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Attachment Trauma Treatment Workshop: Step-by-Step Clinical Solutions for Processing Childhood Trauma in Adults

The echoes of childhood pain leave profound scars that can last a lifetime.

But treating the resulting trauma isn’t easy and comes with clinical challenges like intrusive memories, emotional dysregulation, and fears of abandonment or intimacy that hurt their relationships.

And while attachment theory is informative, it doesn’t translate that knowledge into effective practice.

That’s why I created this exciting new training so you can fully understand how attachment trauma impacts your clients PLUS be fully prepared to treat them and achieve amazing results.

You’ll get powerful techniques from mindfulness, guided memory exercises, and trauma-informed narrative therapy. I’ll break it all down for you – step by step – so you’ll know exactly what to do and when.

We’ll kick things off with mindfulness practices that help your clients calm their nervous systems, recognize their triggers, and break the patterns hurting their relationships.
Then, I’ll share guided memory and imagery techniques to help your clients disempower painful memories and transform feelings of abandonment into a sense of safety and security.
Finally, we’ll dive into trauma-informed narrative therapy exercises that let your clients tell and take control of their stories, reshape how they see themselves, and build the healthy relationships they deserve.

And because we all work with clients from diverse backgrounds, I’ll make sure you have the tools to adapt these strategies for everyone, including those from marginalized communities.

Don’t miss this chance to help your clients break the cycle of attachment trauma, reclaim their self-worth, and foster meaningful connections.

Purchase now!

Dr. Shama Panjwani
Psychotherapist and Professor at Keiser University

Program Information

Objectives

Distinguish between the development trajectories of different attachment styles.
Examine the concept of attachment wounds and inner child healing.
Analyze the relationship between core beliefs formed from attachment trauma and unhealthy relationship cycles.
Use guided memory exercises to increase insight into traumatic events from childhood.
Choose mindfulness strategies to provide grounding when triggered within personal relationships.
Utilize trauma informed narrative to reduce reactiveness.

Outline

Attachment Formation, Styles, and Trauma

Stages of attachment in early childhood development
Attachment and brain development
Attachment styles and parental figure relationships
Identify different types of trauma
Adverse Childhood Experiences

Attachment Trauma and Mind-Body Responses

Formation of attachment trauma
Physiological responses to trauma
Core beliefs and schemas
Personality development

Attachment Wound and Inner Child Healing

Psychological wound from adverse childhood experiences
Self-confidence, identity formation, and forming healthy relationships
Concept of inner child healing

Signs, Symptoms, and Triggers

Cognition, self-doubt and beliefs
Emotional distress and regulation
Behavioral indicators
Impact on having healthy relationships in adulthood

The Attachment Trauma Toolkit: Mindfulness, Guided Memory Recall and Trauma-Informed Narrative Therapy

Existing theories and techniques in working with attachment trauma

Mindfulness Exercises for Emotional Regulation and Grounding

How mindfulness fosters awareness and presence
Benefits of mindfulness in emotional regulation
Grounding exercises to connect clients to the present moment
Breathing techniques to manage anxiety and emotional dysregulation
Body scans to enhance somatic awareness

Guided Memory Techniques: Use Imagery to Create Safety and Security

Step-by-step process
Create imagined scenes of safety and secure attachment
Facilitate insight and processing
Manage emotional responses

Trauma-Informed Narrative Therapy: Restructure Negative Self-Talk and Core Beliefs

The power of storytelling in healing
How narrative shapes identity and self-perception
Step-by-step guide to helping clients reframe their narratives
Techniques for identifying and challenging negative beliefs
Encourage clients to create empowering personal stories
Research, risks, and treatment limitations of each approach

Cultural Responsiveness and Ethical Implications

Working with marginalized populations
Acknowledge systemic oppressions
Cultural considerations, awareness, and responsiveness
Ethical guidelines and reminders

Target Audience

Counsellors
Social Workers
Art Therapists
Marriage & Family Therapists
Psychologists
Physicians
Case Managers
Addiction Counsellors
Nurses
Other Mental Health Professionals

Copyright : 22/04/2025

Abandonment Trauma: Treatment Strategies to Heal Inner Child Wounds and Restore Healthy Attachment

Stuck in self-fulfilling cycles of mistrust, many clients expect abandonment and inadvertently create situations that reinforce those expectations.

