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NEW BOOK RELEASE: “Help Clients Build Secure Attachment Patterns”

Tailoring Treatment to Attachment Patterns

Healing Trauma in Relationship

by Karen Pando-Mars (Author), Diana Fosha (Author)

Published by Norton Professional Books

Harnessing the power of attachment to transform psychotherapy.

Research shows that attachment patterns—our patterns of relating to others, which develop in early childhood—affect far more aspects of our lives than was previously thought. Given how crucial these patterns are to how every patient relates to the world and to their own selves, how can therapists harness attachment to provide more effective therapy?

Using AEDP® psychotherapy theory and methodology as a foundation, the authors present an innovative approach that tailors treatment to attachment patterns, allowing psychotherapists to help patients heal relational trauma. Here, readers will find attachment pattern-specific clinical interventions to help them translate attachment theory into transformative clinical practice. 

Case examples are used throughout to illustrate how to handle the unique challenges that psychotherapists encounter with each attachment pattern, while engaging commentary discusses how the attachment-informed experiential/relational process leads to healing attachment trauma and facilitating security, resilience, and well-being.

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Congratulations Amie Karp

Amie Karp, LCSW, is now a certified AEDP Supervisor.  Amie has been an avid student of AEDP for years now, a longtime experiential assistant for our trainings, and most importantly, is the Clinical Director of the Crime Victims Treatment Center in NYC. Through her role, she has been singlehandedly responsible for creating the first and only public-facing, nonprofit clinical treatment program that uses AEDP as its primary modality.

Amie personifies so much of the robust “right- and left-brain” integration of abilities that we hope for in our AEDP supervisors. In Amie’s case, this includes intellectual rigor, clinical skillfulness, acute emotional intelligence, introspective openness, and adherence to the highest ethical standards. And all of this is wrapped up in the most open-hearted, encouraging, attuned, and skillful delivery of effective supervision with her supervisees.

Read the full announcement on the Listserv- congratulations Amie

Benjamin Lipton, LCSW

Seminar: Undoing Disempowerment | Cultivating Agency in AEDP®

Presented by Eileen Russell, PhD

Learn more and Register

Friday January 24, 2024- Monday 27, 2025
Live Online and Highly Interactive

Course Description:

Internalized experiences of trauma, neglect, or oppression can severely impair one’s access to and expression of one’s emotions, as well as the sense of safety with oneself and others. But these experiences, as well as subtler, but chronic, experiences of not being seen or recognized, can also impair the development of the sense of the self being an agent in the world and in one’s own life. Even as one develops a connection to and capacity for one’s own feelings, people can still feel like “guests in their own lives.” 

We will explore and explain the development and expansion of AEDP theory to include the addition of agency, will, and desire to the Four State Transformational Process of AEDP theory and practice. This course will discuss the broadening of our attachment-based therapeutic stance to invite differentiation (vs. “we-ness”) in the service of nurturing the agentic self that has often been suppressed in many clients in psychotherapy. It will explore situations in which “safety,” highly prized in AEDP, can be over-used and instances in which allowing for some conflict, or at least tension, in the therapeutic relationship may be more growth-full for the development of the agentic, differentiated self. It will contextualize the importance of this expansion in developmental, polyvagal, relational psychoanalytic, and learning theories.

Dr. Russell will use videotapes of actual sessions to illustrate examples of blocked agency as well as techniques for inviting the emergence of agency within the therapeutic relationship.

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