Program Description:

When one partner in a marriage is emotionally unavailable or distant, their mate exists in a world of loneliness and disappointment, desperately looking to therapists to fix the problem.  Traditional therapy based on talking about feelings is an ineffective intervention for emotionally-suppressed clients who are unable to identify or disclose emotions during the therapy session.  Treating emotionally distant marriages typically results in an unsuccessful therapeutic outcome with the unemotional mate dropping out of treatment.  This can leave the therapist in the frustrating position of coping with the spouse who feels helpless and believes therapy has failed.   Treating marriages where one partner is emotionally distant can be one of the most challenging hurdles therapists face -- until now.

Craig A. Miller, MSW, CSW, ACSW, therapist and author, shares his systematic approach and the latest medicinal remedies to successfully treat couples in emotionally distant relationships by making drastic changes in how each mate emotionally and physically relate to restore the love, respect, and fulfillment for both partners. 

Seminar participants will learn how to:

1. Recognize characteristics of an unemotional and codependent mate 

2. Quickly develop a non-threatening and emotionally supportive rapport that allows the therapist to successfully engage the unwilling partner in therapy

3. Empower the emotional mate to change how they respond to their distant spouse

4. Step-by-step therapeutic techniques designed to break down emotional    denial and unlock the unemotional client’s heart to produce a more successful treatment outcome

5. Utilize the latest medicinal remedies to assist in unblocking and eliminating          suppressed or manifesting emotions

 Learning Objectives:

Participants completing this course will be able to:

1. Describe how a person becomes emotionally unavailable

2. Identify characteristics of the unemotional/emotionally suppressed client

3. Identify characteristics of a codependent partner in an emotionally distant relationship

4. Outline how the unemotional mate produces dysfunction in the marriage

5. Describe how the unemotional man differs from the unemotional woman

6. Utilize techniques for empowering the emotional mate to:

a.      Understand the mind and behaviors of their unemotional mate

b.      Change how they respond emotionally and physically to their unemotional mate

c.      Learn how NOT to live with their mate’s stubborn and selfish attitudes

d.      Learn how to change their emotionally distant mate, without losing their own heart and mind in the process

e.      Recognize warning signs for escalation of mind games and abuse

f.        Cope effective with mind games, defensiveness, and blaming

g.      Make radical changes when the unemotional mate is unwilling to change

7. Utilize strategies for changing the unemotional mate:

a.      Quickly develop rapport that encourages clients to willingly engage in treatment

b.      Creating motivation to change

c.      Getting the emotionally unavailable mate to emotionally relate

d.      Getting an unwilling and stubborn, emotionally distant mate to change

8. Encourage increased respect and emotional expression within the relationship:

a.      Obstacles to emotional closeness

b.      Communicating without arguing and defensiveness

c.      Redefining healthy relationships for the emotionally distant couple

   Program Description:

Traditional therapy based on talking about feelings is an ineffective intervention for emotionally-suppressed clients who are unable to identify or disclose emotions during the therapy session.  Attempting to treat such clients with traditional techniques typically results in frustration for the therapist and an unsuccessful therapeutic outcome, or the client dropping out of treatment. 

Craig A. Miller, MSW, CSW, ACSW, therapist and author, shares his systematic approach and the latest medicinal remedies to successfully unlock the emotional suppression with unemotional clients for a positive treatment outcome and improvement in emotional health for the individual and their relationships.

 Seminar participants will learn how to:

1. Accurately diagnose the unemotional client based on typical characteristics

2. Quickly develop a non-threatening and emotionally supportive rapport that allows the therapist to successfully engage an unwilling client in therapy.

3. Step-by-step therapeutic techniques designed to break down emotional denial and unlock the client’s heart to produce a more successful treatment outcome

4. Utilize the latest medicinal remedies to assist in unblocking and eliminating            suppressed emotions

 Learning Objectives:

 Participants completing this course will be able to:

1. Explain why emotions are essential in navigating life and making personal decisions

2. Identify characteristics of the unemotional/emotionally suppressed client

3. Accurately diagnose unemotional clients

4. Describe how the unemotional mate manipulates and controls others

5. Cite research indicating the effects of blocked emotions during embryo, newborn, and childhood stages of life

6. Understand why suppressed emotions are the origin of emotional and physical illness

7. Utilize therapeutic techniques to break down emotional denial and unblock suppressed emotion:

                                 i.               Quickly develop rapport that encourages clients to willingly engage in treatment

                               ii.               Implement step-by-step techniques to help clients discover and understand how the past affects present dysfunctional thoughts and behaviors 

                              iii.               Help clients and their families independently determine what the unemotional person needs to become healthy

                             iv.               Give the client permission to have emotions

                              v.               Learn patterns of dysfunctional emotions

                             vi.               Separate childlike reactions from adult feelings

                           vii.               Give the client control to overcome unhealthy moods and emotions

                          viii.               Inspire unemotional clients to take responsibility for change

                              ix.               Overcome habitual unhealthy emotions - mind, body, and spirit

                               x.               Medicinal remedies that can help unblock suppressed emotions

   In this seminar you will learn:

1. How does a man and woman communicate his and her feelings differently?

2. How to communicate feelings when you are hurt and angry.

3. How much do my feelings affect the ability to find and maintain healthy

   relationships.  (Why do I have a hard time getting close to people and to God?)

4. How to express your feelings in a relationship that discourages your feelings.

6. What is disrespect and how do you handle disrespect from others.

7. How to encourage your spouse to communicate their feelings.

8. Maintaining healthy relationships – spouse, friends, children, and God.

9. Other selected topics of your choice.

   Ideal for:  Church pulpit supply for AM or PM worship services          

This multimedia presentation gives a message of hope and spiritual healing through scripture, music, congregation participation, visual props, and helpful techniques.  Learn to overcome the fear to say what you want, let go of emotional hurts, find satisfaction in relationships (even with God), find the joy of Christ, and feel good about yourself!   

Hear valuable insights, powerful case testimonies, inspiring scriptures, and helpful techniques to overcome the fear to say what you want, let go of emotional hurts, find satisfaction in relationships, find the joy of Christ, and feel good about yourself!  This inspirational message based on God’s Word is for teens through older adults who desire to find victory from the daily struggles of life to experience the love, peace, and joy that God has to offer.

   In this seminar you will learn:

   Learning how to feel good about life and experience the inner joy that

   Jesus has to offer?

1. Why our God given emotions are so important. 

2. What would happen if I don’t express my feelings? 

3. Or can holding in feelings over time be harmful to my emotional/physical health?

4. If God gave us our emotions, what stops us from feeling them? 

5. How does our past influence us with our reactions?  (Reactions of anger, fear, anxiety, or depression)

6. As a Christian, are we suppose to have anger, fear, or anxiety? 

(Some people believe you are not depending on God if you experience those feelings.) 

7. How can we change to find and maintain the inner joy that God really wants us to experience?