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Digital Seminar

Couples Attachment Therapy Workshop: A Clinical Toolkit to Connect, Heal and Help Partners Be Secure in Love


Faculty:
Leslie Becker-Phelps, PhD
Duration:
6 Hours 01 Minutes
Copyright:
12 May, 2025
Product Code:
POS150174
Media Type:
Digital Seminar
Access:
Never expires.


Description

Unmet childhood attachment needs are driving your clients’ defensiveness, distrust, and fear …

… and the hard truth as their therapist is that until these internal wounds are addressed – no amount of work will relieve conflict or help the relationship.

But many approaches fail to address these deeper scars that sabotage connection and secure love.

That’s where Attachment-Based Compassion Therapy comes in. Because it’s a proven framework to move partners toward healthier relationships - not just with each other, but with themselves.

And now you can watch Dr. Leslie Becker-Phelps, acclaimed therapist and best-selling author of Insecure in Love and The Insecure in Love Workbook and learn to use an attachment-based compassion therapy approach for couples in just one day.

In this training, she’ll show you how you can:

  • Apply attachment theory as a powerful framework for treating couples
  • Cultivate compassionate self-awareness and other-awareness as a foundation for healing
  • Help partners break free from entrenched patterns of hurt, anger, and defensiveness
  • Address underlying insecure attachment issues to promote secure love

Whether you’re a seasoned couples therapist or just starting out, this training is sure to enhance your therapeutic toolkit with practical techniques that lead to lasting change.

Purchase now and get the tools you need to guide couples toward healing together!

CPD

Planning Committee Disclosure - No relevant relationships

All members of the PESI, Inc. planning committee have provided disclosures of financial relationships with ineligible organizations and any relevant non-financial relationships prior to planning content for this activity. None of the committee members had relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies or other potentially biasing relationships to disclose to learners.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.



CPD

PESI Australia, in collaboration with PESI in the USA, offers quality online continuing professional development events from the leaders in the field at a standard recognized by professional associations including psychology, social work, occupational therapy, alcohol and drug professionals, counselling and psychotherapy. On completion of the training, a Professional Development Certificate is issued after the individual has answered and submitted a quiz and course evaluation. This program is worth 6.25 hours CPD for points calculation by your association.



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Leslie Becker-Phelps, PhD, has over 30 years of experience as a psychologist. She hosts a YouTube channel and is the best-selling author of several books with New Harbinger Publications including The Insecure in Love Workbook (2024), Insecure in Love (2014) and Bouncing Back from Rejection (2019). Her books have been praised by luminaries like Harville Hendrix, PhD and Steven Hayes. They have helped thousands of people improve their relationships and lives. She writes the Authentically You blog, and she wrote the weekly Relationships blog for WebMD for over 10 years. She is also a medical reviewer for Everydayhealth.com. Dr. Becker-Phelps is on the medical staff at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital – Somerset and previously served as clinical director of Women’s Psychological Services and Chief of Psychology.
 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Leslie Becker-Phelps maintains a private practice and has an employment relationship with Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital. She receives royalties as a published author. Leslie Becker-Phelps receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Leslie Becker-Phelps is a member of the American Psychological Association, the New Jersey Psychological Association, the Morris Psychological Association, the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration, the New Jersey Association of Cognitive Behavioral Therapists, the Postpartum Support International, and the American Telemedicine Association.


Additional Info

Access for Self-Study (Non-Interactive)

Access never expires for this product.

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Objectives

  1. Identify how attachment insecurity negatively affects relationship satisfaction and stability.
  2. Choose strategies for strengthening secure attachment to improve client relationships.
  3. Determine how client and therapist attachment styles influence experiences of closeness, distance, autonomy, and engagement.
  4. Use mentalisation to navigate difficult emotions, particularly in response to relationship conflicts or stressors.
  5. Use proactive compassion to prevent relationship issues from escalating into major conflicts.
  6. Identify obstacles to compassion and interventions to help partners overcome them.

Outline

Attachment Theory: Important Concepts for Therapy
  • Overview of attachment theory
  • Key concepts especially relevant for therapy
  • Attachment styles
  • Relationship of insecure attachment and psychopathology
  • Research
Key Factors in Secure Relationships
  • Clarify importance of safety and safeness in secure relationships
  • Role of compassionate awareness in healthy relationships
  • Compassion, attachment, and well-being
  • Knowing your attachment style to facilitate secure relationships
Attachment-Based Compassion Therapy for Couples
  • Overview of treatment goal, healing the divide
  • Structure of the evaluation beginning with the initial call
  • Case formulation
  • Develop the therapeutic relationship
  • Conceptualising interventions
Attachment-Based Toolkit for Building Self and Other Awareness: Increase Emotional Closeness, Empathy, Compassion, and Forgiveness
  • Overview of five essential domains of awareness
  • Therapeutic interventions for each domain
  • Use bodily sensations to connect partners with their experiences
  • Thoughts-based interventions to gain perspective on selves and partners
  • Interventions focused on emotions to deepen connection
  • Action-based interventions increase awareness of emotional closeness and distance
  • Mentalisation to increase empathy, compassion, and forgiveness
  • Integrate other approaches, including trauma-informed treatments
Special Topics: Homework, Termination and More
  • Common themes of insecure attachment in relationships
  • Homework to facilitate treatment goals
  • Limitations, risks of and contraindications
  • Facilitate termination that supports continued healthy relationship

Target Audience

  • Marriage and Family Therapists
  • Counsellors
  • Social Workers
  • Psychologists
  • Therapists
  • Addiction Counsellors
  • Case Managers
  • Other Mental Health Professionals

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