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A Light in Dark Places: The Power of Earned Security in Attachment

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Earned Security is often overlooked in attachment training – yet it holds powerful potential for healing and transformation. This workshop explores how individuals with insecure beginnings can develop secure functioning across the lifespan through resilience, insight, and corrective relational experiences.

You’ll discover how to:

  • Recognize the markers of earned security
  • Integrate this understanding into assessment and treatment planning
  • Support clients in strengthening secure patterns within therapy and personal relationships
  • Apply practical strategies and clinical tools through real case examples

By the end, you’ll be equipped to honor the challenges of insecure attachment while celebrating the hope and possibility of earning security.

Here's What You'll Learn

The Overlooked Key: Understanding Earned Security

  • Define earned security and how it differs from secure and insecure attachment
  • Explore research highlighting the resilience and growth potential in earned security
  • Understand the importance of outside adult relationships, and how this creates security in insecure attachment
  • Risks and limitations of research and techniques

Shifting Family and Couple Dynamics: Applying Earned Security in Systems Work

  • Explore how earned security impacts parenting, co-parenting, and couple relationships
  • Integrate earned security concepts into family-based treatment plans

Building Secure Foundations: Strategies for Fostering Earned Security

  • Leverage therapeutic alliance as a corrective relational experience
  • Introduce mindfulness, reflection, and expressive arts approaches to strengthen secure functioning

Case in Point: Real-World Applications and Clinical Stories

  • Examine case examples illustrating the journey toward earned security
  • Practice applying strategies in small-group discussion or role play

Hope in Action: Honoring the Possibility of Change

  • Reframe insecure attachment histories with a strengths-based lens
  • Emphasize resilience, growth, and healing as attainable outcomes

Risks and Limitations of Research and Techniques

  • Information from this program may not be applicable to professionals outside of mental health disciplines

Everything You're Getting

  • More than 1 hour of video content
  • Up to 1.5 CE credits
  • Certificate of completion
  • Handouts and resources

Meet Your Experts

Clair Mellenthin, PhD, LCSW, RPT-S™

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Clair Mellenthin, PhD, LCSW, RPT-S™, is an international speaker, author, psychologist, and Registered Play Therapist Supervisor. Throughout her career, she has specialized in providing play therapy to children, teens, and their families. She is currently the Director of Child & Adolescents at Wasatch Family Therapy. Ms. Mellenthin frequently presents professional play therapy and family therapy trainings on Attachment-Centered Play Therapy, Family, and Trauma issues both nationally and internationally.

Ms. Mellenthin is a sought-after supervisor, training graduate students and interns in play therapy, and an adjunct faculty member at the University of Southern California MSW program. She is the past-president of the Utah Association for Play Therapy and remains an active member on the Board of Directors. She is the author of the books Attachment Centered Play Therapy; Play Therapy: Engaging & Powerful Techniques for the Treatment of Childhood Disorders; My Many Colors of Me Workbookand has authored several chapters and articles. In addition to being an experienced play therapist and professor, Ms. Mellenthin also appears on local and national TV and radio as an expert on children and family issues. She holds a master’s degree in Social Work from the University of Southern California.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Clair Mellenthin has an employment relationship with Wasatch Family Therapy. She is a published author and receives royalties. Clair Mellenthin receives a speaking honorarium, recording royalties, and book royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Clair Mellenthin is a member of the National Association of Social Workers, the Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, the American Psychological Association, and the Association for Play Therapy.

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Media Type:
Digital Seminar
Product Code:
POS150628
Duration:
1 hour, 30 minutes
Copyright:
Mar 27, 2026
Closed Captions:
Available
Format:
Audio and Video

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