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Dollars & Differentiation

A Developmental Approach to Financial Conflict in Relationship Therapy

3 NBCC CE hours

📅 Friday, February 26, 2027  ·  🕔 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM Pacific  ·  💻 Live on Zoom

Presented by Fiona O’Farrell, PhD, LMFT, CST-S (they/she)

Early bird pricing, available through January 29, 2027.

Description

Money shows up in couples therapy all the time. How couples navigate it is shaped by much more than what is in their bank account. Family-of-origin experiences, gender, culture, financial anxiety, labor, access, and power all influence what money means and how partners respond when they disagree.

This clinical training moves beyond the content of financial conflict to the relational process underneath it. Drawing on the Developmental Model™ of Couples Therapy (Bader and Pearson), we look at money through the lens of differentiation and ask what each partner is able to do when confronted with financial difference.

Through clinical vignettes and common money conflicts, you will practice interventions and carefully chosen confrontation that move couples away from blame and avoidance and toward self-definition, accountability, and collaborative negotiation. This is a relational therapy training, not a financial-planning seminar.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

  • Identify at least three ways that differentiation can influence how partners navigate financial anxiety, disagreement, decision-making, and responsibility.
  • Assess couples’ financial conflict from a systemic perspective that accounts for differentiation and is informed by family-of-origin messages, gender, labor distribution, power, and sociocultural context.
  • Apply developmentally informed clinical interventions and confrontations designed to increase self-definition, accountability, and partners’ capacity to navigate financial differences.

What’s Included

  • Three hours of live instruction. Breaks as you need them, so the full block counts toward your CE hours.
  • Slides and session resources in your Lovewell training hub
  • Your CE certificate, released after you verify attendance and complete the evaluation

Before You Check Out

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Continuing Education Information

Lovewell Initiatives is an NBCC Approved Continuing Education Provider™ (ACEP No. 7776).

Lovewell Initiatives, LLC has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7776. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Lovewell Initiatives, LLC is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. It is the responsibility of the attendee to determine whether their licensing board accepts NBCC continuing education hours.

This training draws on the Developmental Model™ of Couples Therapy, developed by Ellyn Bader, PhD, and Peter Pearson, PhD. It is independent and is not affiliated with or endorsed by The Couples Institute.

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