Trauma and Attachment: Adult and Couple

Having safe and secure emotional attachments as a child with parents and caregivers, and with our adult partners, is a basic human need. Attachment styles developed in childhood stay with us for a lifetime and influence our emotional security. Notably, attachment styles adversely influence our ability to create and maintain closeness, trust, safety, and stability in intimate relationships.

This training provides in depth understanding of how trauma influences relationships, and more importantly, how traumatized individuals can achieve positive and healthy long-term relationships. Dr. Levy provides clinical guidance on how to change attachment patterns and influence limbic system reactions. Strategies will be presented for multiple approaches to helping clients improve their relationships and strengthen more adaptive and functional interpersonal dynamics.