Attachment Trauma Treatment Specialist Certificate: Clinical Skills to Repair Anxious, Disorganized and Avoidant Attachment Styles

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The Adult Attachment Interview: Clinical Applications to Accelerate Therapy Progress

Have you ever found yourself puzzled by a motivated client's lack of progress? Wondering how to address the unconscious barriers hindering change for both client and therapist?

The Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) is the answer. Tap into a person's unconscious in ways that other assessments or clinical interventions can't match. Here's why it's a game-changer:

Unparalleled Insight: Explore hidden dimensions of a person's psyche, revealing critical aspects of their narrative.
Illuminate the Unresolved: Shed light on important, unresolved elements of a person's history that lurk in the shadows.
Transformation and Acceleration: Allow a previously untold story to emerge, deepening the therapeutic alliance and transforming the therapy process.
Holistic Approach: Go beyond traditional assessments, addressing the unknown factors that impede progress.

Embrace the Adult Attachment Interview to elevate your counseling practice, deepen connections, and accelerate transformative change for your clients.

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Objectives

Administer the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) Protocol to improve clinical outcomes.
Describe and name the four major categories of AAI findings and their implications for refining clinical interventions.
Apply data from the AAT to improve therapeutic outcomes.

Outline

Correctly Administer the Adult Attachment Interview

Time required to give the interview
Avoiding violations of the interview protocol
Using appropriate interview probes
Risks and limitations

Uncover Key Narratives in the Adult Attachment Interview

Appraise the interview linguistically
Distinguish Grice’s maxims during the interview
Ascertain the possibility of unresolved loss and trauma in the interview

Accelerate Therapy with Adult Attachment Interview Data

Formulate and revise treatment plan goals as appropriate following the interview
Select aspects of the interview narrative to utilize in therapy sessions
Analyze possible incoherence in the interview

Target Audience

Case Managers
Licensed Clinical/Mental Health Counselors
Marriage & Family Therapists
Psychologists
Social Workers
Child and Adolescent Therapists
School Administrators

Copyright : 03/15/2024

Abandonment Trauma: Treatment Strategies to Heal Inner Child Wounds and Restore Healthy Attachment

Stuck in self-fulfilling cycles of mistrust, many clients expect abandonment and inadvertently create situations that reinforce those expectations.

As therapists our role is to dive into the heart of those abandonment fears, and help them heal the traumatic childhood wounds impacting their adult lives and relationships.

But for some clients “trusting” is a place where they’ve been hurt before, making deep therapeutic work difficult to get off the ground. Others can be too clingy, looking for you to meet their intense need for reassurance and connection.

That’s why expert Ellen Biros created this training -- to provide you a roadmap to navigate the complexities of abandonment trauma so you can offer your clients direction, hope, and the keys to healing.

She’ll guide you through the practical and effective approaches you need to build trust with these clients, help them overcome their abandonment fears, and forge a path toward lasting healing and better relationships.

With specific exercises from CBT and DBT you can use right away, you’ll end this training ready to help your clients set healthy boundaries, reduce their exposure to toxic relationships, and reframe the negative thought patterns about self-worth and rejection that have been holding them back.

This training is a valuable addition to any therapists’ treatment toolkit.

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Objectives

Identify the concept of the inner child and its relationship to treatment.
Analyze the relationship between core abandonment beliefs and early maladaptive abandonment/instability schemas in adult individuals.
Determine the role of the expectation of abandonment as a contributing factor to the development of anxious and avoidant attachment styles in clients.
Use cognitive strategies to reframe negative thought patterns, beliefs, and behaviors related to the fear of abandonment and self-worth.
Choose DBT strategies to help clients address difficulties in handling interpersonal relationships.
Utilize graded exposure and desensitization to reduce abandonment-related anxieties.

