LIVE STREAM: November 12 – 13, 2026 from 8:15am – 11:30am PST (Vancouver, BC) Please adjust your start time according to your specific time zone.
ON-DEMAND: Recorded footage & course content (certificate, videos, quiz) will be available until December 21, 2026. Please allow 1-3 business days for footage to be processed. Extensions cannot be granted under any circumstances.
Some of the clients we work with weren’t shaped by a single traumatic event, they were shaped by thousands of small moments that never got repaired. A parent who was there but not attuned. A need that went unmet often enough to become a belief about the self. This is the quiet, cumulative work of developmental and early attachment trauma, and it shows up everywhere: in relationships that feel impossible to trust, in a nervous system that treats closeness as risk, in patterns clients can name but can’t seem to change.
This workshop is about learning to see that history clearly, and knowing what to do once you do. We’ll look at how early attachment experiences shape a person’s internal working models, their expectations of others, of themselves, and of what relationships are for, and how those models keep replaying in adult life, sometimes decades after the original relationship ended. From there, we’ll turn to the clinical work itself: how to assess for attachment injury, how to use the therapeutic relationship itself as a corrective experience, and how to help clients build the kind of internal security that early caregiving didn’t provide.
You’ll leave with a clearer lens for recognizing attachment trauma in the clients already in front of you, and a set of relational and cognitive tools for helping them heal, grounded in attachment theory and relational approaches to psychotherapy.
