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SUMMARY:Couples Techniques for Digital Infidelity – Free Clinician Training with Anna Elton
DESCRIPTION:\n\nFree Conscious Business Event\nDigital relationship distress can show up through secrecy, social media, pornography, AI companions, constant device use, or online interactions that leave couples questioning trust, connection, and boundaries.\nCouples Techniques for Digital Infidelity: Tools for Handling Disconnection, Jealousy, Pornography and More is a free clinical training featuring Anna Elton, PhD, LMFT, CST, for mental health professionals working with couples whose relationships are being shaped by technology.\nYou’ll explore how digital behavior can influence communication, intimacy, jealousy, emotional regulation, and trust, along with practical approaches for boundary setting, conflict resolution, coping, and clinical intervention.\nThe training connects digital relationship science with established therapeutic approaches so you can evaluate technology-related concerns with a clearer clinical framework and choose interventions that fit the couple in front of you.\n\nRegister Here For Free\nDesigned for mental health professionals working with couples in the digital era.\n\n\n\nExplore This Free Event\nJump directly to the section that interests you.\n\n→Why Attend\n→Who Should Attend\n→What You’ll Learn\n→About Your Host\n→Frequently Asked Questions\n\nRegister Here For Free→\n\n\nNavigate Digital-Era Relationship Challenges\nWhy Attend “Couples Techniques for Digital Infidelity: Tools for Handling Disconnection, Jealousy, Pornography and More”\n\nTechnology has changed how couples communicate, compare, connect, and define relationship boundaries. Digital behaviors can become entangled with resentment, shame, self-esteem, jealousy, emotional distance, and questions about what constitutes betrayal.\nThis training examines those challenges through a clinical lens, including social media dynamics, micro-cheating, phubbing, compulsive or excessive technology use, digital stress, and the ways online behavior can affect intimacy and trust.\nAnna Elton brings together relationship science and practical therapeutic strategies to help clinicians assess digital-era concerns, strengthen communication work, support healthier technology boundaries, and respond to disconnection or betrayal without relying on an outdated definition of infidelity.\nRegister Here For Free\n\n\nFor Professionals Supporting Couples\nWho Should Attend\nThis training is designed for mental health professionals who work with relationship distress, communication challenges, intimacy concerns, digital behavior, jealousy, betrayal, and the emotional impact of technology on couples.\nIt is especially relevant for clinicians who want a broader framework for recognizing digital-era relationship patterns and selecting therapeutic strategies that support communication, emotional regulation, boundaries, trust, and resilience.\n\nCounselors\nSocial workers\nPsychotherapists and psychologists\nAddiction counselors\nTherapists and art therapists\nMarriage and family therapists\nCase managers\nNurses, physicians, and other mental health professionals\n\nRegister Here For Free\n\n\nRelationship Science + Practical Interventions\nWhat You’ll Learn\nYou’ll begin by examining how technology influences relationship dynamics, including communication patterns, self-perception, emotional regulation, intimacy, trust, social comparison, and the effects of digital disruption.\nFrom there, the training moves into practical strategies for healthier boundaries, coping, behavior change, communication, and emotional awareness, drawing on approaches such as CBT, DBT, mindfulness-based methods, solution-focused therapy, interpersonal therapy, ACT, motivational interviewing, and trauma-informed care.\nYou’ll also explore emerging digital concerns, including privacy and ethical considerations, AI and virtual technologies, and the limits and potential risks of current research as relationship therapy continues to adapt to new forms of digital interaction.\nHere’s just a little bit of what you’ll learn:\n\nHow technology and social media can affect couple communication, intimacy, and trust\nWays to recognize digital patterns such as micro-cheating, phubbing, comparison traps, and technoference\nBoundary-setting techniques that support clearer expectations around technology\nConflict-resolution strategies for digital behaviors and online interactions\nDBT-informed tools for emotional regulation and coping with relationship discord\nSolution-focused and interpersonal strategies for improving communication and connection\nMindfulness-based approaches for emotional awareness and technology-related stress\nTrauma-informed and resilience-oriented approaches to negative digital experiences\nGoal-setting strategies for healthier technology habits within relationships\nHow to consider ethical, privacy, AI, and emerging-technology issues in relationship work\n\nRegister Here For Free\n\n\nMeet Your Speaker\nAbout Anna Elton, PhD, LMFT, CST\nAnna Elton, PhD, LMFT, CST, is a licensed marriage and family therapist, clinical sexologist, and author of Couples Therapy in the Digital Age and The Formula of Desire.