Description
This workshop will be live streaming to online participants on February 6, 2026 from 8:30am – 4:00pm (Vancouver, BC)
Please adjust your start time according to your specific time zone.
Recorded footage and all course content (certificate, videos, quiz) will be available until March 10, 2026. Extensions cannot be granted under any circumstances.
Please allow 5 – 7 business days after the course airs for recorded footage to become available.
This webinar presents information on attachment and wellbeing. We begin with research on Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) studies to highlight the interaction between early adversity and epigenetic effects expressed later in life that significantly impact mental health. The rapidly evolving new research from related fields reveals how gene-environment, metabolism, and immune system interactions effect mental health. For example, maternal neglect and growing up in poverty have been shown to suppress genes regulating the cortisol receptors on the hippocampus, making it more difficult to turn off the HPA axis later in life. In the extreme, low cortisol receptors are associated with suicide.
Therapy with children, adolescents, and adults requires engagement of attachment dynamics and care for their developing brain, and all systems that regulate their body. Therapy to promote resilience taps into the attachment process throughout the life cycle. It requires a mind, body, and brain changing process that transforms dysregulation to the re-regulation of mood, cognition, and resilient behaviors.
