Vulnerability is a Superpower in Relationships: Tools and Strategies for Couples
Vulnerability is a Superpower in Relationships: Tools and Strategies for Couples
In this course, Dr. Christine McKee explains how vulnerability can function as a powerful pathway to deeper connection, emotional safety, and relational repair in couple relationships, offering clinicians practical ways to help clients move beyond defensiveness, perfectionism, and disconnection into more authentic and securely attached ways of relating.
About this course
In this course, psychologist Dr. Christine McKee, Registered Generalist Psychologist, introduces vulnerability as a clinically significant process in couples work, exploring how openness, emotional honesty, self-regulation, and co-regulation support trust, intimacy, and secure attachment. The course examines the benefits of vulnerability, the developmental and relational factors that foster or inhibit it, and practical ways practitioners can create emotional safety in session while coaching couples toward more constructive communication, deeper self-awareness, and meaningful relational change.