Working with Adult Attachment Patterns in Child-Focused Therapies - 2024 Fall Webinar Series
When & Where
Date and Time
Location
Zoom
About This Event
This presentation will discuss attachment patterns of caregivers that may emerge in the therapeutic dyad, providing recommendations for how to support caregivers when their own wounds of attachment are present.
In this session, participants will:
- Be able to develop an understanding of caregivers' attachment patterns.
- Be able to develop a strategy to respond to a caregiver through an attachment lens.
- Have resources for further study to expand upon their learning about attachment patterns of caregivers.
This event is directed toward professionals who work with children and their caregivers.
Continuing Education: Attendees will receive a certificate of attendance, agenda, and handouts, which can be used for submitting and requesting CE credit on their own.
Speaker(s)
Sarah is dually licensed in Montana and Nebraska. Sarah's background involves 15 years in practice as a mental health provider, 6 years in advocacy for women and children escaping interpersonal violence, 3 years directing social services in long-term care, and 4 years directing intensive home visitation programming through public health. Sarah has taught as an adjunct professor teaching undergraduate psychology and human development courses. Sarah holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in Family Science and a Master of Arts in Education from Chadron State College in Community Counseling. Sarah's career has been one of trauma-informed care with specializations in PTSD, EMDR, attachment related trauma, play therapy, Child-Parent Psychotherapy, Circle of Security Parenting, Polyvagal Theory, Core Sensitivities, and grief focused counseling. Sarah relocated to Montana almost 2 years ago and works as the lead clinician at Tamarack Grief Resource Center in Missoula, MT. She remains connected to Nebraska through the practice of Options in Psychology in Scottsbluff, NE.
Questions?
Contact Haifaa Al-saadi at hal-saadi2@unl.edu