Speaking & Training
TEDx talk, 2017
I speak about contemporary relational dilemmas, exploring the intersections of love, freedom, and loyalty in modern relationships. My work engages questions of identity, relationality, and belonging across clinical, academic, and public audiences.
Upcoming Events
An intersectional systemic training program offering clinical deep-dives into the challenges facing contemporary families, including: post-separation conflicts, single parenthood, identity questions for children born through assisted reproduction (ART) and surrogacy and their parents, same-sex parenting, the vulnerabilities and resources of unaccompanied minors, polyamorous couples, LGBTQ youth and their families, as well as migrant families. Register here.
Nov 6, 2026 to June 4, 2027 | Université Libre de Bruxelles
Couples Therapy Master Series: Seven More Approaches to Interviewing 2026-2027
Therapy Training Boston’s couples therapy course is facilitated by Liz Brenner, LICSW with monthly guest presenters who are masters of the craft.
Days: The first Wednesday evening each month from November 2026 to May 2027:
Time: 6:45pm to 9:35pm Eastern Time
Location: Live on Zoom; participants attend in real time
CEs: 18
Jean Malpas: Feb 3, 2027 - Consensual Love: Where Freedom and Loyalty Meet
Nov 2026 - May 2027 | Boston, MA | Zoom
“Entre loyauté et autonomie: une clinique systémique humaniste des couples ouverts”, Conférence: "Thérapie familiale, clinique systémique et familles contemporaines : accompagner au-delà des normes"
September 2026 | Paris, France
Featured Past Events
Consensual Love: Where Freedom & Loyalty Meet, Esther Perel’s Sessions Live 2026
May 2026 | Brooklyn, NY
Between Loyalty & Freedom: A Systemic Humanist Approach to Open Couples, Université Libre de Bruxelles and Épicentre,
March 2026 | Brussels, Belgium
It’s Complicated: Navigating Infidelity and Consensual Nonmonogamy in Couples Therapy, Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy
February 2025 | New York, NY
Affirmative Couple & Family Therapy with Queer & Trans Couples, Two-Day Seminar presented at Instituto Latinoamericano de Estudios de la Familia (ILEF)
October 2023 | Mexico City, Mexico.
Children and Families in Crisis: Systemic Responses to Violence, Trauma, and Identity Stressors
Children and Families in Crisis: Systemic Responses to Violence, Trauma, and Identity Stressors, Annual Conference of the American Family Therapy Academy (AFTA) Keynote Discussant
June 2026 | Virtual
Open Couples and the Navigation of Individual and Couples Identities and Belonging
AFTA- RELATES Joint Congress
August 2025 | Lyon, France
Building Best Practices: Multisystemic Interventions with Families of Transgender Youths
Building Best Practices: Multisystemic Interventions with Families of Transgender Youths, Keynote presented at the American Family Therapy Academy
June 2018 | Austin, TX.
Wisdom, Trauma & Alliance in Couples Therapy
Wisdom, Trauma & Alliance in Couples Therapy, European Institute for Family Therapy and Consultation,
October 2026 | Rome, Italy
Coloring Outside the Lines: Couple Therapy with Open Couples
Coloring Outside the Lines: Couple Therapy with Open Couples, Couples Conference, Harvard Medical School and Cambridge Health Alliance
December 2023 | Boston, MA.
Multi-Level Approach to Couples Impasses
Multi-Level Approach to Couples Impasses, Couples Therapy Certificate, Ackerman Institute
October 2025 | New York, NY
Wisdom, Trauma & Alliance: Affirmative Couples Therapies
Full-Day Seminar presented at the Instituto Chileno de Therapie Familiar (IChTF)
March 2023 | Santiago, Chile
Multidisciplinary Family Therapy
Keynote presented at the AIGLE Institute
November 2017 | Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Featured Publications
Malpas, J-E. (2027, in press). La clinique du couple ouvert : une approche systémique humaniste des dialectiques loyauté-liberté. In Thérapie Familiale. Numéro special.
Malpas, J. (2025). Love is Louder. In Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Volume 35, Number 2, pp. 199-202.
Robin, F. & Malpas, J. (2022). Les couples à l’épreuve depuis la « Crise Covid » : Perspectives thérapeutiques. Cahiers Critiques de Thérapie Familiale et de Pratiques de Réseaux, N. 69(2) : 151-170.
Scheinkman, M., Papp, P., Malpas, J. (2013). Breaking the mold: Sculpting Impasses in Couples Therapy. Family Process, Vol. 52.
Malpas, J. (2011). Between Pink and Blue: A Multi-Dimensional Approach to Gender Nonconforming Children and their Families,Family Process, 50, 4, pp. 453-470.
Lev, A. I., & Malpas, J. (2011). Exploring gender and sexuality in couples and families. At the Edge: Exploring Gender and Sexuality in Couples and Families. AFTA Monograph Series, 7, 2-8.
Malpas, J. (2010). Commentary on Case Study “Between Gay and Straight: Honoring a client’s multiple identities" by Jeff Levy. Psychotherapy Networker, May/June 2010.
Malpas, J. (2006). From ‘Otherness’ to Alliance: Transgender Couples in Therapy. Journal of GLBT Family Studies, Volume 2, Numbers 3⁄4, pp. 183-206.
Malpas, J. (2004). Crystal Meth, HIV and the Gay Community: An Epidemic within an Epidemic.Body Positive, Vol. XVII, Number 3, October 2004.