Healing Attachment Trauma: Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy

Speaker: Ronald J. Frederick, PhD

Sponsored by: Oak Tree Mediation

Secure attachment between child and caregiver is essential to the development of self and optimal functioning. This workshop will illustrate how emotional development can go awry, but how, through experiential and relationship work in treatment, therapists can help clients overcome fear, open up to a richer emotional experience, and realize a broader range of personal and relational possibilities.

1. Understand findings from affective neuroscience and attachment studies and their relevance to clinical work.

2. Recognize and transform defenses against affective experience and closeness.

3. Learn how to use the therapeutic relationship to facilitate relational security and emotional healing.

Ronald J. Frederick, PhD, clinical psychologist, is the author of the award-winning book Living Like You Mean It: Use the Wisdom and Power of Your Emotions to Get the Life You Really Want (Jossey-Bass, 2009), a founding and senior faculty member of the Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) Institute, and Co-founder of the Center for Courageous Living, Beverly Hills, CA.