Transforming Attachment Wounds with Attachment
Undoing Aloneness and Rewiring Relational Experiences
- Speaker:
- Diana Fosha, PhD
- Duration:
- 1 Hour 33 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Copyright:
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Mar 27, 2026
- Product Code:
- POS150631
- Media Type:
- Digital Seminar
Description
Attachment trauma leaves clients needing the very connection they most fear. In this training, you’ll see how to go beyond understanding attachment patterns to actually use attachment to heal attachment – undoing aloneness, fostering safety, and rewiring relational experience in real time.
You’ll discover how to:
- Apply Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP), interventions that transform attachment trauma through corrective relational experiences
- Utilize receptive affective experiences to help clients fully take in empathy and care
- Work with the here-and-now therapeutic relationship to deepen change
- Consolidate breakthroughs through relational metaprocessing for lasting transformation
Credit
Handouts/Brochure
| File type | File name | Number of pages | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manual - Transforming Attachment Wounds with Attachment (4.5 MB) | 86 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Transcript - Transforming Attachment (955.9 KB) | 15 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Transforming Attachment Wounds with Attachment - French (4.5 MB) | 86 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Transcript - Transforming Attachment - French (955.9 KB) | 15 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Transforming Attachment Wounds with Attachment - Italian (4.5 MB) | 86 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Transcript - Transforming Attachment - Italian (955.9 KB) | 15 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Transforming Attachment Wounds with Attachment - German (4.5 MB) | 86 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Transcript - Transforming Attachment - German (955.9 KB) | 15 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Transforming Attachment Wounds with Attachment - Spanish (4.5 MB) | 86 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Transcript - Transforming Attachment - Spanish (955.9 KB) | 15 Pages | Available after Purchase |
Speaker
Diana Fosha, PhD Related seminars and products
Diana Fosha, PhD, is the developer of AEDP (Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy), a healing-based, transformation-oriented model of psychotherapeutic treatment and she is founder and director of the AEDP Institute. For the last 20 years, Diana has been active in promoting a scientific basis for a healing-oriented, attachment-emotion-transformation focused trauma treatment model. Fosha’s work focuses on integrating positive neuroplasticity, recognition science and developmental dyadic research into experiential and transformational clinical work with patients. Her most recent work focuses on promoting flourishing as a seamless part of AEDP’s therapeutic process of transforming emotional suffering. Drawing on affective neuroscience, attachment theory, mother-infant developmental research, and research documenting the undreamed-of plasticity in the adult brain, AEDP has developed an experiential clinical practice, which reflects the integration of science, research and practice in psychotherapy.
Based in New York City, where she lives and practices, Fosha has been on the faculties of the Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology of NYU and St. Luke’s/Roosevelt Medical Centers (now Mount Sinai) in NYC, and of the doctoral programs in clinical psychology at the Derner Institute for Advanced Psychological Studies at Adelphi University and at The City University of New York.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Diana Fosha is the Director and Founder of the AEDP Institute and maintains a private practice. She receives royalties as a published author and has an employment relationship with Mount Sinai. Diana Fosha receives a speaking honorarium, recording, and book royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Diana Fosha is on the advisory board of GAINS and the Society for Constructivism in the Human Science. She is on the Planning Committee and Advisory Board of by the Lifespan Learning Institute and is a member of the American Psychological Association.
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Objectives
- Select three core AEDP interventions that use attachment to heal attachment trauma in clinical practice.
- Utilize receptive affective experiences to enhance the effectiveness of therapeutic empathy and overcome blocks to receiving care.
- Choose relational processing techniques to work with here-and-now therapeutic relationship dynamics.
Outline
Opening: The Relational Paradox in Attachment Trauma: Connection as Both Wound and Cure
- Why patients need what they most fear
- Why patients fear what they most need
- How AEDP differs from other attachment-informed therapies: using attachment as the cure rather than just understanding it as the problem
At the Heart of AEDP: Undoing Aloneness
- “Unwilled and unwanted aloneness” in the face of overwhelming emotional experiences as the root mechanism of attachment trauma
- Undoing aloneness as a foundational aspect of experiential work to transform attachment trauma
- The basics of AEDP and its healing orientation
- Clinical takeaway:
- Interventions to undo aloneness
- Co-creating safety allows deeper work
Dyadic Affect Regulation to Regulate Dysregulated Experience
- AEDP’s Deliberately Affirmative Stance; How to use the power of the therapeutic relationship to regulate the nervous system and help make previously unbearable emotions bearable
- Dyadic affect regulation mottos: “It takes two to tango” and “You can’t do attachment therapy with a still face”
- Clinical takeaways:
- Specific co-regulation techniques for different attachment patterns
- How to track your own nervous system while regulating your client’s
The Power of work with Receptive Affective Experiences
- Why empathy offered isn’t’ enough – it must be received
- What are receptive affective experiences?
- Examples of receptive affective experiences: feeling seen, feeling felt, feeling loved
- “Existing in the heart and mind of the other” as antidote to shame
- Clinical takeaways:
- How to identify when receptive affective experiences are blocked
- Step-by-step interventions for helping clients take in care and empathy
- How to work with your clients’ experience of your empathy, care and presence
Experiential Work with Relational Experience
- Making the implicit explicit: Processing the here-and-now therapeutic relationship
- The intervention: “What is your experience of me right now?”
- Clinical takeaways:
- Processing patients’ moment-to-moment relational experience
- When and how to use judicious self-disclosure
- Specific language for different attachment patterns
Relational Metaprocessing: Consolidating Transformation
- Processing the experience of transformation itself
- Identifying the affects of transformation and working to consolidate, deepen and expand
- Activating “non-finite positive spirals” of healing
- Clinical takeaways:
- How corrective experiences become lasting change
- Techniques for deepening and integrating relational breakthroughs
- Supporting patients in taking new relational experiences into their lives
Clinical Video: AEDP in Clinical Action Transforming Attachment Trauma
- Clinical vignettes from real sessions with real clients
- Real life use of undoing aloneness, dyadic affect regulation, work with receptive affective experiences and relational processing and metaprocesing
Risks and Limitations
- Risks: AEDP’s relational focus may be re-traumatizing for patients with histories of relational trauma, if not accompanied by close moment-to-moment tracking and titrated interventions by well trained clinicians
- Limitations: AEDP therapy is not indicated for patients with impulse control difficulties, active suicidality, or with psychotic or bipolar disorders
- Research limitations: While AEDP shows strong effectiveness across diagnostic categories with maintained gains at follow-up, research is still emerging on optimal matching of specific interventions to specific attachment patterns
Q&A
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Physicians
- Psychologists
- Other Mental Health Professionals
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