FAQs: From Therapists, and About Trainings for Therapists
General Questions:
- Why is the Connection Quest private sessions more effective than ongoing sessions?
- When is Hedy and Yumi coming to my city or country?
- Is the two-day private sessions very different from the three-day workshops for couples?
- How can I bring Hedy and Yumi to my city or organization?
- Do you have experience with gay and lesbian couples?
- Will my health insurance cover the fee for the Connection Quest intensive or Adventure in Intimacy workshop?
- I’m considering an intensive session. Is there any follow up after the sessions?
- Do you provide couples therapy on an hourly or weekly basis?
- My partner and I need couples counseling. How do I make an appointment with Hedy?
As an experienced couples therapist and clinician, observing and studying couples for 20 years in her dedicated couples laboratory, Hedy has developed an intensive transformational two-day program for couples, called Connection Quest. She has found this program to be more effective than the ongoing hourly sessions because she has seen stunning results when couples can keep open and available to learning and growing together over an extended period of time. Hedy has inspired many couple therapists to offer intensive sessions to their couples, and they have reported meaningful results in their work. Hedy is currently teaching an international Master Class to educate couple therapists in her innovative Encounter-centered Couples Therapy.
CloseHedy and Yumi bring their workshop for couples, training programs for therapists, and training programs for companies and organizations to locations throughout the world, in English, French, German and Hebrew.
Typically, there are 4 workshops for couples and 1-2 trainings for therapists each year in the USA. Hedy and Yumi travel at least once per year to Israel, France, Austria, Switzerland, Ireland and the United Kingdom.
For dates and information on upcoming events near you, view our global calendar.
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If you are interested in organizing a workshop or training for your organization or geographical area, please contact us to discuss your event in detail.
CloseThe fundamental principles and skills you will learn at both the workshop and the private session are similar. However, during the private session, you have Hedy’s full attention and expertise, and she will guide you and your partner in the direction you need to go based on where your relationship is currently.
The workshop has a specific format, and you are with a group of couples. It is not group therapy, and you do not need to speak in front of the group. Although the workshop is dynamic, entertaining, and flexible, Hedy and Yumi teach the principles at the pace of the group.
CloseHedy and Yumi bring their workshop for couples, training programs for therapists, and training programs for companies and organizations to locations throughout the world, in English, French, German and Hebrew. If you are interested in organizing a workshop or training for your organization or geographical area, please contact us at 305-604-0010 or email us to discuss your event in detail.
CloseYes. We welcome all couples, and many gay and lesbian couples do attend our workshops and private sessions. Hedy and Yumi’s teachings are universal for everyone because the focus is entirely on the relationship, not on a couple’s religion, race or sexual orientation.
CloseSome health insurance policies with mental health benefits will reimburse couples for the Connection Quest full day intensives. Check your policy to see if you are covered. The Adventure in Intimacy couples workshop is not covered by insurance.
CloseAt the completion of your Connection Quest intensive session, Hedy will send you a report, which will include assignments to help you keep what you have learned alive. She might also suggest a schedule of phone sessions, as well as a one-day follow-up Connection Quest session.
CloseWe provide a two-day intensive session for couples called Connection Quest. Hedy’s experience has shown that this format is very transformational and more effective for the couple than hourly therapy sessions. Your Connection Quest can be in your native language of English, French, Hebrew, German, Spanish or Yiddish.
For more information on this opportunity, please review Private Sessions for Couples and contact us at 305-604-0010 for available dates.
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Hedy see couples for one-day and two-day private sessions called Connection Quest. Your intensive session can be in your native language of English, French, Hebrew, German, Spanish or Yiddish.
Hedy also leads a couples workshop called Adventure in Intimacy with her husband Yumi. Hedy and Yumi conduct the workshop in many countries in the English, French, Hebrew and German languages.
Attending an Adventure in Intimacy or a Connection Quest intensive session is the equivalent of over 30 hours of counseling.
CloseRegarding the Trainings:
- What is the difference between the Tikkun Training and the new ECCT Training?
When Hedy was teaching Imago Relationship Theory and Therapy, the model that she was presenting was continuously evolving. New metaphors were put in place. A different focus emerged. Then she began to teach the unfolding model as Tikkun. Tikkun is the Hebrew word for the fusion of healing, repair, transformation and completion. As she continued to develop ideas through observations in her couples laboratory, the crystallization of her work was birthed: the "three invisible connectors": the Space - the Bridge - and the Encounter. Just then she was invited to present a TED talk in Israel, and she was given the opportunity to "essentialize" her work in 18 minutes. As she continued to study couples with these fundamentals in place, the name of the couples therapy she is now teaching revealed itself: "Encounter-centered Couples Therapy."
This revelation coincided with putting the finishing touches on a professional video package of her work. The DVD set will be a training tool with ten parts, following Hedy's work during the two-day Connection Quest session with a couple. ECCT is the fruit that materialized from her labor, not just over the last 20 years of observation in her couples laboratory, or her 36 years of professional work as a clinician, but of her entire 67 years of life experience.
The ECCT training is the latest version of Hedy's unfolding work. Her newest thinking about couples is woven into it. She built the ECCT training around video segments from the new DVD set, which allows her to present a very systematic structure and a powerful grounding of the work that she does with couples. It gives people a chance to visualize as well as conceptualize the basic principles that she is presenting. People who have been to the Tikkun training will find this training new and different, while at the same time a deepening of concepts to which they may have previously been exposed.
CloseIf any of these answers are unclear or you have a question not covered here, please contact Geoffrey in our office via email or by calling 305-604-0010.
