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Andrew Christensen is a Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). At UCLA, he conducts research on couple conflict and couple therapy and teaches couple therapy. He is a licensed clinical psychologist in the state of California and has a part-time private practice devoted to couple counseling and therapy.

Dr. Christensen is devoted to the advancement of evidence-based treatments for couples in distress. Along with the late Neil S. Jacobson, he developed Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy (IBCT), an empirically supported treatment for couples. Since 1993, he has been studying the effectiveness of couple therapy, especially IBCT, with grant support from the National Institute of Mental Health. Along with Neil Jacobson, Christensen wrote a self-help book for couples based on IBCT: Reconcilable Differences. He also wrote a book for therapists on IBCT: Acceptance and Change in Couple Therapy. For more information about IBCT, go HERE. reconcilalbe_differences acceptance_and_change

Recent and Upcoming Presentations

August 2-4, 2010 Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy Three day workshop for the Veteran's Administration Long Beach, CA
November 20, 2010 Expanding Evidence Based Psychological Services Clinical Round Table at the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy San Francisco, CA
April 4-5, 2011 Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy Three day workshop for the Veteran's Administration Baltimore, MD
April 29-30, 2011 Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy Two day workshop for the Boulder Center for Cognitive & Behavioral Therapies Boulder, CO
August 29-31, 2011 Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy Three day workshop for the Veteran's Administration Location TBD
September 16-17, 2011 Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy Two day workshop for a French Cognitive Behavior Therapy Association Paris, France
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