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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

Nov. 20-22, 2009 Best Practice in Evidence-Based Assessment for Couple Therapy Clinical Roundtable at the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy New York, New York
April 16-17, 2010 Infidelity Isn’t the End Featured speaker,
Council on Contemporary Families
Rock Island, Illinois
June 2-5, 2010 Acceptance and Change in Couple Therapy Master Clinician Presentation,
World Congress of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies
Boston, Massachusetts
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