Full Course Description
Mother Hunger: Treating Trauma, Grief and Attachment Wounds from Unmet Maternal Needs
Do you have clients who feel trapped in cycles of harmful behaviors and are unable to stop?
Clients who struggle with an insatiable need for sex and love, periods of overeating or starving, and painful, unstable relationships?
I’ve seen these traits over and over in clients. As I searched for answers I discovered a common thread – so many had a deep yearning for a mother’s love, attention, and care that was not met during childhood.
Hiding in secrecy and shame, this unnamed problem left clients a lifetime legacy of insecure attachment, trauma, addiction, anxiety and so much more.
It led me to write my best-selling book Mother Hunger: How Adult Daughters Can Understand and Heal from Lost Nurturance, Protection and Guidance to help people name what they’re missing and begin to heal.
And now for the first time ever, you can join me for a complete training, as I tackle this complex problem and give you the clinical tools and solutions you’ve been looking for…
…so you can help your clients break free from harmful cycles and emptiness resulting from unmet maternal needs.
When you join me, I’ll share a healing path with powerful therapeutic interventions so you can:
- Recognize signs and symptoms of unmet maternal needs in clients
- Destigmatize shame and feelings of inadequacy that accompany undermothering
- Use attachment-focused interventions to help clients identify unhealthy attachment patterns and work towards building healthier relationships
- Build greater self-awareness and emotional regulation in clients
- Help clients create sense of safety and trust within themselves
- Give clients a toolkit of self-care and self-soothing techniques
So many of your peers who have trained with me say this material is “this is the missing piece” in both their treatment approach and personal healing.
Kelly McDaniel
Program Information
Objectives
- Analyze unmet maternal needs through the lens of attachment injury.
- Identify the impact of neurobiological changes associated with complex trauma on the development of mood disorders.
- Develop skills to create a therapeutic container for disenfranchised grief.
- Utilize family constellation work to bring repetitive traumatic patterns into awareness.
- Use imagery of positive attachment experiences to assist in the development of adult secure attachment.
- Examine countertransference reactions in therapeutic practice to maintain professional boundaries.
Outline
Attachment Injury from Unmet Maternal Needs
- The three core elements of maternal needs
- Child development impacts when core needs are unmet
- Insecure attachment from the perspective of an attachment injury
- How insecure attachment impacts adult functioning
- Tools to identify attachment injury and complicated grief
Complex Post-Traumatic Stress: The Legacy of an Abusive Mother
- PTSD vs. Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
- Brain changes from CPTSD and mood disorders
- Creative and flexible strategies for supporting “difficult” clients
Apology Aches and The Disenfranchised Grief of Mother Hunger: Working with Clients Hurt by Those Who Were Supposed to Love Them
- Identify the “apology ache”
- Reduce the “apology ache” to manage adult interactions
- Create a safe, supportive environment for clients to explore and express difficult emotions
- Reduce the craving our clients have for closure
- Manage the fantasy of the ideal parent figure
- Disenfranchised grief and creating a container
- Journaling and creative ways to support healthy grieving
Clinical Tools to Treat Adult Daughters with Unmet Developmental Needs
- Attachment-focused interventions to identify bonding behaviors
- Techniques to move clients towards building healthier relationships
- Family constellation work to help clients explore their maternal bond
- Use imagery of positive attachment experiences to assist in the development of adult secure attachment in therapeutic contexts
- Self-soothing practices for emotional regulation
Additional Clinical Issues
- When is group work helpful and when is it not?
- Address countertransference
- Treatment termination
- Research, risks and treatment limitations
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Social Workers
- Psychologists
- Case Managers
- Addiction Counselors
- Therapists
- Physicians
- Other Mental Health Professionals
Copyright :
02/20/2025
Treating Adult Clients of Emotionally Immature Parents
No matter what you treat, we all work with clients trying to overcome the wounds inflicted by emotionally immature, insensitive, self-absorbed, and controlling parents.