As therapists our role is to dive into the heart of those abandonment fears, and help them heal the traumatic childhood wounds impacting their adult lives and relationships.

But for some clients “trusting” is a place where they’ve been hurt before, making deep therapeutic work difficult to get off the ground. Others can be too clingy, looking for you to meet their intense need for reassurance and connection.

That’s why expert Ellen Biros created this training -- to provide you a roadmap to navigate the complexities of abandonment trauma so you can offer your clients direction, hope, and the keys to healing.

She’ll guide you through the practical and effective approaches you need to build trust with these clients, help them overcome their abandonment fears, and forge a path toward lasting healing and better relationships.

With specific exercises from CBT and DBT you can use right away, you’ll end this training ready to help your clients set healthy boundaries, reduce their exposure to toxic relationships, and reframe the negative thought patterns about self-worth and rejection that have been holding them back.

This training is a valuable addition to any therapists’ treatment toolkit.

So don’t wait.

Purchase now!

Program Information

Objectives

Identify the concept of the inner child and its relationship to treatment.
Analyze the relationship between core abandonment beliefs and early maladaptive abandonment/instability schemas in adult individuals.
Determine the role of the expectation of abandonment as a contributing factor to the development of anxious and avoidant attachment styles in clients.
Use cognitive strategies to reframe negative thought patterns, beliefs, and behaviors related to the fear of abandonment and self-worth.
Choose DBT strategies to help clients address difficulties in handling interpersonal relationships.
Utilize graded exposure and desensitization to reduce abandonment-related anxieties.

Outline

Abandonment, Attachment, and Early Experiences

Early childhood’s role in shaping the inner child
Impact of attachment patterns on inner child development
Recognize vulnerability, resilience, and a healthy inner child
Formation of core beliefs from early experiences
Link between self-identity and inner child health

Trauma and the Spectrum of Abandonment

Differentiate between acute, chronic, and complex trauma
Types of trauma and the impact on attachment
Understand abandonment as a core psychological wound
How abandonment influences personality development
Impact of attachment on forming and maintaining healthy relationships
Barriers to healthy relationships in adulthood

Recognize Signs and Symptoms

Behavioral manifestations
Cognitive and emotional symptoms
Attachment-related behaviors
Impact on self-esteem and identity
Cultural considerations

The Abandonment Trauma Treatment Toolbox: CBT and DBT Strategies and Exercises to Repair Inner Child Wounds

Principles and techniques for trauma and abandonment issues
DBT skills training for emotional regulation and interpersonal effectiveness
Tools to set healthy boundaries and reduce exposure to toxic people
Cognitive exercises to challenge negative thought patterns about self-worth
Cognitive restructuring exercises to rebuild trust and self-confidence
Behavioral interventions for selfcompassion and fear of rejection
Self-soothing techniques for abandonment triggers
Graded exposure and desensitization for abandonment-related anxieties
Research, risks and treatment limitations

Therapeutic Relationship and Therapist Self-Care

Build a therapeutic alliance
Strategies for managing countertransference and vicarious trauma
Self-care practices for therapists

Target Audience

Counselors
Social Workers
Marriage & Family Therapists
Psychologists
Physicians
Case Managers
Addiction Counselors
Nurses
Other Mental Health Professionals

Copyright : 19/07/2024

Attachment Style Repatterning with Somatic Therapy: Heal Core Wounds, Repair Relational Memories & Strength Boundaries

The client who pulls away just when things get real… the one who clings but never trusts… or the one who vanishes after a breakthrough.

It’s not that these clients won’t heal—it’s that their body doesn’t yet know how to feel safe enough to…

Somatic therapy meets them where words can’t—rewiring safety, trust, and connection at the nervous system level so change actually sticks.

