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Attachment & Trauma Mastery Training

DARe Live Level 2
Attachment Strategies for Adult Relationships
Learn how to combine an attachment focus with a practical skill-building approach to help adults and couples remove destructive patterns and embrace positive ways of perceiving, behaving and interacting so they can restore secure attachment and experience deeper, more fulfilling intimate relationships.
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Attachment & Trauma Mastery Training

DARe Live Level 2
Attachment Strategies for Adult Relationships
Learn how to combine an attachment focus with a practical skill-building approach to help adults and couples remove destructive patterns and embrace positive ways of perceiving, behaving and interacting so they can restore secure attachment and experience deeper, more fulfilling intimate relationships.
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Alicen Halquist
Instructor

Alicen Halquist, is a Licensed Psychotherapist with over 30 years of experience in somatic attachment and trauma resolution. She has devoted her career to supporting individuals and professionals in understanding how early attachment experiences and unresolved trauma shape relationships, parenting, and overall well-being. An internationally recognized expert, trainer, clinician, and consultant, Alicen specializes in Somatic Experiencing and Dynamic Attachment Re-patterning.

Her integrative approach draws from the latest research in attachment theory, neuroscience, physiology, somatic psychology, pre-and-perinatal psychology, mindfulness, and creative arts therapy. Known for her compassionate and embodied facilitation style, Alicen creates a safe and grounded learning environment that fosters secure attachment and lasting transformation for the students and professionals she mentors.

 

$897/person
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Enrollment Closes:

July 15, 2027
Limited to 75 participants

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Cancellation & Refund Policy

Full refunds will be given in the rare event that the workshop is canceled.

Enrollment for this event is limited to 75 participants. A refund––less $100 administrative fee––will be issued if a participant chooses to withdraw 30 days prior to the workshop date. After Day 30–– and up to 14 days prior to the workshop date––50% of the registration fee will be refunded. Please note that DARe Certificate Program Prepayment Plans are not eligible for refunds (you may simply reschedule your training).

When canceling within 14 days of the event date, no refund will be given.

Jul 16
 - Jul 18, 2027
9 am
 - 5 pm
 MT
Virtual Event
$897/person
3-Day Live, Online Training

• Attachment & Trauma Mastery Training
• DARe Certificate Program

CE Credits: Pending Approval**
DARe Live Level 2
Attachment Strategies for Adult Relationships

Summary

In this 3-day online workshop, we explore how insecure attachment adaptations––avoidant, ambivalent and disorganized––can influence and impede intimacy and connection in our adult relationships with partners, parents, children, friends and colleagues.

This material builds on the foundational training from Level 1: Fundamentals of Attachment Styles, to take a deeper look at how attachment system dynamics shape communication, behavior, emotions and intimacy in our daily lives.

Through a blend of didactic presentations, demonstrations and experiential exercises, you'll gain a clear understanding of how to apply attachment theory to your clinical practice using an attachment framework based on DARe principles ––including how to recognize and address challenging relational dynamics for yourself and your clients to heal early attachment wounds or disruptions to create deeper connection, meaning and fulfillment in adult relationships.

What will we cover?

  • How to identify and understand unconscious attachment dynamics that block our capacity for intimacy in adult relationships––and how to overcome them in order to achieve better communication.
  • How to 'excavate' early childhood attachment wounds and simultaneously track both secure attachment and the emotional wound to foster a healthy relational space that helps clients heal.
  • Which corrective experiences can be applied to the appropriate insecure attachment adaptation, and how to track and loop back and forth between the wound and the resource.
  • Embody information and theory with break-out group sessions that support learning and allow students to model and practice skills to the training can be integrated into therapeutic sessions easily and effectively.
  • Which tools can help you evaluate clients' attachment adaptation and evaluate client progress as they move towards a more secure attachment style.
  • How to strengthen and restore secure attachment skills in yourself and your clients.

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 (for 60 days) will be emailed to students before the training.

Learn more about this training or find out how to join the DARe Certificate Program.

Date/Time

Friday, July 16
 - Sunday, July 18
9 am
 - 5 pm
 MT (each day)
Prerequisite: DARe Level 1: Fundamentals of Attachment Style

Before enrolling in DARe Level 2, students must have completed (or be enrolled in) Level 1: Fundamentals of Attachment Styles, which is the prerequisite for all other DARe or Attachment & Trauma Mastery training.

Who Is This For?

  • Clinicians who have completed DARe Level 1 and are ready to deepen their application. You understand the foundations of attachment-informed, somatic work. Now you want greater fluency, precision, and confidence when working with complex relational patterns.
  • Therapists working with developmental and relational trauma. You support clients who present with ambivalent, avoidant, or disorganized adaptations and want more clarity around how to track attachment strategies in real time.
  • Practitioners who want to strengthen their nervous system tracking skills. You value moment-to-moment awareness and want to refine how you recognize shifts in regulation, activation, and defensive responses within the therapeutic relationship.
  • Clinicians seeking greater coherence between theory and practice. You know attachment theory conceptually. You want to embody it, translate it into interventions, and respond more intuitively in the room.
  • Professionals committed to their own growth. You recognize that working with attachment trauma requires ongoing self-reflection and nervous system capacity. You are willing to examine your patterns so you can show up more securely with clients.

