Happy Couples Healthy Communities

I have never been to a more helpful workshop in my life. Michael Brown is not only an excellent workshop leader but also an excellent therapist. He helped my partner and I see that conflict is a normal part of a relationship and gave us very useful tools in addressing it and seeing a way forward. He is not only an authentically caring and compassionate individual, he is highly skilled at teaching and conducting therapy. Specifically, I loved his use of humor in his teaching, I noticed that even on his so called breaks and at lunch time, Michael continued to give 150% of himself to the workshop participants around him. He continued to be engaging, answering questions,... read full review

One star for initial seemingly genuine effort. The man seems to be, ironically, afraid of conflict. He is good at following the Gottman script and seems to be well versed in Gottman teachings and theory. However, critical thinking and flexibility to apply theory to individual nuances, knowing when to interject (pretty much never), following complicated dialogue, intuition, all seem to be lacking in our experience and observation. Extremely disappointed in the cost to benefit ratio of our counseling. Cost is very high, and you will get nearly zero opinion. This is after over 6 sessions. My spouse and I actually bonded more on how horrible the sessions were, after coming... read full review

Michael is a dynamic, thorough and caring traininer. Using the course material with my clients has taken my practice to a whole new level of effectiveness.