Couples with different goals
When one partner wants to leave and the other wants to preserve the relationship. How to work with this tension, maintain the therapeutic alliance and lose neither partner.
BALENTEIN
Where?
Online
with simultaneous Russian translation
When?
December 07, 08, 08, 10 2026
To be announced Price?
$250 KGS 21 819
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
When saving a relationship —
means helping it
end the right way
Not all couples come to therapy to save their relationship. Sometimes the task is to part ways. And to do it not through destruction, but through awareness.
A breakup doesn't have to become trauma or feel like the biggest failure in life.
01
Ending without destruction
A breakup can become a process in which respect, clarity, and a sense of self-worth are preserved.
02
The therapist's role
The therapist's task is to help a couple navigate this difficult stage in a way that preserves dignity, contact, and inner grounding, even when the relationship ends.
What matters to preserve
01
Respect
The ability to see the value of shared experience without devaluation or destruction.
02
Clarity
Understanding what is happening and making more conscious decisions.
03
Dignity
Maintaining respect for yourself and the other person during the process of ending a relationship.
04
Inner grounding
The ability to continue your own path without losing a sense of self-worth.
This workshop is about professional work where things get especially difficult and ambiguous.
About the workshop
When relationships end: therapy for conscious separation
Not every couple comes to therapy in order to save the relationship. Sometimes the task is to part ways — and to do so not through destruction, but through awareness.
Separation does not have to become a trauma or be felt as the greatest failure of one’s life. It can be a process in which respect, clarity and a sense of one’s own value remain.
The therapist’s task is to help a couple pass through this difficult stage in a way that preserves dignity, contact and inner stability — even when the relationship ends.
This workshop is about the work that happens where things are especially complex and ambiguous.
Three key tasks in couples therapy
The workshop explores situations in which the familiar goal of “saving the relationship” is no longer enough to determine the direction of therapy.
Ending a relationship through Emotionally Focused Therapy
Emotionally Focused Therapy — emotion-focused therapy, EFT.
How to guide a couple through the three stages of the process, preserve whatever level of connection remains and reduce the destructive potential of separation.
Working with ambivalence
How to hold and work with a simultaneous “yes and no” — in the experience of the couple, of each partner, and of the therapist themselves.
The aim of therapy is not always to preserve a relationship. Sometimes its outcome is the possibility to end one without destroying yourself or the other person.
The workshop format combines
- 01 A theoretical framework
A clear understanding of the logic of therapeutic work in situations where a relationship may end.
- 02 Practical exercises
Practising the therapeutic stance and interventions in emotionally difficult situations.
- 03 Case reviews and video demonstrations
Observing the clinical process and analysing the therapist’s decisions.
- 04 Complex clinical situations
Discussing cases in which the partners’ goals differ and the direction of the work remains unclear.
This is a space for those who work not only with saving relationships, but also with ending them with care.
For therapists ready to keep clarity, contact and respect even where a shared story is approaching its end.
USA · EFT Center, Philadelphia
Trainer
Ting Liu
PhD, ICEEFT
Clinical Director of the EFT Center in Philadelphia, ICEEFT-certified therapist, supervisor, and trainer
Dr. Ting Liu is the Clinical Director of the EFT Center in Philadelphia, an ICEEFT-certified therapist, supervisor, and trainer. Licensed in Pennsylvania as a couple and family therapist, she is an approved supervisor of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy.
She maintains a private practice in Wayne, Pennsylvania. She provides EFT training and supervision to therapists in Philadelphia, as well as in Beijing, Hong Kong, London, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Singapore, Taipei, and Tokyo.
Clinical DirectorEFT Center in Philadelphia
ICEEFT CertificationTherapist, supervisor, and trainer
AAMFT SupervisorAmerican Association for Marriage and Family Therapy
International TrainerAsia, Europe, North America
Payment
Ting Liu: “Good Divorce”
4-day intensive online seminar
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Price
Ting Liu: “Good Divorce”
$250
KGS 21819
December 7–10, 2026 · 9:00 – 16:30 CET
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