\nShe is the founder of Longwood Care, where she works with individuals and couples on communication, intimacy, and trust in the digital era. She also writes the “Life, Love, etc.” blog for Psychology Today.\nDr. Elton has appeared on PBS, ABC, FOX, and NBC and speaks at conferences and universities on relationship science and practical tools for connection. Her work blends research with real-world strategies for couples navigating modern relationship challenges.\nRegister Here For Free\n\n\nEverything You Need to Know\nFrequently Asked Questions\nSelect any question below to reveal the answer.\nEvent Details\n\nWho is Anna Elton?\nAnna Elton, PhD, LMFT, CST, is a licensed marriage and family therapist, clinical sexologist, author, and founder of Longwood Care. Her work focuses on communication, intimacy, trust, and relationship challenges in the digital era.\n\n\nWhat will I learn during this training?\nThe training covers digital relationship foundations, social media and comparison, micro-cheating, phubbing, emotional regulation, communication, intimacy, trust, technology boundaries, coping, behavior change, digital stress, resilience, privacy, ethics, AI, and emerging technologies.\n\n\nWho is this training for?\nThe training is designed for counselors, social workers, psychotherapists, psychologists, addiction counselors, therapists, art therapists, marriage and family therapists, case managers, nurses, physicians, and other mental health professionals.\n\n\nIs this event really free?\nYes. Registration for the training is free. An optional paid upgrade is offered separately for clinicians who want continuing education credit and additional materials.\n\n\nCan I earn continuing education credit?\nAn optional paid upgrade offers eligibility for up to 6.25 continuing education hours, subject to the requirements and eligibility information provided by PESI.\n\nDigital Relationships & Clinical Tools\n\nWhat kinds of digital relationship problems are covered?\nThe training addresses disconnection, jealousy, pornography, digital-era betrayal, social comparison, micro-cheating, phubbing, excessive technology use, privacy concerns, and other ways digital behavior can affect trust and relationship quality.\n\n\nDoes this cover social media jealousy and comparison?\nYes. The training examines social envy, comparison traps, self-perception, cultural and generational influences, and the ways social media can affect communication and emotional connection.\n\n\nDoes this training address pornography?\nYes. Pornography is included among the digital-era relationship concerns addressed within the training’s broader focus on disconnection, jealousy, trust, boundaries, and digital infidelity.\n\n\nWhat therapy approaches are included?\nThe training incorporates strategies and concepts from CBT, NLP, DBT, MBSR, solution-focused therapy, interpersonal therapy, MBCT, ACT, motivational interviewing, trauma-informed care, and resilience training.\n\n\nWill boundaries and communication be covered?\nYes. The training includes boundary setting around technology, conflict resolution, communication patterns, emotional intelligence, intimacy, trust, mindful technology use, self-monitoring, and goal setting.\n\n\nDoes the training address AI and emerging technology?\nYes. The material considers emerging technologies, including AI and virtual reality, alongside ethical and privacy considerations, research limitations, and potential risks.\n\n\nWhat is included with the optional upgrade?\nThe optional paid upgrade includes continuing education options and Anna Elton’s book Couples Therapy in the Digital Age, with more than 60 worksheets, handouts, assessments, and interactive online resources.\n\n\n\n\n\nBusiness Education Disclosure\nThe contents of this website/e-mail and this event are for general informational and educational purposes only. They are not legal, tax, accounting, financial, employment, compliance, clinical, or other professional advice. Consult appropriately qualified professionals about decisions specific to your practice, jurisdiction, clients, and circumstances.\n\n\nRelationship Disclosure\nWe are grateful to be of service and bring you these life-changing events free of charge. In order to do this, please note that whenever you click the links and purchase items, in most (not all) cases we will receive a referral commission. We may receive a listing fee for publishing this event.\nYour support in purchasing through these links makes it possible for people in over 150 countries globally to attend these life-changing events for free. 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