A Free, LIVE 90-Minute Masterclass (with Q&A):
Join us live for 90 minutes of teaching and Q&A as we explore how ambivalent attachment takes shape in the nervous system and how body-based awareness supports greater steadiness, connection, and choice in relationship.
New! LIVE Expert Spotlight Training with Q&A
Liz George, Ph.D. is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist in Boulder, Colorado, and a certified Somatic Experiencing® and DARe practitioner. With training in Brainspotting and Somatic Resilience and Regulation developmental touch work, she brings over two decades of experience integrating body-based and relational approaches to trauma healing. Liz is also a Certified Mindfulness Instructor and a SoulCollage® facilitator using deepening mindfulness and creative processes for healing. Finally, Liz is a certified Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) provider. She brings her work with somatic therapy, attachment, mindfulness, and support for non ordinary and mystical states to her therapeutic application and training helping individuals and communities heal from trauma and reconnect with resilience, compassion, and the natural world.
Register for this Free, LIVE, Online Masterclass
Share This Event
90-Minute Training
Summary
Healing the Longing for Belonging: Rediscovering Secure Attachment for Ambivalent Adaptations is a free, 90-minute live masterclass with Dr. Liz George exploring how ambivalent attachment takes shape in the nervous system. Through a body-based lens, this training offers insight into why longing and dissatisfaction can coexist in relationships and why reassurance does not always fully land.
Participants will gain a compassionate, non-shaming understanding of how ambivalent patterns develop through inconsistency in early connection and how these patterns continue to organize relational experience. Dr. George will introduce practical, embodied ways to support regulation, steadiness, and a growing sense of secure attachment. Live teaching includes experiential guidance and time for Q&A.
What We'll Cover...
How ambivalent attachment is shaped in the nervous system
Including its physiological and polyvagal patterns, and how these shape sensitivity to connection, reassurance, and relational shifts. You’ll begin to see how these responses develop as adaptive strategies, and how they continue to organize experience in present-day relationships.
Why longing and dissatisfaction often coexist
And the patterns that prevent love and care from being fully felt or received, even when they’re present and genuine. This section helps clarify why reassurance may not land and why closeness can intensify anxiety, rather than resolve it, at the level of the nervous system.
How ambivalent attachment differs from avoidant and disorganized adaptations
The unique ways that ambivalent organizes protection, closeness, and distance in the body, and the foundational supports that help attachment pain soften. You’ll learn what specifically supports regulation and steadiness for ambivalent patterns, rather than applying approaches designed for other attachment adaptations.
Who Should Join Us?
- Individuals on a personal healing journey who long for deeper, more secure connection and want to understand why closeness can feel difficult to fully receive, even when love and care are present.
- Therapists, counselors, and mental health professionals who want to deepen their understanding of ambivalent attachment through a nervous-system lens and integrate embodied awareness into their attachment work.
- Somatic and body-based practitioners who recognize that attachment patterns live in physiology and want practical ways to support regulation, protection, and relational steadiness in their clients.
- Partners of people with ambivalent attachment adaptations who want to better understand why reassurance or contact can carry such intensity and how to respond with clarity and grounded presence.
- Clinicians trained primarily in cognitive or insight-based models who are ready to expand their work to include nervous system processes that shape relational experience beneath conscious awareness.
- Attachment-informed professionals who want a clear, non-shaming framework for understanding how longing, vigilance, and relational sensitivity organize in the body.
RELATED EVENTS
Free Training!
Join us live for 90 minutes of teaching and Q&A as we explore how ambivalent attachment takes shape in t...
Small group case consults, facilitated online by Jennifer Jonell. Gain new insights as you learn how to inte...
Small group case consults, facilitated online by Jennifer Jonell. Gain new insights as you learn how to inte...