Couples Toolbox 12 Week Challenge

Couples Toolbox® 12 Week Challenge

About the Andersen Couples Counselling Method®
The Couples Toolbox® (The Andersen Method) is a method designed for hetero couples. This method combines all the best therapy methods and puts them in an order to help couples to see where they are going wrong and why. You will find your viewpoint changes and you will genuinely use these new tools from DAY ONE. Plus, you will wonder why you didn't know any of these skills before...

12 Weeks of Face to Face Sessions/ Video Sessions, Worksheets and Exercises.

Benefits:
FROM DISASTER ZONE TO REPAIR ZONE
✔️ SIGNIFICANT CHANGES IN HOW YOU COMMUNICATE
✔️ FOCUSED ON THE MARRIAGE/ RELATIONSHIP (not each other)
✔️ AWARENESS OF NEGATIVE PATTERNS
✔️ THE BEST OF THE BEST MARRIAGE THERAPY RESEARCH
✔️ SKILLS GATHERED IN YOUR TOOLBOX (Day One)
✔️ EXERCISES, VIDEOS, WORKSHEETS & HOMEWORK
✔️ FACE TO FACE COURSE Gold Coast. Video sessions also available
✔️ BUDGET FRIENDLY ONLINE COURSE: Coming Soon

Couples Toolbox®
The Andersen Method ® Combines the Best of the Best - Worldwide. No other Couples Course has this many modalities!

Ghita Andersen: Couples Codewords, Vent or Fix, Gender Pyramids, The Marriage Jar (1 & 2), Marriage as a Plant
Carl Rogers - Active / Reflective Listening (USA) - How to Complain Constructively, How to be Heard/ Listen Actively. This is one of the most effective communication techniques ever taught to couples
Family Dispute Resolution (Australia, UK & NZ) De-escalating Conflict and Stating Your Needs, Objective Rather Than Subjective (Removing Emotions)
Esther Perel Methods (Belgium) - Infidelity (Why it Happens), The Gender Currencies (Anthropology): What sets off the Nervous System?, The Wiring and Motivations of Men and Women
Family Therapy by Virginia Satir: The Dynamics of Family Systems
Gottman Concepts - The 4 Horsemen: Defensiveness, Stonewalling, Criticism, Contempt
5 Love Languages (Gary Chapman, USA) - You and Your Partner's Love Language
Narrative Therapy (Michael White and David Epston, NZ) - Externalising Problems to be Problems to be Worked on.
Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) (Richard Bandler, John Grinder, USA) - The Language Influence: How to Talk to Your Spouse, How to Reframe your Internal Critic, How to Stop Treating Your Partner Like the Enemy
CBT & Byron Katie Method: Reality Checking: Is it true? Is it universally true? How to check your viewpoint
Renegotiating Marriage Contracts: Agreements about roles, responsibilities, household chores, finances, etc.

This course is unlike any other because it combines the best methods together instead of one family therapy system. Ghita will teach and encourage you to become a better listeners and to better articulate your needs. This will also help you to gain a greater understanding of each other’s needs and concerns, and remove the elements which cause the spiral of negative communication (the circular argument). See methods below...

★★★★★ 5 Star Google Review: Marriage Counselling Program
We both learnt how to actively listen to one another and remember the other person's needs are different. Ghita was absolutely warm and welcoming, would definitely recommend her intensive program, it has saved our marriage. - Nicole Eggleton (Coomera).

★★★★★ Google Review (2024) 'What a turn around!! My wife and I came to Ghita with very different communication skills. We were feeling EXTREMELY defeated in our marriage and were desperately seeking direction. After just 5 sessions our communication skills are in a place we didn’t know were possible. It’s been about a month since our sessions and our marriage is still becoming stronger and stronger every day. 10 out of 10 recommend!' - Jason Eichenburger (Northern Rivers)

After just 5 sessions our communication skills are in a place we didn’t know were possible. 10 out of 10 recommend!' - Jason Eichenburger

Couples Toolbox® 12 Week Challenge (International Course):
Available face to face (Gold Coast), online via video or a combination.

