Ackerman Institute for the Family

Your clients are navigating complex relationships in a rapidly changing world.

Culture, identity, migration, religion, language, class, family structure, and social expectations are not just background details — they shape what happens in the room.

In **Practical Strategies for Working with Contemporary Couples and Families**, Dr. Reenee Singh introduces innovative systemic tools to help clinicians work across cultural, relational, and societal differences with greater confidence, awareness, and intention.

Participants will explore systemic and intercultural frameworks, clinical material, research insights, and experiential learning designed to support resilience in contemporary couples and families.

Fall 2026 Seminar Course
Fully online
Thursdays, 1:00–4:00 PM ET
Starts September 17
42 CE credits
No prerequisites

Explore the seminar:
https://www.ackerman.org/training/seminar-course-singh/

We’re currently accepting new couples and families for therapy.

If your relationship or family is feeling stuck, strained, disconnected, or overwhelmed, support is available.

Ackerman Clinic offers:

• Couples and family therapy
• In-person sessions in NYC
• Virtual therapy across New York State
• Warm, affirming, expert-supervised care

You don’t have to wait until things feel unmanageable to reach out.

Visit the link the link to start the intake process: https://www.ackerman.org/intake/

What could shift in your clinical work if you gave yourself the opportunity to step outside the therapy room and back into learning?

This fall, Ackerman Institute is bringing together experienced clinicians, educators, and leading voices in couple and family therapy for a new season of workshops designed to deepen how you think, assess, and intervene.

Explore complex clinical topics including:

✨ Healing intergenerational wounds
✨ Desire discrepancy in couples
✨ Vicarious trauma and compassion fatigue
✨ Trauma, attachment, and couple conflict
✨ Ambiguous loss
✨ The challenges of blended families
✨ Structural family therapy
✨ Couples and money
✨ Cultural humility with Latinx LGBTQ+ families
✨ Trauma in teens and emerging adults
✨ Relational trauma
✨ Family resilience
✨ Working with BPD in couples therapy

These workshops offer more than new information. You’ll have the opportunity to consider cases through a relational and systemic lens, learn practical clinical approaches, and leave with ideas you can bring directly into your work with individuals, couples, and families.

Choose from live online and in-person workshops throughout the fall.

🎓 Earn up to 5 CE contact hours per workshop
💻 Live online and in person at Ackerman Institute
📅 September–December 2026

Whether you want to strengthen an existing area of practice or explore a clinical topic in greater depth, there is something in this season’s lineup for you.

Visit HERE to learn more: https://www.ackerman.org/training/workshops/

It’s rarely just about the dishes, the laundry, or who forgot to text back.

Beneath many recurring arguments is a deeper question: Do I matter to you? Can I count on you? Are we still connected?

Couples therapy helps partners move beyond what they’re arguing about—and begin talking about what the argument really means.

Learn from the field’s leading voices this fall.

Join Dr. Kenneth V. Hardy and Dr. Reenee Singh for two exclusive 14-week seminars at the Ackerman Institute for the Family.

These Fall 2026 seminars are designed for clinicians and helping professionals seeking to deepen their relational lens, expand their multicultural perspective, and strengthen the way they work with contemporary couples and families.

The Self of the Therapist in Clinical Practice
with Dr. Kenneth V. Hardy
Explore self-awareness as a core tool for deeper clinical engagement.

Therapeutic Tools for Cultivating Resilience
with Dr. Reenee Singh
Build practical tools for working across difference and strengthening resilience.

Both seminars are fully online and begin this fall.

Explore the seminars:
https://www.ackerman.org/training/seminar-courses/

Our Fall 2026 workshop lineup is now live!

Whether you want to deepen your work with couples, strengthen your family therapy skills, explore trauma-informed approaches, or expand your clinical perspective, there is plenty to choose from this fall.

Upcoming topics include intergenerational relationships, desire discrepancy, vicarious trauma, ambiguous loss, trauma and attachment, blended families, structural family therapy, adolescents, cultural humility, relational trauma, resilience, and more.

Choose from:

• Live online workshops
• In-person workshops at the Ackerman Institute in NYC
• CE-eligible learning for LCSWs, LMSWs, LMFTs, and licensed psychologists in New York State

Start planning your fall professional development now.

Explore the full Fall 2026 workshop calendar: https://www.ackerman.org/training/workshops/

If you have completed an EFT Externship and are ready to take the next step in your training, Emotionally Focused Therapy Core Skills, Extended offers the opportunity to move beyond theory and strengthen your skills through intensive, hands-on practice.

Led by EFT Trainers and Supervisors Elana Katz, LCSW, LMFT and George Faller, LMFT, this small-group course consists of four two-day training sessions focused on the core clinical skills of EFT.

Participants will deepen their work in:

• Identifying the negative cycle
• Cycle de-escalation
• Withdrawer re-engagement
• Pursuer softening
• Deepening emotion between partners
• Helping couples create connection through vulnerability

Each segment includes instruction, role play, observation of a live interview, consultation, and personalized feedback. Participants will also present a short video clip of their own clinical work.

September 17, 2026–January 8, 2027
Live Online
48 CE Contact Hours

Prerequisite: Completion of an EFT Externship.

If you are looking for a more immersive way to build confidence and skill in your EFT practice, this is it.

Learn more and register: https://www.ackerman.org/events/emotionally-focused-therapy-eft-core-skills-extended-2026-2027/

A helpful reminder for clinicians: not every important moment in session comes from the perfect interpretation or question. Sometimes the work is regulating yourself well enough to help the system regulate, too.

Old family wounds do not always stay in the past.

Resentment, blame, cutoffs, guilt, loyalty conflicts, and unresolved hurt from the family of origin can continue to affect adults in their relationships with parents, partners, and children.

In "Healing Intergenerational Wounds: An Integrative Relational-Neurobiological Approach to Transform Family Relationships", Dr. Mona Fishbane will explore clinical approaches for helping clients understand and shift these patterns.

The workshop will address:

• Family legacies and loyalties
• Emotional reactivity and regulation
• Differentiation and boundaries
• Resentment, blame, guilt, and forgiveness
• Compassion and relational repair
• Cultural and gender-based influences on intergenerational relationships

Through theory, neurobiology, and case illustrations, participants will gain practical ways to support healthier relationships across generations.

September 18, 2026
10:00 AM–1:00 PM ET
Live Online
3 CE Contact Hours

Learn more and register: https://www.ackerman.org/events/healing-intergenerational-wounds/?