Deepen your therapy
Most couples therapy models weren't built with your clients in mind. Multidynamic Relational Therapy (MRT) was built with them at the center. When EFT and Gottman fall short for the Queer, BIPOC, polyamorous, and neurodivergent relationships in your practice, MRT gives you a framework that starts where those models stop. By centering intersectionality, power, and liberation as clinical tools, not afterthoughts.
Multidynamic Relational Therapy (MRT)
Course Description
What MRT Is
Multidynamic Relational Therapy is a systemic couples and family therapy model developed for the relationships traditional Western models were never normed on. Drawing from intersectionality, Ubuntu, liberation psychology, Ballroom culture, and Person of the Therapist (POTT) work, MRT moves clinicians from cultural competence to cultural attunement and from third-order to fourth-order change.
The Five tenets
MRT organizes clinical work around five non-linear, recursive tenets:
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Societal Expectations — surfacing the visible and invisible contracts shaping the relationship
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Values Alignment — going beneath surface agreement to the values driving conflict
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Power Analysis — making power visible and movable, from power-over to power-with
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Liberation — choosing joy, authenticity, and connection despite oppression
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Radical Emancipation — supporting clients in creating new relational realities the dominant culture didn't give them a script for
What you will build
Across 15 modules, you'll develop the theoretical grounding, clinical interventions, and POTT integration to use MRT in couples work, sex therapy, family therapy, and specialized applications. The training includes scripts, worksheets, video demonstrations, role-plays, full case studies, and a competency-based path toward certification.
This training provides practical assessment tools, intervention strategies, training manual, macro and micro skills of couple/intimate partner therapy, and a person-of-the-therapist framework designed to enhance clinical effectiveness and accountability with diverse intimate partner relationships.
Who's it for
Current students in a Masters or Doctoral Program, Post-master's and post-doctoral clinicians working with couples, throuples, polyamorous constellations, and families particularly those serving Black, Queer, Indigenous, Asian, Latine, interracial, and neurodivergent clients who have outgrown the tools they were trained in.
Format and Cost
This training is 16 hours of live instruction (16 CEs) to be held over zoom or can be arranged to be provided live to organizations or group practices upon request. Please reach out to info@colibricentertraining.com. The training will be held as a 4 day (and 4 hours each) training. Supervision
The cost for the training is $800 which may be paid either in one lump sum or a payment plan.
Scholarship
A dedicated number of training spots are carved out as scholarship spots. In exchange for either a waived or discounted cost, we ask that participants assist us in participating in an upcoming research study to investigate the Feasibility, Suitability and Acceptability of MRT as a model of psychotherapy. Anyone interested should send an email via the button below.
Education Goals & Outcomes
By the end of this program, participants will be able to apply the principles and techniques of Multidynamic Relational Therapy to enhance their clinical work with couples and individuals in intimate relationships. Participants will develop increased sophistication in addressing power dynamics, cultural factors, and liberation-focused goals within the therapeutic context, ultimately improving treatment outcomes for all especially diverse populations.
Certificates of Completion
Certificates of completion will be awarded at the conclusion of each session upon submission of a completed evaluation form. Participants must attend the full session and complete the evaluation to receive CE credit for that session.
Continuing Education Information
This course meets the qualifications for 16 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.
The Colibri Center is a CE provider via CAMFT, AASECT and NBCC.
Instructor Information
Dr. Anthony Pennant LMFT, CST
Dr. Anthony Pennant (he/him) is an international speaker, systemic psychotherapist, and researcher specializing in neurodiversity, LGBT+ relationships, and attachment and foster care. He is the creator of Multidynamic Relational Therapy (MRT) and author of Celebrating the Resilience of Black Queer Relationships: A Guide to Multidynamic Relational Therapy. His work is rooted in the conviction that practiced therapy models must honor ancestral wisdom and the lived knowledge of Global Majority communities and that every community deserves safe therapeutic spaces to process, heal, and grow.
Based in Seattle, WA, Dr. Pennant runs a group practice offering therapeutic support and clinical training, helping individuals, families and relationships of all constellations navigate complex relational dynamics. He speaks to audiences worldwide on advocacy, inclusivity, and culturally attuned care.
