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This training will turn you into a versatile therapist ready to guide clients to the healing they've been looking for their entire lives.

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The Crappy Childhood Clinical Toolbox
Over 25 Top Techniques for Abandonment Trauma,
Origin Wounds, and Attachment Injury
$949.43 Value
Just  $299.99 Today!
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Here's What You'll Learn

Abandonment, Neglect and Developmental Trauma: A Clinical Toolkit for Treating Relational Wounds and Early Attachment Injuries

Kaytee Gillis, LCSW

Start by joining Kaytee Gillis, LCSW, an experienced clinician and best-selling author featured in TIME magazine, BBC World News and Women's Health magazine. In session 1, she'll guide you through a simple step-by-step framework full of tools, interventions, case examples, and demonstrations.

Walk away ready to:
  • Identify abandonment trauma and unhealthy attachment patterns
  • Recognize, reframe, and replace long-standing trauma responses clients live with
  • Help clients undo shame with understanding and self-compassion
  • Silence the inner critic that perpetuates cycles of self-blame
  • Apply a clinical toolkit to establish safety, security, and repair attachment wounds
  • Integrate these techniques with DBT, IFS, EMDR, CPT, and other modalities

Adult Daughters of Narcissistic Mothers: Clinical Strategies for Attachment Trauma, Core Wounds and Identity Disturbance

Ellen Biros, LCSW, C-PD

In module 2, you'll join Ellen Biros, therapist and author of Recovering from Narcissistic Mothers: A Daughter's Workbook. She'll turn her decades of experience into a blueprint to identify and skillfully treat the core wounds from childhood these clients carry. Leave ready to help clients reclaim their voice, rebuild their identity, and create relationships rooted in authenticity and self-respect.

When you join Ellen, she'll show you how to:
  • Spot the subtle but powerful markers of narcissistic parenting and attachment trauma
  • Work with core shame, internalized criticism, and identity confusion
  • Help clients navigate loyalty binds, complex grief, and emotional enmeshment
  • Use clinical strategies to restore self-agency, emotional safety, and authentic identity
  • Support clients as they navigate decisions around low contact, no contact, or strategic interaction

Family of Origin Wounds: Breaking the Patterns from our Past

Vienna Pharaon, LMFT

How do you explore and heal deeply entrenched "origin wounds" in therapy without your client endlessly talking about their childhood? In module 3, you'll join Vienna Pharaon, LMFT, one of New York City's most sought-after relationship therapists and author of the best-selling book THE ORIGINS OF YOU. She'll show you how to work with clients whose current patterns and problems stem from these early experiences so they can identify, understand, and heal the lingering wounds from their family that overshadow their present life.

You'll discover:
  • How five core "origin wounds" impact clients' present lives and adult relationships
  • Origin healing practices for working with origin wounds on a somatic and cognitive level
  • Strategies for couples or individuals whose origin wounds impact their romantic relationships

Grieving the Lost Childhood: A Somatic Approach to Healing Past Wounds

Dr. Janina Fisher

The loss of a safe and loving childhood may not be an obvious one, but therapists know the cost to their clients when it's not acknowledged. When left unprocessed, the intense pain of grief often leads to anger, either towards their attachment figures or themselves. Clients need to safely grieve the wounds of childhood to heal. You need the right tools. Join Dr. Janina Fisher, one of the world's leading trauma experts, as she gives you the mindfulness-based somatic interventions you need.

Get the right tools from Dr. Fisher, including:
  • Somatic techniques to help the body process grief
  • Tools to help clients “befriend” grief and live at peace with losses from childhood
  • Strategies to diminish the effects of isolation and loneliness in the past and present
The Crappy Childhood Clinical Toolbox
Over 25 Top Techniques for Abandonment Trauma,
Origin Wounds, and Attachment Injury
$949.43 Value
Just  $299.99 Today!
3 FREE BONUS SESSIONS!
(a $209.97 Value)
Join the legendary Dr. Dan Siegel, NYT Best-Selling author Dr. Lindsay Gibson, and Dr. Eboni Webb, to discover how to deepen emotional processing, strengthen internal resilience, and help your clients break free from the patterns that have shaped their lives for decades.
Cross-Generational Trauma and Personality
Cross-Generational Trauma and Personality
Dr. Dan Siegel

