The digital recording will be released to all participants on the 18th October. The recording and associated resources will then be accessible through your Essential Therapy Training account for 365 days.
Working Attachment Informed with the Insecure Client and their Relationship – Angela Dierks
The digital recording will be released to all participants on the 18th October. The recording and associated resources will then be accessible through your Essential Therapy Training account for 365 days.
In this six-hour training session we will explore the impact of an insecure attachment on a client’s relationships. The session will largely be informed by attachment theory but will have an integrative focus, drawing on a range of theoretical modalities to consider how to work with the presentation of attachment wounds, specifically in adult couple relationships. The session is aimed at therapists who work with individual clients as well as couples’ therapists who are not familiar with attachment theory. In addition, it is hoped that the session will give you an insight into your own attachment style in intimate relationships. We will work with the client’s relationship in mind, rather than specifically with the dynamics of a couple in the therapy room while drawing on some of the systemic thinking of couples therapy.
Attachment Theory offers a valuable framework for understanding a client’s relational dynamics, in particular in partner relationships. It enables clients to gain insight into their intrapsychic as well as interpsychic representation of the world and of relationships. Insight can enable behavioural change.
TRAINING information
In this six-hour training session we will explore the impact of an insecure attachment on a client’s relationships. The session will largely be informed by attachment theory but will have an integrative focus, drawing on a range of theoretical modalities to consider how to work with the presentation of attachment wounds, specifically in adult couple relationships. The session is aimed at therapists who work with individual clients as well as couples’ therapists who are not familiar with attachment theory. In addition, it is hoped that the session will give you an insight into your own attachment style in intimate relationships. We will work with the client’s relationship in mind, rather than specifically with the dynamics of a couple in the therapy room while drawing on some of the systemic thinking of couples therapy.
Attachment Theory offers a valuable framework for understanding a client’s relational dynamics, in particular in partner relationships. It enables clients to gain insight into their intrapsychic as well as interpsychic representation of the world and of relationships. Insight can enable behavioural change.
Learning Objectives
At the end of this workshop, the learner will be able to:
- To gain an overview of attachment styles and their relevance in understanding a client’s insecure relational dynamics
- To consider the qualities needed by an attachment informed therapist
- To consider affects that clients experience as challenging in their relationship
- To consider the therapeutic tasks for working with insecure client who seek a romantic relationship
- To consider unconscious factors that guide partner choice
- To consider the therapeutic tasks for working with insecure clients and their romantic relationship
- To understand patterns of relating in adult romantic relationships: secure/secure, insecure/secure, insecure/insecure
About the Speaker
Angela is a London based, BACP accredited integrative counsellor and psychotherapist, couple’s therapist and clinical supervisor. Angela holds an MA Integrative Counselling, Diploma in Couples Counselling and Psychotherapy and a Diploma in Clinical Supervision. Previously Angela gained an MSt (Oxon) in European Literature. She is a lecturer on the MSc in Integrative Counselling and Coaching at the University of East London (UEL) where she is module leader for the counselling application module of the course. Angela has previously worked as a student counsellor at UEL. When not working with clients, Angela is a passionate, abstract gestural artist.
Angela works with a wide range of clients and presentation in her private practice. Her particular interest is to work integratively on all aspects of being in relationships. To this end she co-designed an online course, The Relationship Maze, which draws on a range of therapeutic modalities including attachment theory, Transactional Analysis, Systems Theory, NLP, CBT and Gestalt. Angela can be heard in the weekly podcast The Relationship Maze where we discuss ways of addressing different presentations and challenges in relationships, for example managing differing levels of differentiation, loneliness and isolation, hope, stress and polyvagal theory, managing projections or dealing with conflict.
CPD/CE
CPD & CE credits available: 6
How do I receive these credits?
The participant must pass the multiple-choice test with a minimum score of 80%. There is a maximum of three attempts to achieve this.
The post-test is included in the price of the training.
Does my regulatory body accept the credits?
The CPD & CE credits awarded can be used towards your declaration to any governing regulatory body in your state or country, provided the content is relevant to your discipline.
Our trainings are accredited by:
– The CPD Group, London
– Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association
– Australian Counselling Association
