Join Dr. Diane Poole Heller and Dr. David Wallin for…
Attachment in Psychotherapy
Use your own psychology as a therapeutic tool to connect with clients, understand their challenges and facilitate change.
- Enrollment is NOW OPEN.
- Join us for the first session on May 30th!
How Can You Transform Personal Wounds Into Therapeutic Strengths?
Therapists are often drawn to their profession by a strong desire to alleviate the pain and suffering of others, which is rooted in their passion for self-discovery, connection and healing.
So it’s not surprising that many therapists who have overcome personal trauma or adversity have a natural calling to support others who face similar challenges.
While every therapist has their own unique motivations for pursuing their profession, studies have shown that people who have a greater capacity for empathy, compassion, and emotional understanding tend to be more effective connecting with and supporting clients throughout their healing journey.
But what happens when the therapist hasn’t fully healed from their own struggles and experiences?
Just as we see with our clients—unresolved wounds break down vital connections to ourselves and with others, which can affect our ability to provide the most effective therapy.
- Maybe we find it challenging to regulate our emotions with certain clients or to stay present and attuned to their needs?
- Or maybe we tend to over- or under-identify with clients who have experienced similar traumas?
- Perhaps we avoid certain topics––or the opposite––we become more direct or controlling in sessions rather than collaborative or client-centered?
No matter the challenge, it’s easy to see how unresolved trauma can hinder the therapeutic process and prevent clients from making progress.
So how can you care for and support yourself and your client simultaneously during the healing process?
While there are many tools and strategies that can enhance clinical practice, one that’s often overlooked is our own psychology that’s shaped by personal history and experiences.
The truth is, our psychology can give us advantages and vulnerabilities in clinical practice.
Even the most powerful interventions and techniques may prove ineffective if we fail to create a supportive environment and foster positive interactions with our clients that enable their healing.
As therapists, our clients’ healing relies on our own ability to create a secure base for ourselves first.
Just as we know that parents with a secure attachment style are more likely to raise secure children…
Therapists who model secure attachment in clinical sessions enhance communication, safety, trust, and strengthen the therapeutic alliance with their clients, resulting in improved treatment outcomes and client satisfaction, as well as increased fulfillment for the therapist.
What if we could improve mental health outcomes by drawing on our own attachment experiences?
Even if we’re trained therapists, we can still sometimes react to conflict, stress and trauma because our attachment styles aren’t set in stone.
In fact, most of us have multiple or layered attachment adaptations—meaning they can change depending on the relationship, environment or situation.
So on occasion, you may find yourself acting or reacting in an unexpected way during clinical sessions.
And that is normal.
The thing is… It’s who we are and who we can become that determines our ability to create new healing attachment relationships with our clients.
This is why it’s important we apply an attachment-based approach inward—towards ourselves—to increase self-awareness, strengthen resilience and facilitate better mental health outcomes for ourselves and our clients from the first session.
“The therapists own attachment patterns are frequently, if not always, the primary influence in shaping his or her potential to be of help as a therapist.”
––David Wallin, PhD
Develop your skills and provide better support for clients…
- Learn how to work from a place of secure attachment yourself, so you can create a safer therapeutic environment, establish deeper clinical connections and improve your effectiveness from the first session.
- Better understand how your own history and experiences can shape your perspective, beliefs and behaviors so you can prevent your own patterns and adaptations from affecting your client’s progress.
- Navigate attachment system dynamics between you and your client to create a new, healthier way of interacting and communicating during sessions.
- Uncover and address individual, intergenerational and collective traumas that may unconsciously hinder your ability to connect with and remain empathetic to clients.
- Incorporate additional attachment-based tools, techniques and interventions with existing modalities to deliver more effective treatment and support improved outcomes.
- Learn new corrective exercises, strategies and interventions you can apply to your everyday practice so you can prevent your unresolved wounds from being activated.
“The attachment bond the client develops in relation to the therapist may be the key therapeutic intervention.”
