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An In-depth Training with Deirdre Fay, MSW

Embodying Secure Attachment:

Guiding Clients Toward a Secure Self

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It's incredibly likely that you're seeing the impact of insecure attachment in your clients. And while you might understand attachment theory intellectually, it can be hard to facilitate real change for your clients with deeply ingrained relational habits.

Typical attachment intervention techniques can often fall short - remaining way too cerebral without embodiment.

This can leave your client gaining insights throughout your sessions, but still feeling like their sense of inner security is untouched.

Deirdre Fay's integrative, embodied approach is the missing ingredient that makes attachment work transformative for you and your clients. She draws from diverse modalities such as mindfulness, sensorimotor therapy, and even yogic psychology to help clients feel secure from the inside out.

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Hello,

It's incredibly likely that you're seeing the impact of insecure attachment in your clients. And while you might understand attachment theory intellectually, it can be hard to facilitate real change for your clients with deeply ingrained relational habits.

Typical attachment intervention techniques can often fall short - remaining way too cerebral without embodiment.

This can leave your client gaining insights throughout your sessions, but still feeling like their sense of inner security is untouched.

Deirdre Fay's integrative, embodied approach is the missing ingredient that makes attachment work transformative for you and your clients. She draws from diverse modalities such as mindfulness, sensorimotor therapy, and even yogic psychology to help clients feel secure from the inside out.

This combination of modalities and focus on the whole self allows you to help your clients rewrite their attachment patterns at the deepest levels.

Deirdre is renowned for translating Eastern yogic principles into psychotherapeutic techniques that bring attachment theory to life in new ways.

Her clinical toolbox of triggers, time capsules, and granularity can catalyze transformation in new ways to help you…

  • Calm protest behaviors and repair ruptures
  • Build felt security and self-trust
  • Shift attachment narratives and self-perception
  • Facilitate lasting change, not just insights

In this 5-module course, you'll learn the secrets of the comprehensive attachment framework that Deirdre has spent over 40+ years developing and refining.

Don't wait to gain these paradigm-shifting skills. Sign up for Deirdre's course today and start creating new levels of real breakthroughs with your clients.

Warmly,
Deirdre Fay, MSW &
Academy of Therapy Wisdom

When Attachment Styles Derail Connection...

Insecure attachment prevents people from having their core emotional needs met.

Without a secure base, they struggle to regulate difficult feelings and connect with others.

They may distance themselves from intimacy to prevent pain, obsess about abandonment, or fluctuate between extremes.

Destructive patterns like these arise when attachment figures in their past were unreliable or unsafe.

As adults, these survival strategies become ingrained habits that provide short-term security but cause long-term suffering.

Safely relying on others takes a back seat to quick fixes for unbearable pain.

But YOU have the power to guide clients out of these cycles toward true healing.

With the skills and compassion you'll gain from this course, you CAN help clients break free from the prison of insecure attachment.
You'll become the therapist your clients need to FINALLY feel safe, connected, and able to love.
Don't wait another day. Enroll now and start making a difference in the lives of those suffering.

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"The course has changed the way I think of attachment in a very practical and everyday way with clients."

"I am truly appreciating the course. It has changed the way I think of attachment in a very practical and everyday way with clients. I can, as a result, see the changes in how I approach my clinical work. And how my clients are having the changes that make a difference for them."

- David

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Your Instructor:
Pioneering Attachment Expert, Deirdre Fay

With over 40 years of experience, Deirdre Fay, MSW, is uniquely qualified to guide you in working effectively with attachment trauma.

Deirdre understands firsthand the struggles therapists encounter and has developed practical solutions from her own clinical work, training, consultation, and supervision.

Known for her warmth, insight, and engaging teaching style, Deirdre distills complex concepts into understandable kernels of knowledge.

Her work integrates psychology, contemplative practices, and the wisdom traditions. She also draws from mindfulness, IFS, sensorimotor therapy, and more.

Deirdre's goal is to help you become the best possible therapist to evoke healing and hope.

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Your Instructor:
Pioneering Attachment Expert, Deirdre Fay

With over 40 years of experience, Deirdre Fay, MSW, is uniquely qualified to guide you in working effectively with attachment trauma.

