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Heal the lifelong wounds abandonment has left behind. Step into a new level of expertise as an Abandonment Trauma Treatment Specialist.
$889.95 Value
Just $299.99!
  • Earn up to 21.25 CE hours
  • Instant Access to all Videos
  • Downloadable Materials
  • FREE Bonus modules
  • Digital badge and certificate of completion

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These clients have been waiting a lifetime to start healing and become who they were meant to be.

This training will show you how.

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PLUS, this course includes 2 FREE Bonus Sessions, and a FREE Marketing Pack with a downloadable digital badge and certificate of completion!

Abandonment Trauma Treatment Specialist Certificate
DBT, Parts Work, and Somatic Tools for Core Wounds, Rejection Sensitivity, Codependency, and More
$889.95 Value
Just  $299.99 Today!
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Here's What You'll Learn

Heal Inner Child Wounds and Restore Healthy Attachment with DBT, CBT and More

Ellen Biros, LCSW, C-PD

Dive into the heart of abandonment trauma and help clients heal childhood wounds with one of today's most in-demand trainers, Ellen Biros. With specific exercises from CBT and DBT you can use right away, she'll guide you on how to build trust with these clients, help them overcome their abandonment fears, and forge a path toward lasting healing and better relationships.

Walk away ready to:
  • Identify how your clients' early experiences shape core beliefs and self-concept
  • Recognize abandonment as a central psychological wound—not just a relational theme
  • Assess how abandonment patterns influence personality development and coping styles
  • Help clients establish healthy boundaries and reduce exposure to toxic relationships
  • Apply an entire toolkit of interventions to reduce fear of rejection and relational hypervigilance

Parental Abandonment, Neglect, Relational Wounds and Early Attachment Injuries: A Clinical Toolkit

Kaytee Gillis, LCSW

Join Kaytee Gillis, LCSW, experienced clinician and best-selling author featured in TIME magazine, BBC World News and Women's Health magazine, as she guides you through a simple step-by-step framework full of tools, interventions, case examples, and demonstrations to treat the chronic shame, fear of intimacy, and relational patterns in these clients that are so hard to break.

Walk away ready to:
  • Recognize, reframe, and replace long-standing trauma responses
  • 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

Disentangling from Dysfunctional Relationships and Ending Self-Abandonment: The Codependency Treatment Guide

Nancy L. Johnston, LPC, NCC

Abandonment trauma leaves clients clinging to unstable relationships and disconnected from their own needs, boundaries, and identity. In session 3, join Nancy Johnston, best-selling author of Disentangle: When You've Lost Your Self in Someone Else. With detailed instruction and case studies, you'll learn to do deep work with the childhood wounds that fuel codependent behaviors and implement effective interventions that help clients stop losing themselves in others and support them in reclaiming their sense of self-worth and autonomy.

Walk away ready to:
  • Assess fear of rejection, over-functioning, and emotional dependency patterns
  • Help clients face the realities of their relationships so they can make real changes
  • Disrupt self-abandonment and compulsive caretaking cycles
  • Help clients build and maintain healthy emotional boundaries
  • Strengthen identity, self-trust, and self-compassion after relational loss
Abandonment Trauma Treatment Specialist Certificate
DBT, Parts Work, and Somatic Tools for Core Wounds, Rejection Sensitivity, Codependency, and More
$889.95 Value
Just  $299.99 Today!
3 BONUSES, YOURS FREE!
(a $139.98 Value)
Join Dr. Laura Copley and Dr. Leanne Campbell for 2 bonus video sessions full of guided imagery and Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) tools to process developmental trauma wounds. PLUS earn your certificate and digital badge upon completion, which you can use to demonstrate your advanced training to clients, colleagues, and employers.
Reparenting the Inner Child
Reparenting the Inner Child: Approaching Developmental Trauma with Guided Imagery
Dr. Laura Copley

Unresolved attachment traumas leave deep wounds of abandonment and rejection that fragment your clients' sense of self and prevent the development of self-trust. Join Dr. Laura Copley and learn how to use hypnosis and guided imagery to help clients connect with their wounded inner child, uncover and heal core attachment wounds, and reparent to facilitate inner resonance, strengthen self-trust, and move from fragmentation to wholeness.
  • Inner Child Connection Through Hypnosis
  • Using guided imagery techniques to help clients meet and resonate with their inner child
  • Restoring Self-Trust
Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) to Foster Mastery, Cohesion, and Resilience in Trauma Recovery
Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) to Foster Mastery, Cohesion, and Resilience in Trauma Recovery
Dr. Leanne Campbell

Difficulty with painful emotions is at the heart of post-traumatic problems. In this session, Dr. Leanne Campbell will show you an emotionally-focused therapy model that offers you a simple, proven 5-step attachment-informed process to create predictable, repeatable, and lasting transformation for your clients.
  • 5 tasks of recovering from trauma
  • How to listen for "emotional handles"
  • Restructuring the no-solution vulnerability
  • Ten ways EFIT brings attachment science into every session

Free MARKETING PACK with downloadable digital badge and certificate of completion!
 