—David Wallin, PhD
Our next topic in the monthly training series…
Attachment in Psychotherapy
Relational Transformation, Nonverbal Experience & the Psychology of the Therapist
Use your own psychology as a therapeutic tool to connect with clients, understand their challenges and facilitate change.
- Enrollment is NOW OPEN until May 29, 2023
Led by Dr. Diane Poole Heller and Dr. David Wallin
Here’s What We’ll Cover in the Next 6 Months:
Includes teaching, tools, strategies and practice breakout sessions, so you can integrate new skills into clinical practice and improve effectiveness from the very first session.
All LIVE monthly sessions meet online for 90 minutes on
Tuesdays at 1 pm ET / 11 am MT / 10 am PT
MONTH 1: May 30, 2023
Mapping the Therapeutic Terrain
Having a secure relationship can teach us how to manage our emotions, become more resilient and heal.
However, not all of our clients have experienced secure relationships, which makes it crucial for therapists to provide that sense of safety and connection for them. To do that, we must first establish a secure base within ourselves.
In this month’s training, you’ll learn how attachment relationships are essential to our clients’ psychological development. We’ll examine how attachment research can inform our clinical work—especially in regard to our own attachment history and patterning. With new insights, we can actively prevent our own attachment adaptations from inhibiting our client’s healing process.
- Discover the four ways therapists can create a secure base, reinvigorate client engagement in the therapeutic process and improve clinical outcomes.
- Learn which key attachment findings and research can inform our work as therapists.
- Identify ways the 4 attachment patterns can prevent emotion-regulating strategies that heighten negative emotional patterns and hinder effective communication.
- Learn how to effectively enhance your clients’ ability to regulate their emotions and cultivate a stronger sense of self.
MONTH 2: June 20, 2023
The Therapeutic Conversation and the Power of Working with the Nonverbal Subtext
The human brain is wired to remember (and learn from) profound experiences, which imprint onto our amygdala. We carry these formative events throughout our lives as both explicit and implicit memories—and they can affect our thoughts, emotions, physical and mental health… even our adult relationships.
While we aren’t always aware of our implicit memories, we do evoke, enact or embody them with other people.
In this month’s training, you’ll learn how to read your client’s nonverbal “language” so you can facilitate healthy psychological development.
- Identify and recognize how your own attachment patterns can block the ability to create a new and healing attachment relationship.
- Explore powerful techniques that bring unconscious beliefs to the surface and allow you to “listen” to the nonverbal subtexts in a therapeutic conversation.
- Learn how to leverage your own subjectivity as a key clinical asset, so you can cultivate meaningful connections with your clients.
- Discover potent body-based tools, methods and inquiries that help clients identify underlying emotions with greater ease and clarity.
MONTH 3: July 18, 2023
The “Triple Helix” of Psychological Liberation: Mindfulness, Mentalizing and Self-Agency
When we’re too focused on our own thoughts and emotions, we may find it difficult to let them go or see things from a different lens. This can limit our ability to remain open-minded and objective, and affect the therapeutic relationship. But when we can learn to see things from the perspective of other people—a capacity known as mentalizing—we can challenge and update existing beliefs and thoughts.
In this month’s training, you’ll learn essential skills you can use for yourself and your clients to support resilience and feel better equipped to handle trauma.
- Gain a deeper understanding of mindfulness, mentalizing and self-agency, and how they are inter-related to regulate emotion, foster presence and understanding of self.
- Identify interventions that support the client’s capacity for mindfulness so they can stay present to their own experience, emotions and reactions.
- Discover how to improve your clients’ emotional regulation, self-awareness and relationship repair skills by teaching them techniques that allow them to shift unhealthy thought patterns and reformulate existing beliefs and perspectives.
- Explore ways to strengthen your and your client’s awareness and capacity for self-agency, which can support post-traumatic growth and resilience.
