PESI – Integrating Attachment Science to Maximize Treatment With IFS, EFIT, Polyvagal Theory, EMDR and More
The best way to understand and access your client’s emotions is through attachment science…
offering you the richest understanding of personality and relationship development!
Given the tumultuous and destabilizing events of the last year, attachment work is more complex than it’s ever been…
That’s why, for the first time ever all in one place, we’re gathering the leading researchers and clinicians in attachment work, including Dan Siegel, Leanne Campbell, Dan Hughes and many others!
Covering the most popular evidence-based approaches in psychotherapy today, these dynamic thought leaders will guide you through Internal Family Systems (IFS), Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT), Polyvagal Theory, EMDR, Expressive Therapies, and more…
…offering insight and solutions to successfully deepen the attachment work that’s so crucial to your clients’ well-being.
What You’ll Find in this Course
Neurobiology of Attachment: The Power of “We”
Dan Siegel, MD, author of The Pocket Guide to Interpersonal Neurobiology, will illustrate a profound way to view attachment and how we collectively live in this world together — that we are an individual self (me) linked and interconnected to everyone and everything else (we) — to show the possibility for deeper healing, meaning, and connections for your clinical work and beyond.
Attachment Begins in Utero: There’s No Such Thing as a Blank Slate
Janet Courtney, PhD, LCSW, author of Infant Play Therapy – Foundations, Models, Programs, and Practice
This discussion will introduce you to an embodied infant play therapy model of FirstPlay Therapy® to promote nurturing touch to enhance and repair the attachment relationship, increase neuroception of safety, decrease anxious states, foster co-regulation, and promote attunement to infant cues and body language.
Attachment Ruptures and Repair in Children & Adolescents
David Crenshaw, PhD, ABPP, RPT-S, co-author of Creative Arts and Play Therapy for Attachment Problems, uses an invitational approach to attachment trauma in youth. You’ll learn how to adopt Stealth Therapy with reluctant youth, and plan for and work through the dynamic pattern of Crisis of Connection when the therapeutic relationship threatens closeness.
Creating Secure Attachment in Teens: Balancing Interdependence & Autonomy
Christina Reese, PhD, LCPC, Author of Attachment – 60 Trauma-Informed Assessments and Treatment Interventions Across the Lifespan
Attachment in the teen years can be challenging to navigate as their primary attachment shifts from parent to peers. Teens reach for autonomy and freedom, some of which they’re not ready for…
Join Christina and learn how to:
- Teach parents to promote appropriate autonomy seeking behaviour
- Help parents to use power sharing vs power struggling to avoid attachment ruptures
- Explain to teens the shift in primary attachment during the adolescent years
- Increase healthy and supportive attachment to decrease anxiety, depression and more
- Recognize interdependence vs independence to facilitate healthy relationship balance
Expressive Arts to Build Safety and Connection with Your Most Vulnerable Clients
Dana Wyss, PhD, LMFT, ATR-BC, Co-Author of The Invisible String Workbook
Join Dana as she shares a visual experience of art to support healing for youth who have been commercially sexually exploited. Followed up by a discussion on how the creative process allows for a deeper level of knowledge and understanding, assessing physiological needs and safety in a non-intrusive way.
Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Attachment: Repairing the Internal Attachment
Frank Anderson, MD, author of Transcending Trauma, Healing Complex PTSD with Internal Family Systems Therapy, late spring 2021
Join Internal Family Systems expert, Frank Anderson, to explore the application of the Internal Family Systems Model of therapy and trauma and attachment theory to apply in your work with children, families and couples to effectively heal emotional wounds. Address the fears/concerns of protective parts and establish a trusting relationship with proactive and reactive parts.
Emotional Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) for Healing Attachment Wounds
Dr. Leanne Campbell, co-director of the Vancouver Island Centre of EFT
Help take your practice to a new level with Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT)! Guided by attachment science and over three decades of research in EFT with couples…now you’ll learn how to harness the power of emotion to move your individual clients to a place of confidence and competence.
Disorganized Attachment: Don’t Lose Sight of the Child in the Midst of Chaotic Behavior
Daniel Hughes, PhD, Creator of the PACE Model which facilitates play, acceptance, curiosity and empathy
Kids with disorganized and chaotic attachment are the hardest kids you will work with – they are simultaneously seeking attachment and terrified of it at the same time. I will show you how to bridge the knowledge and understanding of maladaptive attachment seeking behaviours due to a disorganized attachment pattern resulting from past trauma, abuse, and neglect.
Relational Trauma and Compromised Attachment in Adulthood: From Victim to “Overcomer”
Terry Levy, PhD, DAPA, co-author of the best-seller Attachment, Trauma & Healing
Terry Levy shows how to move clients from victim to “overcomer” by treating relational/attachment trauma using the Life Script to assess attachment patterns and traumas and teaches couples Attachment Communication Training to facilitate secure attachment.
Boldly Showing Up – Attachment, Shame & Vulnerability Through a Culturally-Safe Lens
Carmen Jimenez-Pride, LCSW, LISW-CP, ERYT, RCYT, RPT-S, the creative mind behind Focus on Feelings®, an emotional literacy curriculum
Carmen will teach us the impact of the intersectionality of historical narratives, shame, vulnerability, culture, and the effects of these on developing secure attachment. Moving clients out of shame-based models of engaging and helping them embrace vulnerability and leaning into relationships.
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