• Through concentrated, supervised experiential and precisely-focused video learning you will hone clinical skills evidenced for their effectiveness in such work.
  • You will understand the context of racism in which the lives of intercultural couples are embedded and get a clear framing of how to keep culture, race, ethnicity, class, gender, et al differences at the front and centre of your therapeutic work.
  • You will learn to think within a paradigm-shifting
    way: you will integrate systemic with CBT thinking to gain a new perspective in how to intervene.
  • This course coheres Janet Reibstein and Hannah Sherbersky’s Exeter Model for couples work with Reenee Singh’s work on differences in in culture, ethnicity, and race within families and couples toward a model for how to work effectively and productively with couples with such differences.
  • Reibstein and Singh’s book, The Intercultural Exeter Couples Model : Making connections for a divided world through systemic-behavioural therapy (Wiley, 2020) forms the basis of the training. Each participant receives and works with the book as part of the course.

This a four-day intensive training course in an innovative evidence-based methodology, for working most effectively with couples who have cultural, racial, ethnic and/or class differences.

Janet Reibstein is Professor Emerita in the School of Psychology at the University of Exeter, an internationally known commentator and broadcaster, and author of seven books and numerous scholarly and clinical publications, as well as of various programmes in use in the UK court system for couples undergoing separation and divorce. She is a faculty member of the Child and Family Practice, London, and an associate director of the London Intercultural Couples Centre.

Reenee Singh is a Consultant Family and Systemic Psychotherapist, currently working at the Child and Family Practice in London, where she is a Director, and founding co-director of the London Intercultural Couple Centre. Reenee was the past Editor of the Journal of Family Therapy and past CEO of the Association of Family Therapy. She is author of four books and numerous academic articles. Reenee presents her work at national and international conferences and teaches all over the world.

“This was a great example of how to integrate the discussion on the cultural perspective with a CBT technique. Thank you, Janet and Reenee.”

Testimonial from Webinar at the Ackerman institute in New York

“This is an exciting development as the use of a cultural lens is very much one of the key tenets within systemic family therapy. Seeing how Janet and Reenee weave this into their work with such purpose and therapeutic prowess is very helpful for our field.”

Testimonial from AFT webinar