MONTH 4: August 22, 2023
The Therapist as a New Attachment Figure and the Career Trajectory of the Wounded Healer
As therapists, we’re not immune to suffering—in fact, personal struggles or trauma may be the reason many of us were drawn to clinical work in the first place. But these experiences can skew our perspective, beliefs and attitudes.
Similar to how the attachment patterns of parents can affect their children, the attachment patterns of therapists can alter the therapeutic process—influencing the progress of healing. In this month’s training, we explore how, as therapists, we can become a new healing attachment figure for our clients.
- Uncover the reasons therapists are drawn to relieve the suffering of others and how to apply that self-awareness to promote better mental health outcomes.
- Gain insight into the potential benefits and challenges of therapists who have personally experienced trauma, and explore how their attachment experiences may influence their approach to the therapeutic relationship.
- Develop deeper connections with clients by integrating our own experiences into the therapeutic process, while also maintaining appropriate boundaries.
- Learn how to resolve shame that can activate unresolved wounds for a safer, more supportive healing environment.
MONTH 5: September 19, 2023
We Are the Tools of Our Trade: Identifying the Therapist's Own Attachment Patterns and How They Shape Therapy
Our attachment styles are not set in stone—even if you are secure, insecure attachment adaptations can still emerge depending on any given interaction, situation or environment.
This means our responses can vary depending on the person and their situation.
During this month’s training, you’ll explore how to identify patterns in your own attachment experiences. As you gain insights into your own attachment patterns and how they relate to your clients’ challenges, you’ll be able to help your clients restore their own secure attachment more effectively.
- Identify the strengths and vulnerabilities associated with the four attachment patterns––to better understand the clinical implications in your therapeutic work.
- Assess your attachment history—including the influence of your primary attachment figures—to identify how it might shape therapy.
- Discover techniques to counteract the avoidant or ambivalent state of mine that can arise while working with clients.
- Uncover and address individual, intergenerational and collective trauma that may unconsciously hinder your ability to connect with and remain empathetic to clients.
MONTH 6: October 17, 2023
Working with Enactments: Where the Attachment Histories of Therapist and Client Intersect
An enactment refers to a situation where the therapist and client re-enact a past relationship dynamic––often unconsciously––in the therapeutic relationship.
Enactments can either be positive or negative, depending on the respective attachment styles of the interaction, and often represent an opportunity for both the therapist and client to explore and work through unresolved issues.
In this month’s training, you’ll explore ways that the attachment patterns and histories of the therapist and client can intersect to create enactments. Additionally, you’ll examine techniques that can transform these enactments into a therapeutic advantage.
- Develop greater awareness of your role in the enactment process with clients, and learn strategies to prevent them from hindering the therapeutic relationship.
- Learn how you can break negative habits and patterns to stop enactments when they arise and instead, transform them into an opportunity for growth and healing.
- Learn how deliberate self-disclosure can lead to increased trust and rapport between the therapist and client, which can strengthen the therapeutic alliance and improve treatment outcomes.
Don’t miss out on the opportunity to participate in an exclusive monthly program that gives you direct access to the combined expertise of two renowned attachment experts.
Enrollment is now open until May 29, 2023
Plus, get these exclusive program bonuses…
BONUS #1
Two LIVE 60-minute Integration Sessions with Dr. Diane Poole Heller
Join us for two LIVE online BONUS sessions, where Dr. Diane Poole Heller will lead a meaningful dialogue with participants on the importance of self-care.
You’ll learn strategies for staying grounded, centered and regulated during therapy sessions, so you can show up as your best self for your clients.
Diane will also review a demo (with volunteer course participants) and open discussion for personal exploration—sharing insights and techniques to protect ourselves when we feel activated.
These calls are especially beneficial for therapists who want to work on their own personal challenges, or for those who work with individuals with unresolved attachment trauma.
