Couples Techniques for Digital Infidelity – Free Clinician Training with Anna Elton
Digital 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.
Couples 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.
You’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.
The 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.
Why Attend “Couples Techniques for Digital Infidelity: Tools for Handling Disconnection, Jealousy, Pornography and More”
Technology 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.
This 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.
Anna 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work, support healthier technology boundaries, and respond to disconnection or betrayal without relying on an outdated definition of infidelity.
Who Should Attend
This 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.
It 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.
- Counselors
- Social workers
- Psychotherapists and psychologists
- Addiction counselors
- Therapists and art therapists
- Marriage and family therapists
- Case managers
- Nurses, physicians, and other mental health professionals
What You’ll Learn
You’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.
From 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.
You’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.
- How technology and social media can affect couple communication, intimacy, and trust
- Ways to recognize digital patterns such as micro-cheating, phubbing, comparison traps, and technoference
- Boundary-setting techniques that support clearer expectations around technology
- Conflict-resolution strategies for digital behaviors and online interactions
- DBT-informed tools for emotional regulation and coping with relationship discord
- Solution-focused and interpersonal strategies for improving communication and connection
- Mindfulness-based approaches for emotional awareness and technology-related stress
- Trauma-informed and resilience-oriented approaches to negative digital experiences
- Goal-setting strategies for healthier technology habits within relationships
- How to consider ethical, privacy, AI, and emerging-technology issues in relationship work
About Anna Elton, PhD, LMFT, CST
Anna 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.
She 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.
Dr. 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.
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Join Anna Elton, PhD, LMFT, CST, for practical guidance on technology, trust, communication, boundaries, emotional regulation, and therapeutic strategies for couples.
- Nov 16 2026
- 6:00 am - 2:00 pm
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- Timezone: Asia/Shanghai
- Date: Nov 16 - 17 2026
- Time: 10:00 pm - 6:00 am
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