Upgrade your treatment toolbox with techniques to create the reparative experiences clients need -- for FREE.
One in five of your clients grew up in an addicted home.
And the survival instincts that kept them safe at eight are still running on autopilot at thirty-eight...
So they land in your office. Relationships in chaos. Parenting struggles. Addictions of their own. Over-functioning they can't switch off.
But talk therapy alone isn't enough to reach these wounds.
Clients need to experience something different from their childhoods. They need corrective emotional experiences that teach their nervous system it's safe to need, to trust and be seen.
That's exactly what this training gives you - ABSOLUTELY FREE.
Join Dr. Tian Dayton - Senior Fellow at The Meadows and bestselling author whose work has been praised by Bessel van der Kolk, Peter Levine, and Richard Schwartz..
In just one day she'll give you a toolkit of interventions you can use to create reparative therapeutic experiences that help clients process their childhood trauma, break free from self-defeating patterns, and build self-worth.
PLUS with case studies and video examples with real clients - Dr. Dayton will make these interventions feel so simple to use you'll find yourself reaching for them again and again... ...even if you've never used experiential techniques before.
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Adult Children of Alcoholics and Addiction (ACoA) Workshop
December 1, 2026 — 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM Central
*After you register, upgrade to receive up to 6.25 CE hours.
Spot ACoA patterns in your clients
- Identify behavioral or relational indicators that suggest a client’s presenting concerns may be rooted in ACoA experiences.
Treat abandonment trauma
- Identify and address core abandonment wounds and attachment injuries that formed in addicted or chaotic families.
Break codependent and trauma-driven relationship patterns
- Help clients see caretaking, overgiving, rescuing, and compliance as learned survival strategies — and move toward self-regulated connection.
Externalize toxic shame
- Give clients ways to name and dialogue with shame instead of retreating into the false self it feeds.
Meet unmet developmental needs
- Guide clients through grief work that mourns what they needed but never got — and lets those needs finally be acknowledged.
Use simple to apply experiential intervention tools
- Empty chair, role plays, role reversals, boundary rehearsal and more to promote safety, trust, and emotional expression in trauma recovery work.
- A full day of live expert-led training (a $249.99 value)
- Interactive Q&A when you join live
- Downloadable course materials
- Option to upgrade to earn up to 6.25 live or self-study CE hours. PLUS, a copy of Dr. Dayton’s book Treating Adult Children of Relational Trauma
This opportunity to join Dr. Dayton is only available free for a limited time — register now. At no cost, you’ve got nothing to lose… and SO much to gain!
Get dozens of easy-to-use evidence-based interventions that produce the kind of corrective healing experiences that repair attachment wounds, rewire shame and rebuild a genuine sense of self in clients looking to heal after growing up with addiction.
- Childhood pain driving adult relational dysfunction
- Intergenerational transmission of trauma and coping patterns
- Survival roles and adaptations in addicted families
- How early trauma becomes the blueprint for adult relationships
- Early attachment ruptures, trust and connection
- Nervous system dysregulation rooted in unsafe caregiving environments
- Emotional memory, implicit trauma, and body-based distress
- Dissociation, numbing, and difficulty accessing feelings
- Healing through experience, embodied processing and reenactment
- Engaging the limbic system to process trauma in real time
- Experiential tools: role reversal, doubling, mirroring, social atom
- Moving clients toward resilience, agency, and relational repair
- Research, risks and limitations
- Parentification: children forced into adult emotional roles
- Internalized abandonment, fear of intimacy or loss in addicted families
- Cognitive distortions shaped by trauma
- Attachment hunger vs. avoidance dynamics
- Grief work: mourning unmet developmental needs
- Tools and Interventions:
- Externalize the belief for cognitive distortions
- Experiential exercise “What I needed but didn’t get”
- Empty chair exercise – role reversal for clients who were parentified
- Codependency as a learned survival strategy in chaotic systems
- Caretaking and control as attempts to regulate unsafe environments
- Loss of self: external focus over internal awareness
- Trauma-driven relationship patterns (overgiving, rescuing, compliance)
- Shifting from survival-based relating to self-regulated connection
- Tools and Interventions:
- Relationship pattern mapping – “Where did you abandon yourself to maintain connection?”
- Boundary rehearsal
- “Self-reference” journaling (feelings, wants, limits)
- Toxic shame as a core wound in ACoA clients
- Development of the false self to maintain attachment
- Disconnection from authentic feelings and needs
- Resistance to vulnerability (difficulty feeling, naming, sharing)
- Tools and Interventions:
- Dialoguing with shame
- Role reversal between false self and authentic self
*Note: There will be a 70-minute lunch from 12:50 – 2:00 Central and two 15-minute breaks; one in the morning and one in the afternoon.
Take your event experience to a new level with our exclusive upgrade packages! Get CE hours, PLUS a copy of Dr. Dayton’s book delivered right to your door!
In Treating Adult Children of Relational Trauma, world-renowned psychologist, author, and psychodramatist Dr. Tian Dayton expertly weaves together the very best of what works in psychodrama, sociometrics, and addictions treatment to create her unique, experiential approach to treating the ever-nuanced impact of early relational trauma.
Grounded in the principles of interpersonal neurobiology, polyvagal theory, and somatic experiencing, this treatment guide includes 85 structured interventions that innately “warm up” the limbic system and allow space for healing in real time. Using Dr. Dayton’s easy-to-follow, step-by-step approach, clinicians can help clients:
- Repair, rather than reenact, painful relational trauma dynamics in their lives
- Experience the safety of healing through connection, movement, and engagement with others
- Feel empowered to become active shareholders in their own recovery
“An unparalleled approach for treating relational trauma. I highly recommend this book to anyone who is treating the pain of unhealed attachment wounds.”
Adult Children of Alcoholics and Addiction (ACoA) Workshop
December 1, 2026 — 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM Central
*After you register, upgrade to receive up to 6.25 CE hours.
This event is free to attend, however, if you would like to earn CE credit, just register today above with your name and email, and on the “Add CE” tab in your portal you can complete your upgrade for just $89.99 to become eligible to earn CE hours for attending this event. It’s that easy! PLUS, when you upgrade you get a copy of Dr. Dayton’s book Treating Adult Children of Relational Trauma shipped to your door.
Yes! This program is designed for:
Yes! Just register above and then click the “Self Study” CE button on the next page and purchase the recording package. You’ll get unlimited access to the training and will be able to earn self-study CE. PLUS, when you upgrade, you'll get a copy of Dr. Dayton’s book, shipped to your door.
YES! If you attend live you’ll be able to engage with the presenter and colleagues via a chat feature throughout the presentation.
Yes! “No pay” video replay (with no CE hours) is available within 48 hours of the live event. You get replay access for 3 days after the training recording is available.
The live webinar will take place Tuesday, December 1, 2026 from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM Central. There will be a 70-minute lunch break and two 15-minute breaks, held at the speaker’s discretion.
| 9:00 am–12:50 pm | CE Training |
| 12:50 pm–2:00 pm | Lunch |
| 2:00 pm–5:00 pm | CE Training |
*Please note: there will also be two 15-minute breaks; one in the morning and one in the afternoon, held at the speaker’s discretion.
Adult Children of Alcoholics and Addiction (ACoA) Workshop
December 1, 2026 — 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM Central
*After you register, upgrade to receive up to 6.25 CE hours.