Contributed by Diane Poole Heller
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Working the Edge in Healing Trauma: Can Therapy Sometimes Be Too Safe?
While most therapists are sensitive to the hazards of retraumatizing clients by pushing them too far, too fast, what about the dangers of playing it too safe? When is too much risk avoidance a disservice to clients and an indication of the therapist’s overprotectiveness getting in the way of growth? In this workshop, we’ll look closely at how to understand clients’ threat threshold and establish an optimal pace in trauma recovery, drawing fully on their resilience and capacity for self-healing. Through video clips and demonstration, you will learn how to:
Use resourcing and other methods to set up corrective experiences with clients learning how to handle increasing arousal and discomfort
Recognize your own tendency to be overprotective and rescue vulnerable clients
Invite and empower clients to face manageable challenges and find ways to test their own limits
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When Unresolved Attachment Trauma Is the Problem: Working with Avoidant and Disorganized Clients
Many clients bring to therapy the remnants of attachment wounds experienced before they learned to speak, so talk therapy is often ineffective at getting to the root of early memories that can continue to roil emotions and disturb relationships. This workshop presents a unique approach to correcting insecure attachment through specific corrective experiences that address the emotional injuries they incurred in early life. Through experiential exercises and videos of client sessions, you’ll see the profound effect of DARe (Dynamic Attachment Re-Patterning Experience) work in action. You’ll focus on how to:
Identify three different styles of troubled attachment with special emphasis on the avoidant and disorganized styles
Recognize why some clients begin to dissociate once they’ve formed a positive attachment with the therapist and why empathy can backfire
Enhance your skills for creating a safe haven and secure attachment bond by becoming more sensitive to clients’ nonverbal, relational, and somatic cues
Increase your capacity for intersubjectivity and incorporating well-timed humor and playfulness in your style
Read More
Attachment in Adults: How Infant Attachment Security Affects Adult Relationships
Over the years, therapists have struggled to help their clients heal from their traumatic experiences. Often using techniques that cover up the symptoms, but never help the client truly heal. Creating a vicious circle of disconnection between the client and therapist.
But TODAY there is hope!
After many studies and in-depth research, the attachment theory is considered one of the best tools in psychotherapy, for it allows you to hone in on your client’s issues and understand what the “next step” is.
“We have a map to the basic emotions, the basic fears, the basic needs, and the basic ways we have of dancing, and these patterns are very predictable, and very reliable, and you can change them in set ways.”
~Susan Johnson
As infants, we learn how to heal and protect ourselves based on the connection with our caretakers. It is well-known that if that caretaker connection is broken, this can predict a pattern of insecure attachment styles. In this recording you will discover the importance of attachment history in your clients and the various attachment styles that can help you tailor the therapeutic techniques to your client.
“I think the attachment system needs much more attention. And again, it's how do bodies feel safe, how do bodies feel safe by themselves, how do bodies feel safe with other bodies. Is a much more complex issue."
~Bessel van der Kolk
This video will guide you through the essentials of the attachment theory that no skills training manual can measure up to. Dive deep and transform your practice with Linda Curran , BCPC, LPC, CACD, CCDPD and premier clinicians, including…
Bessel A van der Kolk, MD, New York Times best-selling author and the world’s leading expert on psychological trauma
Peter Levine, Ph.D., developer of Somatic Experiencing®
Susan Johnson, Ed.D., primary developer of Emotionally Focused Therapy
Terry Real, LMFT, founder of the Relational Life Institute
Diane Poole Heller, Ph.D.
Louis John Cozolino, PhD
Lance Dodes, MD
Lisa Ferentz, LCSW-C, DAPA
Gabor Maté, MD
Mary Lou Schack, PhD
What the attachment theory has taught us can revolutionize not just how we parent our kids; how we connect with our partners; how we create our families; but how we do psychotherapy.
Discover the effects of infant attachment security on adult relationships and transform your practice today!
Read More
When Unresolved Attachment Trauma Is the Problem: Working with Avoidant and Disorganized Clients
Many clients bring to therapy the remnants of attachment wounds experienced before they learned to speak, so talk therapy is often ineffective at getting to the root of early memories that can continue to roil emotions and disturb relationships. This workshop presents a unique approach to correcting insecure attachment through specific corrective experiences that address the emotional injuries they incurred in early life. Through experiential exercises and videos of client sessions, you’ll see the profound effect of DARe (Dynamic Attachment Re-Patterning Experience) work in action. You’ll focus on how to:
Identify three different styles of troubled attachment with special emphasis on the avoidant and disorganized styles
Recognize why some clients begin to dissociate once they’ve formed a positive attachment with the therapist and why empathy can backfire
Enhance your skills for creating a safe haven and secure attachment bond by becoming more sensitive to clients’ nonverbal, relational, and somatic cues
Increase your capacity for intersubjectivity and incorporating well-timed humor and playfulness in your style
Read More
Working the Edge in Healing Trauma: Can Therapy Sometimes Be Too Safe?
