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Apply attachment theory in new ways using AEDP
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2 CEs available
Free for Marin CAMFT members and RECAMFT reciprocal chapter members!
This training will not be recorded. Please plan to attend the "live" session on Zoom if you are interested in this learning activity.
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Workshop Description
Early attachment experiences shape our relationships with ourselves and with others. When they go well, they nourish felt security and our capacity for connection. When they go awry, they give rise to attachment trauma and insecure patterns that challenge our capacity to feel safe and trusting in the relationships we crave the most. AEDP® is a healing-oriented, transformation-based psychotherapy model which is ideally suited to treat attachment trauma. AEDP’s therapeutic stance is radically relational. From the beginning of treatment we seek to create a secure attachment with our patients as a basis for healing relational wounding. We aim to set conditions for establishing safety and undoing aloneness, explicitly and experientially, with loads of sensitivity and responsiveness. To encourage safety, we meet our patients where they are. To foster growth and transformation, we help our patients explore what happens between us and inside themselves in the present moment.
Yet to enter this terrain can be daunting for patients with insecure attachment patterns and can stir overwhelming emotions, defenses, and anxiety, which interfere with the flow of treatment. Additionally, therapists may encounter common reactivities to their patients’ presentation, which directly link to their attachment patterns and restrict therapeutic effectiveness. To help therapists organize their treatment approach, this course offers a comprehensive picture of both secure and insecure attachment. This framework comes to life with the first two of three grids developed by Pando-Mars (2025): i) the configuration of the secure attachment pattern and ii) the configurations of insecure attachment patterns: avoidant, ambivalent/resistant, and disorganized. The third grid, iii) clinical markers and interventions to treat avoidant, ambivalent/resistant, and disorganized patterns, will guide therapists in how to translate attachment theory into clinical practice to mobilize transformational outcomes.
Using clinical video footage, we will examine how avoidant, ambivalent/resistant, and disorganized attachment patterns present in therapy—and how each pattern calls for a specific, tailored approach. Video illustrations of particular interventions will show how therapists can meet patients where they are and help them to deepen trust and expand their capacity for regulation, connection, and relatedness. Grounded in AEDP® theory and interventions, with foundations in attachment research and neuroscience, and sprinkled with clinical wisdom, this presentation invites therapists to fine-tune their effectiveness and engage more precisely and confidently to help clients heal relational/attachment trauma.
Educational Goals
This training will cover identity markers of each insecure attachment pattern, and metaskills therapists can draw upon to counter the characteristic behavioral hallmarks of caregivers and common therapist reactivities to each pattern. The presentation will explain how therapists can intervene with specificity to avoidant, ambivalent/resistant and disorganized attachment patterns.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this workshop, participants should be able to:
- List three markers of the avoidant attachment pattern
- Name three interventions to address avoidant patterning
- Identify two therpaist metaksills to help someone with avoidant patterning
- Identify three markers of the ambivalent/resistant attachment pattern
- Name three interventions to address ambivalent/resistant patterning
- Describe two therapist metaskills to help someone with ambivalent/resistant patterning
- Identify three markers of the disorganized attachment pattern
- Name three interventions to address disorganized attachment patterns
- Describe two therapist metaskills to help someone with patterns of disorganized attachment
- Identify two cultural and identity-related factors that may influence the presentation of attachment patterns.
Presenter Karen Pando-Mars, LMFT
Karen Pando-Mars, MFT has a clinical and consultation practice in San Anselmo, CA, is senior faculty at the AEDP® Institute and teaches AEDP worldwide. She was a founder of The Sandtray Network and a contributing editor of its journal. As adjunct faculty at Dominican University, in San Rafael, California, she taught AEDP as the overarching theoretical model in the Alternative and Innovative Psychotherapies course. Her background in somatic and experiential therapies includes Focusing, Biofeedback, Process-Oriented Psychotherapy, Sandtray-Worldplay, EMDR, and Authentic Movement. She is known for her presence, warmth, and the clarity of her presentations. Videotapes of her clinical work are moving and inspiring examples of how AEDP's explicit relational and precise experiential practices can help patients heal relational trauma. Her passionate interest in what cultivates deep connection between Self and Other has been furthered by her research into attachment theory and related neuroscience. Her publications include Tailoring AEDP Interventions to Attachment Style (2016), a chapter in Undoing Aloneness & the Transformation of Suffering into Flourishing: AEDP 2.0 (2021) APA Press. She and Diana Fosha co-authored Tailoring Treatment to Attachment Patterns: Healing Trauma in Relationship (2025) Norton, NY.