- June 24, 2023 @ 9-10 am MT
- August 25, 2023 @ 10-11 am MT
BONUS #2
Video Training and Client Demos with Patti Elledge
Patti Elledge serves as an approved session provider and case consultant for the DARe Certificate Program—and has specialized in the therapeutic application of neuroscience for over 40 years.
Through her work, she has helped countless individuals on their personal and professional journeys of healing.
In these TWO recorded video sessions, Patti Elledge explores how to quickly recognize and identify adult attachment styles, so you can develop more effective clinical skills, and help your clients manage conflict and strengthen connections in their relationships.
Video #1: How Attachment Styles Interact in Adult Relationships
- Learn how to quickly identify attachment styles—plus, tips to help individual attachment styles navigate conflict as it arises.
- Better recognize how avoidant/ambivalent couple combinations differ from avoidant/ ambivalent couples.
- Understand what happens when a relationship goes from ‘electrifying’ to ‘terrifying’ because one partner has a history of disorganized attachment.
- Learn the neurobiology behind each of the insecure attachment styles.
Video #2: Recordings of Live Demos with Q&A
- Understand how to repair missed connections— and learn the importance of re-establishing safety in therapeutic sessions.
- Learn what is meant by left-to-left processing vs right-to-right connection so you know when to use meaning-making and talking vs attunement and resonance.
- Learn strategies for tracking self and how to follow a person’s body cues as to what is happening in the present (during sessions) vs. the past.
Includes both video and audio recordings
Ready to Start? Join Today!
All for just
$67/
month
Therapy Mastermind Circle only opens up twice a year. Sign up today to get immediate access.
Our first live call is on May 30, 2023!
Enroll now until May 29, 2023 at 11:59 pm PT
What is Therapy Mastermind Circle?
An annual online program where we meet monthly to explore relevant topics, share expert learning and gain practical clinical skills to help you and your clients thrive.
Explore a variety of deep and complex topics not covered often in traditional training programs.
Integrate new skills, corrective exercises and interventions that help clients grow & thrive despite their trauma.
Join an engaged and friendly community that supports you while you support others in their healing.
Learn directly from Dr. Diane Poole Heller and renowned experts, ready to share years of professional, clinical experience.
Discover a consolidated library of tools, training resources, client case studies, clinical demos & experiential exercises.
Stay current with the latest training tools—you can purchase CE credits every six months (as you complete training topics).
Who should join us?
In Therapy Mastermind Circle, we take on topics that aren’t always taught in other training programs…
- You’d like to better understand your own attachment patterns so you can create a healing therapeutic attachment relationship that strengthens resilience, encourages emotional regulation and fosters healthy psychological development.
- You’re an experienced therapist working with individuals or couples and you want to expand your practice by incorporating additional methods and interventions that enhance client engagement and improve clinical outcomes.
- You’re a newer therapist or mental health professional who wants to gain confidence and integrate corrective exercises, strategies and interventions into your everyday practice so you can navigate the complexities of attachment system dynamics.
- You need additional tools, methods and exercises to help you cultivate a safe and trusting therapeutic environment more quickly from the very first session.
- You’d like to learn an attachment-based approach that encourages clients to stay in therapy—so they can take action, sustain change and find meaning and fulfillment in all their relationships.
Our next topic, Attachment in Psychotherapy begins May 30, 2023
“With the clarity of a natural teacher and the wisdom of a seasoned clinician, Dr. Wallin not only elucidates the vast empirical literature on attachment, but also makes such findings relevant to the complex challenges of practice.”
—Nancy McWilliams, PhD, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Here’s what’s included for just $67/month…
Attachment in Psychotherapy
Relational Transformation, Nonverbal Experience & the Psychology of the Therapist
One LIVE Monthly Training Session + Q&A
Each month, we teach live, create space for introspection, learn from real cases and discuss topics extensively.
We’ll also share experiential exercises and strategies so you can learn how to integrate and apply the work to your practice immediately.
And we always set aside extra time for your questions and answers.
Can’t attend live? Don’t worry, there’s always a replay available in your personal learning dashboard.
