Career Development

This workshop hosted by UCSB's Counseling & Psychological Services will help partners get unstuck from repeating patterns of arguing or silent distancing, co-regulate intense emotions with your partner when you are both distressed, and learn how to communicate in new ways that promote better understanding, closeness and connection.

Thursday, March 8th, 2018 - 11:12am


Hold Me Tight® is an educational and experiential workshop that introduces core concepts of Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) to nurture emotional closeness in a couple. This workshop hosted by UCSB's Counseling & Psychological Services will help partners get unstuck from repeating patterns of arguing or silent distancing, co-regulate intense emotions with your partner when you are both distressed, and learn how to communicate in new ways that promote better understanding, closeness and connection.

Hold Me Tight: A Relationship Enhancement Workshop for Individuals and Couples (Graduate Students)
Friday, March 9
10​ a.m.-12 p.m.
CAPS main office
Register here or email facilitator Sophia Chang

You are encouraged to bring ​your partner (partner does NOT need to be an UCSB student), but you can so register as an individual participant

The goal of this workshop are:

  • Understand your "attachment style" in relationship
  • Enhance both partner's sense of security in relationship
  • Identify people's common pattern of fights
  • Regulate hot emotions during a conflict
  • Learn skills of de-escalating the conflict, repair and reconnect