Attachment & Trauma Mastery Training
DARe Live Level 4
Clinical Strategies to Address Complex Trauma
Learn how attachment theory and a wide variety of therapeutic techniques and perspectives can be integrated to address complex trauma states and abuse dynamics to effectively alleviate unnecessary suffering, promote healing and restore secure attachment skills.
Attachment & Trauma Mastery Training
DARe Live Level 4
Clinical Strategies to Address Complex Trauma
Learn how attachment theory and a wide variety of therapeutic techniques and perspectives can be integrated to address complex trauma states and abuse dynamics to effectively alleviate unnecessary suffering, promote healing and restore secure attachment skills.
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
Enrollment Closes:
November 6, 2025
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.
Nov 7
- Nov 9, 2025
9 am
- 5 pm
MT
Virtual Event
$897/person
3-Day Live, Online Training
• Attachment & Trauma Mastery Training
• DARe Certificate Program
CE Credits:
8.5 Hours**
DARe Live Level 4
Clinical Strategies to Address Complex Trauma
Summary
When encountered in early life, terrifying or dangerous circumstances can contribute to a disorganized attachment adaptation. Children, and later on, adults may develop affect regulation issues including poor social skills, attention/learning/developmental deficits and/or a lack of coherency. In some cases, a person may become angry, aggressive with others or exhibit the same out-of-control/controlling, chaotic, scary or scared behaviors they experienced with their perpetrators.
The complex, wounding relationship that exists between victims and their perpetrators can present unique challenges for therapeutic professionals in clinical practice. For example, the intensity of an invasive sexual or violent encounter can create strong, disabling relational issues for victims––resulting in a loss of differentiation, a coupling of rage and powerlessness, or even a need to re-enact the victim and/or perpetrator identity.
As therapists, we need a practical, integrated, comprehensive and dynamic approach that can be used effectively (and consistently) to help clients address trauma and rediscover secure attachment...even with our most difficult cases.
In this 3-day live, online training, you will learn how attachment theory can be aligned and integrated with various clinical practices, perspectives and modalities to address the challenges of complex trauma--including disorganized attachment adaptations and victim-perpetrator abuse dynamics.
Through a blend of blend of didactic presentations, demonstrations and experiential exercises, you'll gain important therapeutic skills that help you and your clients alleviate unnecessary suffering, return to a sense of safety, promote empowerment and restore a connection to the self and others.
What will we cover?
- Discover how healing the power wound can allow clients to return to their core intactness as they rediscover and embody secure attachment.
- Learn how to work with power wounds by separating attachment needs from the need to self-protect.
- Learn how to identify and recognize both the primary and secondary attachment systems so you can use the relational field to excavate a healthy relational matrix and create empowerment, trust, protection, safety, connection and clarity in a therapeutic setting.
- See and practice corrective experiences and learn how to install the Protective Ally and Competent Protector.
- Learn how to reverse immobilization and a need for dissociation, including how to reintroduce threat safely without triggering additional responses.
- Deepen your understanding of boundary rupture and repair, so you can restore a sense of safety in the relational field.
- Explore how to work with victim-perpetrator dynamics and help disorganized attachment adaptations recover from the devastation of abuse.
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, November 7
- Sunday, November 9
9 am
- 5 pm
MT (each day)
Prerequisite: DARe Level 1: Fundamentals of Attachment Style
While you don’t have to be in the DARe Certificate Program to enroll, students should be licensed practitioners with an active practice––and have completed DARe Level 1 before enrolling in DARe Level 3 or 4.
Because the Level 1 training has already been offered twice this year, as an alternative, you may purchase the Introduction to Attachment Styles pre-recorded course to help you satisfy the prerequisite. We strongly encourage you to complete this recorded, self-paced training before the beginning of the first class. However, please note that if you are enrolled in the DARe Certificate Program, the Introduction to Attachment styles will not count towards completion of your Level 1 DARe requirement.
Who Is This For?
Beginning to advanced clinicians and therapists who want to explore the origins of attachment system dynamics so they can apply attachment focused skills, corrective experiences, interventions and strategies tosupport and restore secure attachment.
Learning Objectives
- List three attachment concerns when working with the disorganized attachment adaptation.
- List three strategies for self-care in a therapeutic setting when working with clients with a disorganized attachment adaptation.
- Describe three techniques to repair ruptured boundaries.
- Demonstrate how to uncouple two major psycho-biological instinctive drives that become interrupted and interwoven to block the health and functioning (of both systems)––the need to attach and the need to survive.
- Explain how to create appropriate therapeutic empathy and avoid triggering disintegration, especially when empathy might be interpreted as intrusive (e.g. in cases of sadistic abuse).
- Demonstrate how to excavate, initiate, and complete defensive orienting responses (such as fight, flight or freeze) by discharging ANS over-activation.
- Identify and demonstrate how to resolve a stuck relational approach/avoidance cycle.
- Describe two ways to differentiate victim-perpetrator fusion and release toxic interjects to restore inherent core intactness.
- Explain two ways that high arousal states caused by dissociation are discharged.
- Describe two common examples of Savior, Incompetent Proptector and Perpetrator Trauma Transference and Counter-Transference––and how they may affect the therapeutic relationship.
- List three steps to install a Competent Protector.
- Identify at least one way to restore the missing resource of relative safety (and sense of protection).
- List three ways to maintain the client/therapist alliance.
- Identify three steps in the corrective experience for an encapsulated child or trauma state that has not moved forward in time––and is still affecting the client (as if it were in the current moment).
Continuing Education (CE) Credit Option
Do you need CE credits?
Licensed mental health professionals may be able to purchase 8.5 CE credit hours for this program for an additional fee of $89.
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 purchase CE credits by November 7, 2025. A Zoom attendance report will be pulled to verify eligibility.
To receive your CE credits, participants will need to complete the post-training evaluation. The post-training evaluation link is emailed out at 5 pm on the last day of training. You will have 14 days to complete your evaluation from the date it is sent.
Once you have completed and submitted the post-training evaluation, you can print the certificate or statement of credit immediately—you will also receive an emailed copy.
Also, a Certificate of Participation is available to all students at the end of the course upon request, at no additional charge.
It is the participant’s responsibility to check their individual state boards to verify CE requirements for this state. For detailed information regarding CEs, please contact our friendly Customer Support Team.
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.
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
The live, online training for this course has been approved.
If you are a licensed clinical professional counselor or a licensed social worker––you may purchase 8.5 CE credit hours for this training, for an additional fee of $89.
CE credits must be purchased by the beginning of the last live session. Attendance will be taken to verify eligibility.
Upon completion of the program, you will be sent a post-training evaluation link, which must be completed within 14 days after the last program session.
Upon completion of the post-training evaluation, participants can print their certificate or statement of credit immediately––you will also receive an emailed copy.
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.
Do you have additional questions?
Please contact our friendly Customer Support Team.Â
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