Healing Affairs and Repairing Attachment Injuries

CPD

Faculty

Leanne Campbell, PhD Related seminars and products

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Dr. Leanne Campbell, is a Registered Psychologist, a co-founder and managing partner of Campbell & Fairweather Psychology group, and an ICEEFT (International Center for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy) Certified Trainer. In addition to providing psychological services to hundreds of individuals, couples, and families over the past three decades, Dr. Campbell provides trainings in Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) to professionals around the globe with a primary focus in the areas of grief and trauma. Most recently, she co-authored with Dr. Sue Johnson the first individually focused EFT book, A Primer for Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT): Cultivating Growth and Fitness in Every Client (Routledge, 2022).

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: T. Leanne Campbell maintains a private practice and receives royalties as a published author. She receives a speaking honorarium, recording, and book royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: T. Leanne Campbell is a board member International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy. She is a member of the Canadian Psychological Association, the College of Psychologists of British Columbia, and the International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy.

Objectives

1. Articulate when and how to work with couples in resolving attachment injuries in stages one and two EFT. 
2. Apply the Attachment Injury Resolution Model in session. 
3. Explain how to track and attend to the potential role of shame as a potential barrier to moving through the model. 
4. Describe how to work with partners, both intrapsychically and relationally, with particular attention to working with emotion in assisting couples in moving through the process of attachment-injury resolution. 
5. Assess how to anchor the processes of grief and shame resolution, both with regard to AIRM, and in the context of EFT more generally.

Outline

Definition of an Attachment Injury in EFT (Dr. Susan Johnson)

How to work with couples in addressing attachment injuries in Stage One (De-escalation) of EFT

• Assessment as it pertains in particular to gaining an attachment history, and identifying the history leading to the attachment injury (specifically, the affair) 
• Tracking the negative cycle in the context of the attachment injury, as well as more generally with respect to relationship history 
• Using the steps of the “EFT Tango” as a means of accessing and processing primary/deeper emotion 

Describe and demonstrate (with video) how to work with partners, both intrapsychically and relationally, to facilitate and carry forward healing/bonding moments as an antidote to the negative interactional cycle

 
Markers for when to work with couples in resolving attachment injuries 

Steps of the Attachment Injury Resolution/Repair Model (AIRM) 

Application of the Attachment Injury Resolution/Repair Model (AIRM)

• The key roles of pacing and clinical decision-making will be discussed in the context of the Attachment Injury Resolution/Repair Model (AIRM) 
• Videos will be used to demonstrate the moment-to-moment processing required to address attachment injuries 
• Explain and demonstrate (through video) how to track and attend to the role of shame as a potential barrier to moving through the AIR model 
• Explain and demonstrate (through video) how to track and attend to the role of grief/loss as another potential barrier to moving through the AIR model

Assess how to anchor the processes of grief and shame resolution, both with regard to AIRM, and in the context of the EFT model more generally

• How to assess where the clinician is in the model 
• How to address lingering impacts 
• How to consolidate gains and guide the couple in continuing to build trust post-EFT

Target Audience

• Psychologists
• Physicians
• Addiction Counselors
• Counselors
• Social Workers
• Marriage & Family Therapists
• Nurses
• Other Behavioral Health Professionals