Show potential clients, employers, and colleagues that you're a dedicated professional who's taken the time to get elevated training. The certificate is displayable, and the digital badge can be used across your website, email signature, LinkedIn profile, professional directories, and marketing materials.

MEET YOUR EXPERT FACULTY
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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Nancy L. Johnston, LPC, NCC
Nancy L. Johnston, LPC, NCC, is a sought-after speaker and trainer who has been a faculty member of the Psychotherapy Networker Symposium, The Ferentz Institute, numerous other professional conferences, including Cape Cod Symposium on Addictive Disorders, the American Mental Health Counselors Association's Annual Conference, the Virginia Counselors Association's Annual Conference, and Specialty Docket Training for the Virginia Supreme Court. Her work was recently featured in a New York Times article on enmeshment in relationships. In addition to teaching clinical professionals, Nancy offers online self-recovery workshops and delights in designing and facilitating Codependence Camp biannually at a retreat center in Virginia. Nancy has authored four books on codependency, including You. Here. Today: 200 Readings for Growth from Codependency to Self-Recovery (2026); The Clinician's Codependency Treatment Workbook (2024); Disentangle: When You've Lost Your Self in Someone Else, 2nd Edition (2020); and My Life as a Border Collie: Freedom from Codependency (2012).

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Dr. Laura Copley
Dr. Laura Copley is an acclaimed expert in the field of relationship trauma, specializing in trauma bonds, toxic relationships, and post-traumatic growth. Her groundbreaking work emphasizes self-trust as the "secret sauce" to breaking toxic patterns and healing trauma bonds, providing clients and readers with the tools to rebuild their lives and relationships from the inside out. A licensed counselor, speaker, author, and educator, Dr. Copley is passionate about bridging cutting-edge research with accessible tools that nurture emotional resilience and foster genuine connection. She is the founder and director of Aurora Counseling, the Shenandoah Valley's premier trauma-informed practice for clients and training clinic for therapists. Dr. Copley also contributes her expertise through her new blog, The Relationship Reset on Psychology Today offering actionable insights for rebuilding trust and intimacy in relationships. Her debut book, Loving You is Hurting Me: A New Approach to Healing Trauma Bonds and Creating Authentic Connection has established her as a trusted authority in the self-help space. Additionally, her podcast, Tough Love with Dr. Laura Copley, reaches a global audience with deep dives into relational challenges, featuring transformative stories and expert interviews.

Click here for information about Laura Copley
Dr. Leanne Campbell
Dr. Leanne Campbell is a registered psychologist, author, researcher, and co-founder and managing partner of Campbell & Fairweather Psychology Group. As an ICEFT (International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy) Certified Trainer, Dr. Campbell has spent over 30 years providing psychological services to individuals, couples, and families while training professionals worldwide in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), with a particular focus on grief and trauma. She is the co-author of A Primer for Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT): Cultivating Growth and Fitness in Every Client, written with the late Dr. Sue Johnson, and also contributed to Becoming an Emotionally Focused Therapist: The Workbook(2nd Edition). Dr. Campbell's dedication to advancing EFT principles and her commitment to helping others grow through emotionally focused interventions have made her a foremost authority in the field.

Click here for information about Leanne Campbell
Abandonment Trauma Treatment Specialist Certificate
DBT, Parts Work, and Somatic Tools for Core Wounds, Rejection Sensitivity, Codependency, and More
$889.95 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 helps you quickly recognize and respond to abandonment-driven patterns in your clients and in the therapeutic relationship. You'll gain practical tools to interrupt cycles of clinging, avoidance, fear, and withdrawal, reduce escalation in session, and address the root abandonment wounds beneath the behavior.


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.

You need to be the judge of what adds value to your work and your ability to help your clients. This certificate does distinguish you as a professional who has trained more extensively in the area of infidelity and relationship repair with experts… and it's an acknowledgment that can set you apart in the eyes of clients and peers.


Will this training make me a specialist?

This training offers extended training in working with abandonment trauma. It does not include clinical experience, supervision, or consultation. Clinicians should consider their own scope of practice, background, experience, and professional Code of Ethics when determining whether to refer to themselves as a "specialist."

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Abandonment Trauma Treatment Specialist Certificate
DBT, Parts Work, and Somatic Tools for Core Wounds, Rejection Sensitivity, Codependency, and More
$889.95 Value
Just  $299.99 Today!
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