Friday, June 5th, 2026 10:00 AM EDT -1:00 PM EDT Terry Levy
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Description
Safe, secure and loving parent-child and adult intimate relationships are basic to achieving health and happiness. Early attachment experiences wire connections in the brain, create core beliefs and mindsets, and influence our ability to develop trust, safety, security, emotional closeness, and stability in significant relationships throughout life.
Early developmental trauma, such as abuse, neglect, chaotic family conditions, and abandonment and betrayal, often result in severe anxiety, PTSD, depression, shame, self-contempt, emotional and behavioral dysregulation, toxic and dysfunctional relationships, and medical illnesses. Experiential interventions are effective when treating clients with severe trauma and attachment injuries.
Experiential interventions are meaningful emotional, mental, social and somatic experiences, in a safe and supportive therapeutic setting, that results in the following positive changes and healing:
- Rewire the traumatized limbic brain.
- Modify self-destructive core beliefs, attitudes, and narratives.
- Change trauma-based survival reactions to constructive coping skills.
- Mitigate trauma-related emotions and behaviors, including anger, fear, loss and grief, shame, aggression, impulsivity and self-harm.
- Transform anxious and avoidant attachment styles into secure and safe attachments.
- Utilize constructive communication, problem-solving and conflict-management tools and methods: from rupture to repair.
- Interrupt destructive intergenerational family dynamics, including abuse, neglect, abandonment, betrayal and disrupted attachment.
- Change from a victim mindset (powerless, helpless, stuck in the past) to an overcomer identity (confident, empowered, self-accepting, optimistic).
About the Presenter:
Dr. Levy was the founder and previous director of the Family Life Center and the Miami Psychotherapy Institute, which offered family systems treatment and training. He was co-founder and Past-President of the Board of Directors of the Association for Training on Trauma and Attachment in Children (ATTACh), an international organization dedicated to attachment and its critical importance to human development. Dr. Levy is a clinical member of the American, Colorado, and Florida Psychological Associations, American and Colorado Associations of Marriage and Family Therapy, and is an Approved Supervisor of the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (AAMFT).
Learning Objectives:
- Describe the psychological, social, cognitive, and biological aspects of trauma and attachment.
- Utilize effective individual and relationship-based assessment methods, including the Life Script.
- Identify skill-based and experiential interventions to improve emotional dysregulation, core beliefs, brain wiring and biochemistry, PTSD symptoms and relationship patterns.
- Apply Attachment Communication Training to foster effective communication, conflict-management and secure attachment.
- Explain how traumatized clients can achieve positive personal and relationship goals, including posttraumatic growth.
- Create secure and fulfilling relationships by facilitating limbic resonance and attachment security.
Agenda:
Part I: Assessment
Symptoms of trauma and disrupted attachment
Traumatized brain and biochemistry
Core beliefs, narrative and schemas
Four attachment styles of children and adults
Life Script: Psychosocial history and attachment patterns
Part II: Treatment Interventions
Structure of the Healing Process
Intensive Outpatient Psychotherapy model
3-step treatment process: revisit, revise, revitalize
Integrative approach: mind-body-emotions-relationships
Experiential and Skill-Based Interventions: Clinical Videos
Foster trust and secure attachments
Confront traumatic events: change from victim to overcomer
Change negative beliefs and narratives
Resolve anger, fear, shame, loss and grief
Alleviate trauma and PTSD symptoms
Achieve forgiveness to let go of anger and pain
Posttraumatic Growth: Recovery and Resilience
Positive psychology
Instill optimism and hope
Gratitude and positive emotions
A sense of meaning and purpose
Use signature strengths
Enhance relationships and social support
Self-esteem and self-efficacy
Volunteering and giving
Improving Relationships
Strengthen the hardwired need for safe emotional bonds
Change attachment patterns in the family system
Attachment Communication Training: Constructive communication, problem-solving and conflict-management skills
Limbic resonance and fulfillment of attachment needs
Therapeutic Goals
Develop positive core beliefs and narratives
Resolve loss and grief
Promote safe and secure attachments
Alleviate anxiety, depression, shame, and “victim mindset”
Reduce biochemistry of trauma
Learn stress management and anger management coping skills
Practice constructive parenting and communication skills
Create supportive and fulfilling family relationships
Mitigate defensiveness; enhance motivation and cooperation in therapy
Accreditation - This Webinar Offers 3 Live Interactive Continuing Education Credits
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This presentation is open to:
- Behavior Analysts
- Social Workers
- Professional Counselors
- Therapists
- Psychologists
- Licensed Mental Health Practitioners
- Medical Doctors and Other Health Professionals
- Other professionals interacting with populations engaged in mental health based services
This online class is offered at an intermediate level, and is beneficial for an intermediate level clinician:
- New practitioners who wish to gain enhanced insight surrounding the topic
- Experienced practitioners who seek to increase and expand fundamental knowledge surrounding the subject matter
- Advanced practitioners seeking to review concepts and reinforce practice skills and/or access additional consultation
- Managers seeking to broaden micro and/or macro perspectives
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