasp and practice.”
-James C.
“Before RLT I felt like something was missing as a therapist.
The things I was taught in school were not practical and I felt stuck in my practice. I’m so grateful for the experiences I have had with the RLT training. I now see relationships in a way that finally makes sense to me and I have more confidence working with couples because I have something that is realistic and I believe works and more importantly my clients are able to grasp and practice.”
-James C.
“Before RLT I felt like something was missing as a therapist.
The things I was taught in school were not practical and I felt stuck in my practice. I’m so grateful for the experiences I have had with the RLT training. I now see relationships in a way that finally makes sense to me and I have more confidence working with couples because I have something that is realistic and I believe works and more importantly my clients are able to grasp and practice.”
-James C.
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