Attachment and Trauma-Focused Therapy for Adults and Couples
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Attachment and Trauma-Focused Therapy for Adults and Couples

Fri, Feb 7th, 2025
10:00am – 4:45pm US Eastern Time
$147

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Event Details

Fri, Feb 7th, 2025
10:00am – 4:45pm US Eastern Time
(7:00am – 1:45pm US Pacific Time)
6 CE Hours

About the Event

Secure attachment is associated with positive psychological and social adjustment in children and adults. Early developmental trauma, abuse, and neglect result in depression, anxiety, shame, destructive acting-out, physical illness, and unhealthy relationships. It is vital for mental health professionals to know how to assess and treat attachment and trauma issues when helping adults and couples. Attachment styles developed in childhood stay with us for a lifetime, and influence emotional security, the personal meaning we give to experiences, and our ability to create and maintain closeness, trust and stability in intimate relationships. There is a strong tendency to recreate neglectful, abusive, and hurtful relationships patterns from childhood with adult partners. These patterns can be changed through attachment and trauma-informed therapy.

Adults who are struggling in intimate relationships are often frustrated with the lack of positive change, despite prior therapy, medications, and other attempts at problem-resolution and personal growth. Adults are unable to develop healthy relationships when they have unresolved trauma and attachment wounds from the past. Couples often lack effective communication and conflict-management skills. They have no way to avoid destructive behaviors and achieve safe and trusting relationships. The seminar is appropriate for mental health professionals who work with traumatized individual adults and/or couples with a history of attachment and trauma issues. The focus will be on learning how to assess attachment patterns and traumatic conditions, and clinical interventions which create positive change for adults and couples. Learning formats will include PowerPoint, videos of attachment and trauma-informed therapy, and Q and A.

Live Event This is a live online event. It will be conducted via Zoom Webinar.

Live Event Instructor

Terry M. Levy, PhD, B.C.F.E.

Terry M. Levy, PhD, B.C.F.E.

Terry M. Levy, Ph.D., B.C.F.E., has been a psychotherapist, trainer, supervisor, author and consultant for over 50 years. Dr. Levy is the director of Evergreen Psychotherapy Center and the Attachment Treatment and Training Institute in Evergreen, Colorado. He is a licensed clinical psychologist in Colorado and Florida, a Board Certified Forensic Examiner, and a Diplomate and Master Therapist of the American Psychotherapy Association. He is the co-author of Attachment, Trauma & Healing (2nd edition, 2014, Jessica Kingsley Publisher, London), editor of Handbook of Attachment Interventions (2000, Elsevier Press) and co-author of Healing Parents: Helping Wounded Children Learn to Trust and Love (2006, Child Welfare League of America).

Dr. Levy was the founder and previous director of the Family Life Center (Florida) and the Miami Psychotherapy Institute, which offered family systems treatment and training. He was co-founder and past-president of the board of directors of the Association for Training on Trauma and Attachment in Children (ATTACh), an international organization dedicated to attachment and its critical importance to human development. Dr. Levy is a clinical member of the American, Colorado, and Florida Psychological Associations, American and Colorado Associations of Marriage and Family Therapy, and the American Family Therapy Academy.

Dr. Levy has taught seminars for mental health and social service systems throughout North America, Europe and Asia, including the American, Colorado, and Florida Psychological Associations, American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children, American Academy of Psychotherapists, ATTACh.org, American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy, Child Welfare League of America, National Foster Parents Association, Zur Institute, Essential Therapy Training, Professional Educational Seminars (PESI), Trauma Solutions Training, Hudson Valley Professional Development, and many others. Dr. Levy has been a clinical supervisor for interns at the University of Colorado, Couples and Family Therapy, and Clinical Mental Health Programs for 25 years.

Target Audience

This live interactive webinar is intended for behavioral health professionals, including Psychologists, Social Workers, Counselors, MFT's and Addiction Professionals.

Learning Objectives

After taking this activity, you should be able to:

  1. 1 Describe the psychological, social, cognitive, and biological aspects of trauma and attachment.
  2. 2 Explain how to use the Life Script in the assessment process.
  3. 3 List skill-based and experiential techniques to improve emotional dysregulation and PTSD symptoms.
  4. 4 Describe how Attachment Communication Training is used to foster effective communication, conflict-management and secure attachment with couples.

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Event Agenda

Agenda times are listed in US Eastern Time. That is 3 hours later than US Pacific Time. The event starts at 7:00am US Pacific Time.

10:00-10:10 Welcome and Introduction

10:10- 11:30 Core Concepts of Attachment and Trauma

• Basic principles of treatment

• Neurobiology of trauma

• Internal working model: Core beliefs

• Attachment styles and patterns


11:30-11:45 Morning Break


11:45-1:15 Treatment Interventions

• Life Script: Assessment and change

• Attachment Communication Training: Modifying attachment patterns and healing trauma

• Experiential therapy: From victim to overcomer


1:15-1:30 Lunch Break


1:30-3:00 Clinical Video: Attachment and Trauma Therapy: Adult/Couple

• Create a safe and trusting therapeutic environment

• Develop positive core belief and narrative

• Alleviate psychological, biological, and social symptoms

• Resolve anger, fear, shame, loss and grief


3:00-3:15 Afternoon Break


3:15-4:45 Clinical Video, Continued

• Change from destructive to secure attachment patterns

• Develop constructive communication and conflict-management skills

• Traits of healthy and happy couples

• Q&A

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