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Digital Seminar

Breaking Through Severe Attachment Challenges

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Raising a child with severe attachment problems and dysregulation is one of the hardest and loneliest experiences a parent can face. While many therapies claim to work from an attachment perspective, they often offer overly simplistic techniques, place blame on parental deficiencies, and fall short in support families through the realities of daily struggles.

In this workshop, you will learn how to:

  • Recognize why standard attachment models are not always enough
  • Apply strategies that combine love and boundaries for real progress
  • Identify elements that make therapy effective with struggling families
  • Integrate techniques drawn from 28 years of experience working with severe attachment problems

You’ll leave with a deeper understanding of what truly helps families move toward hope, healing, and lasting change.

Here's What You'll Learn

  • The False Ideal Parent – Why the concept of being a therapeutic parent has backfired
  • What does supportive, effective attachment-focused therapy actually mean?
  • The paradoxes of attachment injuries: inner conflicts within attachment trauma that impede trust, emotional regulation and connection
  • Redefining attachment focused therapy
    • Focus on realistic parenting (rather than an ideal parent)
    • Taking “The Long View” of child development
    • Support for parent detachment – letting go of validation-seeking, outcomes and control
    • The importance of community and a spiritual approach to parenting
    • Focus in therapy on radical empathy with strong boundaries, for both child and parent
  • Limitations of the research and potential risks

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

Dafna Lender, LCSW

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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).

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dafna Lender maintains a private practice. She is a published author and receives royalties. She receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dafna Lender has no relevant non-financial relationships.
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Media Type:
Digital Seminar
Product Code:
POS150626
Duration:
1 hour, 32 minutes
Copyright:
Mar 26, 2026
Closed Captions:
Available
Format:
Audio and Video

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