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Digital Seminar

Partnering with Parents for an Attachment-Focused Approach: Strengthening Trust, Collaboration, & Buy-In

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Strengthening a child’s emotional well-being starts with their most important relationships—but gaining caregiver buy-in for an attachment-focused approach can be challenging. Resistance, skepticism, or past relational wounds may create barriers, making it difficult for caregivers to fully engage in the therapeutic process. 

Join Eli Harwood, author of Raising Securely Attached Kids, for an insightful session where you’ll learn practical strategies to bridge this gap with confidence, compassion, and creativity. 

In this session, you'll discover how to: 

  • Establish trust and empathy with even the most hesitant or resistant caregivers 
  • Translate attachment research into accessible, real-world strategies caregivers can embrace 
  • Guide caregivers in setting meaningful relationship goals that foster lasting change 
  • Navigate difficult conversations while reinforcing the importance of connection and co-regulation 

When caregivers feel understood and empowered, they become active participants in the healing process—allowing children to grow, thrive, and develop secure attachments that last a lifetime. 

Here's What You'll Learn


Building Caregiver Confidence in an Attachment-Focused Mission

  • Accessible language to foster buy-in and highlight the power of secure relationships in a child's healing

Validate Caregiver Experiences with Empathy and Attunement

  • Create safety and deepen therapeutic alliance by reflecting struggles without judgment

Caring for the Child within the Caregiver

  • Address how caregivers' own attachment histories shape their ability to co-regulate and connect

Collaborative Goal Setting and Treatment Planning

  • Shift from behavioral outcomes to goals centered on connection, safety, and emotional development

Resources for Caregivers and Clinicians

Risks and limitations

  • Navigate relational barriers
  • Identify and respond to caregiver resistance, disconnection, or trauma through an attachment lens

Everything You're Getting


  • More than 2 hours of video content
  • Up to 2.0 CE credits
  • Certificate of completion
  • Handouts and resources

Meet Your Experts


Eli Harwood, MA, LPC

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Eli Harwood is a licensed therapist, author of the book Securely Attached, educator and creator of Attachment Nerd who has more than 17 years of experience helping people process relational traumas and develop secure attachment relationships with their children and partners. Eli has three children, one husband, two cats and an extraordinary number of plant babies.

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Media Type:
Digital Seminar
Product Code:
POS150243
Duration:
2 hours, 3 minutes
Copyright:
Aug 13, 2025
Format:
Audio and Video

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