For instance, most practitioners remain at Level 1 in the domain of Intervention Skills for group psychotherapy for a good number of years because, since much of the early emphasis in training for this domain is in
the realm of individual therapy, they have much less opportunity for practicing group psychotherapy.
Yet, couples
therapy tends still to be conducted in the purely verbal
realm, focused on the words
of each partner's
individual story, while neglecting the body's vast potential for emotional and spiritual expression.