Healing Attachment Trauma: A Trauma Informed Approach

About Course

This Healing Attachment Trauma online course offers an in-depth look at how unmet emotional needs shape survival strategies and nervous system responses. It is designed for professionals seeking body-based resourcing tools, inner child work, and integration techniques to stabilize clients and foster a secure therapeutic relationship.

Impact of Attachment Trauma
Definition: Relational ruptures and unmet emotional needs
Theories: A Foundation of Integration (Daniel Siegel), Internal Working Models (John Bowlby), Core Wounds of Attachment Trauma, and Ventral Vagal System (VVC)
⁠⁠Imprints: Neurobiological, emotional, and relational effects of early disruption
Attachment Strategies as Survival
⁠Framework: Avoidant, anxious, disorganised and pre-verbal as adaptive coping
Indicators: Somatic and relational cues of fragmentation
Stabilization and Resourcing
Phases of Trauma-Informed Therapy: Moving clients from fragmentation to coherence and resilience
4 Foundational Resources (AF-EMDR)
⁠⁠Secure Base: Using the therapeutic relationship for co-regulation and safety
⁠⁠Body Tools: Sensorimotor grounding, EMDR resourcing, and EFT tapping
⁠⁠Parts Work: Incorporating inner child work to build internal safety
Clinical Frameworks & Modalities
Polyvagal Theory: Nervous system safety and stabilization
⁠⁠Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Body-based resourcing tools
⁠⁠Integration: Inner child work and EMDR-inspired practices
Self-of-Therapist
⁠Safety: Co-creating environment for emotional stability.
⁠⁠Attunement: Developing relational sensitivity and awareness.