Clinical Interventions for Healing Early Attachment Wounds and Embracing Secure Relationships

Healing childhood wounds is key for enjoying fulfilling relationships as an adult. In this 2-hour continuing education webinar, Dr. Diane Poole Heller--an expert in the field of applied Adult Attachment Theory, trauma resolution, and integrative healing techniques--will blend lecture and experiential exercises to support learning from the inside out. She will focus on how mental health professionals can help clients attain deeper connection, meaning, and safety in adult relationships by working to heal early Attachment wounds or disruptions.

Attendees will be introduced to the fundamental patterns of Attachment Adaptations--Secure, Ambivalent/ Preoccupied, Avoidant/Dismissive and Disorganized/Unresolved Trauma--as well as how they impact adult relationships. Dr. Diane Poole Heller’s groundbreaking approach can help mental health professionals learn what the hallmarks are for identifying each style, as well as what is needed to enhance secure attachment in the people they treat.

As clinicians use this material to explore their clients’ and their own attachment histories, they will discover how to heal this important part of the human journey, overcome the grip of past wounds, and have healthy intimacy in relationships.

This introductory web conference is designed to help clinicians:

1. Identify how dynamics between early childhood “family of origin” attachment patterns may play out in adult relationships.
2. Define the distinctions between Secure, Avoidant, Ambivalent, and Disorganized Attachment styles.
3. Apply specific Corrective Experiences to aid in resolving each insecure attachment pattern to enhance an embodied recovery of Secure Attachment.
4. Explain unconscious dynamics and survival instincts that block our capacity for intimacy and how to overcome them.
5. Describe and practice concrete Secure Attachment Skills (SAS) to enhance healthy functioning.

Statement of program material's accuracy, utility, and risks: The course material is drawn from AAI research and the work of Dan Siegel, David Wallin, Alan Schore, Stephen Porges, and John Bowlby. It is very useful for clinicians to help clients recover from deprivation, inconsistency, or lack of safety in early parent/child relationships to free them toward more secure attachment capacity and fulfillment. There may be risk when moving people into deep attachment wounds too quickly or without enough attention to resource, containment, and safety.

Declaration identifying any potential conflict of interest and/or commercial support: None.

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Continuing Education (CE) Information

2 CE contact hours will be provided by GoodTherapy for attending this web conference in its entirety. To receive CE credit hours for an archived recording, you will need to complete a survey as well as a 15-question exam, verifying that you listened to or watched the event in its entirety. Archived CE events are generally considered "homestudy" by licensing boards.

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To receive CE credit hours for an archived event, you will need to complete a survey as well as a 12 or 15-question exam, verifying that you listened to or watched the event in its entirety. Archived CE events generally are considered "homestudy" by licensing boards.

Registration Information

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