Attachment-Based Interventions to Help Clients Heal from Attachment Traumas

Presenter: Dr. Christina Reese

Target Audience: Psychologists, Social Workers, MFTs, Counselors, Nurses, Psychiatrists

Course Content Level: Introductory/Intermediate

Continuing Education Credit Info:

*Certificates with CE credits are provided at no extra cost!

American Psychological Association - 4 CE credits

Envision Counselling & Consulting, Inc. is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Envision Counselling & Consulting, Inc. maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

For more information, see the CE section at the bottom of the page

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Live Online via Zoom (Time Zones):

10 AM - 2:15 PM Pacific CA/USA

11 AM - 3:15 PM Mountain CA/USA

1 PM - 5:15 PM Eastern CA/USA

6 PM - 10:15 PM London, UK

7 PM - 11:15 PM Madrid, Spain

7 PM - 11:15 PM Berlin, Germany

7 PM - 11:15 PM Copenhagen, Denmark

Begins at 8 PM Helsinki, Finland

Can't Attend Live? Your registration gives you 60 days access to the recording!

Workshop Description:

During this presentation, Dr. Reese will provide an attachment-based framework for helping clients who have experienced attachment trauma. Dr. Reese will cover assessment guidelines as well as the 4 phases that are required to heal attachment trauma. Clinicians will learn useful strategies and interventions for each of those phases.

Attendees will leave this workshop equipped with tools to help their clients begin their healing journey, restore their sense of felt safety, and improve their relationships with others.

This workshop will be experiential, and attendees will be able to take part in guided exercises. Dr. Reese will provide attendees with helpful worksheets that they will be able to use in sessions with their clients.

Learning Objectives

Define how clinicians can recognize and assess the impact of attachment trauma in their clients

List at least two assessment tools for adult clients

Identify symptoms that may indicate attachment trauma

Describe the connection between attachment and personality disorders

List at least two strategies to help your clients regulate their emotions

Explain the impact of attachment trauma on the brain

Agenda: 1pm to 5:15 pm Eastern Time

1 pm to 2 pm: Attachment Trauma, what is it?

Causes of impaired attachment

Assessment guidelines

Diagnostic criteria

Assessment tools for adult clients

Guided activity

2 pm to 2:30 pm: The 4 phases of treatment

Phase 1: Emotion regulation

Guided exercise

Question period

2:30 pm to 2:45 pm: Break

2:45 pm to 3:45 pm:

Phase 2: Relationship Building

Phase 3: Attunement

Phase 4: Attachment

Guided activity

Question period

3:45 pm to 4:30 pm:

Attachment and Abuse/neglect

The Alert System and Survival Hormones

The connection between attachment and personality disorders

Guided activity

4:30 pm to 5:15 pm:

Attachment trauma and the clinician

Question period

Your Presenter: Christina Reese, LCPC, Ph.D.

has been working with children impacted by trauma for over 15 years, and has recently completed training as a TBRI Practitioner. She helps children and their families impacted by a variety of traumas, providing both in home and in school therapy to these children. Over this time, Dr. Reese has partnered with schools in Baltimore County and Baltimore City to help teachers find interventions that get results in the classroom. A passionate advocate for children and their families, she has worked with children in court ordered drug treatment at the Anne Arundel County Circuit Court, as week as in residential treatment centers and in the community.

Dr. Reese, a recognized attachment and trauma professional, has created a comprehensive guide that explains attachment over a lifetime. her book, Attachment: 60 Trauma-Informed Assessment and Treatment Interventions Across the Lifespan (PESI, 2018), offers trauma-informed strategies to facilitate connection, rebuild trust and restore positive emotions.

Dr. Reese is a licensed clinical professional counselor in Maryland and Pennsylvania as well as a licensed clinical supervisor. She received her Master's Degree in community counseling from McDaniel College in Westminster, MD and her PhD in counselor education from George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Past work experiences include being director of a mental health clinic and the case manager of the Howard County Cold Weather Shelter, working with homeless individuals and families. additionally, Dr. Reese is very passionate about her work focusing on attachment and has extensive experience with adoptive families and children in foster care.

Continuing Education:

*Certificates with CE credits are provided at no extra cost!

Satisfactory Completion

Participants must have paid tuition fee, logged in and out each day, and attended the entire webinar, to receive a certificate. Failure to log in or out will result in forfeiture of credit for the entire course. No exceptions will be made. Partial credit is not available. Certificates will be available following the 4 hrs course completion.

***If participants watch the recording version of the presentation, they will have access to Self-Study CE credits after completion of a short quiz.

American Psychological Association (APA) - 4 CE credits

CE credits for Psychologists:

Envision Counselling & Consulting, Inc. is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Envision Counselling & Consulting, Inc. maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Social Workers:

Alabama

The Alabama State Board of Social Work Examiners accepts CE credits by APA approved sponsors. Envision Counselling & Consulting, Inc. is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Envision Counselling & Consulting, Inc. maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

California

The California Board of Behavioral Sciences accepts CE credits by APA approved sponsors. Envision Counselling & Consulting, Inc. is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Envision Counselling & Consulting, Inc. maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Delaware

The Board of Social Work Examiners accepts CE credits by APA approved sponsors. Envision Counselling & Consulting, Inc. is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Envision Counselling & Consulting, Inc. maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Florida

The Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage & Family Therapy and Mental Health Counselling accepts CE credits by APA approved sponsors. Envision Counselling & Consulting, Inc. is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Envision Counselling & Consulting, Inc. maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Illinois

The Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR) accepts CE credits by APA approved sponsors. Envision Counselling & Consulting, Inc. is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Envision Counselling & Consulting, Inc. maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Kentucky

The Kentucky Board of Social Work accepts CE credits by APA approved sponsors. Envision Counselling & Consulting, Inc. is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Envision Counselling & Consulting, Inc. maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Missouri

The Missouri State Committee for Social Workers accepts CE credits by APA approved sponsors. Envision Counselling & Consulting, Inc. is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Envision Counselling & Consulting, Inc. maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Oregon

The Board of Licensed Social Workers accepts CE credits by APA approved sponsors. Envision Counselling & Consulting, Inc. is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Envision Counselling & Consulting, Inc. maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Pennsylvania

The State Board of Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists and Professional Counselors accepts CE credits by APA approved sponsors. Envision Counselling & Consulting, Inc. is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Envision Counselling & Consulting, Inc. maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Licensed Professional Counselors (LPC)

Alabama

The Alabama Board of Examiners in Counseling accepts CE credits by APA approved sponsors. Envision Counselling & Consulting, Inc. is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Envision Counselling & Consulting, Inc. maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Alaska

The State of Alaska Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development Division of Corporations, Business and Professional Licensing Board of Professional Counselors accepts CE credits by APA approved sponsors. Envision Counselling & Consulting, Inc. is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Envision Counselling & Consulting, Inc. maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

California

The California Board of Behavioral Sciences accepts CE credits by APA approved sponsors. Envision Counselling & Consulting, Inc. is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Envision Counselling & Consulting, Inc. maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Florida

The Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage & Family Therapy and Mental Health Counselling accepts CE credits by APA approved sponsors. Envision Counselling & Consulting, Inc. is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Envision Counselling & Consulting, Inc. maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

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