Secure attachment can be fostered by experiencing and integrating the experience of CARE.   These experiences can be categorized into 5 primary areas, or “pillars of attachment”.  This training will review these pillars of attachment, and provide clinicians an understanding of how this knowledge can be integrated into the 8 phases of EMDR treatment, with a special focus on history taking, resourcing, and interweaves.  

This training, led by Kerri Sterrett, MA, LPC, is appropriate for EMDR trained clinicians who already have a base understanding of attachment theory and are ready to learn and implement new or different attachment-based techniques for clients with some level of attachment wounding or dysfunction.

Learning Outcomes

General:  

• Describe the 5 pillars of attachment in a client friendly manner
• Cite key elements of each attachment style

Phase 1: History Taking and Treatment Planning

• Identify one formal assessment tool for assessing quality of care in childhood
• Identify additional questions to include during history taking, to gather important information on quality of care in childhood

Phase 2:  Preparation

• Identify specific tools for client resourcing based on the 5 pillars of secure attachment
• Identify specific therapist skills that can support secure attachment based on the 5 pillars of attachment

Phase 4: Desensitization

• Describe multiple, attachment-based interweaves to support blocked processing