As a therapist, working with these clients can leave you feeling frustrated and ineffective as they make the same self-destructive choices again and again, struggle to set healthy boundaries, find themselves unable to walk away from the role of “rescuer” in toxic relationships, and only say what they think others want to hear – including in therapy.
Lindsay C. Gibson, PsyD, is the Amazon #1 Best Selling Author of Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting or Self-Involved Parents. A psychotherapist for over thirty years, her work has been translated into 34 languages and has helped thousands of people reverse their toxic psychological legacy and reclaim their lives.
Watch her as she shows you how you can find greater therapeutic success with clinical strategies to help your clients take control of their relationships and lives, break free from harmful patterns, connect more deeply with themselves and others, and become the person they were always meant to be.
The invaluable tools Dr. Gibson will share can help all therapists:
- Skillfully guide clients in how they can restructure toxic relationships with parents and others
- Free clients from the fear, shame, and self-doubt that traps them in a life of emotional coercion
- Teach clients to protect themselves from hurtful behaviors without completely severing all ties
- Give clients the courage to set boundaries without feeling guilty
This is one training you can’t afford to miss! Purchase today!
Program Information
Objectives
- Distinguish between psychopathology and emotional immaturity, and establish how a disease concept model can impede therapeutic progress.
- Demonstrate practical communication skills that clients can use to protect themselves and redirect interactions with emotionally immature people.
- Utilize cognitive and emotional techniques to teach clients how they can set boundaries without feeling guilty.
- Employ interventions that help clients regain self-trust and the ability to identify emotionally immature control maneuvers.
- Formulate a treatment strategy that teaches clients how to evade attempts to undermine their mental freedom, inner-world connection, sense of goodness, and ability to reach out to others.
- Apply effective therapy approaches to release clients from emotional coercion and self-doubt in emotionally immature relationships.
Outline
Spotting Emotional Immaturity: Teach Clients to Understand Emotional Immaturity
- Importance of describing over diagnosing
- Projective identification and the Emotionally Immature Relationship System
- Characteristics of emotional immaturity and maturity
- What relationships feel like with emotionally immature people
How Emotionally Immature Parenting Impacts Your Clients: What You Can Expect When They Come for Therapy
- Emotional loneliness and the fear of non-being
- Good coping, emotional suffering; polyvagal effects
- Self-disconnection and distrust of the inner world
- The four horsemen of self-defeat
- Loss of emotional autonomy and mental freedom
- Healing fantasies, role-self, internalizer vs. externalizer styles
Cognitive and Emotional Techniques: What Works and What Doesn’t
- Why clients find it so hard to break free from exploitation and emotional neglect
- Why CBT and psychodynamic approaches aren’t enough
- Exercises to help clients express themselves without anxiety
- Teach clients to simultaneously disengage and become relationship leaders
- How to define and use values as guideposts for the future
- Phrasing suggestions, encouraging agency and showing how it’s done
End Emotional Takeovers and Coercion: Help Clients Achieve Emotional Autonomy from Emotionally Immature People
- The emotionally immature person’s “distortion field”
- Emotional coercion: how clients can spot and deflect control maneuvers
- Communication skills to establish boundaries without guilt
- When to sever ties with someone
Release Self-Doubt, Shame, and Fear: Clinical Tools and Interventions to Help Clients Find Their True Selves
- Techniques to release clients’ feelings of personal “badness”
- Interventions to address fears of being selfish and incapable of love
- Tuning into energy shifts to track safety, unreliability, and threat in others
- Repurpose self-doubt, shame, fear and guilt
- Practicing experiencing emotionally intimate connection
Practice Tips for Working with the Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents
- Using countertransference effectively
- Honoring personal style
- Invitation, collaboration and celebration vs. direction and persuasion
- How to phrase suggestions
- Research and treatment limitations
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Social Workers
- Psychologists
- Case Managers
- Addiction Counselors
- Therapists
- Physicians
- Other Mental Health Professionals
Copyright :
08/25/2023
Attachment Trauma Treatment Workshop: Step-by-Step Clinical Solutions for Processing Childhood Trauma in Adults
The echoes of childhood pain leave profound scars that can last a lifetime.
