Hello Coaches,

Since 2017 we’ve been training coaches in how to work with couples. Over the years, the collaboration between us has led to more clarity and effectiveness in how to best help couples through coaching, and how to train coaches to do the same.

This coaching training includes important elements from the fields of interpersonal neurobiology, neuroscience, attachment science, behavioral science and coaching methods, and also draws from experiential models (somatic and gestalt oriented therapies) of working with couples that together create a powerful method for coaching couples.

We created this training from our more than 40 years combined experience working with individuals, couples, groups, and families. We also live what we teach in our own marriage and family, every day.

We want to invite you into a truly transformational experience by learning with us for 9 months. This training will challenge you in some ways regarding what you thought you knew about partnership. It will also inspire and empower you as a coach, and your own life as you gradually learn how to cultivate even more strength and security.

Thus, the purpose of this training can be seen as two fold:

1- It will shape you personally from the inside out.
2- It will help you gain the confidence to coach couples to move away from insecurity and towards security and strength.

Ellen brings a tremendous amount of experience to our training. She has worked in the field of counseling with individuals, adolescents, and families since 1995. She became a psychotherapist in 2003, has done post graduate training in gestalt therapy, has been trained in sensorimotor psychotherapy for trauma and EMDR, and has worked in the entire range of therapeutic settings from residential treatment to outpatient private practice. Most recently, Ellen has trained intensively with Dr. Stan Tatkin since 2014, completing his three levels of training in PACT, the Psychobiological Approach to Couple Therapy. As of 2022, she is now a Certified PACT couple therapist. In addition to teaching students and supervising coaches at TRS, she maintains two private practices (psychotherapy and coaching) where she works primarily with couples.

Jayson brings his experience working with couples and families since 2003. He has worked in both residential inpatient and outpatient treatment centers, mental health centers, emergency psychiatric services, and private practice with adolescents, parents, individuals, families, and groups. He has been trained and certified in gestalt therapy, EMDR, and sensorimotor psychotherapy. He has also trained extensively in human behavior with Dr. John Demartini. Jayson was a licensed psychotherapist for many years prior to becoming a coach, founding the Relationship School, and writing a comprehensive book on interpersonal conflict.

Working with couples virtually as a coach is very dynamic and compelling, as well as difficult and complex. It requires a level of presence and skill that is not easy to learn, yet we intend to support and educate you in a way that makes this kind of growth and development possible.

If you choose to participate in this training, you will also have the option of becoming certified in Present Centered Couples Coaching ™ which has been developed and practiced by Jayson and Ellen over many years. But possibly even more importantly, you will grow as a person– having a clearer direction and more capacity for developing strong and secure attachment relationships (partnering and parenting!) in your own life.

This is a special training program, and we hope you will experience it with us.

Ellen and Jayson