Live Breakout Sessions led by Dr. Wallin
During the LIVE call each month, you’ll get a chance to apply theory and practice new techniques and skills with 3-4 peers during small group breakouts.
Each short, conversation-based session supports learning and allows students to embody the monthly teaching.
A Private Course Portal with Downloadable Access to Video, Audio, Transcripts & BONUS Resources
Every live training will be recorded. The recorded replay will be available in video, audio and written format, so you’ll be able to access content 24/7/365.
If you miss a training session, want to download transcripts and use them for reference and note taking—or you want to watch the trainings at a later date—you’ll be able to do so at your convenience.
The course portal is also a terrific place to ask questions, grow your network, share insights and receive support directly from Dr. Wallin and Dr. Heller.
Monthly training with top experts!
All for just
$67/
month
Therapy Mastermind Circle only opens up twice a year. Sign up today to get immediate access.
Our first live call is on May 30, 2023!
Enroll now until May 29, 2023 at 11:59 pm PT
Your Satisfaction is 100% Guaranteed
We’re confident this program will be a valuable investment in your education and clinical practice.
Try the Therapy Mastermind Circle membership 100% risk-free.
If for any reason you don’t feel it means your needs, please contact our friendly Customer Support Team within 30 days—and we’ll happily issue you a refund.
Is this the right training for me?
In every Therapy Mastermind Circle topic, you’ll learn…
- Attachment and trauma-informed strategies and interventions, so you can address relational trauma and facilitate healing for yourself and clients.
- Specific approaches to help you tailor therapies and interventions for each client’s unique history and life experience.
- Experiential therapeutic techniques and corrective exercises, so you can feel more confident as you augment your clinical skills.
- How to integrate and apply proven frameworks, practical techniques and additional tools and strategies to your therapeutic sessions.
- How to deepen your understanding about yourself, strengthen secure attachment skills and create a safe environment to help clients heal from any type of relational trauma.
Don’t miss your chance to learn directly from two experts in trauma and attachment with almost eight decades of combined experience!
Our first live call is on May 30, 2023!
Enroll now until May 29, 2023 at 11:59 pm PT
About Your Instructors
“The therapist’s own attachment patterns are frequently, if not always, the primary influence in shaping his or her potential to be of help as a therapist.”
David Wallin, PhD, is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Berkeley, California.
A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard who received his doctorate from the Wright Institute in Berkeley, Dr. Wallin has been practicing, teaching, and writing about psychotherapy for over four decades.
Attachment in Psychotherapy, his most recent book, has been translated into more than a dozen languages. He is also co-author of Mapping the Terrain of the Heart: Passion, Tenderness, and the Capacity to Love.
Dr. Wallin has lectured on attachment and psychotherapy for clinicians in Australia, New Zealand, China, Europe, Canada, and throughout the United States. He is also a songwriter.
“As we grow out of our wounded self and become a more securely attached resilient being, we can foster the same process in others.
Diane Poole Heller PhD, is an internationally recognized speaker, author, and teaching expert in the field of adult attachment theory and trauma resolution.
Her signature approach—DARe (Dynamic Attachment Re-patterning experience)—provides therapists and individuals with relevant skills and practical exercises that facilitate healing from attachment and trauma wounds.
Her work with adult attachment has forged a path for adults with childhood attachment injuries to develop Secure Attachment Skills (SAS) that lead to more connected and fulfilling adult relationships. Through various training programs, books, lectures and her own work as a clinical therapist, Dr. Heller has helped a countless number of people in their healing journey towards experiencing greater intimacy, wholeness and more fulfilling relationships.
She believes that when we heal ourselves first, we heal our families, our communities and the world as a whole.
Ready to join us for our next topic?
Here’s everything you’ll get in…
Attachment in Psychotherapy
Relational Transformation, Nonverbal Experience & the Psychology of the Therapist
Use your own psychology as a therapeutic tool to connect with clients, understand their challenges and facilitate change.
