From your group facilitator, Maraya Karena: 

I am deeply passionate about relationships and the transformative power of couples therapy. I feel that working with relationships, and intimacy is a calling. My training in process-oriented psychology has given me invaluable skills and techniques for working with individuals and couples. While I especially loved learning about relationship work during my diploma program, studying relationship facilitation was only a small fraction of the overall curriculum. As I began applying these principles in real-world settings, I found that there was so much more to learn and explore in order to truly understand and support the complexities of relationships. Facilitating couples in the wild was VERY different from facilitating my Processwork peers. Additionally, with so much new research in trauma, attachment systems, somatics, the Gottman method and so much more, the desire to deepen my knowledge and incorporate a range of modalities and contemporary research was huge.

These factors led me to create this heart-felt and soulful couples counseling peer group. In these sessions, my intention is to provide supportive space for practitioners to explore and strengthen their relationship facilitation skills. Processwork is still growing and evolving. And it evolves through us. This group provides an opportunity for us to come together as practitioners and engage in a think-tank style research group, exploring what works, what doesn’t, and how we can adapt and apply these principles in our specific contexts. I believe that by working together and sharing our knowledge and experiences, we can continue to grow and evolve as practitioners, and support couples in the most effective and meaningful way possible. I hope that you will join me in this exciting journey of learning and growth!