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No Contact: Clinical Skills and Tools for Estrangement Trauma, Attachment Wounds & More

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  • Know what to do when clients ask, “Should I go no contact?”
  • Work ethically and neutrally without pushing an agenda
  • How to support being “in contact” without normalizing abuse, coercion or manipulation
  • Tools to process shame, guilt, grief, and attachment injury
  • Dozens of practical strategies you can use immediately

 

Exhausted and confused, so many clients have tried everything – sometimes for decades – to get their family member to change, understand, or take responsibility.

Cycling through hope, disappointment and self blame, they’re looking to you for guidance.

But going no contact isn’t simple boundary setting – it’s a life altering decision …

… one you likely spent little time learning about in grad school.

That’s why clinical psychologist, trauma therapist and author Dr. Heidi Green created this training after years of working with toxic and estranged family systems.

She’ll make the dynamics of toxic family relationships easy to understand and apply to your clients PLUS give you the clinical tools you need to treat these clients so they can get the best possible outcome …

… whether they choose to go no-contact or not.

You’ll leave this training with dozens of tools, strategies and:

  • Insights from attachment theory and family systems to support ethical, client-centered decision making
  • Boundary setting skills that help clients maintain safety and self-respect
  • Tips to support clients who stay engaged – without normalizing abuse or coercion
  • Guidance on naming “no contact” as an option while staying clinically neutral
  • Tools to help process attachment injury, shame, guilt, and the grief of estrangement

Estrangement has become one of the biggest issues showing up in therapy right now …

and this training will have you feeling ready when these clients walk into your office.

So don’t wait. Purchase now!

Here's What You'll Learn


What Estrangement Is – and What It Isn’t

  • Defining estrangement, no contact, low contact, cutoff, enmeshment and distancing
  • Common pathways to and patterns of estrangement
  • Cultural and social narratives about family loyalty
  • Why estrangement is increasing – empirical trends

Attachment, Family Systems and the Neurobiology of No Contact

  • Attachment injury and relational trauma in family systems
  • Family systems, roles (e.g., scapegoat, golden child) and power mapping
  • Nervous system survival responses
  • When proximity perpetuates harm vs. when distance supports regulation

Assessment and Case Formulation

  • Assessing safety, re-traumatization risk, and psychological harm
  • Abuse, neglect, and coercive control
  • Differentiating protective estrangement from avoidance-based disengagement
  • Naming “no contact” as an option without directing client decisions

Boundary Setting and Communication Tools for Clients Who Choose Ongoing Contact

  • Why boundary scripts often fail with manipulative or abusive family members
  • Teaching boundary skills that preserve safety and self-respect
  • Preparing clients for backlash, guilt, and relational retaliation
  • Supporting low contact, structured contact, or no contact boundaries
  • Skills for disengaging from coercion, triangulation, and emotional hooks
  • Helping clients tolerate ambiguity
  • Research, risks and treatment limitations

Treating the Grief, Shame, and Attachment Wounds of Estrangement

  • DBT emotion regulation skills to use during guilt spikes or reconciliation pressure
  • Ambiguous loss mapping exercises for grief
  • Empty-chair dialogues to process internalized blame
  • Strategies for working with attachment injury and rebuilding self-trust
  • Narrative tools to support meaning-making
  • Supporting clients under pressure to reconcile
  • Research, risks and treatment limitations

Ethics, Risks and Countertransference Issues

  • Working with multiple family members
  • Neutrality versus harm minimization
  • Informed consent and documentation
  • Managing therapist countertransference

Everything You're Getting


  • Approx 6 Hours of video content
  • Up to 6.25 CE credits
  • Certificate of completion

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Meet Your Experts


Heidi Green, PsyD

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Dr. Heidi Green, is a highly respected clinical psychologist and a leading expert in trauma healing and personal empowerment. The author of The Path to Self-Love and World Domination (2020) and You Don’t Have to Love Yourself (2026).

Dr. Green’s therapeutic specialties include trauma, self-esteem, codependency, body image, boundaries, healthy sexuality, depression, anxiety, crisis intervention, and more. Using some of today’s most in-demand evidence-based treatments like DBT and EMDR, Dr. Green is recognized for her remarkable ability to connect with individuals and guide them on a transformative journey of self-discovery, personal growth, and improved well-being. In addition, Dr. Green is a registered yoga teacher and enjoys incorporating yoga practices into her trauma healing work with clients.
 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Heidi Green maintains a private practice and receives royalties as a published author. She receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Heidi Green is a member of the American Psychological Association.

 

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Media Type:
Digital Seminar
Product Code:
POS150911
Duration:
Approx 6 Hours
Copyright:
Sep 23, 2026 Available Now for Pre-Order

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