Registering for this Zoom training does not include access to any recording or an on-demand version.
You will be sent instructions on how to register with Zoom to get your personal Zoom link to use for attendance. Please read the email confirmation you receive after signing up on the Marin CAMFT website for these instructions.
Attendance at the live event in full and completion of the evaluation at the end qualifies for 2 hours of Continuing Education (2 CEs).
Date: Friday, October 9
Time: 12:00 to 2:00 pm Pacific
Cost: Free for Marin CAMFT members and reciprocal members, $40 for non-members. Please see refund policy below. Any on-demand training published subsequently will also be free for Marin CAMFT members (reciprocal benefits not available for Marin CAMFT On-Demand).
Location: Online via Zoom. Instructions for registering with Zoom, in order to receive your Personal Zoom Join Link, will be sent in your confirmation message from Marin CAMFT. You will need to complete that second Zoom-registration step in order to receive your Zoom Link by email.
Additional Information about Marin CAMFT CE Programs
For more information about the Friday Continuing Education Series or about joining the Marin CAMFT Continuing Education Committee, please contact our Director of Programs.
- Continuing Education: This workshop meets the qualifications for 2 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LEPs and/or LPCCs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. These CEs will be provided by Marin CAMFT (CAMFT Provider # 56895), which is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs and LEPs. We regret that at this time we are not able to provide CE credits for Licensed Psychologists. Participants must attend the full duration of the program (on Zoom, or in person, per event details above) and complete the course evaluation to receive the CE completion certificate. Course evaluations must be completed within 90 days of the training date. A $20 administrative fee will be charged for requests received more than 90 days after the course asking for course evaluation instructions, replacement CE certificates, or for research into missing or lost CE certificates. Marin CAMFT maintains responsibility for this program and its contents. Contact our Director of Programs for more information.
- Continuing Education Goal: Marin CAMFT is committed to offering continuing education courses to train LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs and LEPs to treat any client in an ethically and clinically sound manner based upon current accepted standards of practice.
- Refund Policy: Our refund policy requires a $20 processing fee, and we must be notified in advance of the event if you would like to cancel. We do not provide refunds in case of non-attendance by the registrant. Please allow up to a week from requesting the refund to it being processed. Participants who register for free may choose to cancel by emailing info@marincamft.org if they will not be attending, though this is not necessary. Please contact our Director of Programs with any questions.
- Request for Accommodations: If you need accommodations for this event, please contact the Director of Programs.
- Grievance Procedure: Marin CAMFT will respond to complaints in a reasonable, ethical and timely manner, when submitted by program attendees in writing to the Director of Programs.
- Anti-Discrimination Policy: Marin CAMFT shall not discriminate against any individual or group with respect to any service, program or activity based on gender or gender identity, sexual orientation, ethnicity, race, creed, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, ability, or other prohibited basis. Marin CAMFT does not require attendees to adhere to any particular religion or creed in order to participate in training. Marin CAMFT will not promote or advocate for a single modality of treatment that is discriminatory or likely to harm clients based on current accepted standards or practice.
Continuing education credits are available for attendance in the Zoom presentation. You must stay on the Zoom meeting for the entirety of the training and complete the course evaluation afterward in order to receive a completion certificate. Because of the requirement to attend the training in full, if you attempt to log in to the Zoom late, after the training is already underway, you may not be admitted. Please log onto the event promptly at the listed start time.
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