Couple Therapy Training for Practitioners
Build your skills. Deepen your practice. Work with couples with confidence, clarity, and compassion. This Couple Therapy Training is for Practitioners keen to expand their practice to work with couples.
Register here to express your interest.
Are you a counsellor, therapist, or mental health professional who wants to expand your practice to work with couples?
Working with couples can be deeply rewarding, but it also brings unique challenges. You are not working with one person’s experience alone. You are working with two individuals, their expectations, their ways of relating, their hurts, and the patterns that unfold between them.
How do you understand what keeps a couple stuck in recurring conflict? How do you hold space for two different perspectives without taking sides? How do you help partners move beyond blame and begin relating to each other differently?
These are some of the questions that make couple therapy a distinct area of practice, requiring specific knowledge, skills, and therapeutic interventions.
At Inner Dawn Counselling and Training Services, we are offering a specialized Couple Therapy Core Skills Training for mental health professionals who want to develop the confidence and competence to work with couples.
The training will cover the fundamentals of couple therapy, along with proven models, frameworks, and interventions that you can use in your clinical work.
If you are ready to take the next step in your professional journey, this training offers an opportunity to deepen your skills and broaden the ways you can support your clients.
Register your interest and secure your place: Limited Seats available.
https://forms.gle/xukE8ASHEgUcKo2a6
Why develop your skills in couple therapy?
Relationships can be a source of belonging, comfort, and growth. They can also become places where people experience repeated hurt, disconnection, and conflict.
Couples often come to therapy wanting things to change, yet find themselves having the same arguments, repeating familiar patterns, or struggling to communicate what matters most to them.
As therapists, we need to look beyond the presenting problem and understand what is happening between the partners. We need to recognize the patterns that maintain their difficulties and identify ways to facilitate meaningful change.
Working with couples also asks us to reflect on our own responses as therapists. How do we respond when one partner appears more distressed than the other? What happens when both partners want us to validate their perspective? How do we remain engaged and effective when the room becomes emotionally charged?
Developing core couple therapy skills can help us approach these situations with greater clarity, awareness, and confidence.
Whether you are looking to begin working with couples or strengthen your existing practice, developing a sound foundation in couple therapy can open up new possibilities for your work.
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What will you learn in this couple therapy training?
This specialized training focuses on building core skills for working with couples in clinical practice.
The program will cover:
1. Fundamentals of couple therapy
Develop an understanding of the foundations of working therapeutically with couples and the distinctive considerations involved in couple work.
2. Proven couple therapy models and frameworks
Explore established approaches and frameworks that can help you understand relationship difficulties and guide your therapeutic work with couples.
3. Practical therapeutic interventions
Build familiarity with interventions that can be applied in couple sessions to address relationship difficulties and support change.
4. Ethical and effective clinical practice
Strengthen your therapeutic presence and develop greater confidence in supporting couples while attending to the complexity of relationship dynamics.
5. Integrating learning into your practice
We will focus on not just learning theory but also on practicing the skills in small groups as part of the training. This will help develop confidence to work with couples.
The intention is to help you build a foundation that you can draw on in your work.
Who is this training for?
This training is designed for mental health professionals in active practice, including:
- Counsellors who want to expand their work to include couples.
- Psychotherapists working with individuals and are interested in working with couples.
- Coaches / Social workers / all mental health practitioners who want to strengthen their understanding of relationship dynamics and develop a broader range of therapeutic interventions.
If you have been considering adding couple therapy to your practice but have wondered where to begin, this training may be a meaningful next step.
It is also relevant if you already work with couples and want to deepen your understanding and broaden your therapeutic toolkit.
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Learn from clinical experience
Kala Balasubramanian | CTA-P, PTSTA-P
Kala Balasubramanian is a psychotherapist and the founder of Inner Dawn Counselling and Training Services LLP.
With more than 15 years of experience, Kala has worked with over 300 couples, She brings substantial clinical experience to her work with relationships and couples.
Alongside her clinical practice, she has also trained practitioners to work with couples and offers supervision to professionals working in this area.
Her work brings together clinical practice, professional training, and ongoing support for practitioners as they develop their skills.
This training draws on that experience to help mental health professionals build core skills and approach couple work with greater confidence, clarity, and compassion.
Training details
Course: Couple Therapy Core Skills Training
Facilitator: Kala Balasubramanian (CTA-P, PTSTA-P)
Dates: November 2, 16, 23, 30 and December 7, 14, 2026
Duration / Time: 4 hours/session; 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM IST
Mode: Online on Zoom
Eligibility: Mental health practitioners in active practice (Counsellors, Psychotherapists, Social workers, Coaches)
Certification: Certificate of Completion
Additional support: Supervision and ongoing support are available.
Why choose Inner Dawn for your professional development?
At Inner Dawn, we recognize that developing as a therapist is an ongoing process. Knowledge, clinical experience, reflection, and support all have a role to play in building a confident and effective practice.
Training in couple therapy is not just about learning techniques. It is also about developing the capacity to understand relationship dynamics, work thoughtfully with different perspectives, and respond to the needs of couples with greater awareness.
Our aim is to support practitioners in building skills they can integrate into their clinical work and continue developing over time to build an effective and ethical practice.
Ready to expand your practice to work with couples?
Every couple brings a different story, a different set of experiences, and a different understanding of what is happening in their relationship.
As therapists, our role is to meet that complexity with curiosity, skill, and compassion.
If you are a mental health professional looking to develop your couple therapy skills, we invite you to join this training.
Take the next step in your professional journey.
REGISTER HERE TO EXPRESS YOUR INTEREST
For enquiries:
WhatsApp: +91 9632146316
Email: counselor@innerdawn.in
Please feel free to share this training with colleagues and professional networks who may be interested.
Frequently asked questions
Who can attend the Couple Therapy Core Skills Training?
The training is intended for counsellors, therapists, and mental health practitioners in active practice who are interested in developing or strengthening their couple therapy skills or want to expand their practice to work with couples.
What will the training cover?
The course covers the fundamentals of couple therapy, proven models and frameworks, and practical therapeutic interventions that can be used with couple clients.
Will I receive a certificate?
Yes. A Certificate of Completion is offered.
Is the training online?
Yes, the training is conducted online on Zoom
What are the dates and timings?
The training takes place over six Mondays in November and December 2026, with each session running from 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM. The dates are November 2, 16, 23, 30 and December 7, 14, 2026.
Is supervision available?
Yes. Supervision and ongoing support are available for practitioners.
How do I register?
Complete the registration form here: https://forms.gle/xukE8ASHEgUcKo2a6
For further information, contact counselor@innerdawn.in or WhatsApp +91 9632146316.
About the Facilitator
Kala Balasubramanian – Kala is a psychotherapist with more than 15+ years of experience in the field of Psychology and is the Founder of Inner Dawn Counselling and Training Services LLP. She is a Certified Transactional Analyst in Psychotherapy (CTA-P) and a Provisional Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst (PTSTA-P) . With a MS in Counselling and Psychotherapy and certifications in couple/marriage and family counselling, Gestalt, NLP, CBT etc, she holds space, offering support, understanding, and acceptance to help clients explore their emotions, and manage their challenges, relationships, and stress better. She works with individuals, couples and groups towards healing and transformation. She offers Training and Supervision for Practitioners.