Eligible professionals may be able to earn 12 CE hours!
Six, LIVE 90-minute Interactive Training Sessions with Dr. David Wallin and Dr. Diane Poole Heller
Join Diane and David for six, LIVE 90-minute sessions that include teaching, introspection, an extensive discussion of each topic and plenty of time for Q&A from the audience.
Participate live or download the replay recording at your convenience if you cannot make the scheduled time. Learn concepts, frameworks, techniques, practical exercises and ways to apply the work to everyday practice.
Live Small Group Breakout Sessions led by Dr. Wallin
During the LIVE call each month, you’ll get a chance to apply theory and practice new techniques and skills with 3-4 peers during small group breakouts.
Each short, conversation-based session supports learning and allows students to embody the monthly teaching.
A Private Course Portal with Downloadable Access to Video, Audio, Transcripts & BONUS Resources
Every live training will be recorded. The recorded replay will be available in video, audio and written format, so you’ll be able to access content 24/7/365.
If you miss a training session, want to download transcripts and use them for reference and note taking—or you want to watch the trainings at a later date—you’ll be able to do so at your convenience.
PLUS, get these exclusive
COURSE BONUSES!
BONUS #1: Two LIVE 60-minute Integration Sessions with Dr. Heller
Join us for two live bonus sessions, led by Dr. Diane Poole Heller.
You’ll learn strategies for staying grounded, centered and regulated during therapy sessions, so you can show up as your best self for your clients.
Diane will also review a demo (with volunteer course participants) and open discussion for personal exploration—sharing insights and techniques to protect ourselves when we feel activated.
BONUS #2: Video Training & Client Demos with Patti Elledge
Learn how to quickly recognize and identify adult attachment styles in two bonus recorded audio and video sessions with DARe Practitioner Patti Elledge.
Includes video and audio recordings of:
• How Attachment Styles Interact in Adult Relationships
• Client Demos with Q&A
Ready to Start? Join Today!
All for just
$67/
month
Therapy Mastermind Circle only opens up twice a year. Sign up today to get immediate access.
Our first live call is on May 30, 2023!
Enroll now until May 29, 2023 at 11:59 pm PT
Your Satisfaction is 100% Guaranteed
We’re confident this program will be a valuable investment in your education and clinical practice.
Try the Therapy Mastermind Circle membership 100% risk-free.
If for any reason you don’t feel it means your needs, please contact our friendly Customer Support Team within 30 days—and we’ll happily issue you a refund.
Frequently Asked Questions
How can we help you?
No, you do not. While most of the people who join the Therapy Mastermind Circle membership are both novices and experienced practitioners, we do sometimes have non-therapists join us as we explore a variety of in-depth topics on a monthly basis.
Since this particular cohort includes small group practice breakout sessions and experiential teaching, we do encourage any non-therapists who choose to join us to have therapeutic support in place, as the material covered in our monthly modules is not meant as a substitute for therapy. If you are currently working with a mental health professional, we encourage you to invite them to join this program as well.
This topic is highly relevant for life coaches, bodywork practitioners, first responders, medical professionals, teachers/educators and other mental health and behavioral professionals who work with clients and patients in a professional or clinical setting—and who need additional tools and skills to help improve client engagement and mental health outcomes.
Each monthly session will be LIVE, streamed online via Zoom on Tuesdays at 11 am MT. Additionally, you’ll be able to submit questions each week through the private course portal and during the live session, which includes time for Q&A.
Every call will be recorded and stored inside the private course portal, so you may review it at your own pace. However, we highly recommend you attend live so you don’t miss live teaching and interactive small group breakout sessions.
Therapy Mastermind Circle is an annual program with rotating 6-month topics. You have lifetime access to your dashboard and materials for every 6-month topic you complete, including videos, transcripts, worksheets, exercises and bonuses. You may also download or print the materials at any time to your professional reference library.