Join Dr. Wanda Brothers, an expert in both Somatic Experiencing™ and Dynamic Attachment Repatterning experience, who’s been teaching, practicing therapy, and speaking for more than 20 years. Dr. Brother’s unique approach to trauma treatment focuses on teaching therapists how to work directly with clients’ attachment systems to bring forth rapid healing.

Dr. Brothers will teach you how to…

Identify your clients’ attachment style in less than 2 minutes
Develop individualized treatment plans for each insecure attachment style that target core wounds
Create “corrective emotional experiences” for clients with anxious, avoidant, and ambivalent/disorganized attachment styles that truly heal deep wounds
Use ordinary moments in therapy as pivots points for change and growth
Help clients set boundaries that respect their trauma narratives

PLUS, get training on crucial self-of-the-therapist areas – like addressing your own implicit memories, not getting ‘pulled in’ to clients’ narratives, and how to keep your own stress from impacting sessions.

Bypass the limits of talk therapy and start working in the present moment with somatic therapy techniques that work… rewire your clients’ attachment systems.

This is the training that shows you how – register now!

Program Information

Objectives

Present key Somatic Therapy principles in the treatment of attachment trauma.
Examine how both client and therapist attachment wounds influence the therapeutic relationship and outcomes.
Explain foundational Attachment Theory to better understand clients’ unconscious relational patterns.
Analyze the connection between attachment styles and boundary challenges.
Describe “difficult clients” as individuals shaped by attachment wounds and boundary issues.
Apply somatic strategies to reduce distress, shame, and resistance in challenging therapeutic dynamics.
Facilitate attachment-based exercises to support both client healing and therapist self-awareness.

Outline

Getting Started with Somatic Therapy for Attachment Trauma

Fundamental principles of Somatic Therapy
Attachment theory simplified
Assess your own attachment style to improve the therapeutic alliance
Create a safe first impression
Risks, limitations and ethical issues

Boundaries: The Often-Overlooked Foundation of Effective Therapy

The 4 key boundaries to know for every session
Using Mirror Neurons to understand the client's experience
Interoceptive awareness to distinguish the client's emotions from therapist's
Reframing “difficult” clients
How your own boundaries impact your work with clients

Assessment & Treatment Planning for Somatic Shame, Implicit & Explicit Memories

Brain regions and their relationship to attachment styles
Notice subtle cues in body language, eye movements and posture
Map your client’s underlying attachment wiring
Provide co-regulation for corrective emotional experiences
How developmental trauma shapes somatic shame identities
Create targeted treatment plans for unique attachment patterns
Risks, limitations and ethical issues

Anxious Attachment Style: Treating Relational Anxiety

Focus on deeply rooted beliefs like, “I’ll never get enough love”
Help clients transition from anxious toward secure attachment
Target memory rumination that reinforce anxious patterns
Redirect clients’ attention toward positive experiences
Help clients create internal and external boundaries
Simple exercises to repair the core attachment wound

Avoidant Attachment Style: Treating Relational Avoidance

Focus on beliefs such as: "Relationships aren't enjoyable", "I am all I need.”
Support clients to notice and experience goodness in relationships
Target implicit/explicit memories that reinforce disconnection & withdrawal
Effective boundaries for avoidantly attached clients
Provide simple somatic exercises to repair the avoidant wound

Disorganized Attachment Style: Treating Terror and Creating Safety

Focus on beliefs, such as: “I need you but relationships are dangerous.”
Enhance relational safety with distance, pacing and more
Target implicit and explicit memories that reinforce dissociation
Teach effective boundaries for disorganized attached clients
Simple somatic exercises to treat terror responses

Self-of-the-Therapist Work: Relational Impact and Self-awareness

How somatic and attachment dynamics influence session effectiveness
What to do when you need to work on your own attachment style
Avoid getting “pulled in” to clients’ attachment wounds
Identify your own implicit memories related to:
- emotional intimacy
- gender dynamics
- power relations
How the therapists’ stress and anxiety affect each session
“Grounded, present self” as a secure attachment to accelerate healing
Somatic transference and countertransference on alliance building

Target Audience

Counsellors
Social Workers
Psychiatrists
Psychologists
Case Managers
Addiction Counsellors
Therapists
Marriage & Family Therapists
Psych Nurses
Other Mental Health Professionals

Mother Hunger: Treating Trauma, Grief and Attachment Wounds from Unmet Maternal Needs

Do you have clients who feel trapped in cycles of harmful behaviors and are unable to stop?

