Course Description

When working with couples, it is crucial to consider the ways each individual sees the world around them, as well as the world within them. In this 3 hour training, Embodied Mind's executive clinical director Daniel Cook introduces an approach to couples therapy that integrates attachment theory and parts work. He discusses some common pitfalls in couples counseling, paying close attention to the roles and subjective experiences of the therapist. He then offers tangible clinical skills, including nuanced assessment criteria and mindfulness-based interventions, that therapists can integrate into their clinical work with couples.

2 Contact hours available! (See CE info below)

This course will allow you to:

  • Understand the basics of parts work as it applies to couples

  • Utilize the relationship grid to assess an individual’s treatment needs

  • Understand complex trauma in the context of a couple

  • Recognize common pitfalls in dyadic couples counseling

Meet Your Instructor


Daniel Cook is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and Psychotherapist in the state of New York. His work specializes in men's and male adolescent's mental and relational health including relationships, addiction, out of control sexual behavior, anger management, depression, sexuality, and trauma recovery. Understanding the special needs of men in the modern world, he tailors his approach to therapy to address this under-served and overwhelmed population. 


His work is integrative; meeting his clients as they are, he facilitates curiosity and accountability in accepting  where they are and where they want to go. He lectures at universities throughout New York City and has had the privilege working in mental health clinics, hospice, universities, gang intervention programs, the Department of Human Services, and residential supports servicing those with developmental disabilities. He obtained his Master’s Degree in Transpersonal Counseling Psychology from Naropa University, specializing in Gestalt and Mindfulness based therapeutic approaches. He has further trauma and attachment training from the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute, grounding his therapeutic approach in working with body based memories in resolving traumatic experiences as well as the neurological implications of attachment and stress. 


He is an avid meditation practitioner and teacher and contributes his contemplative practice to his capacity as therapist.want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.

Watch our introductory interview with Daniel!

Continuing Education: 2 Contact Hours Earned

Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please save the course curriculum, the certificate of completion you receive afterward and contact your state board or organization to determine specific filing requirements.


Embodied Mind Mental Health Counseling, PLLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0186.


Embodied Mind Mental Health Counseling, PLLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0645.

Course curriculum

  • 1

    Introduction

    • Course Description

    • Meet Your Instructor

    • Getting to know you and your course goals

  • 2

    Lesson Video

    • Part 1

    • Part 2

    • Part 3

  • 3

    CE Quiz

    • CE Quiz

  • 4

    Course Wrap Up

    • Course Survey