Certificate in attachment-focused adult psychotherapy: Advanced course

Certificate in attachment-focused adult psychotherapy: Advanced course

Presented by SickKids CCMH Learning Institute

Dates: April 25, 26, May 9, and 10, 2024
Time: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. ET
Facilitator: Annette Kussin, MSW, RSW

Prerequisite: Becoming an adult attachment-focused therapist OR equivalent training/knowledge on adult attachment

Description:
All therapists will find it extremely useful to understand their clients from the perspective of adult attachment. This perspective offers a non-judgmental and hopeful means for both the therapist and clients to understand problems in self-perception and problems in relationships. Although adult attachments develop as a continuum of child attachment and are deeply formed by adulthood, they can be changed so that adults can feel more secure and create mutually satisfying relationships.

This training will help participants assess the adult attachment category of their clients, by understanding the behaviour of each category and offering a formal adult attachment assessment.

Participants will be offered an attachment-focused therapeutic model that offers both general stages for change and specific strategies for each attachment category. This model will be explored in depth, using case examples from each category of attachment.

Participants will develop an understanding of the neurology of adult attachment. They will be able to apply an attachment paradigm to known problems and diagnoses in the mental health field, such as borderline personality disorder (BPD).

The relationship between the therapist and client is the central vehicle for change. Therefore, participants will be encouraged to be aware of their own attachment category and how this influences their therapeutic relationships.

Participants will complete this course with a deeper understanding of secure and insecure adult attachment and how to use this understanding to assist their clients to redevelop secure adult attachment or earned security.

Registration fee: General - $1,200  |  Student - $1,080

For full program overview and registration details please visit: https://cvent.me/ezrm8P

Facilitator Bio:
Annette Kussin, MSW, RSW, RMFT is a registered social worker and marital family therapist. She has been the Clinical Director of a number of children’s mental health centres and until 2013, she was the owner/director of the Leaside Therapy Centre, a multi-discipline private clinic.

She specializes in attachment theory, trauma and brain development and has received extensive training in these areas. Annette has a private practice where she offers assessments and therapy in attachment and trauma. She provides training and consultation for many organizations, agencies and therapists.

Continuing Education (CE) information: 24 CE hours