The Attachment Dance with Traumatized Clients: One Step Forward and Two Steps Back (Ferentz HS 052780)

Course overview

While every therapist understands that treatment is most effective when it unfolds within the context of a safe therapeutic relationship, it’s often challenging to build a meaningful alliance with traumatized clients who turn therapy into an emotional roller coaster. This is even more challenging when therapists have their own attachment wounds. Through case examples, videos, and discussion, you’ll discover how to: Handle the impact of disorganized attachment and traumatic transference on the client-therapist relationship Recognize how your own attachment experiences can evoke countertransreferential responses that can influence therapy Integrate strategies that can strengthen attunement Apply approaches that address testing behaviors and increase secure attachment