If you cancel your membership to Therapy Mastermind Circle before completing the current 6-month topic, you will have 30 days—from the time you give notice of your cancellation—to download the materials for your personal use.
We would love to you to join each session live, but if you are unable to do so, all sessions (including the Q&A) are recorded, so you can still receive all the information and coaching you need.
Additionally, the program materials (including audio recordings, video recordings and transcript from each session) are yours to download and keep in your professional reference library. This will be useful for some sessions that you will want to listen to or watch more than once.
We’re also here to help you within Kajabi, your own private learning portal. It’s a great place to ask questions, share insights and get support from Diane, David and your colleagues.
The time most people spend varies because of individual learning styles and preferences. Most of our students tell us they spend an average of 1-2 hours per module (per month) outside of our 90-minute LIVE monthly sessions.
We also encourage everyone to work at your own pace—and at the very least, join us for the live teaching and interactive, small group breakout sessions.
The LIVE, ONLINE sessions for this course have been approved for a total of 12 CE credit hours. If you are a licensed clinical professional counselor or a licensed social worker—you may be able to purchase these CE credits for an additional fee of $89.
CE credits must be purchased by the beginning of the last live session—October 17, 2023. Attendance will be taken to verify eligibility. Upon completion of the program, you will be sent an activity evaluation link, which must be completed within 60 days after the last program session (by Saturday, December 16, 2023). Upon completion of the activity evaluation, participants can print their certificate or statement of credit immediately.
Also, a Certificate of Completion is available to all students at the end of the program upon request at no additional charge.
It is the participants responsibility to check their individual state boards to verify CE requirements for this state. For detailed information regarding CEs, please contact our Customer Support Team.
A limited number of partial scholarships are available for students and for those with financial need.
Reduced enrollment rates are also available for those with limited resources in countries defined as low and lower middle income by the World Bank. Please feel free to contact us for more information.
If you have additional questions or need technical support, please contact our friendly Customer Support Team for help.
We’re confident this program will be a valuable investment in your education, personal growth and clinical practice. If for any reason, you decide to withdraw, simply contact our Customer Support Team on or before Thursday June 29, 2023 and we’ll give you a full refund, no questions asked.
Once enrolled in the Therapy Mastermind Circle, you may cancel your membership to Therapy Mastermind Circle before completing the current 6-month topic, you will have 30 days—from the time you give notice of your cancellation— to download the materials for your personal use.
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All for just
$67/
month
Therapy Mastermind Circle only opens up twice a year. Sign up today to get immediate access.
Our first live call is on May 30, 2023!
Enroll now until May 29, 2023 at 11:59 pm PT
Continuing Education (CE) Option
Licensed Mental Health Professionals
Do you need CE credits?
You may be able to purchase 12 CE credit hours for this program, for an additional (non-refundable) fee of $89.
Course Level: Beginning to advanced practice professionals
Target Audience: Licensed mental health professionals
Continuing Education Credit has been approved for the following professions:
- Licensed Professional Counselors (MUST attend live calls to be eligible)*
- Licensed Clinical Social Workers
*ONLY THE LIVE ONLINE SESSIONS ARE APPROVED FOR CE CREDITS.
To be eligible, professionals must purchase their CE credits by October 17, 2023 and attend ALL SIX live sessions to qualify.
A Certificate of Completion is available to all participants at the end of the course at no additional charge upon request.
It is the participants’ responsibility to check their individual state boards to verify CE requirements for this state. For detailed information regarding CEs, please contact our Customer Support Team.
In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by Amedco LLCand Trauma Solutions. Amedco LLC is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for ContinuingMedical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and theAmerican Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
APA Credit Designation Statement
This course is co-sponsored by Amedco and Trauma Solutions. Amedco is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists.Amedco maintains responsibility for this program and content. Maximum of 12 hours.
The following state boards accept courses from APA providers for Counselors:
AK, AR, AZ,CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, HI, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, MD, ME, MO, NC, ND, NH, NE, NJ, NM, NV, OK*, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT,VA, WI, WY MI: No CE requirements.