Deirdre understands firsthand the struggles therapists encounter and has developed practical solutions from her own clinical work, training, consultation, and supervision.

Known for her warmth, insight and engaging teaching style, Deirdre distills complex concepts into understandable kernels of knowledge.

Her work integrates psychology, contemplative practices, and the wisdom traditions. She also draws from mindfulness, IFS, sensorimotor therapy, and more.

Deirdre's goal is to help you become the best possible therapist to evoke healing and hope.

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"How wonderful it would be to be able to meet life with grace, wisdom and acceptance, and to receive and give love, joy and ease."

"Yes, the intention is to know more about the skills, to explore what potential they might have for my clients, but it is also very much to learn how to grow towards myself and find a way of living that is both grounded and free, light but solid, fully in my own body and my own power and presence - to stop apologizing for existing at some deep level."

- Delia Graham

Enroll now in this transformative course on attachment

WHAT YOU GET

This Course Gives You Tools to Help Clients Heal Attachment Wounds

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This 5-module course gives you practical strategies you can use in your practice to help clients overcome insecure attachment patterns and develop inner security.

You'll receive instant access to the learning modules to expand your knowledge, and then watch the recorded sessions Deidre did for skill-building, including exercises, demonstrations, and more.

With each new technique you integrate, you'll become the skilled attachment-focused therapist you aspire to be. Your confidence and abilities will grow tremendously.

Here's What You'll Receive…

5 In-Depth Training Modules

5 In-Depth Training Modules

Each on-demand module includes explanations of therapeutic practices, demonstrations, step-by-step exercises, and guided practices led by Deirdre. You'll gain confidence and competency to start using these practices with clients right away so you can immediately understand and apply these powerful techniques.

Downloadable Course Materials

Downloadable Course Materials

Audio recordings, transcripts, handouts, and more allow you to revisit the material on your schedule. Our dedicated support team is here to help with any questions.

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Get all your course content organized in one easily accessible place to reinforce consistent learning.

Plus, on This Page Only, Get These Exclusive Expert Masterclass Dialogues...

Exclusive interview with Janina Fisher, PhD - Title

Attachment is an Environment, Not an Event - An Exclusive Interview with Janina Fisher, PhD

Long time colleagues Janina Fisher and Deirdre Fay sit down to explore their continuing interest in healing the underlying issues in trauma. Janina speaks to the need to understand the relational threads that are nested in the environment, and not view trauma as a singular event.

LIVE Virtual Workshop with Deirdre Fay and Jonathan Haidt, PhD - Helping an Anxious Generation

When you enroll in Embodying Secure Attachment, we will give you complimentary access to an all-new LIVE online workshop with Deirdre Fay and Jonathan Haidt scheduled for March 20, 2024.

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Compassion in a Time of Upheaval - A Dialogue with Paul Gilbert, OBE

A conversation with Deirdre and Paul Gilbert.

Riding the "Waves" with Compassionate Awareness - An Interview with Yoga Pioneer Amy Weintraub

In this conversation, Amy and Deirdre talk about helping clients "ride the waves" of disturbed mood, memories about the past, and fears about the future - with compassionate awareness. Amy discusses the yogic nondual approach, exploring the opposites of sensation, emotion, and thought. She explains and leads yoga-based practices that provide a larger self-awareness for the client, less constricted by their very real story of harm, and shares yoga practices essential for expanding the "window of tolerance" and helping clients to self-regulate.ย 

Interview with Amy Weintraub - Riding the "Waves" with Compassionate Awareness
In conversation with Ruth Cohn, The Story of "Nothing" Spotlight on the Trauma of Childhood Neglect

The Story of Nothing: A Spotlight on the Trauma of Childhood Neglect - A Dialogue with Ruth Cohn, LMFT

Unblocking Fears of Compassion from a Yogic Perspective - An Interview with Sunil Lad, PhD

Playing off of Sunil's perspective as a yogi, and Deirdre's work with yogic psychology, Deirdre and Sunil explore what keeps people blocked from living a compassionate life.ย ย 

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What Sustains Us is Our Interdependence - An Interview with Native Hawaiian Cultural Practitioner Lani Yamasaki

Lani Yamasaki and Deirdre Fay explore how to build internal safety and interconnectedness through elements of Lani's Hawaiian traditions. Through sacred breath, aloha (which stretches to encompass sympathy, kindness and mercy), sacred energy, the Lลkahi tradition and other traditions of Lani's family and culture, we see practices which can provide a forcefield and a net of safety when triggers and trauma come knocking.

