Attachment & Trauma Mastery Training
AMP Level 3 Course
Neurobiology, Trauma, and the Path to Secure Relationships
Discover how early experiences shape the brain and how you can use neuroscience-informed strategies to repair attachment wounds and foster secure, healing relationships.
Attachment & Trauma Mastery Training
AMP Level 3 Course
Neurobiology, Trauma, and the Path to Secure Relationships
Discover how early experiences shape the brain and how you can use neuroscience-informed strategies to repair attachment wounds and foster secure, healing relationships.
Diane Poole Heller
Instructor
Diane Poole Heller PhD, is an internationally recognized speaker, author and expert in the field of attachment theory and trauma resolution. 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.
Diane’s training programs, books, lectures and work as a therapist have helped a countless number of people in their healing journey towards experiencing greater intimacy, wholeness and more fulfilling relationships.
She is also the author of three books: The Power of Attachment: How to Create Deep and Lasting Intimate Relationships, a practical guide to restoring and reconnecting with our innate secure attachment as adults; Crash Course, on accident trauma; and the audiobook, Healing Your Attachment Wounds: How to Create Deep and Lasting Relationships.
Her film, Surviving Columbine, aired on CNN and supported community healing after the Columbine High School shootings.
$797/person
Enrollment Closes:
September 24, 2025
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Cancellation & Refund Policy
We’re confident this program will be a valuable investment in your education, personal growth, and clinical practice.
If you decide to withdraw from the course for any reason, you may cancel your participation within 7 days of the start date and request either a full refund or credit for a future course.
You must make this request in writing to our Customer Support Team within 7 days of the start date. Refunds will be issued in the same form of payment made and may take up to four weeks to process.
September 24, 2025
Live Virtual Training
$797/person
Small Group Online Training
• Attachment & Trauma Mastery Training
• DARe Certificate Program
CE Credits:
10 Hours**
AMP Level 3 Course
Neurobiology, Trauma, and the Path to Secure Relationships
Summary
6 Downloadable Training Module Videos
+ LIVE Weekly Calls (with Q&A)
Each week, you’ll get access to a newly recorded training video, including downloadable audio and transcripts and course companion guide, plus a LIVE 90-minute call with Dr. Heller.
Over six weeks, we move step by step through the neurobiology of attachment, the role of language, core brain systems, polyvagal theory, and intergenerational trauma. Each session includes live teaching, clinical insights, experiential exercises, and Q&A.
We conclude by bringing it all together with a final module on clinical integration, showing you how to translate theoretical insights into practical strategies you can apply immediately in your work with clients.
Here’s what we’ll cover in our time together…
Module 1: The Neurobiology of Attachment
Module 2: Attachment and Languaging
Module 3: Understanding the Brain
Module 4: Polyvagal Theory in Practice
Module 5: Intergenerational Trauma and Inherited Wounds
Module 6: Clinical Integration
Each module includes both recorded training and LIVE teaching with in-depth reviews of client demos, Q&A, and optional breakout group discussions.
5 Valuable Course Bonuses Included with Enrollment
- 2-hour Mini-Course: Welcome to Attachment —A powerful primer on adult attachment systems and adaptations. Gain a clear foundation for understanding how attachment styles develop and how they show up in relationships today.
- Expert Interview: The Biology of Trauma with Dr. Aimie Apigian — Explore how unresolved survival states affect both body and mind, and learn practical steps to shift the nervous system toward safety and healing.
- Expert Interview: Integrating Neuroscience with Attachment Work with Linda Graham — Discover practical ways to apply neuroscience in real time to deepen attunement, foster secure functioning, and create conditions for healing.
- Course Companion — A detailed guide with key concepts, schema questionnaires, exercises, and references to support your learning throughout the course.
- 10 CE Credits Included — Earn continuing education hours at no extra cost, integrated into your enrollment for eligible professionals.
This training will be held ONLINE using Zoom. All necessary Zoom information––as well as login credentials to the learning portal where you can access additional resource materials, slide handouts and recordings of the training will be emailed to students before the training.
Date
Training starts on Wednesday, September 24
Prerequisite: DARe Level 1: Fundamentals of Attachment Style
Course participants should have completed (or be enrolled in) the Fundamentals of Attachment Styles—either live or online—which is the first course (Level 1 / DARe 1) in our Attachment & Mastery Training Program and DARe Certificate Program.
