Advanced Couples Case Consultation
Advanced Couples Case Consultation
In service of strengthening couples therapy in our local clinical community, Kerry Lusignan, founder and director of NCCT, is offering a monthly consultation group dedicated to deepening clinicians’ work with couples, meeting January through May.
This group is designed as a structured space for clinicians to bring forward complex cases, clinical dilemmas, and questions that benefit from collective reflection. The focus will be on high-conflict couples, couples in crisis, complex relational presentations, and gridlock. Because the majority of Kerry’s professional energy is devoted to the Northampton Center for Couples Therapy, this is a rare opportunity to work with her outside of NCCT.
Details:
- Dates: Fridays — 1/30, 2/27, 3/27, 4/24, 5/22 (2026)
- Time: 12:00–1:30 PM EST
- Format: Online
- Audience: Licensed clinicians & advanced associates
- Focus: Complex couples case consultation & clinical decision-making
The group welcomes both ongoing participation and occasional drop-ins, with a structure that ensures meaningful discussion and engagement.
Fees (per session):
Series Commitment (all five sessions):
- Tier 1 – $35: For clinicians with limited income or financial constraints
- Tier 2 – $50: Sustaining rate that reflects the true cost of the group
- Tier 3 – $65: Supporter rate that helps make the group accessible to others
Drop-in Fee (single session): $ 75. Available when space allows and offered only if openings remain after registered participants are accommodated.
This structure encourages continuity while remaining flexible for clinicians who cannot commit to the full series. Attendance is limited to allow for rich discussion, and participants are expected to actively engage with their own cases as well as others’.
We hope that this offering supports strong, ethical, and thoughtful couples work in our community—and fosters connection among clinicians doing this demanding and nuanced work.
I look forward to seeing you and thinking together about the hardest couples.
About Kerry Lusignan, MA, MFA, LMHC
Crisis, while painful, often clears space for something entirely new. In couples therapy, it is often the moment when familiar strategies have failed—when conflict has hardened, and hope feels thin—that meaningful transformation becomes possible. Kerry Lusignan’s work is grounded in the belief that when therapists can slow down, stay present, and engage complexity rather than retreat from it, new relational pathways emerge.
Kerry is frequently the clinician couples seek out when nothing else has worked, particularly in cases involving high conflict, acute crisis, neurodiversity, and entrenched relational patterns. As Founder and Director of the Northampton Center for Couples Therapy—a center devoted exclusively to evidence-informed couples work—she brings decades of clinical experience and a deep respect for the emotional and systemic forces shaping intimate relationships.
Her teaching integrates rigor with humanity. Kerry is a Certified Gottman Method Couples Therapist, certification-eligible in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), and trained in Pragmatic Experiential Couples Therapy (PET-C) under Brent Atkinson. Her work is further informed by advanced training in neurodiverse couples therapy, stepfamily systems, and high-stakes clinical contexts, as well as her background as a Certified Daring Way™ Facilitator.
Kerry holds an MA in Applied Psychology and an MFA in Creative Nonfiction, reflecting her belief that effective couples therapy depends as much on language, meaning-making, and the therapist’s presence as on theory. Training with Kerry is not about mastering a single model—it is about learning how to think, stay grounded in intensity, and remain deeply human in some of the most demanding work in our field.