Cultivating Emotional Responsiveness and Strengthening Communication in Couples Treatment: Evidence-Based Skills for Enhancing Emotional Attunement in Both Couple and Individual Work with Dr. Galya Atanasova

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  You are invited!

  SBCPA Presents:  Cultivating Emotional Responsiveness and Strengthening Communication in Couples Treatment: Evidence-Based Skills for Enhancing Emotional Attunement in Both Couple and Individual Work

  Presenter: Galya Atanasova, Psy.D.

Galya Atanasova, Psy.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist in CA and MA, working with adults and couples across the U.S. and Europe. She specializes in individual and couples therapy, group facilitation, and conflict resolution. Fluent in Bulgarian, French, and English, she brings a multicultural perspective to her work. Dr. Atanasova is also a group facilitator at Groops, helping teams build trust and cohesion, and works in mediation in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. In her private practice, she offers an integrative approach that fosters one’s innate ability to self-heal, combining evidence-based methods with warmth and collaboration.

• Course Outline
  
  1.    Theoretical Foundations of Emotional Responsiveness and Communication Styles (10 minutes)
  2. Assessment of Emotional Responsiveness (10 minutes)
  3.    Core Skills for Enhancing Emotional Attunement (20 minutes)
  4.     Corrective Emotional Experiences and Deepened Communication (15 minutes)
  5.   Application in Individual Therapy and Ethics (15 minutes)
  6. Q & A (20 minutes)

  
  Topic:  

  This workshop applies integrative, evidence-based principles to enhance emotional responsiveness and strengthen communication among couples and individuals. It explores how patterns of reactivity, withdrawal, and attachment shape relational functioning, and teaches strategies for fostering attunement, co-regulation, and corrective emotional experiences. Participants will learn to recognize barriers to emotional responsiveness, apply practical interventions that promote safety and connection, guide partners toward vulnerability and repair, and develop concrete skills to strengthen communication and relational health in clinical practice.

   Learning Objectives:

  1. Identify at least three clinically relevant patterns of emotional reactivity and withdrawal that disrupt emotional connection in therapeutic relationships.
  2. Apply at least three relational interventions that enhance attunement and co-regulation.
  3.  Identify and apply at least two structured clinical interventions to increase emotional responsiveness in session.

  
  Continuing Education:

  CPA is co-sponsoring with Santa Barbara County Psychological Association (SBCPA). The California Psychological Association is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. CPA maintains responsibility for this program and its contents.

  Important Notice:

  Those who attend the workshop will receive (1.5) continuing education credits. Please note that APA CE rules require that we give credit only to those who attend the entire workshop. Those arriving more than 15 minutes after the start time or leaving before the workshop is completed will not receive CE credits.

   

  Please Note: This salon will be held via Zoom.

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