Learn directly from Dr. Liz George in this focused 3-Session LIVE Training
Healing the Longing for Belonging: Uncovering Secure Attachment for Ambivalent Adaptations
A body-based, experiential workshop for understanding ambivalent patterns and cultivating a felt sense of secure connection—with yourself and others.
We begin with the bonus SoulCollage® workshop on February 28, and start Class 1 on March 4, 2026.
Attachment & Trauma Mastery Training
Healing the Longing for Belonging: Uncovering Secure Attachment for Ambivalent Adaptations
A body-based, experiential workshop for understanding ambivalent patterns and cultivating a felt sense of secure connection—with yourself and others.
We begin with the bonus SoulCollage® workshop on February 28, and start Class 1 on March 4, 2026.
Liz George, Ph.D.
Instructor
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.
Enrollment Closes:
March 3, 2026
Limited to 75 participants
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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 enroll in Healing the Longing for Belonging: Uncovering Secure Attachment for Ambivalent Adaptations and you decide to withdraw from the course for any reason, you may cancel your participation within 5 days of the course 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 on or before Monday, March 9, 2026. Refunds will be issued in the same form of payment made, and may take up to four weeks to process.
$79
March 4, 2026
- Mar 4, 2026
Virtual Training
$79
A Special LIVE, Online Training Workshop
• Expert Spotlight Training
CE Credits:
4 Hours**
Healing the Longing for Belonging: Uncovering Secure Attachment for Ambivalent Adaptations
Summary
Here’s What You’ll Learn in Each Live Session
Led by Dr. Liz George, psychologist, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP), DARe-Certified Provider, and expert in attachment-based relational healing.
All LIVE sessions meet online for 90 minutes (dates and times listed below)
Session 1: Wednesday March 4, 2026 @ 5 - 6:30 pm MT
Self-Regulation: The Foundation of Secure Attachment
This first class focuses on the ambivalent attachment adaptation and how it commonly shows up in relationships. Participants will explore ventral vagal anchors through discussion and journaling, supporting greater nervous system regulation.
You’ll gain 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 a secure attachment with Self and developing a reliable inner secure base.
What You’ll Learn:
- The 4 types of regulation and how they relate to the different attachment styles
- How to build regulatory anchors that help you return to regulation
- Practices to help in the moment, after a trigger, and for ongoing resilience
- The role of presence and attunement in creating the conditions for regulation and repair
Session 2: Wednesday March 11, 2026 @ 5 - 6:30 pm MT
Healthy Boundaries and Self-Protection
This session will focus 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. You’ll explore how boundary patterns show up in everyday relationships and how these patterns relate to attachment and nervous system regulation.
You’ll learn to identify your own boundary tendencies and how to establish more protective, supportive boundaries. Liz will guide an embodied practice to create a “competent protector”—an internal resource that supports clarity, protection, and a sense of safety in relational interactions.
You’ll also gain clear, structured communication strategies to support boundaried interactions with others, and practices focused on creating a safe haven within self—a reliable internal place to remain tethered to, or return to, after relational engagement.
What You’ll Learn:
- Different boundary styles (porous and rigid) and how they relate to attachment adaptations
- 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
Session 3: Wednesday March 18, 2026 @ 5 - 6:30 pm MT
Developing Self-Connection and Communities of Care
This final session focuses on the third aspect of secure connection: the role of belonging and community in healing attachment patterns. You’ll learn the impact of isolation and disconnection on our health, well-being, and relational resilience, and see how attachment adaptations are shaped not only in close relationships, but across broader spheres of belonging over time.
Dr. George will lead a guided reflection on the different spheres of belonging and how experiences of connection, exclusion, or inconsistency within these spheres have influenced your attachment responses.
An embodied practice supports the creation of an “ally oasis” of inner resources—reliable internal supports that foster grounding, safety, and connection.
Reflections will help you recognize existing sources of support in your external world and explore strategies for building communities of care that align with your needs and capacities.
- How isolation and lack of belonging impact health and attachment over time
- 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
Date / Time
Training starts Wednesday, March 4 2026
Prerequisite: N/A
Who Is This For?
- Individuals on a personal healing journey This workshop is for anyone who longs for deeper, more secure connection and wants to understand why closeness can feel emotionally activating or hard to fully receive. You don’t need to identify with a specific attachment label, only a curiosity about how your nervous system shapes your experience of relationship, and a desire for greater steadiness and ease.
- Partners of people who experience heightened sensitivity in relationship Gain insight into why reassurance, clarity, or contact may feel especially important to your partner, and learn how to respond with consistency, grounded presence, and care, without escalating tension or losing yourself in the process.
- Therapists, counselors, and mental health professionals Deepen your embodied understanding of ambivalent attachment and how it organizes in the nervous system. Learn experiential practices and language that support regulation, boundaries, and connection, both personally and in your clinical work.
- Body-based and somatic practitioners Including massage therapists, yoga teachers, movement educators, and physical therapists who want to recognize how attachment patterns live in the body, and how nervous-system–informed practices support safety, presence, and relational ease.
- Healers, caregivers, and helping professionals Develop simple, compassionate ways to support people navigating relational sensitivity and attachment pain, grounded in regulation, attunement, and respect for the body’s pacing.
Learning Objectives
- Demonstrate a boundaried communication model that integrates observation, emotional awareness, needs identification, and respectful requests.
- Describe the concept of a competent protector as an internal mechanism for safety, regulation, and boundary maintenance.
- Explain spheres of belonging (e.g., family, community, culture, profession) and how attachment patterns may have developed within each.
- Apply a structured model of boundaried communication by integrating observation, emotional awareness, needs identification, and clear requests.
- Explain the impact of isolation and lack of belonging on attachment, emotional regulation, and overall well-being.
Continuing Education (CE) Credit Info
Continuing Education (CE) Credits
Licensed Mental Health Professionals
Do you need CE credits?
This course has been approved for 4 CE credit hours
Course Level: Beginning to advanced practice professionals
Target Audience: Licensed mental health professionals
Continuing Education Credit has been approved for the following professions:
- +Licensed Professional Counselors
(MUST attend live calls to be eligible)* - +Licensed Clinical Social Workers
*ONLY THE LIVE ONLINE SESSIONS ARE APPROVED FOR CE CREDITS.
To be eligible, professionals must attend ALL THREE sessions. Attendance will be taken to verify eligibility.
A Certificate of Completion is available to all participants at the end of the course at no additional charge upon request.
It is the participants’ responsibility to check their individual state boards to verify CE requirements for this state. For detailed information regarding CEs, please contact our Customer Support Team.
Information on Continuing Education Credit for Health Professionals
- 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.
Do you have additional questions?
Please contact our friendly Customer Support Team.
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