Ten days of advanced couples therapy training, delivered in two blocks of five. This is where you move from knowing Imago to doing it: with real complexity, real feedback, and live supervision of your own couple cases.
Clinical Skills follows on from Imago Foundations and takes you through the full range of Imago processes to certification standard. You book both five-day blocks together as one commitment, and by the end of the ten days you will have completed all 12 taught training days required before entering the certification process.
Prerequisite: you must have completed the Imago Foundations course before attending Clinical Skills.
Imago Relationship Therapy has been practised internationally for decades, with a defined curriculum, international oversight, and a recognised certification process. What distinguishes this training is not only the modality itself, but the way it is taught: through repeated, supervised, supported practice.
Theory alone does not prepare you for high conflict, shutdown, ruptures in trust, or the moments when you need to know what to do next in the room. Daily practice helps the method become something you can actually use with couples, rather than something you are still trying to work out live.
Clinical Skills is delivered in two five-day blocks. The first deepens the foundations; the second takes you into more advanced processes, difficult presentations, and live supervision.
Block 1
Block 2
Outcome
By the end of all ten days, you will have worked through the full range of core Imago processes many times, with feedback, repetition, and supervision built in.
That repetition is what helps the approach feel grounded and usable in real sessions with your own couples.
You must have completed the Imago Foundations course before booking Clinical Skills.
You do not need to already be seeing couples in your practice, although some participants will be. The key requirement is that you have completed the first two days and are ready to continue into the advanced stage of the pathway.
The couples you work with will come from different backgrounds, cultures, identities, and relationship structures. Some will be neurodivergent, and some will be navigating forms of complexity that standard training texts do not address well. Clinical Skills works with that reality rather than around it.
The training aims to help you notice and honour the complexity each couple brings, while also making space for therapists from different backgrounds to learn as their whole selves.
The training is offered in two formats with the same trainers and core content.
Attend at the Affinity Centre in Cheadle, Cheshire.
Join live on Zoom from anywhere in the UK or beyond.
One of only two UK members of The Imago International Training Institute, and a UKCP-registered psychotherapist and couples therapist.
UKCP-registered psychotherapist, Certified Advanced Imago Relationship Therapist, and Provisional Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst (PTSTA-P).
For therapists in Transactional Analysis training, hours completed on this training can count towards CTA qualification.
Quick answers to the most common questions about prerequisites, format, booking, certification, and payment.
It is the advanced stage of Imago Relationship Therapy training, covering Days 3 to 12 of the full pathway. Delivered in two blocks of five days, it develops your practice through the full range of Imago clinical processes, including live supervision of your own couple cases.
Yes. Completion of the Imago Foundations course is a prerequisite for attending Clinical Skills.
Yes. Clinical Skills is booked as a single commitment covering both five-day blocks.
Yes. Clinical Skills is offered face-to-face in Cheadle and online via Zoom, with the same content and trainers in both formats.
No. You choose one format when you book and complete all ten days with that cohort. Foundations can be taken in a different format.
You need to have completed Imago Foundations. You do not need to already be seeing couples in your practice, although some participants are.
After completing all 12 days, certification requires six months of supervised couple casework, a video submission, and attendance at a Getting the Love You Want or Finding and Keeping Love workshop.
Yes. If cost is a barrier, instalment plans are available.
Yes. Joanna holds PTSTA status, so hours completed on this training can count towards CTA qualification.
Once you have completed all 12 training days, you are ready to begin the certification process.
Taking the Foundations plus Clinical Skills courses completes the taught part of the Imago training pathway.
Certification also requires attendance at a Getting the Love You Want couples workshop or a Finding and Keeping Love singles workshop.
Taking part earlier gives you a grounding in the approach from the client's perspective.
This is the stage where the approach becomes more instinctive, tested, and usable with real couples and real complexity.
The cost for the full ten days of Clinical Skills training is £2000. Instalment plans are available. Get in touch about payment options