Knowledge about how attachment styles develop can help you as a practitioner to more easily understand how your adult clients operate in relationships.

By understanding how challenges such as hyper-independence, excessive dependency, and codependency are related to unresolved trauma, you can help clients to take a look at the wounds that led to their insecure attachment style.

A goal of good trauma-informed care is to help clients move towards what is known as “earned secure attachment” which comes after clients have been able to heal their wounds by processing what has happened to them. This course will help you to become more skilled helping clients resolve attachment wounds.

By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

1. Explain attachment theory to clients.

2. Define secure, avoidant, ambivalent, and disorganized attachment styles.

3. Identify how attachment patterns develop from childhood experiences of safety, misattunement, or trauma.

4. Recognize behaviors and relational challenges rooted in attachment insecurity (e.g., hyper-independence, excessive dependency, emotional dysregulation).

5. Evaluate how trauma contributes to clients’ relational struggles, including codependency, boundary issues, and tolerance of unhealthy dynamics.

6. Teach clients strategies to shift toward secure attachment by practicing emotional regulation, boundaries, and self-reflection.

7. Support clients in creating healthier, reciprocal, and more secure connections.