PAIRS Training for Mental Health Professionals

PAIRS—The Best in Marriage Education Training and Certification for professionals who counsel and coach couples

PAIRS is widely respected as the most comprehensive, effective marriage education program in the nation, because of the consistent, positive, lasting impact courses have on the lives of participants. This impact has been repeatedly validated through extensive research on the experiences of thousands of diverse participants in PAIRS brief, evidence-based programs:

PAIRS Essentials (8-12 hours)

In 2009, PAIRS Essentials Retreats for Wounded Warriors suffering from visible and invisible wounds as a result of combat deployment were selected by the Veterans Administration as a “Best Practice” for marriage enrichment.

“Skill-based love is the most romantic and the most enduring… PAIRS is the Cadillac of programs.”
~Diane Solee, Director, The Coalition for Marriage, Families and Couples Education

While some marriage education programs address one or two components of the resources needed to sustain lasting loving relationships, such as communication or conflict resolution, PAIRS delivers a holistic approach that has been proven effective and enduring time and again.

PAIRS Essentials uniquely integrates the process, sequence, quality management, and range of relationship-building experiences vital to producing lasting breakthroughs for couples and families.

A 2009 study of the longitudinal impact of PAIRS Essentials and PAIRS for LIFE for couples who began at the point of separation or divorce found significant, lasting improvements for 77% of the participants.

A 2010 study of PAIRS Essentials found statistically significant benefits across diverse socio-economic and ethnic groups for participants in various stages of relationships.

“Taking from psychoanalysis, psychology, psychiatry and counseling the essence of their change-producing techniques… [PAIRS is] a synergistic force that helps individuals and couples find positive change to be relatively easy.”

~Clifford Sager MD, Director, The Marriage and Family Clinic at Cornell Medical Center

PAIRS – Impact Studies:

issuu.com/pairs/docs/impact_studies

PAIRS – Curriculum Overview

training.pairs.com/levelone/overview

PAIRS – Mission and Values

Since 1983, the mission of PAIRS Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit charity, has been to teach those attitudes, emotional understandings, and behaviors that nurture and sustain healthy relationships and to make this knowledge broadly available on behalf of a safer, saner, more loving world.

We accomplish our mission by developing and delivering evidence-based, best practices in marriage, family and couples education, conducting research, and training instructors worldwide.

PAIRS Trainer – Robin Temple MA MSW

Robin Temple is the only PAIRS-certified trainer offering PAIRS certification programs for therapists, psychologists, clergy, social workers, and other healthcare professionals in the Rocky Mountain region. She is a leading professional in education and therapy for families, helping distressed couples, teaching and coaching. She’s a contributing author on:

• Building Intimate Relationships
• Handbook of Couples Therapy

Co-leading is her partner, PAIRS Master Teacher Mike Moore. Robin and Michael also design courses for PAIRS Foundation:

•  PAIRS 120-hour Mastery Course
•  PAIRS Passion Weekend
•  PAIRS Level One Certification Training
•  PAIRS Level Two Certification Training

Quotes from graduates of Robin’s and Mike’s PAIRS Level One certification trainings:

Bring a partner for FREE

You may bring a partner free of charge to join you for the first 2.5 days of experiential exercises. This will help you understand the course from the inside before we focus on how to teach it the second two days.