Healing the Longing for Belonging: Uncovering Secure Attachment for Ambivalent Adaptations
Includes three 90-minute training sessions with experiential exercises and guided audio practices
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Course Description
A body-based, experiential workshop for understanding ambivalent patterns and cultivating a felt sense of secure connection—with yourself and others.
Many people with ambivalent attachment patterns understand why they react the way they do, yet still find themselves caught in the same cycles of anxiety, longing, and uncertainty in relationships. In this three-part series, Dr. Liz George explores why ambivalent attachment is held not just in the mind, but in the nervous system, and how embodied practice can help cultivate greater security, regulation, and trust. Through experiential exercises, practical teaching, and compassionate guidance, you’ll learn how to move beyond insight alone and begin creating relationships that feel steadier, safer, and more deeply connected.
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What’s included in the training?
Here is everything you get for just $79!
Three 90-Minute Training Sessions led by Liz George, Ph.D., SEP, expert somatic- and attachment-focused clinical psychologist.
Each live session combines clear teaching with embodied exploration, helping you understand ambivalent attachment through direct nervous-system experience. Rather than talking about patterns from a distance, you’ll be guided to notice how regulation, boundaries, and connection show up in your own body and relationships.
Across the three sessions, Liz introduces practical, accessible practices that support steadiness in moments of activation, alongside reflective exercises that deepen awareness over time. Teaching is woven with guided inquiry, and relational reflection, so insights land at both a cognitive and felt-sense level—“in the bones.”
Recorded live Q&A with Dr. George
Listen in on participants’ thoughtful questions, exploring how the work applies to personal healing, relationships, or clinical contexts.
Private Course Portal with Lifetime Access to Course Materials including video recordings, audio, transcripts, demos, and slide handouts and additional resources for each session.
BONUS #1: Embodied Attachment Through SoulCollage®
A special 1 hour 45 minute workshop introducing the art of SoulCollage®, a creative and therapeutic exploration and healing tool developed by Seena Frost. Liz introduces the SoulCollage® process as a method for deepening embodied learning throughout the course, and a pathway to accessing inner experience without relying on analysis or words—engaging mind, body, heart, and imagination together.
In this guided workshop, Liz will help you through creating your first card, using images to explore attachment patterns and inner resources that support greater regulation and security. You’ll learn the basic principles of the method, experience a guided meditation and reflective prompts, and practice “meeting” your card as a living source of insight.
BONUS #2: Compassionate Communication Strategies for Ambivalent Patterns
This printable guide offers clear communication tools for navigating moments of relational urgency—whether you recognize ambivalent patterns in yourself, your partner, or your clients. Grounded in attachment and nervous-system awareness, the handout focuses on reducing escalation, increasing steadiness, and preserving connection without blame or over-explaining.
Why take this course?
Understand why insight alone may not shift ambivalent attachment, and how embodied practice can support greater security in connection.
For many people with ambivalent attachment patterns, the longing for connection is strong and sincere. You may care deeply, invest fully, and want closeness more than anything—yet still find yourself feeling unsettled, anxious, or dissatisfied in relationship. Reassurance or intimacy may be offered, but doesn’t quite land, or your body stays on edge, scanning for what might shift or disappear.
This can be confusing and exhausting. Especially if you’ve done meaningful self-work already—therapy, reflection, insight—you might wonder why understanding your patterns hasn’t translated into a steadier felt sense of security, or changed how your body responds when connection feels vulnerable or uncertain.
The challenge is that ambivalent attachment isn’t just a set of thoughts, beliefs, or behaviors. It’s a nervous-system pattern that developed in response to inconsistency—times when care, availability, or attunement were present sometimes, and absent at others. Over time, the system learns to stay oriented toward connection through heightened sensitivity, vigilance, and emotional reach. Longing and alertness become intertwined.
Because these patterns are organized in the body, they can’t be resolved through insight alone. True change requires felt experiences that help the nervous system register safety, protection, and connection as real and reliable.
Rather than asking you to analyze your attachment patterns from the outside, this course works from the inside out—supporting your nervous system in learning new possibilities for regulation, boundaries, and belonging.
Across the three class sessions, you’ll explore how ambivalent patterns show up in your body and relationships, and engage in guided practices that support a growing sense of steadiness and secure connection.
Whether you’re on a personal healing journey, supporting a partner with ambivalent tendencies, or working clinically with these dynamics, this workshop offers a grounded, non-shaming path toward connection that feels safer, clearer, and more sustainable over time.
What you’ll learn?
Develop practical, embodied tools for regulation, boundaries, protection, and a more secure sense of belonging.
- The 4 types of regulation and how they relate to the different attachment styles
- Regulation practices for in the moment, after a trigger, and for ongoing resilience
- How to recognize your own boundary patterns in specific relationships
- How to develop and work with a competent protector as a source of safety and protection
- A practical model for boundaried communication based on observation, emotional awareness, needs, and requests
- The different spheres of belonging and how attachment patterns may have formed within them
- How to build an inner ally oasis as a source of grounding and secure connection
- How to recognize and strengthen existing external supports and communities of care
Here’s what’s in the training curriculum…
Session 1
Self-Regulation: The Foundation of Secure Attachment
This class focuses on how the ambivalent attachment adaptation commonly shows up in relationships. Participants will explore ventral vagal anchors that support greater nervous system regulation.