Week 1: Individual Sessions: 2 Hours each (Worksheets required)
Week 2: Unpacking Vulnerabilities, Values & Triggers (NLP/ Andersen) (1 hour Couples session)
Week 3: Healthy vs Unhealthy Complaining | Reframing Delivery (Gottman/ Family Dispute Resolution Australia) (1 hour Couples session)
Week 4: Gender Currencies: The Wiring of Men & Women (Perel) | Role Expectations | Our Expectations (1 hour Couples session)
Week 5: Active Listening and I Statements (Rogers) (2 hour Couples workshop)
Week 6: Codewords for Couples (Andersen) The Life Saving Pineapple | Vent versus Fix (1 hour Couples session)
Week 7: The Metaphors: (Ericksonian Hypnotherapy)The Marriage Jars | Post-it Note Challenge | The Marriage as a Plant | Narrative Methods: The Farquars (1 hour Couples session)
Week 8: Bids For Connection (male vs female) (Gottman) | Reconnection Hour (1 hour Couples session)
Week 9: The 5 Love Languages and Why They Matter (Grey) | V.A.K. Is your partner Visual, Auditory or Kinesthetic? (NLP/ EMDR) (1 hour Couples session)
Week 10: Date Night Cards | Games | Creating Love Maps: (Gottman / Various) Learning About Each Other (1 hour Couples session)
Week 11: The Pre-Marital Checklist: (Family Therapy/ Christian Counselling) What have we forgotten to negotiate? What do I need from my partner. What is reasonable? (1 hour Couples session)
Week 12: Intimacy, Connection & Spice Workshop: (Satir/ Various)Tips for spicing things up in the bedroom and creating novelty. Eye Gazing exercise. (1 hour Couples session)

Plus, practising the tools as homework!

Please note the face to face couples have full access to videos, worksheets and all Couples Toolbox® 12 Week Challenge pages so that they can revisit any topics from sessions for better understanding.

Couples Toolbox® 12 Week Challenge

$3000 - Save $120

Available face to face (Gold Coast), online via video or a combination.
Please email Ghita if you have any questions
LIMITED SPOTS AVAILABLE.

Terms and Conditions for Couples Toolbox® 12 Week Challenge (In-person and/or Online)
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Please read our terms and conditions before purchasing. By booking this special, you agree to our terms.

Have a chat to Ghita before booking this package.
Please note that the client books the first session and your therapist will book you in for consecutive weeks. This is because Timely cannot book multiple couple's and individual sessions at once.
Full deposit (Timely, Paypal or Bank Deposit) is required to book this package (Full payment is required to confirm your dates). We do not offer payment plans.

Ghita does not accept face to face couples with a history of family violence - including chronic verbal abuse, violence, intimidation, sexual abuse or financial control. Alternative option is the online course.
CANCELLATIONS: We cannot fill a session at short notice. By booking this package you agree to our cancellation policy: NO REFUNDS ON PACKAGE WITH LESS THAN 14 DAYS NOTICE: Client Break-ups, Separations, Illness, Babysitting issues are not valid excuses for short notice cancellations. as we can offer video sessions and the online course.
No refunds once package has begun. Last minute cancellations for appointments (less than 24 hours notice) will require the client(s) to do the work with the online course materials to catch up.
If for any reason you cannot attend in person, you will be offered an online video session or to do the online option.
If package is postponed (with 14 days notice before starting) then credit retained is valid for 3 months from purchase date. After which, it expires. We do not allow more than one postponement on the package start date.
The consecutive order of the package is vital to it's success: Weekly sessions - no gaps. The counsellor is not responsible for the quality of the course if couples continue to postpone sessions, attend late or do not contribute to homework and exercises.
HEALTHFUNDS: There is no guarantee that your Health Fund will rebate couples counselling. We do not have affiliations with any particular health fund as there are so many. Please check with your provider.
Agreeing to our terms when booking and then later saying that you did not read them is no excuse

★★★★★ Testimonial Marriage Counselling: I was convinced that we were separating and it was too late. I was of the mindset to leave, but one hour turned it around for us. This session was very different. Ghita nailed our problem and made us negotiate. After many years of arguing over the same thing, she showed us how to do deals. We negotiated our personal time and even had a contingency plan for when things went wrong. We both agree this session was nothing like what we expected. Thank you Ghita. - J & A Tovey. (Hope Island)

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