Tailoring AEDP to Attachment Patterns
Healing Trauma in Relationships
- Speaker:
- Karen Pando-Mars, MFT
- Duration:
- 1 Hour 30 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Copyright:
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Mar 27, 2026
- Product Code:
- POS150632
- Media Type:
- Digital Seminar
Description
The therapeutic relationship is one of the strongest predictors of healing, yet often described as a “non-specific factor.” This training shows you how to work with precision – identifying insecure attachment patterns and tailoring interventions that transform defenses, regulate anxiety, and repair relational wounds. Through structured frameworks, video examples, and practical tools, you’ll gain confidence in navigating avoidant, ambivalent/resistant, and disorganized attachment presentations with clarity and skill.
You’ll discover how to:
- Identify clinical markers of insecure attachment and intervene with specificity
- Work relationally to establish safety and undo aloneness in therapy
- Navigate defenses and anxiety tied to avoidant, ambivalent, and disorganized patterns
- Apply precise interventions that promote healing and relational transformation
Credit
Handouts/Brochure
| File type | File name | Number of pages | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manual - Tailoring AEDP to Attachment Patterns (2.05 MB) | 23 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Transcript - Tailoring Treatment to Attachment (955.9 KB) | 15 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Tailoring AEDP to Attachment Patterns - French (2.05 MB) | 23 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Transcript - Tailoring Treatment to Attachment - French (955.9 KB) | 15 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Tailoring AEDP to Attachment Patterns - Italian (2.05 MB) | 23 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Transcript - Tailoring Treatment to Attachment - Italian (955.9 KB) | 15 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Tailoring AEDP to Attachment Patterns - German (2.05 MB) | 23 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Transcript - Tailoring Treatment to Attachment - German (955.9 KB) | 15 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Tailoring AEDP to Attachment Patterns - Spanish (2.05 MB) | 23 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Transcript - Tailoring Treatment to Attachment - Spanish (955.9 KB) | 15 Pages | Available after Purchase |
Speaker
Karen Pando-Mars, MFT Related seminars and products
Karen Pando-Mars, MFT is senior faculty at the AEDP Institute, has a clinical and consultation practice in San Anselmo, CA and teaches across the United States and internationally. She is known for her presence, warmth, and the clarity of her presentations. Videotapes of her clinical work are moving and inspiring examples of how AEDP®’s explicit relational and precise experiential practices can help patients heal rational trauma. As adjunct faculty at Dominican University, in San Rafael, California, she taught AEDP® as the overarching theoretical model in the Alternative and Innovative Psychotherapies course. Her publications include Tailoring AEDP Interventions to Attachment Style (2016), a chapter in Undoing Aloneness & the Transformation of Suffering into Flourishing: AEDP 2.0 (2021) APA press. She and Diana Fosha co-authored Tailoring Treatment to Attachment Patterns: Healing Trauma in Relationship (2025) Norton, NY.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Karen Pando-Mars maintains a private practice and has an employment relationship with AEDP Institute. She receives royalties as a published author. Karen Pando-Mars receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Karen Pando-Mars has no relevant non-financial relationships.
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Objectives
- Evaluate clients for clinical indicators of avoidant, ambivalent/resistant, and disorganized attachment patterns.
- Choose one specific intervention for each pattern: avoidant, ambivalent/resistant and disorganized attachment.
- Integrate attachment-informed relational techniques to enhance safety, emotional regulation, and therapeutic alliance across diverse client presentations.
Outline
Key Features of Tailoring Treatment
- The AEDP therapist stance
- Explicit relational work to establish safety and undo aloneness
- Precise experiential work to navigate defenses and anxiety
- Exclusion criteria in the AEDP outcome studies will address limitations of techniques
The Secure Pattern of Attachment
- Caregiver state of mind
- Characteristic caregiver behavioral hallmarks
- Response to arousal of the nervous system
- Nervous system activation
- Characteristic defenses and anxiety
- Self-other relational patterning
The Avoidant Attachment Pattern
- Caregiver state of mind
- Characteristic caregiver behavioral hallmarks
- Response to arousal of the nervous system
- Nervous system activation
- Characteristic defenses and anxiety
- Self-other relational patterning
Goals for Treating the Avoidant Pattern
- Relational adaptive action tendencies
Interventions for Treating the Avoidant Pattern
- Working with defenses
- Working with anxiety
- Therapist common reactivities
- Therapist metaskills
Video Illustrations
Open Discussion/Q&A
The Ambivalent/Resistant Attachment Pattern
- Caregiver state of mind
- Characteristic caregiver behavioral hallmarks
- Response to arousal of the nervous system
- Nervous system activation
- Characteristics defenses and anxiety
- Self-other relational patterning
Goals for Treating the Ambivalent/Resistant Pattern
- Self adaptive action tendencies
Interventions for Treating the Ambivalent/Resistant Pattern
- Working with defenses
- Working with anxiety
- Therapist common reactivities
- Therapist metaskills
Video Illustration
Open Discussion/Q&A
The Disorganized Attachment Pattern
- Caregiver state of mind
- Characteristic caregiver behavioral hallmarks
- Response to arousal of the nervous system
- Nervous system activation
- Characteristic defenses and anxiety
- Self-other relational patterning
Goals for Treating the Disorganized Pattern
- Self, relational, categorical emotion adaptive action tendencies
Interventions for Treating the Disorganized Pattern
- Working with defenses
- Working with anxiety
- Therapist common reactivities
- Therapist metaskills
Video Illustration
Open Discussion/Q&A
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Physicians
- Psychologists
- Other Mental Health Professionals
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