But treating the resulting trauma isn’t easy and comes with clinical challenges like intrusive memories, emotional dysregulation, and fears of abandonment or intimacy that hurt their relationships.
And while attachment theory is informative, it doesn’t translate that knowledge into effective practice.
That’s why I created this exciting new training so you can fully understand how attachment trauma impacts your clients PLUS be fully prepared to treat them and achieve amazing results.
You’ll get powerful techniques from mindfulness, guided memory exercises, and trauma-informed narrative therapy. I’ll break it all down for you – step by step – so you’ll know exactly what to do and when.
- We’ll kick things off with mindfulness practices that help your clients calm their nervous systems, recognize their triggers, and break the patterns hurting their relationships.
- Then, I’ll share guided memory and imagery techniques to help your clients disempower painful memories and transform feelings of abandonment into a sense of safety and security.
- Finally, we’ll dive into trauma-informed narrative therapy exercises that let your clients tell and take control of their stories, reshape how they see themselves, and build the healthy relationships they deserve.
And because we all work with clients from diverse backgrounds, I’ll make sure you have the tools to adapt these strategies for everyone, including those from marginalized communities.
Don’t miss this chance to help your clients break the cycle of attachment trauma, reclaim their self-worth, and foster meaningful connections.
Purchase now!
Dr. Shama Panjwani
Psychotherapist and Professor at Keiser University
Program Information
Objectives
- Distinguish between the development trajectories of different attachment styles.
- Examine the concept of attachment wounds and inner child healing.
- Analyze the relationship between core beliefs formed from attachment trauma and unhealthy relationship cycles.
- Use guided memory exercises to increase insight into traumatic events from childhood.
- Choose mindfulness strategies to provide grounding when triggered within personal relationships.
- Utilize trauma informed narrative to reduce reactiveness.
Outline
Attachment Formation, Styles, and Trauma
- Stages of attachment in early childhood development
- Attachment and brain development
- Attachment styles and parental figure relationships
- Identify different types of trauma
- Adverse Childhood Experiences
Attachment Trauma and Mind-Body Responses
- Formation of attachment trauma
- Physiological responses to trauma
- Core beliefs and schemas
- Personality development
Attachment Wound and Inner Child Healing
- Psychological wound from adverse childhood experiences
- Self-confidence, identity formation, and forming healthy relationships
- Concept of inner child healing
Signs, Symptoms, and Triggers
- Cognition, self-doubt and beliefs
- Emotional distress and regulation
- Behavioral indicators
- Impact on having healthy relationships in adulthood
The Attachment Trauma Toolkit: Mindfulness, Guided Memory Recall and Trauma-Informed Narrative Therapy
- Existing theories and techniques in working with attachment trauma
Mindfulness Exercises for Emotional Regulation and Grounding
- How mindfulness fosters awareness and presence
- Benefits of mindfulness in emotional regulation
- Grounding exercises to connect clients to the present moment
- Breathing techniques to manage anxiety and emotional dysregulation
- Body scans to enhance somatic awareness
Guided Memory Techniques: Use Imagery to Create Safety and Security
- Step-by-step process
- Create imagined scenes of safety and secure attachment
- Facilitate insight and processing
- Manage emotional responses
Trauma-Informed Narrative Therapy: Restructure Negative Self-Talk and Core Beliefs
- The power of storytelling in healing
- How narrative shapes identity and self-perception
- Step-by-step guide to helping clients reframe their narratives
- Techniques for identifying and challenging negative beliefs
- Encourage clients to create empowering personal stories
- Research, risks, and treatment limitations of each approach
Cultural Responsiveness and Ethical Implications
- Working with marginalized populations
- Acknowledge systemic oppressions
- Cultural considerations, awareness, and responsiveness
- Ethical guidelines and reminders
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Art Therapists
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Psychologists
- Physicians
- Case Managers
- Addiction Counselors
- Nurses
- Other Mental Health Professionals
Copyright :
04/22/2025