Outline

Abandonment, Attachment, and Early Experiences

Early childhood’s role in shaping the inner child
Impact of attachment patterns on inner child development
Recognize vulnerability, resilience, and a healthy inner child
Formation of core beliefs from early experiences
Link between self-identity and inner child health

Trauma and the Spectrum of Abandonment

Differentiate between acute, chronic, and complex trauma
Types of trauma and the impact on attachment
Understand abandonment as a core psychological wound
How abandonment influences personality development
Impact of attachment on forming and maintaining healthy relationships
Barriers to healthy relationships in adulthood

Recognize Signs and Symptoms

Behavioral manifestations
Cognitive and emotional symptoms
Attachment-related behaviors
Impact on self-esteem and identity
Cultural considerations

The Abandonment Trauma Treatment Toolbox: CBT and DBT Strategies and Exercises to Repair Inner Child Wounds

Principles and techniques for trauma and abandonment issues
DBT skills training for emotional regulation and interpersonal effectiveness
Tools to set healthy boundaries and reduce exposure to toxic people
Cognitive exercises to challenge negative thought patterns about self-worth
Cognitive restructuring exercises to rebuild trust and self-confidence
Behavioral interventions for selfcompassion and fear of rejection
Self-soothing techniques for abandonment triggers
Graded exposure and desensitization for abandonment-related anxieties
Research, risks and treatment limitations

Therapeutic Relationship and Therapist Self-Care

Build a therapeutic alliance
Strategies for managing countertransference and vicarious trauma
Self-care practices for therapists

Target Audience

Counselors
Social Workers
Marriage & Family Therapists
Psychologists
Physicians
Case Managers
Addiction Counselors
Nurses
Other Mental Health Professionals

Copyright : 07/19/2024

Treating Rejection Sensitive Clients: An Attachment-Based Approach to Turn Rejection into Connection for Clients with Relationship Issues

Nobody likes rejection.

But for some it leaves them feeling so essentially flawed, self-critical and self-loathing that they can’t bounce back. They become so sensitive to the perception of rejection (regardless of reality) that it becomes a core issue in their relationship difficulties, with others and themselves.

In therapy, these clients are often guarded or hostile as they try to avoid rejection and failure at any cost. Without working specifically on their rejection sensitivity, treatment for these clients can come to a grinding halt as they wall you out, shut down or lose themselves in an angry spiral.

Leslie Becker-Phelps, PhD is a psychologist, speaker and an internationally published author. Her book Bouncing Back from Rejection: Build the Resilience You Need to Get Back Up When Life Knocks You Down (New Harbinger; 2019) has been praised by some of the most trusted names in psychotherapy including Steven Hays, Kristen Neff, and Ron Siegel.

Watch her as she teaches you an attachment-based compassion therapy approach that is highly effective with rejection sensitive clients so you can lower their defenses, build their emotional regulation skills, and engage them more fully in therapy.

In just one day you’ll discover:

How attachment styles relate to rejection-sensitivity
Interventions that will build your clients' ability to tolerate, accept, and manage emotions
Cutting-edge approaches to developing your clients’ self-awareness
Compassion-centered therapeutic techniques to decrease rejection-sensitivity and build resilience

Don’t miss this chance to find greater therapeutic success with clients who struggle to get back up when life knocks them down.

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Objectives

Evaluate the treatment implications of rejection sensitivity in clients.
Investigate how clinicians can help clients develop greater attachment security to reduce sensitivity to rejection and improve client functioning.
Assess how compassionate self-awareness can be taught in a clinical setting to help clients reduce self-criticism and rejection-sensitivity.
Analyze theories and research behind attachment-based approaches and connect the potential risks in their application to clinical practice.
Determine how a clinician’s self-assessment of attachment style can be used to facilitate treatment.
Assess how teaching clients the five fundamental domains of awareness can help them identify, reflect on, and manage their rejection sensitivity.

Outline

How Attachment Styles Relate to Rejection-Sensitivity

Insecure attachment and vulnerability to rejection
Elements and functions of the attachment system
Relationship between insecure attachment and psychopathology
Limitations of theory and research; potential risks in their application

Build Self-Awareness with Mindfulness and Compassion- Centered Therapies

Five domains of self-awareness
Improve compassionate self-awareness with mindfulness
Self-compassion & secure attachment
Compassion-centered therapies

Decrease Rejection-Sensitivity with an Attachment-Based Compassion Therapy (ABCT) Approach

Improve 4 essential modes of functioning
Assess your attachment style and use this self-awareness to facilitate treatment
Utilize the therapeutic relationship as a tool to build security

Strengthen Your Clients Emotional Regulation Skills

Develop awareness of sensations
Identify and reflect on rejection-sensitive thoughts
Acknowledge, tolerate, accept, and manage emotions
Increase awareness of how actions reinforce rejection-sensitivity
Strengthen mentalizing ability

Develop Your Client’s Resilience to Rejection with Self-Compassion

Define self-compassion
Counter rejection sensitivity by nurturing self-compassion
Use compassionate self-awareness

Target Audience

Psychologists
Social Workers
Counselors
Marriage and Family Therapists
Physicians
Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselors
Pastoral Counselors

Copyright : 02/08/2021

EMDR for Adult Survivors of Childhood Abuse and Neglect: Advanced Treatment Techniques for Insecure Attachment and Complex Trauma

Plagued with trauma, low self-esteem, relationship problems, and difficulty regulating their emotions, adult clients who’ve experienced childhood emotional abuse and neglect can be some of your toughest cases.