Clients who struggle with an insatiable need for sex and love, periods of overeating or starving, and painful, unstable relationships?

I’ve seen these traits over and over in clients. As I searched for answers I discovered a common thread – so many had a deep yearning for a mother’s love, attention, and care that was not met during childhood.

Hiding in secrecy and shame, this unnamed problem left clients a lifetime legacy of insecure attachment, trauma, addiction, anxiety and so much more.

It led me to write my best-selling book Mother Hunger: How Adult Daughters Can Understand and Heal from Lost Nurturance, Protection and Guidance to help people name what they’re missing and begin to heal.

And now for the first time ever, you can join me for a complete training, as I tackle this complex problem and give you the clinical tools and solutions you’ve been looking for…

…so you can help your clients break free from harmful cycles and emptiness resulting from unmet maternal needs.

When you join me, I’ll share a healing path with powerful therapeutic interventions so you can:

Recognize signs and symptoms of unmet maternal needs in clients
Destigmatize shame and feelings of inadequacy that accompany undermothering
Use attachment-focused interventions to help clients identify unhealthy attachment patterns and work towards building healthier relationships
Build greater self-awareness and emotional regulation in clients
Help clients create sense of safety and trust within themselves
Give clients a toolkit of self-care and self-soothing techniques

So many of your peers who have trained with me say this material is “this is the missing piece” in both their treatment approach and personal healing.

Kelly McDaniel

Program Information

Objectives

Analyze unmet maternal needs through the lens of attachment injury.
Identify the impact of neurobiological changes associated with complex trauma on the development of mood disorders.
Develop skills to create a therapeutic container for disenfranchised grief.
Utilize family constellation work to bring repetitive traumatic patterns into awareness.
Use imagery of positive attachment experiences to assist in the development of adult secure attachment.
Examine countertransference reactions in therapeutic practice to maintain professional boundaries.

Outline

Attachment Injury from Unmet Maternal Needs

The three core elements of maternal needs
Child development impacts when core needs are unmet
Insecure attachment from the perspective of an attachment injury
How insecure attachment impacts adult functioning
Tools to identify attachment injury and complicated grief

Complex Post-Traumatic Stress: The Legacy of an Abusive Mother

PTSD vs. Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Brain changes from CPTSD and mood disorders
Creative and flexible strategies for supporting “difficult” clients

Apology Aches and The Disenfranchised Grief of Mother Hunger: Working with Clients Hurt by Those Who Were Supposed to Love Them

Identify the “apology ache”
Reduce the “apology ache” to manage adult interactions
Create a safe, supportive environment for clients to explore and express difficult emotions
Reduce the craving our clients have for closure
Manage the fantasy of the ideal parent figure
Disenfranchised grief and creating a container
Journaling and creative ways to support healthy grieving

Clinical Tools to Treat Adult Daughters with Unmet Developmental Needs

Attachment-focused interventions to identify bonding behaviors
Techniques to move clients towards building healthier relationships
Family constellation work to help clients explore their maternal bond
Use imagery of positive attachment experiences to assist in the development of adult secure attachment in therapeutic contexts
Self-soothing practices for emotional regulation

Additional Clinical Issues

When is group work helpful and when is it not?
Address countertransference
Treatment termination
Research, risks and treatment limitations

Target Audience

Counsellors
Marriage & Family Therapists
Social Workers
Psychologists
Case Managers
Addiction Counsellors
Therapists
Physicians
Other Mental Health Professionals