Trauma and Attachment: Attachment Communication Training

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, the personal meaning we give to experiences, and our ability to create and maintain closeness, trust, safety, and stability in intimate relationships. Furthermore, insecure attachment and poor communication styles exacerbate unstable relationships into adulthood.

The focus of this training is to learn interventions that foster more effective communication and healthy management of conflict. Principles of positive psychology as they pertain to healing trauma will be discussed. Additionally, through case examples of videos of session, therapists will see in action strategies to facilitate posttraumatic growth, recovery and resilience.