Join one of the world's leading experts in attachment science and childhood development, and explore how personality and traumatic attachment experiences may interact with innate temperament to shape your clients' enduring patterns of emotion and their regulation, thinking, and behavioral habits. This training will change how you conceptualize lifelong emotional and relational patterns, and how you intervene to create lasting change.
  • Attachment vs temperament
  • Traumatic attachment in the development of personality
  • How understanding patterns of development pathways changes treatment
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How Your Clients Can Avoid Emotional Takeovers and Break Free from Coercive Control
Dr. Lindsay Gibson

Join the NYT Best-Selling Author of Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents as she shares the tools your clients can use to end avoid emotional takeovers and take the first step toward reversing their toxic psychological legacy!
  • Emotionally immature relationship system and emotional takeovers
  • How your clients get pulled in
  • 3 strategies to avoid and respond to emotional takeovers
Navigating Trauma and Addictions from Childhood
Resilience through Attachment: Navigating Trauma and Addictions from Childhood
Dr. Eboni Webb

Join Dr. Eboni Webb and explore the critical connection between early childhood trauma, addiction patterns, and the influence of personality-disordered parents. Dr. Webb will show you how to integrate secure attachment techniques into therapeutic relationships to foster safety and regulation in complex and traumatized clients.
  • The relationship between addictions and attachment
  • The role of healthy attachments in the recovery process
  • Practical strategies for building resilience
Meet the Course Experts
Kaytlyn "Kaytee" Gillis, LCSW
Kaytlyn "Kaytee" Gillis, LCSW, is a licensed clinical social worker and psychotherapist, specializing in work with survivors of family of origin trauma, including childhood abuse, family dysfunction, rejection, and abandonment. She is the author of several books on healing from domestic abuse and family trauma, including Healing from Parental Abandonment and Neglect: Move Beyond Insecure Attachment to Build Safety, Connection, and Trust Yourself and Others (New Harbinger, 2025). Kaytee has a popular column on Psychology Today and is a frequent contributor to Psychotherapy Networker, whose work has been featured in TIME magazine, BBC World News, Women's Health Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, and other media outlets. In addition to her practice and writing, she's also a PhD candidate at Michigan State University, focusing on intimate partner violence research, and provides training nationwide on recognizing patterns of domestic violence and treating family trauma.

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Ellen Biros, LCSW, C-PD
Ellen Biros, LCSW, C-PD, has over 25 years of experience working with individuals struggling with trauma, anxiety, substance abuse, depression, domestic violence, and personality disorders. She's a Certified Personality Disorder Treatment Provider (C-PD) and specializes in working with survivors of narcissistic abuse and other manipulative personality disorders. Ms. Biros has trained thousands of therapists on a variety of issues, including emotional manipulation, personality disorders, and covert abuse. She's an adjunct faculty member at The University of Phoenix in the School of Social Work and was formerly an adjunct at Tulane University's School of Social Work. Ms. Biros is the author of Recovering from Narcissistic Mothers: A Daughter's Workbook.

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Vienna Pharaon, LMFT
Vienna Pharaon, LMFT, is one of New York City's most sought-after relationship therapists. She's practiced therapy for more than 15 years and is the founder and owner of the group practice Mindful Marriage and Family Therapy. She's been featured in The Economist, Vice, and Motherly, and has led workshops for Peloton and Netflix, among others. THE ORIGINS OF YOU is her first book published with Penguin Random House and has become a national bestseller.

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Janina Fisher, PhD
Janina Fisher, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist and former instructor at The Trauma Center, a research and treatment center founded by Bessel van der Kolk. Known as an expert on the treatment of trauma, Dr. Fisher has also been treating individuals, couples, and families since 1980. She is the past president of the New England Society for the Treatment of Trauma and Dissociation, an EMDR International Association Credit Provider, Assistant Educational Director of the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute, and a former Instructor at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Fisher lectures and teaches nationally and internationally on topics related to the integration of the neurobiological research and newer trauma treatment paradigms into traditional therapeutic modalities. She is co-author with Pat Ogden of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Interventions for Attachment and Trauma (2015) and author of Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Internal Self-Alienation (2017) and Working with the Neurobiological Legacy of Trauma (in press).