*OK: Accepts APA credit for live, in-person activities but not for ethics and/or online courses.
The following state boards accept courses from APA providers for MFTs:
AK, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DE, FL, GA, IA, ID, IN, KS, MD,ME, MO, NE, NC, NH, NJ, NM, NV, OK*, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, WI, WY
AL MFTs: Credits authorized by NBCC or any other state licensing agency will be accepted.
MA MFTs: Participants can self-submit courses not approved by the MAMFT board for review.
The following state boards accept courses from APA providers for Addictions Professionals:
AK, AR, CO, CT, DC, DE, GA, IA, IN,KS, LA, MD, MO, MT, NC, ND, NE, NJ, NM, NY (held outside NY ONLY), OK*, OR, SC, UT, WA, WI, WY
The following state boards accept courses from APA providers for Social Workers: AK, AR, AZ, CA, CO, DE, FL, GA, ID, IN, KY, ME,MN, MO, NE, NH, NM, OR, PA, VT, WI, WY
ASWB Credit Designation Statement
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, Amedco is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education(ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the fi nal authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Amedco maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive 12 continuing education credits.
The following state boards accept courses offering ASWB ACE credit for Social Workers:
AK, AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, HI,ID, IL, IN, IA, KS, KY, LA, ME, MD, MA, MI, MN, MS, MO, MT, NC, ND, NE, NH, NM, NV, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VT, VA, WA, WI,WV, WY
* WV accepts ASWB ACE unless activity is in live in West Virginia then an application is required.
The following state boards accept courses offering ASWB ACE credit for Counselors:
AK, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, FL, GA, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS,MA, MD, ME, MO, ND, NE, NM, NH, NV, OK, PA, TN, TX, UT, VA, WI, WY
The following state boards accept courses offering ASWB ACE credit for MFTs:
AK, AR, AZ, CA, CO, FL, IA, ID, IN, KS, MD, ME, MO, NC, NE,NH, NM, NV, OK, PA, RI, TN, TX, UT, VA, WI, WY
MA / MFTs:
Participants can self-submit courses not approved by the MAMFT board for review.
The following state boards accept courses offering ASWB ACE credit for Addictions Professionals:
AK, CA, CO, CT, GA, IA, IN, KS, LA, MO,MT, ND, NM, NV, OK, OR, SC, WA, WI, WV, WY
Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Describe three ways to heighten the inclusiveness of the therapeutic dialogue, thus fostering the integration of dissociated experience.
- Describe the relationship between attachment patterns and emotion- regulating strategies.
- Describe three aspects of the nonverbal dimension in psychotherapy.
- Describe three forms that enactments can take in the therapeutic interaction.
- Describe the role of "projective identification" in the nonverbal subtext.
- Identify four ways to focus the therapeutic dialogue that help strengthen the patient’s mentalizing.
- Identify three or more questions that can help assess the patient’s mentalizing capacity.
- Identify three interventions that support the patient’s capacity for mindfulness.
- Describe the characteristic attachment history of the therapist.
- Describe how this history tends to shape the therapist’s unconscious participation in the therapy relationship.
- Provide examples of how therapists deal differently with the shame linked to trauma depending on their own attachment patterning.
- Identify the primary challenges associated with experiencing ourselves in the clinical situation as dismissing, preoccupied, and unresolved.
- Identify several “antidotes” to the dismissing state of mind as we relate to the patient.
- Identify several correctives to the preoccupied state of mind as we relate to the patient.
- Identify four problematic “self-states” to which therapists are vulnerable when working with patients unresolved with respect to trauma.
- Describe four enactments in which therapists can find themselves ensnared.
- Identify the three forms in which enactments are most commonly played out.
- Describe the role of mindfulness in working with enactments.
- Explain how the therapist’s self-disclosure contributes to work with enactments.