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FREE Live Online Workshop
Integrative Attachment Family Therapy:
An Experiential Approach to Improving Parent-Child Connection and Attunement for Trauma Recovery with Dafna Lender, LCSW
August 29th, 1:00 PM to 4:15 PM CDT
Can't attend live? Register anyway for 14-day free access to the training!
*CE hours + free copy of Integrative Attachment Family Therapy are available for an additional cost. Register for more information.
Endorsements From Respected Leaders
 
Bessel van der Kolk
"Dafna Lender’s framework, integrative attachment family therapy (IAFT), uses the power of neuroplasticity to provide parents and children with new experiences of safety and connection that shift trauma-informed relationships. It offers a powerful mental health intervention that can help families to heal. If parents and therapists follow Dafna’s guidance, they can make significant progress in reducing attachment trauma in future generations."
Bessel van der Kolk, MD, #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Body Keeps the Score

Peter Levine
"Integrative Attachment Family Therapy is a child-focused, multidimensional framework on the vanguard of treatments that heal and strengthen attachment issues in the parent-child relationship. With clear, accessible language and illustrative case examples, Dafna Lender shows how activities based in somatic practices can intervene in problem behaviors in children and in parents. The result is a comprehensive book that will benefit all mental health care professionals who strive to alleviate children’s pain and reconstruct family functioning."
Peter Levine, PhD, best-selling author of Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma and Trauma Through a Child's Eyes: Awakening the Ordinary Miracle of Healing
"Dafna Lender presents an integrated therapeutic approach, IAFT, as an accessible, intuitive, optimistic, and compassionate strategy to strengthen the parent-child relationship. The product of this integration is a transformative therapeutic strategy that leverages the importance of both child and parent feeling safe enough to trust each other. Through clinical examples, we observe how this new felt sense of safety enables both the parent and child to become more accurate and respectful witnesses, a process that evolves into the parent-child co-regulation becoming more symmetrical and imbued with the resilience necessary to process potentially disruptive challenges that may confront either the child or the parent."
Stephen W. Porges, PhD, author of The Polyvagal Theory and Clinical Applications of the Polyvagal Theory

When attachment ruptures permeate a family, children are left feeling confused, hurt, and disconnected from their caregivers…feelings that are most disguised as oppositional behavior.

In turn, caregivers become frustrated and discouraged when their child-rearing approaches aren’t working to address what they think are behavior issues…which leaves them both feeling more disconnected than ever. And the cycle continues.

This is where you step in.

Join Dafna Lender, therapist, and internationally recognized attachment-based trauma expert, for this FREE 3-hour event that is overflowing with compelling insight and concrete strategies you can use right away to help families connect and repair.

This experiential training will allow you to observe, learn, and practice skills that:

  • Uncover the core issues that underlie problematic behavior or relationships
  • Get to the heart of a child’s deeper thoughts, feelings, and wishes (without words!)
  • Teach caregivers crucial reparative skills to improve connection, regulation, and joy
  • Reduce the intensity of a session’s content so the child and/or caregiver can “stay in it”
  • Effectively yet gently address caregivers who are mis-attuned, critical, or defensive
  • And more!

It's all based on her brand-new book Integrative Attachment Family Therapy: A Clinical Guide to Heal and Strengthen the Parent-Child Relationship through Play, Co-regulation, and Meaning-Making.

And when you register you'll get access to the entire training ABSOLUTELY FREE.

Join your colleagues and Dafna Lender on August 29th where you'll receive:

  • 3 full-hours LIVE INTERACTIVE expert-led training
  • The complete set of course materials
  • On-demand access to the recording for 14 days*
  • The opportunity to get your questions answered by Dafna Lender during the training
FREE Live Online Workshop
Integrative Attachment Family Therapy:
An Experiential Approach to Improving Parent-Child Connection and Attunement for Trauma Recovery with Dafna Lender, LCSW
August 29th, 1:00 PM to 4:15 PM CDT
Can't attend live? Register anyway for 14-day free access to the training!
*CE hours + free copy of Integrative Attachment Family Therapy are available for an additional cost. Register for more information.
Here's a peek at what you'll learn!

IAFT: A Nonverbal, Physiologic Approach to Helping Families Heal

  • Principles and goals of attachment-based treatment
  • The effects of early trauma and attachment disruption
  • Assessment: Discern underlying motives and feelings underneath a child’s behavior

Clinical Interventions for Creating and Teaching Connection, Regulation, and Attunement

  • Facilitating active dialogue between caregiver and child
  • Using facial expressions, synchronized movement, and rhythm to create warmth
  • Therapeutic activities to calm dysregulation and engage withdrawn children/caregivers
  • PACE – Playfulness, Acceptance, Curiosity, and Empathy
  • How to reduce the intensity of the session’s content so the child and/or caregiver can “stay in it”
  • Identify early signs of escalation to prevent withdrawal or sabotage of the session
  • Engaging caregivers who are traumatized, withdrawn, critical, or defensive

You'll learn from:
Dafna Lender

Dafna Lender, LCSW, is an international trainer and supervisor for practitioners who work with children and families. She is a certified trainer and supervisor/consultant in both Theraplay and Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP) and an EMDR therapist. Dafna’s expertise is drawn from 25 years of working with families with attachment in many settings: at-risk after-school programs, therapeutic foster care, in-home crisis stabilization, residential care, and private practice. Dafna’s style, whether as a therapist or teacher, is combining the light-hearted with the profound by bringing a playful, intense, and passionate presence to every encounter.

Dafna is the author of Integrative Attachment Family Therapy (2023) and co-author of Theraplay the Practitioner’s Guide (2020). She teaches and supervises clinicians in 15 countries in 3 languages: English, Hebrew, and French.

Click here for information about Dafna Lender.

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