Special courses

Special Topic Courses for Therapists

Explore Terry Real’s online courses to deepen your understanding and work in specific areas—from sex and power to multi-generational trauma.

Each of these courses is open to all therapy practitioners, whether or not they are familiar with the Relational Life Therapy model.

Therapists looking to certify in RLT, must complete The Relational Brain and two other special topic courses of their choice.

Working with Infidelity

A 5-session live training on how to work with couples to help them come back from infidelity. This offers the unique RLT perspective on working with infidelity, where not only do we help couples survive an affair, but we focus on using the crisis as an opportunity for deeper change in the relationship.

Relational Parenting: Working Like a Team To Raise Connected Children

Learn how to set limits with compassion, effectively build your child’s self-esteem, and form a robust parental team in this 5-module online course from leading family therapist Terry Real.

Love, Sex & Power

Learn to tackle the increasingly complicated waters of sex, passion, and intimacy with your clients with grace, knowledge, and authority in this 5-module pre-recorded training.

Multi-generational Trauma (Elective)

A pre-recorded training to teach therapists how to develop the skills to help clients break the cycle of trauma that is passed on from generation to generation.

Working with Men (Elective)

A five-week online training to teach therapists the Relational Life approach to engaging and transforming the most challenging men who come into the therapy room.

Grandiose Women, Shut Down Men

A five-module course to teach therapists how to use the RLT principles to work with some of the most challenging situations in relationship therapy, including grandiose women and shut down men.