Live Webinar
Attachment, Trauma, and Healing: Experiential Interventions - May 1
Objective
- Describe the psychological, social, cognitive, and biological aspects of trauma and attachment
- Utilize effective individual and relationship-based assessment methods, including the Life Script
- Apply Attachment Communication Training to foster effective communication, conflict-management and secure attachment
Upcoming Dates For This Webinar
This webinar runs from 10am to 1:15pm Pacific Time.
Course Description
Safe, secure and loving parent-child and adult intimate relationships are basic to achieving health and happiness. Early attachment experiences wire connections in the brain, create core beliefs and mindsets, and influence our ability to develop trust, safety, security, emotional closeness, and stability in significant relationships throughout life.
Early developmental trauma, such as abuse, neglect, chaotic family conditions, and abandonment and betrayal, often result in severe anxiety, PTSD, depression, shame, self-contempt, emotional and behavioral dysregulation, toxic and dysfunctional relationships, and medical illnesses. Experiential interventions are effective when treating clients with severe trauma and attachment injuries. Experiential interventions are meaningful emotional, mental, social and somatic experiences, in a safe and supportive therapeutic setting, that results in positive changes and healing.
This intermediate level webinar is appropriate for mental health, social services, and child welfare professionals. Via PowerPoint presentation, clinical videos, and Q&A discussion, you will learn how to promote positive change and healing for children, adults, couples, and families regarding the following:
• Rewire the traumatized limbic brain.
• Modify self-destructive core beliefs, attitudes, and narratives.
• Change trauma-based survival reactions to constructive coping skills.
• Mitigate trauma-related emotions and behaviors, including anger, fear, loss and grief, shame, aggression, impulsivity and self-harm.
• Transform anxious and avoidant attachment styles into secure and safe attachments.
• Utilize constructive communication, problem-solving and conflict-management tools and methods: from rupture to repair.
• Interrupt destructive intergenerational family dynamics, including abuse, neglect, abandonment, betrayal and disrupted attachment.
• Change from a victim mindset (powerless, helpless, stuck in the past) to an overcomer identity (confident, empowered, self-accepting, optimistic).
Instructor
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), Professional Psych Seminars (PsychSem),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.
About This Webinar
The webinar is a live, interactive class. You will view the webinar in real time from your home or office on a computer, tablet (e.g., iPad) or phone. You will be able see the speaker and the slides, and you will have the opportunity to ask questions and respond to polls. You will have access to the handouts, which you can view on your computer or download and print.
You will need to show up on time to receive credit, just like at an in-person class, but you can wear whatever you’d like! The class will run from 10am to 1:15pm Pacific Time. There will be a morning and afternoon break and a break for lunch. At the end of the class you will need to take a post-test and receive a score of 75% or above to pass. You have up to three attempts to pass the post-test. Most people pass on their first attempt. After two attempts to pass the post-test you will need to contact our office and you will be provided with one more attempt to pass the post-test. The post-test will only be available at the end of the class. Once you pass the post-test, you will complete an evaluation online and then you will receive your Certificate of Attendance online, which you can view and print.
Cancellation Policy
There is a $35.00 processing fee, per seminar, for refunds requested by the Wednesday prior to the weekend of the webinar. After that time, there will be no refunds. If a course must be cancelled due to an unforeseen event (e.g., natural disaster, instructor illness), the webinar will be rescheduled. Participants will be credited to take the rescheduled course or another PPS webinar. No refunds will be given.
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