Relationship Super Powers: Integrating Imago, EFT & Coaching to Transform Relationship Patterns

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Join the Sexual Health Alliance for Relationship Super Powers: Integrating Imago, EFT & Coaching to Transform Relationship Patterns, an Online Sexceptional Weekend exploring how professionals can help clients recognize recurring relationship dynamics and develop new ways of communicating, connecting, and responding to one another.

Featuring Joe Kort, PhD, LMSW, a certified Imago Relationship Therapist, sex therapist, author, and founder of The Center for Relationship and Sexual Health, this event brings relationship-focused perspectives together to explore meaningful change in clients’ intimate lives.

Relationships can become caught in familiar cycles: one partner pursues while another withdraws, disagreements escalate, or important needs remain unspoken. Understanding these patterns creates opportunities to explore the emotions, expectations, and experiences beneath them—and support more intentional responses.

Through the lens of Imago Relationship Therapy, Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), and coaching, this weekend will explore the connections between relationship history, emotional needs, communication, and action. The focus is on helping professionals support greater awareness, empathy, and connection while translating insight into meaningful relationship goals.

This Online Sexceptional Weekend is designed for therapists, counselors, social workers, relationship and sexuality coaches, educators, students, and other professionals who want to deepen their understanding of relationship patterns and strengthen their work with individuals and couples.

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN

• How recurring relationship patterns can shape conflict, emotional connection, and intimacy

• How earlier relational experiences and expectations may influence present-day interactions

• Perspectives from Imago, EFT, and coaching for understanding relationship challenges

• How to recognize the emotional needs beneath blame, defensiveness, pursuit, and withdrawal

• Ways to support clearer communication, deeper listening, and greater empathy

• How to help clients move from automatic reactions toward more intentional responses

• The connections between emotional safety, vulnerability, and intimate connection

• How coaching-oriented goals can help clients translate relationship insights into everyday action

• Considerations for applying these perspectives within your professional role, training, and scope of practice

SCHEDULE

SATURDAY, December 12TH

START TIME: 10:00AM - 6:00pm cst

SUNDAY, December 13TH

START TIME: 10:00AM - 6:00pm cst

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PRESENTERS

Dr. Joe Kort, PhD, LMSW

Psychotherapist Joe Kort, PhD, LMSW, is the clinical director and founder of The Center for Relationship and Sexual Health in Royal Oak, Michigan. He is a board-certified clinical sexologist, author of four books, lecturer and facilitator of therapeutic workshops. Throughout his 36 years of private practice, he successfully has utilized varying therapy modalities to help hundreds of individuals and couples improve their lives and strengthen their relationships.

Dr. Kort specializes in marital problems and conflicts; mixed orientation marriages; male sexuality and sexual health concerns; “sex addiction,” out-of-control sexual behaviors; sexual identity issues; childhood sexual abuse; LGBTQIA Affirmative Therapy; and Imago Relationship Therapy.

He is trained in EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing), a safe and effective treatment that can help patients who have suffered for years from anxiety, distressing memories, nightmares, insomnia, abuse or other traumatic events.

Dr. Kort obtained his undergraduate degree from Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan, with a dual major in psychology and social work. He earned master’s degrees in social work and psychology from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, and a doctorate (PhD) in Clinical Sexology from the American Academy of Clinical Sexologists.

Sexual Health Alliance has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7730. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Sexual Health Alliance is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

This event is eligible for a maximum of 14 CE hours.