While most therapists are sensitive to the hazards of retraumatizing clients by pushing them too far, too fast, what about the dangers of playing it too safe? When is too much risk avoidance a disservice to clients and an indication of the therapist’s overprotectiveness getting in the way of growth? In this workshop, we’ll look closely at how to understand clients’ threat threshold and establish an optimal pace in trauma recovery, drawing fully on their resilience and capacity for self-healing. Through video clips and demonstration, you will learn how to:
Use resourcing and other methods to set up corrective experiences with clients learning how to handle increasing arousal and discomfort
Recognize your own tendency to be overprotective and rescue vulnerable clients
Invite and empower clients to face manageable challenges and find ways to test their own limits
Read More
Attachment in Adults: How Infant Attachment Security Affects Adult Relationships
Over the years, therapists have struggled to help their clients heal from their traumatic experiences. Often using techniques that cover up the symptoms, but never help the client truly heal. Creating a vicious circle of disconnection between the client and therapist.
But TODAY there is hope!
After many studies and in-depth research, the attachment theory is considered one of the best tools in psychotherapy, for it allows you to hone in on your client’s issues and understand what the “next step” is.
“We have a map to the basic emotions, the basic fears, the basic needs, and the basic ways we have of dancing, and these patterns are very predictable, and very reliable, and you can change them in set ways.”
~Susan Johnson
As infants, we learn how to heal and protect ourselves based on the connection with our caretakers. It is well-known that if that caretaker connection is broken, this can predict a pattern of insecure attachment styles. In this recording you will discover the importance of attachment history in your clients and the various attachment styles that can help you tailor the therapeutic techniques to your client.
“I think the attachment system needs much more attention. And again, it's how do bodies feel safe, how do bodies feel safe by themselves, how do bodies feel safe with other bodies. Is a much more complex issue."
~Bessel van der Kolk
This video will guide you through the essentials of the attachment theory that no skills training manual can measure up to. Dive deep and transform your practice with Linda Curran , BCPC, LPC, CACD, CCDPD and premier clinicians, including…
Bessel A van der Kolk, MD, New York Times best-selling author and the world’s leading expert on psychological trauma
Peter Levine, Ph.D., developer of Somatic Experiencing®
Susan Johnson, Ed.D., primary developer of Emotionally Focused Therapy
Terry Real, LMFT, founder of the Relational Life Institute
Diane Poole Heller, Ph.D.
Louis John Cozolino, PhD
Lance Dodes, MD
Lisa Ferentz, LCSW-C, DAPA
Gabor Maté, MD
Mary Lou Schack, PhD
What the attachment theory has taught us can revolutionize not just how we parent our kids; how we connect with our partners; how we create our families; but how we do psychotherapy.
Discover the effects of infant attachment security on adult relationships and transform your practice today!
Read More
VIDEO: Diane Poole Heller on the Hidden Capabilities of Trauma Survivors
Watch as a Traumatized Client Taps Into a Wellspring of Healing in an Actual Session
Think all traumatized clients are shut-down and energy-sapped? Think again. In this clip from her Networker Symposium Keynote, "Creating a Corrective Emotional Experience," trauma specialist Diane Poole Heller shares a clip from an actual session, where she guides a client in tapping into a hidden wellspring of energy that leaves them feeling refreshed, happy, and safe. Read More
VIDEO: Presencing Secure Attachment
An Experiential Approach
What keeps people stuck in destructive relationship patterns? While Attachment Theory has provided some answers as to how those patterns originate, many clients remain trapped within them. What’s missing for them isn’t the desire to change—it’s an authentic experience of what it means to be secure in a relationship. That’s why Diane Poole Heller, expert trainer in the Dynamic Attachment Re-patterning Experience model, has developed tools to create corrective experiences in therapy that nourish clients’ capacity for secure attachment. Read More
VIDEO: Connecting with Avoidant Clients
What Secure Attachment Looks Like
For those who struggle with early attachment injuries, even the presumably safe presence of the therapist can often evoke feelings of desperation, fear, and threat. Diane Poole Heller, developer of the Dynamic Attachment Re-patterning Experience model, is an expert at creating a sense of safety with even the most troubled clients. Read More
Diane Poole Heller
At a time when psychotherapists trained primarily in the “talking cure” are increasingly recognizing the need to “read” clients’ nonverbal communications, particularly those buried in early attachment issues, Diane Poole Heller has been a leader in addressing the unconscious issues that clients are often unable to express. With an approach grounded in Attachment Theory, Peter Levine’s Somatic Experiencing method of trauma resolution, and spiritual healing techniques, she’s traveled around the world teaching integrative mind-body methods that deepen the resonance of the therapist–client bond.