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Expert Training For Relationship Professionals from Leading Therapist Terry Real

Master the Powerful Method to Effectively Work With Couples and Transform Relationships

Discover the Powerful Method to Effectively Work With Couples and Transform Relationships

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  • Quickly identify your clients’ adaptive behaviors & how they affect their relationships.
  • Expertly conduct inner child work to help heal your client’s relational trauma wounds.
  • Teach people powerful relational skills so they can better relate to others.
  • Work with both shame & grandiosity to help people cultivate healthy self-esteem.
  • Shift clients into a collaborative mindset so they can build meaningful relationships.
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What is Relational Life Therapy (RLT)?

Get fresh perspectives and interventions for your couples therapy sessions as you observe Terry Real and Desirae Ysasi work LIVE and in-depth with one couple using Relational Life Therapy.

RLT equips couples therapists and relationship professionals with the powerful tools to elegantly and confidently guide your clients into authentic connection—with themselves, others, and the planet as a whole.

Developed by master couples and family therapist Terry Real, RLT incorporates perspectives and skills from systems therapy, feminist therapy, and coaching, together with current evidence-based modalities, to provide practitioners with an innovative approach to couples work and relationship transformation that breaks many of the rules of traditional therapy.

Where is RLT most effective?

When you train in RLT, you’ll learn to use the model with your clients to support their relational healing. This may be helping them improve their relationship with themselves, their partner, or other areas where relationships are experiencing difficulty, such as with family, friends, or coworkers.

Areas where RLT is especially powerful include:

Couples therapy
Couples therapyRLT takes a radical approach to couples therapy to restore power imbalances and build empathy between partners by conducting inner child work within the couples context, before empowering partners with the skills to embrace an entirely new way of relating.
Inner child healing
Inner child healingRLT supports individuals to heal their relationship with the different parts of themselves. Deep inner child work helps people understand their attachment styles and adaptive behaviors so they can improve their relationships with others.
Building healthy self-esteem
Building healthy self-esteemRLT’s unique take on self-esteem works with both issues of shame and over-confidence (grandiosity) to teach clients how to cultivate a sense of internal worth, not better or less than anyone else.
Coaching
CoachingRLT equips clients with the lifelong relational skills they need to build and sustain healthier, more joyful relationships in every area of their lives.

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“I found my home in RLT…

I've done all kinds of trainings over the years but never found a model that truly fit for me. I had become "eclectic" in my approach, never really mastering any one approach. I longed for a model that encouraged me to myself—open, authentic, and most importantly, effective. I found my home in RLT.

My practice was already very successful, but since RLT certification, it's skyrocketed. I had to close my practice to new clients. It's also allowed me to be more selective about the clients that I work with. And I'm re-energized by the work: I used to be worn out working with couples, but now I love it. Success and making a difference is a powerful antidote to burnout!”
Sig TaylorMSW, RSW, RMFT

“The practical and positive approach of RLT has helped my clients see change almost immediately…

By weaving past trauma and its impact on relationships and by building new skills together, my clients have expressed new deep and meaningful connections. RLT is not just a training program, it is a community that works in unity to offer ongoing support to therapists as well as clients.”
Clare MézesMSc, RP, Toronto, Canada

“I have seen clients that have been stuck for years/decades begin to show growth…

The gift of RLT work for the therapist is that you cannot provide this work for your clients without diving into yourself and one’s own personal growth. Which then trickles (or is a waterfall) into our own personal life and relationships that gives me permission to grow, hold myself accountable, see my children’s actions and perspectives change while we all challenge to love ourselves at the same time. On a professional level, I have seen clients that have been stuck for years/decades begin to show growth and move towards their authentic self with pride, dignity and confidence that they’ve never experienced before. Life Changing….”
Stephanie LottMA, LMFT, California
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Who Is Terry Real?

Terry Real, creator of Relational Life Therapy

Terry Real, LICSW, is an internationally recognized family therapist, New York Times bestselling author, and sought-after speaker. 

A former senior faculty member of the Family Institute of Cambridge in Massachusetts and a retired Clinical Fellow of the Meadows Institute in Arizona, Terry is renowned for his ability to save couples on the brink of divorce using the progressive approach he created, Relational Life Therapy. RLT equips people with the powerful relational skills they need to cultivate meaningful connections—to themselves, each other, and the planet as a whole.

Via his esteemed training school, the Relational Life Institute, Terry has trained thousands of relationship professionals in his RLT method to date. His original insights on couples therapy, relationships, and men’s issues have been featured in outlets from Psychotherapy Networker and Forbes to The Today Show and The New York Times.

Esther Perel, psychotherapist and New York Times bestselling author

“When I need advice, I call Terry Real. His decades of clinical experience, research, and wisdom are invaluable to my patients, colleagues, and friends.”

Richard  C. Schwartz, Founder of Internal Family Systems

“Terry helps reawaken couples who seem trapped in a long-term stalemate and allows them to move toward growth and fuller Selfhood.”

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