Not only are you facing therapeutic challenges like fragmented self-identity, dissociation and difficulty forming healthy attachments – you’re often left trying to identify and reprocess what may be unrealized, absent, or lacking…

…all while trying to attune to experiences for which the client struggles to have words.

Fortunately EMDR is up to the challenge, giving you the tools you need to successfully treat these clients so they can move past their traumatic childhoods to achieve lasting healing.

Now in this advanced training, you’ll watch Sarah Freeze, LCSW, a certified EMDR therapist and consultant who has been working with clients who have experienced childhood emotional abuse and neglect for over a decade.

Through a combination of lecture, discussion, and insight building case studies, Sarah will teach you how to build your clinical expertise with EMDR so you can:

Apply adult attachment principles for a fuller understanding of your client’s presentation and history
Develop skills to better address your client’s defenses for gentler and more effective trauma reprocessing
Identify and address adaptations to unavailable and dysfunctional caregivers
Use creative techniques to process unseen wounds that clients may have trouble verbalizing
Help clients feel in control by working with them to stay in their window of tolerance during trauma reprocessing
And much more!

You’ll leave this training with the tools you need to identify targets specific to complex childhood experiences and guide clients toward the trauma resolution and relief they need.

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Objectives

Describe the link between childhood trauma and the development of Complex PTSD, insecure attachment, and emotional regulation.
Analyze research on the feasibility and efficacy of using EMDR with childhood emotional abuse and neglect experiences.
Identify clinical implications of childhood trauma.
Develop individualized treatment plans for clients with differing attachment styles and experiences of childhood relational abuse.
Incorporate attachment theory and polyvagal theory into current understanding of trauma an EMDR treatment.
Use three resourcing skills to strengthen client’s adult self and relational functioning for gentler trauma reprocessing.
Develop an understanding of how to track the body and use strategies to return to the window of tolerance during trauma reprocessing.
Employ target mapping for EMDR informed by specialized knowledge of complex trauma.
Recognize key components to an integrative treatment plan, incorporating EMDR with other treatment approaches.

Outline

Childhood Abuse and Neglect Experiences: The Latest Research and Relationship with Complex Trauma

Newest Research on ACE Studies
Relationship with Complex PTSD
Impact on Attachment and the Therapeutic Relationship
Lack of Care and the Loss of Words
Polyvagal Theory and the Window of Tolerance
EMDR Research, Risks and Limitations

Client History and Assessment: Assessing Attachment, the Body and More

Understanding Adult Attachment
Skill: Assessing Attachment Based on Client’s Conversational Style
Skill: Five Adjectives to Describe Your Caregiver
Assessing the Body and One’s Ability to Care for Oneself
Online Sandtray as a Creative Technique for Self-Understanding

Case Conceptualization: How Clients Adaptations to Dysfunctional Caregivers Informs Treatment

Target Mapping Related to Unavailable Caregivers and Dissociation [vs focus]
Skill: Identify Unspoken Agreements between Child and Parent
Understanding how the Child Maintained Connection
Adaptation and Defenses
Skill: Listening for the Split
Idealization of the Caregiver
Skill: Targeting Idealization Defenses

Preparation and Assessment: Relational Resourcing to Strengthen Adult Self

Understanding What Grounding Techniques Have Worked Historically
Resourcing to Strengthen Adult Self
Skill: Circle of Love
Skill: Using an Online Sandtray for Relational Resourcing
Resourcing the Body
Skill: Somatic Container
Caring For Oneself as an Act of Resistance
Clinical Vignette of Peter: Identifying Loss of Appetite Related to Lack of Food in Childhood