The first session offers practical, in-the-moment strategies to pause and return to self-regulation when triggered, along with simple daily practices to build resilience over time. You’ll experience embodied practices that support a direct experience of returning to regulation.
The session concludes with discussion and practices focused on creating secure attachment with self and developing a reliable inner secure base.
Session 2
Healthy Boundaries and Self-Protection
This class focuses on the role of boundaries in creating a felt sense of safety, particularly for those with an ambivalent attachment adaptation, where boundaries may tend to be porous or inconsistent. Participants will explore how boundary patterns show up in everyday relationships and how these patterns relate to attachment and nervous system regulation.
You’ll identify your own boundary tendencies and learn how to establish more protective, supportive boundaries. An embodied practice guides the creation of a competent protector—an internal resource that supports clarity, protection, and a sense of safety in relational interactions.
The class also introduces clear, structured communication strategies to support boundaried interactions with others. The session concludes with practices focused on creating a safe haven within self—a reliable internal place to remain tethered to, or return to, after relational engagement.
Session 3
Developing Internal and External Communities of Care
This class focuses on the role of belonging and community in healing attachment patterns, beginning with a discussion of the growing epidemic of isolation and its impact on health, well-being, and relational resilience. Participants will explore how attachment adaptations are shaped not only in close relationships, but across broader spheres of belonging over time.
Through guided reflection, participants will identify the different spheres of belonging in their lives and how experiences of connection, exclusion, or inconsistency within these spheres have influenced their attachment responses. An embodied practice supports the creation of an “ally oasis” of inner resources—reliable internal supports that foster grounding, safety, and connection.
The class also supports participants in recognizing existing sources of support in their external world and exploring strategies for building communities of care that align with their needs and capacities.
Meet Your Instructor
Nervous system regulation is essential to work with attachment adaptations and the challenges that lead to a sense of disconnection and a lack of a sense of belonging
Liz George, Ph.D., SEP is a licensed clinical psychologist in private practice in Boulder, Colorado, and received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from University of CO. She is a seeker and forever learner. She loves the process of taking all that she has learned and sharing it with others while learning from each person she engages.
Dr. George is a somatic therapist. She is a certified Brainspotting Therapist, a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, a Somatic Resilience and Regulation for developmental trauma touch therapist, and a DARe (Dynamic Attachment Repatterning experience) Practitioner.
She is also a Certified Mindfulness Instructor, a SoulCollage® Facilitator, and a Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) provider. Finally, she is currently a student learning Ancestral and Cultural Lineage Healing practices, and maintains an active ecodharma Zen practice, combining spiritual work, grief and trauma healing, and activism.
Her signature approach—DARe (Dynamic Attachment Re-patterning experience)—provides therapists and individuals with relevant skills and practical exercises that facilitate healing from attachment and trauma wounds.
Her work with adult attachment has forged a path for adults with childhood attachment injuries to develop Secure Attachment Skills (SAS) that lead to more connected and fulfilling adult relationships.
She has authored several books, including the widely acclaimed The Power of Attachment: How to Create Deep and Lasting Intimate Relationships. Her expertise in trauma healing has supported survivors, helpers, and families affected by events such as 9/11, Columbine, and other school shootings.
Through various training programs, books, lectures and her own work as a clinical therapist, Dr. Heller has helped a countless number of people in their healing journey towards experiencing greater intimacy, wholeness and more fulfilling relationships.
She believes that when we heal ourselves first, we heal our families, our communities and the world as a whole.
Do I need to be a therapist to benefit from this training?
No. This workshop is open to individuals on a personal healing journey, partners, and professionals alike. You don’t need clinical training or prior knowledge of attachment theory to participate.
The material is taught in an accessible, experiential way, with practices designed to meet you where you are. At the same time, therapists and practitioners often find the content clinically relevant and transferable. Whether you’re joining for personal growth, relational understanding, or professional development, the learning is designed to be meaningful and applicable.
This course is educational and experiential in nature and is not a substitute for individual therapy or mental health treatment.
How long can I access the course materials if I purchase this training today?
You’ll have lifetime access to ALL training materials, including videos, transcripts, worksheets, demos, resources and bonuses too. You may also download, print or save materials at any time to your professional reference library for personal use.
In the interest of privacy, client demo videos are not downloadable.
Are the class sessions live or recorded?
All sessions were recorded live, including the Q&A segments. This reissued training features recordings of all three 90-minute sessions, audio recordings, written transcripts, complementary resources, and exclusive course bonuses.
All of the training is on-demand, so you can learn at your own pace, or revisit sessions more than once.
Are CE credits available for this course?
Continuing Education (CE) credits are not available for this training at this time.
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