Letting Go, Letting In: Facilitating Healing in Hoarding - A Dialogue with Chia-Ying Chou, PhD

There seems to be an intriguing connection between hoarding and attachment issues. Do we hoard or hold on to things as an extension of self? Or have a fear of letting as a kind of transitional object? These are some of the ideas Deirdre explores with Dr. Chou, an expert in hoarding.

Interview with Chia-Ying Chou, PhD

AND Get Deirdre's Invaluable Attachment Therapy Resources!

1. Drinking in Secure Attachment Yoga Nidra

Most clients do not have an understanding of what a secure attachment is and question whether it's possible. This guided audio meditation allows gentle repatterning, giving a felt sense of what is possible.

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2. Developmental Task of Becoming an Adult

This series of videos addresses the unexplored clinical conundrum: a child's developmental task is different from what adults need in order to heal.

3. Cultivating Goodness

This 30-day calendar gives simple practices that can be practiced daily to Cultivate Goodness.

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What To Do When Triggered

4. What To Do When Triggered

This 10 page PDF allows the client to step-by-step slow down, name the activation, and mentalize the impact it has on the body, mind, and heart, all of which are the first steps to shifting the triggered response. It also includes the Calming Triggers Checklist.

5. Becoming Safely Embodied Coloring Book

This professionally designed Becoming Safely Embodied Coloring Book is a practical way to regulate body and emotions using concentration practices that can focus the mind, steering the body in a more satisfying way.

Cultivating Goodness

By the end of the course, you'll have new skills and confidence to help clients suffering from insecure attachment and emotional struggles.

Don't just take our word for it. Enroll risk-free today and experience the transformative impact on your practice.

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"Clients use it really well in the office and out in their lives."

"When I first started the course I was [working] outside in. Now [I'm] working more inside out [and] able to use somatic work. That feels like a real shift. Clients use it really well in the office and out in their lives."

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At The Intersection of Psychotherapy, Spirituality, and Social Change

WE BELIEVE LEARNING SHOULD CHALLENGE YOU AND CHANGE YOU.

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"As a clinician I have learned and, more importantly, as a being I have grown."

"I received your book yesterday and began reading it last night. It is truly magnificent and beautifully written. Although I have only read about 60 pages so far, as a clinician I have learned and, more importantly, as a being I have grown. What you so skillfully and beautifully accomplished in your book is very hard to do. Congratulations!"

- Paula Morgan-Johnson

About Your Instructor

Deirdre Fay

Deirdre Fay's journey began in the trenches, where she honed her skills and integrated contemporary approaches to trauma treatment. Her quest led her to confront her own fears and transform her attachment styles.

Following a traumatic episode in a yoga ashram, she embarked on a path of studying trauma, ultimately catching the attention of renowned experts like Bessel van der Kolk and Janina Fisher. Deirdre's work emphasizes the importance of healing through relationships and incorporates diverse modalities, from Sensorimotor Psychotherapy to Yoga Psychology. She is the author of Becoming Safely Embodied: A Guide to Organize Your Mind, Body and Heart to Feel Secure in the World and Attachment-Based Yoga & Meditation for Trauma Recovery, and co-author of Attachment Disturbances for Adults as well as the co-author of chapters in Neurobiological Treatments of Traumatic Dissociation.

Her mission is to guide individuals to grow, develop, and flourish from within, offering a clear and practical roadmap to healing. If you're ready to take your next step, Deirdre Fay's work is a beacon of hope.

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You deserve to operate at your highest potential - making a profound impact on your clients' lives. Sign up today and take advantage of the opportunity to learn live from Deirdre in this course.

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"I find it amazing that we don't have to make our clients relive the pain of trauma over and over again to help them grow."

What's Included in Each Module?

