(HS Muller 150194 2025) Attachment-Centered Trauma Therapy: Healing Therapeutic Ruptures and Restoring Bonds

Course overview

This practical workshop, led by Dr. Robert T. Muller, author of psychotherapy bestseller:¿Trauma and the Avoidant Client, builds our understanding of the therapeutic relationship with challenging trauma clients. As therapists, we try to maintain a strong therapeutic relationship, but this can be easier said than done.¿Drawing on attachment theory and research, and using a relational, integrative approach, Dr. Muller follows the ups and downs of the therapy relationship in trauma work. He points to choices therapists make in navigating the process, examining how they affect outcome. Specifically, we look at relationship patterns in trauma work, and how these can lead to troubling therapist-client enactments. When left unchecked, such patterns lead to ruptures in the relationship. In trauma work, how do we repair a ruptured alliance? And how can we help clients grow from the experience? This workshop looks at such issues in detail. Theory is complemented by case examples and therapy segments. We draw from Dr. Muller's most recent therapy book,¿Trauma and the Struggle to Open Up, winner of the 2019 ISSTD award for the year's best written work on trauma.