Learning Objectives

  • Identify and describe three qualities for each of the insecure attachment adaptations––and how these manifest specifically in adult relationships.
  • Explain and describe the needs and autonomy issues for each attachment style: do clients reject, deny, exagerte or avoid needs (and why)?
  • Demonstrate three contact exercises for interactive regulation.
  • Explain how to apply one specific method for working with the encapsulated child: (a) contact other ages and ego states; (b) move the painful experience(s) through time, so that the frozen-in-time past memories no longer intrude into the present and usurp energy and attention from the here and now; (c) give space for integration into the adult self.
  • Describe and explain two corrective antidotes or transformative healing processes that enhance regulation for disruptive relationship patterns.
  • Identify three types of differentiation: (a) from the family field; (b) in the maturing relationship; and (c) linkage.
  • List and describe three characteristics of securely attached adults.
  • Explain and describe two ways to assess a client's relationship to needs.
  • Identify two relationship needs that relate to each of the four attachment styles: secure, avoidant, ambivalent and disorganized.
  • Describe two exercises to facilitate self-orientation for the avoidant attachment adaptation.
  • List three possible adult relationship challenges for the avoidant attachment adaptation.
  • List three possible adult relationship challenges for the disorganized attachment adaptation.

Frequently Asked Questions

Yes, although you’ve already pre-paid for any DARe Certificate Program courses you take, you will still need to sign-up and register for Fundamentals of Attachment Styles using a PRODUCT VOUCHER CODE.

If you do not have a PRODUCT VOUCHER, please contact our Customer Support Team so that we can verify your pre-paid enrollment status and provide you with the code you need to complete your enrollment

We would love for you to participate in the entire training live, but if you are unable to do so, each day’s sessions will be recorded and uploaded to the course learning portal the following day so you can rewatch them at your convenience. However, course materials and replay recordings will only be available for 60 days after course completion.

Please note that, if you do miss part of a class, we are only allowed to provide CE credit for FULL in-person attendance at a training module or workshop. Participants must attend all hours to receive credit. No credit can be awarded for partial attendance or for those participants who make up the missed time by watching the replay videos.

Yes. Approximately two weeks before the live workshop training, we’ll send you login information to access the course materials in Kajabi, which is a central location that is your personal learning dashboard. In Kajabi, you’ll find the daily agenda, course manual, list of participants, demo videos, slide handouts and additional resources like exercises, handouts and worksheets.

Each day’s sessions will be recorded and uploaded to your personal learning dashboard, so you can re-watch them at your convenience. Additionally, the program materials are yours to download and keep in your professional reference library. The only thing you cannot download are demos––because we need to respect client confidentiality.

Please note, course materials and replay recordings will only be available for 60 days after course completion at which time you will no longer be able to access the training.

To enroll, participants should have completed (or be enrolled in) Fundamentals of Attachment Styles––either live/virtual or self-paced––which is the first course (Level 1) in our Attachment & Trauma Mastery Training and DARe Certificate Program.

Please email our Customer Support Team if you have special needs and we will do our best to accommodate you.

As we do limit this workshop to 75 participants, group rates are not available for this training at this time. If you’re interested in booking Dr. Diane Poole Heller for your next podcast, conference or group training event, please visit the media page on our website and fill out the information form.

A limited number of partial scholarships are available for students enrolled in an accredited university––and for those in financial need. Reduced enrollment rates are also available for those with limited resources in countries defined as low and lower middle income by the World Bank. Please feel free to contact us for more information.

Full refunds will be given in the rare event that the workshop is canceled. Enrollment for this event is limited to 75 participants. A refund––less $100 administrative fee––will be issued if a participant chooses to withdraw 30 days prior to the workshop date. After Day 30–– and up to 2 weeks prior to the workshop date––50% of the registration fee will be refunded. Please note that DARe Certificate Program Prepayment Plans are not eligible for refunds (you may simply reschedule your training).

When canceling within 14 days of the event date, no refund will be given.

At this time, continuing education credit is pending approval, but not guaranteed. Once these credits are approved, you may be able to purchase 7.5 credit hours for this training, for an additional fee of $89.

CE credit is offered for live trainings only. No CE credit is awarded for video modules or webinars. Students must attend all course hours to receive CE credit. Please note that Trauma Solutions is unable to award partial Continuing Education credits. Students will ONLY receive CEs for live training modules for which they have attended all hours of the training. A Zoom attendance report will be pulled to verify eligibility.

It is the participant’s responsibility to check their individual state boards to verify CE requirements for their state.

Also, a Certificate of Participation is available to all students at the end of the course upon request at no additional charge.

For detailed information regarding CEs, please contact our Customer Support Team.

Do you have additional questions?
Please contact our friendly Customer Support Team. 

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