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Dan Siegel, MD
Dan Siegel, MD, is the founder and director of education of the Mindsight Institute and founding co-director of the Mindful Awareness Research Center at UCLA, where he was also co-principal investigator of the Center for Culture, Brain and Development and clinical professor of psychiatry at The School of Medicine. An award-winning educator, Dan is the author of five New York Times bestsellers and over fifteen other books, which have been translated into over forty languages. As the founding editor of the Norton Professional Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology ("IPNB"), Dan has overseen the publication of over one hundred books in the transdisciplinary IPNB frame, which focuses on the mind and mental health. A graduate of Harvard Medical School, Dan completed his postgraduate training at UCLA, specializing in pediatrics, and adult, adolescent, and child psychiatry. He was trained in attachment research and narrative analysis through a National Institute of Mental Health research training fellowship focusing on how relationships shape our autobiographical ways of making sense of our lives and influence our development across the lifespan. Financial: Dr. Dan Siegel serves as the Medical Director at the Lifespan Learning Institute and is the Co-Founder and Director of Education at the Mindsight Institute. He is also the founding editor of the Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology.

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Lindsay C. Gibson, PsyD
Lindsay C. Gibson, PsyD, is The New York Times best-selling author of Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents (New Harbinger, 2015). Her groundbreaking work has sold over 100,000 copies, been translated into 37 languages, and empowered thousands to break free from toxic legacies and reclaim their lives. With over 30 years of experience as a psychotherapist and psychdiagnostician, Dr. Gibson identified that many clients' anxiety, obsessions, and depression stemmed from distorted beliefs and emotional coercion imposed by emotionally immature parents. She observed that while these parents might not fall into severe mental health categories, their emotional immaturity had profoundly damaging effects on their children. Dr. Gibson currently works as a clinical psychologist in private practice. Her follow-up book, Recovering from Emotionally Immature Parents: Practical Tools to Establish Boundaries and Reclaim Your Emotional Autonomy (New Harbinger, 2019), offers practical strategies for overcoming these challenges and fostering emotional resilience.

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Eboni Webb, PsyD, HSP
Eboni Webb, PsyD, HSP, opened the private practice Kairos in Middle Tennessee in July 2010. Kairos, now The Village of Kairos, offers diverse DBT specializations, including DBT for trauma-based disorders and co-occurring disorders. The Village of Kairos has expanded therapy programs, better known as Restorative Services, to include individual and group therapy sessions for adolescents, parents, families, and adults, including in-the-moment coaching for patients. Dr. Webb earned her Doctor of Clinical Psychology from the Minnesota School of Professional Psychology. Dr. Webb began her clinical work as assistant clinical director and program director at Mental Health Systems in Minnesota, a large clinic specializing in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). She has extensively practiced DBT, developing two special treatment programs for clients with developmental disabilities and borderline intellectual functioning. Dr. Webb has completed Level II training and is currently in the process of completing her board certification in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy as an Advanced Certified Practitioner, which has become a prominent feature of therapy offerings in the Village.

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The Crappy Childhood Clinical Toolbox
Over 25 Top Techniques for Abandonment Trauma,
Origin Wounds, and Attachment Injury
$949.43 Value
Just  $299.99 Today!
Frequently Asked Questions
How do I know this on-demand course is right for me?

This course is for you if you work with adult clients who struggle with abandonment wounds, attachment injuries, chronic shame, toxic family conditioning, or longstanding identity confusion. If your clients frequently minimize, apologize, emotionally withdraw, or cling out of fear — this training will give you the language, tools, and frameworks to help them move toward real healing. It's designed for clinicians who want both clinical depth and practical techniques they can use immediately.


How will this help me in my work with my clients?

This training gives you practical, step by step tools for working with adult clients shaped by painful or chaotic childhoods. You'll learn how to identify and shift survival strategies like people pleasing, withdrawing, shutting down, or clinging—without triggering shame or overwhelm. You'll also get interventions from DBT, CBT, attachment-based therapy, inner child work, parts work, and somatic therapy that you can use immediately to help clients build emotional stability, healthier relationships, and a stronger sense of self.


When do I get access?

You get instant access as soon as you register.


Do I get CE hours?

This training offers CE hours for eligible professionals. Check here for your profession. After you complete the course and the post training evaluation, you'll receive your CE certificate.

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The Crappy Childhood Clinical Toolbox
Over 25 Top Techniques for Abandonment Trauma,
Origin Wounds, and Attachment Injury
$949.43 Value
Just  $299.99 Today!
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