69. Lou Lasprugato, MFT | Yearnings and Vulnerabilities in Relationships

Written By Tom Parkes

My guest today is Lou Lasprugato, MFT. Lou is an internationally recognized trainer and behavioral health provider. He’s a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, with private practices in both California and Virginia (United States), and Peer-Reviewed Trainer in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) with the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science, for which he also serves as chair of the Training Committee. Lou has taught mindfulness meditation to health care practitioners and facilitated dozens of training events on ACT and Relational Frame Theory (RFT), as well as co-created courses on nutritional psychology and integrative mental health. 

Some of the topics we explore in this episode include:

  • Reflections on parenting

  • Lou’s clinical background and how he first discovered ACT

  • How Lou uniquely applies ACT within couples work

  • Core yearnings and vulnerabilities in intimate relationships

  • How these apply to the therapeutic relationship

  • And balancing the content and process levels in a therapy session



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