Advanced Applications for Verbal and Non-Verbal Trauma Reprocessing

Empowering Your Client to Foster a Sense of Control
Physical Sensations and Associative Processing
Skill: Pendulation
Ideas on How to Target Affective Moments
Addressing Shame and Avoidance
Skill: Using an Online Sandtray for Nonverbal Trauma Reprocessing
Clinical Vignette of Tina: Target Mother Being “Emotionally Vacant”

Target Audience

Counselors
Social Workers
Psychiatrists
Psychologists
Addiction Counselors
Marriage and Family Therapists
Therapists
Physicians
Nurses
Other Professionals Who Work within the Mental Health Fields

Rethinking Borderline Personality Disorder

Regardless of how it might seem, clients aren’t really at war with their therapists; they’re caught up in a trauma-related internal battle, asking themselves questions about whether to trust or not trust, live or die, and love or hate. A trauma perspective opens up new ways of working with clients with BPD, helping us understand their challenging behaviors as consequences of being traumatized and fragmented. It transforms the therapeutic relationship and the treatment. In this recording, you’ll explore the value of reinterpreting borderline personality as an attachment disorder and learn how to help clients with BPD focus on their internal battles, positioning yourself as an ally. You’ll explore how to:

To strengthen alliances with clients with BPD and navigate their fears of closeness and distance
Understand how fragmentation or “splitting” creates internal conflicts and fuels crisis
Help BPD clients resolve internal struggles with easily implemented body-centered and parts-centered interventions

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Objectives

Determine the common effects of traumatic attachment.
Distinguish Borderline Personality Disorder symptoms characteristic of disorganize or unresolved attachment.
Investigate the effects of disorganized attachment in adult interpersonal relationships.
Demonstrate use of right brain-to-right brain techniques to help BPD clients tolerate and benefit from psychotherapy.
Apply three body-centered, mindfulness-based interventions to increase affect tolerance and decrease impulsive behavior.

Outline

The effects of trauma on attachment formation in children
- When parents are ‘frightened and frightening’
- Trauma-related internal conflicts between closeness and distance
- Disorganized attachment status in adulthood
Understanding BPD as a trauma-related disorder
- Differentiating personality disorder symptoms from trauma responses
- Using psychoeducation to make sense of the symptoms
Re-interpreting BPD as ‘Traumatic Attachment Disorder: how does it change the treatment?
- Transforming the focus from behavior change to trauma resolution
- Understanding splitting as dissociative, not manipulative
- Transference and countertransference implications
Stabilization of unsafe behavior
- “Waking up” the prefrontal cortex
- Increasing client ability to be mindful rather than reactive
- Re-interpreting impulsive behavior as fight/flight responses
- Helping clients dis-identify from suicidal beliefs and impulses
Addressing issues of clinging, separation anxiety and anger
- Working from a trauma-based parts perspective
- Facilitating internal attachment relationships
A “right brain to right brain” approach to healing attachment wounding
- Facilitating internal compassion
- Helping clients ‘repair’ the past rather than remember it
- Creating internal secure attachment

Target Audience

Psychologists
Physicians
Addiction Counselors
Counselors
Social Workers
Marriage & Family Therapists
Art Therapists
Nurses
Other Behavioral Health Professionals

Repairing the Internal Attachment with Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy

Join IFS expert, author, prominent clinician & psychiatrist Frank Anderson, MD, to learn how to help clients heal from the inside out.

Explore the application of the IFS Model of therapy and trauma and attachment theory to apply in your work with children, families and couples to effectively heal emotional wounds:

Address the fears/concerns of protective parts
Establish a trusting relationship with proactive and reactive parts

Don’t miss out on this must-see session to make IFS therapy one of your go-to treatment tools!

This product is not endorsed by, sponsored by, or affiliated with the IFS Institute and does not qualify for IFS Institute credits or certification.

Program Information

Objectives

Evaluate the steps of working with clients' “protective parts” to improve treatment outcomes as proposed by the IFS model.
Propose how to address the “protector” fears as they arise for the client during the therapy session.
Apply the core concepts of IFS intervention to repair the internal disconnections created by trauma.

Outline

Facilitate internal attachment work
Learn to address the fears/concerns of protective parts
Establish a trusting relationship with proactive and reactive parts
Resolve internal conflicts
Gain permission to proceed with healing

Target Audience

Counselors
Social Workers
Psychologists
Therapists
Addiction Counselors
Marriage and Family Therapists
Psychiatrists
Other Professionals Who Work within the Mental Health Fields