Deirdre strategically designed each module to build your attachment-healing skills incrementally. You'll gain powerful new techniques and insights to integrate into your work.

Module 1:

Healing Mindset: Integrating Wisdom Traditions to Embody Attachment

Learn how to address the clinical challenges posed by today's disruptions with a focus on psycho-spiritual integration, utilizing triggers as transformational tools, and emphasizing attunement to the body, mind, and heart.

Strategies for addressing existential terrors and high levels of anxiety and depression in clients.

Insights into using triggers as a catalyst for positive change.

Knowledge of integrating psycho-spiritual aspects into holistic healthcare and fostering attunement to the client's inner world.

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Module 2:

Attachment Wounds & Repair

Learn to understand and address fundamental attachment needs based on Bowlby's evolutionary theory and explore the intersection with yoga psychology. Discover the pathway to healing attachment upsets and creating self-other differentiation.

Gain insights into the attachment model used in the course.

Explore the parallels between attachment theory and yogic psychology.

Develop strategies for meeting the 8 Fundamental Attachment Needs.

Attachment Wounds & Repair

Module 3:

Working with Triggers to Embody a Secure Mind Body & Heart

Harness the power of triggers as a guidance system for transformation. Navigate fears, blocks, and resistances to secure attachment, mapping client's imprinted patterns using the Parallel Path model.

Explore the psychology of fears, blocks, and resistances in attachment.

Understand the concept of time capsules and their impact.

Discover techniques for deconstructing triggers and promoting trust.

Working with Triggers to Embody a Secure Mind Body & Heart

Module 4:

Attachment Patterns

Learn how yoga psychology describes the multidimensional body and its role in developing self-structure. Decode subtexts to reduce cognitive dissonance and reinforce self-other differentiation.

Understand the Embodied Cycle of Attachment.

Explore the concept of Koshas and their significance.

Learn methods for decoding subtexts and promoting secure self-structure.

Attachment Patterns

Module 5:

Granularity Changes Everything

Dive into the theory of constructed emotions and learn how granularity can transform lives, leading to a solid, steady, and secure self-structure.

Gain insights into the Intersubjective Matrix and Reflective Functioning.

Explore the theory of constructed emotions.

Learn how to make life more granular and facilitate transformation toward a secure self.

Granularity Changes Everything

With each module, you'll gain skills and confidence to integrate attachment-based approaches into your therapeutic practice. The transformation will be swift, tangible, and long-lasting.

In Summary, Here's Everything You Receive When You Join Embodying Secure Attachment:

5 In-Depth Video Training Modules [Valued at $300]

5 Pre-Recorded Training Calls [Valued at $300]

Downloadable Course Materials [Valued at $125]

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PLUS Bonuses:

Attachment is an Environment, Not an Event - An Exclusive Interview with Janina Fisher, PhD [Valued at $50]

Virtual Workshop with Deirdre Fay and Jonathan Haidt, PhD - Helping an Anxious Generation [Valued at $150]

On Healing and Humanity - A Dialogue with Paul Gilbert, OBE [Valued at $100]

Riding the "Waves" with Compassionate Awareness - An Interview with Yoga Pioneer Amy Weintraub [Valued at $50]

The Story of Nothing: A Spotlight on the Trauma of Childhood Neglect - A Dialogue with Ruth Cohn, LMFT [Valued at $50]

Unblocking Fears of Compassion from a Yogic Perspective - An Interview with Sunil Lad, PhD [Valued at $50]

What Sustains Us is Our Interdependence - An Interview with Native Hawaiian Cultural Practitioner Lani Yamasaki [Valued at $50]

Letting Go, Letting In: Facilitating Healing in Hoarding - A Dialogue with Chia-Ying Chou, PhD [Valued at $50]

Drinking in Secure Attachment Yoga Nidra [Valued at $67]

Developmental Task of Becoming an Adult [Valued at $60]

Cultivating Goodness [Valued at $20]

What To Do When Triggered [Valued at $27]

BSE Coloring Book [Valued at $17]

TOTAL Value:

$1466

If you are a BIPOC helping professional,
please accept our discounted enrollment price for this course by clicking here.
We are glad to have you with us!

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