Please note, if you are enrolled in the DARe Certificate Program, the Introduction to Attachment styles will not count towards completion of your DARe 1 requirement.
Who Is This For?
- You’re a licensed therapist, counselor, or social worker who wants to integrate neuroscience and attachment theory into your practice. This training will give you a clear framework for addressing how trauma shapes the brain, so you can support deeper healing and lasting change for your clients.
- You’d like to gain practical tools for working with implicit memory and the limbic system, so you can uncover patterns rooted in early experiences and help clients move toward safety, trust, and secure connection.
- You’re a coach, healer, or somatic practitioner with a strong foundation in trauma-informed care, and you want to bring brain-based insights into the work you already do with clients.
- You want to apply polyvagal theory in session to recognize states of shutdown, anxiety, or safety in real time — and guide clients back into regulation and connection with practical interventions.
- You’re a newer clinician seeking confidence in using neuroscience-informed strategies. Learning directly from Dr. Diane Poole Heller, you’ll gain hands-on skills to feel more grounded and effective in session.
- You’re an experienced professional who wants to refine your skills and integrate neurobiology with existing modalities to address complex or nuanced cases. This training will help you expand your toolkit so you can work more skillfully with a wider range of clients and challenges.
- You’re committed to your professional growth and would like to strengthen your secure attachment skills. By learning how to translate brain science into everyday practice, you can accelerate the healing process for your clients and create conditions for lasting resilience.
Learning Objectives
- Identify the age at which implicit memory becomes encoded and describe how to access it in adulthood
- Explain two methods for interrupting the associative cortex to support healing from early trauma
- Describe how early traumatic memories are stored in the limbic system and list one corrective experience to integrate those memories
- List language markers for secure, avoidant, ambivalent, and disorganized attachment adaptations
- Explain the importance of right-brain-to-right-brain communication in therapy
- Predict client outcomes in response to the “Still Face” exercise
- Recognize at least two signs of distress and two markers of nervous system regulation
- Explain why increasing vagal tone improves facial expressiveness and emotional connection
- Describe how polyvagal theory supports more effective therapeutic intervention
- Define role reversal in parent-child dynamics and offer one corrective clinical strategy
- Explain how neuroplasticity enables shifts in painful memory through lived experience
Continuing Education (CE) Credits
Do you need CE credits?
Licensed mental health professionals can earn 10 CE credit hours, included in the cost of the program.
Course Level: Beginning to Advanced Practice Professionals
Target Audience: Psychologists, Social Workers and Other Licensed Mental Health Professionals
Continuing Education Credit is approved for the
following professionals**
- Licensed Clinical Professional Counselors
- Licensed Clinical Social Workers
**STUDENTS MUST ATTEND ALL COURSE HOURS TO RECEIVE CE CREDIT. Trauma Solutions is unable to award partial Continuing Education credits. Students will ONLY receive CEs for live training modules that they have attended all hours live online.
To be eligible, professionals must enroll by September 24, 2025. A Zoom attendance report will be pulled to verify eligibility.
CREDIT INFORMATION
- CE credits for psychologists are provided by the Spiritual Competency Academy (SCA) which is sponsoring this program. The Spiritual Competency Academy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Spiritual Competency Academy maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
- The California Board of Behavioral Sciences accepts CE credits for LCSW, LPCC, LEP, and LMFT license renewal for programs offered by sponsors of CE who are approved by the American Psychological Association.
- LCSW, LPCC, LEP, and LMFTs, and other professionals from outside of California need to check with their state licensing board as to whether or not they accept credits from programs offered by approved sponsors of CE by the American Psychological Association.
- SCA is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing (BRN Provider CEP16887) for licensed nurses in California. RNs must retain their certificate of attendance for 4 years after the course concludes. Nurses outside of California must confirm acceptance with their licensing boards.
- For questions about your certificate or the content, logistics, or other support issues regarding this course, please contact Trauma Solutions Customer Support
- For questions about whether APA CE is valid for you, contact your licensing board directly.
- For general questions about APA CE, contact SCA at ce@spiritualcompetencyacademy.com.
