Attachment, Trauma, and Healing: Experiential

Interventions

Safe, secure and loving parent-child and adult intimate relationships are basic to achieving health and happiness. Early attachment experiences wire connections in the brain, create core beliefs and mindsets, and influence our ability to develop trust, safety, security, emotional closeness, and stability in significant relationships throughout life.


Early developmental trauma, such as abuse, neglect, chaotic family conditions, and abandonment and betrayal, often result in severe anxiety, PTSD, depression, shame, self-contempt, emotional and behavioral dysregulation, toxic and dysfunctional relationships, and medical illnesses. Experiential interventions are effective when treating clients with severe trauma and attachment injuries. Experiential interventions are meaningful emotional, mental, social and somatic experiences, in a safe and supportive therapeutic setting, that results in positive changes and healing.


This intermediate level webinar is appropriate for mental health, social services, and child welfare professionals. Via PowerPoint presentation, clinical videos, and Q&A discussion, you will learn how to promote positive change and healing for children, adults, couples, and families regarding the following:


- Rewire the traumatized limbic brain.

- Modify self-destructive core beliefs, attitudes, and narratives.

- Change trauma-based survival reactions to constructive coping skills.

- Mitigate trauma-related emotions and behaviors, including anger, fear, loss and grief, shame, aggression, impulsivity and self-harm.

- Transform anxious and avoidant attachment styles into secure and safe attachments.

- Utilize constructive communication, problem-solving and conflict-management tools and methods: from rupture to repair.

- Interrupt destructive intergenerational family dynamics, including abuse, neglect, abandonment, betrayal and disrupted attachment.

- Change from a victim mindset (powerless, helpless, stuck in the past) to an overcomer identity (confident, empowered, self-accepting, optimistic).

Published: September 2026

Format

Online Course

Credits

3.0

Instructor

Terry M. Levy Ph.D, B.C.F.E.

Price

$ 59

Course objectives

Attachment, Trauma, and Healing: Experiential Interventions

  • Describe the psychological, social, cognitive, and biological aspects of trauma and attachment
  • Utilize effective individual and relationship-based assessment methods, including the Life Script
  • Apply Attachment Communication Training to foster effective communication, conflict-management and secure attachment

Instructor

Terry M. Levy Ph.D, B.C.F.E.

Terry M. Levy, Ph.D., B.C.F.E. has been a psychotherapist, trainer, supervisor, author and consultant for over 50 years. Dr. Levy is the director of Evergreen Psychotherapy Center and the Attachment Treatment and Training Institute in Evergreen, Colorado. He is a licensed clinical psychologist in Colorado and Florida, a Board Certified Forensic Examiner, and a Diplomate and Master Therapist of the American Psychotherapy Association. He is the co-author of Attachment, Trauma & Healing (2nd edition, 2014, Jessica Kingsley Publisher, London), editor of Handbook of Attachment Interventions (2000, Elsevier Press) and co-author of Healing Parents: Helping Wounded Children Learn to Trust and Love (2006, Child Welfare League of America).

Dr. Levy was the founder and previous director of the Family Life Center (Florida) and the Miami Psychotherapy Institute, which offered family systems treatment and training. He was co-founder and past-president of the board of directors of the Association for Training on Trauma and Attachment in Children (ATTACh), an international organization dedicated to attachment and its critical importance to human development. Dr. Levy is a clinical member of the American, Colorado, and Florida Psychological Associations, American and Colorado Associations of Marriage and Family Therapy, and the American Family Therapy Academy.

Dr. Levy has taught seminars for mental health and social service systems throughout North America, Europe and Asia, including the American, Colorado, and Florida Psychological Associations, American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children, American Academy of Psychotherapists, ATTACh.org, American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy, Child Welfare League of America, National Foster Parents Association, Zur Institute, Essential Therapy Training, Professional Educational Seminars (PESI), Professional Psych Seminars (PsychSem), Trauma Solutions Training, Hudson Valley Professional Development, and many others. Dr. Levy has been a clinical supervisor for interns at the University of Colorado, Couples and Family Therapy, and Clinical Mental Health Programs for 25 years.

Course Lessons

How It Works

  • View the presentation. Classes are broken into small video segments of less than 30 minutes, so you can come and go as you please.
  • Take the quiz. Answer a few questions after each lesson before you move to the next lesson.
  • Complete the course evaluation.
  • Print your certificate and you're done!

We Make It Easy

  • Handouts from the class are available as PDF files to view or print.
  • Once you've purchased a class, you can view it as many times as you like.
  • Login with your email address and password. It takes you to your personal library/dashboard of all classes you have purchased.
  • Over 90% of professionals report being absolutely satisfied with their online experience!

Levels of Classes

All of our classes are offered at the intermediate level unless otherwise indicated. All classes are designed for experienced mental health professionals.

Test Policy

You need a score of 75% or higher in each lesson/module to move to the next lesson/module. Most people pass on their first attempt. You have up to 3 attempts to pass each module. After 3 failed attempts, you need to contact our office and we will reset the quiz for one more attempt.

Refund Policy

We offer a no-risk guarantee for our online courses. You can view any class for three days, and if not satisfied, contact PPS and we will refund your money in full. This refund offer does not apply if you have completed the class and passed all of the lesson/module quizzes.

Technical Support For On-Demand Courses

Please call 877-777-0668, Monday-Friday from 10 am - 4 pm Pacific Time or email info@psychsem.com.

Questions, Special Needs & Grievances

If you would like additional information, require special accommodations, or have a grievance, please contact Professional Psych Seminars at: toll-free phone: 877-777-0668, phone: 805-371-9443, fax: (805) 371-7443 or email us: info@psychsem.com.

On Demand Course FAQs

How long to I have to complete this class?

There is no time limit. You can take as long as you'd like to complete the class.

Can I sign-up for a class now, even though I don't want to take it for some time in the future?

Yes. Customers often do this when we are running a special, offering you a discounted price.

I lost my certificate. What do I do?

Log in to your account, navigate to the course, and view/print your Certificate.

Do I have to take the entire class at one time or can I stop and come back another time?

You can sign in and out anytime, from any computer, to continue the class. We break our classes into segments of 20 to 30 minutes. You can watch one segment and then come back later. You can even fast forward within a segment.

I am concerned about having to remember everything to take the test. Will this be a problem?

No. We ask you 2 to 3 questions after each 20 to 30 minute video lesson. Answer the questions after each lesson and save your answers. You can come back later and watch another video lesson when you have time. You don't have to remember more than one video lesson at a time. Also, most of our questions are very straight forward. You should have no problem answering them if you've watched the video lesson.

Can you print out the handouts for my on-demand class and send them to me?

No. You can view them online or print them out yourself.

My certificate won’t print. Can you help me?

Hold down the keys Ctrl + P at the same time to access the print screen on your computer.