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Advanced Primary Attachment Therapy Immersion

November 7, 2025 @ 9:30 am - November 9, 2025 @ 5:30 pm

Schedule

November 7 - 9, 2025, from 9:30am to 5:30pm

Registration

For More Information :
Contact Lisa.R@Hakomi.org

Advanced Primary Attachment Therapy Immersion

Primary Attachment Therapy is creative, optimistic, loving, simple, nuanced, forgiving, surprising, sometimes paradoxical, and always exceedingly human.

Join us in a loving learning container with other Primary Attachment Therapy trained therapists to deepen and refine your capacity to offer this gentle and powerful approach. Primary Attachment Therapy supports profound change in clients’ “relationship to relationship”  – as an attachment therapist, let us support you!

• Receive supervised practice and case consultation to support professional development
• Learn skills and approaches from our updated model
• Focus on advanced interventions for success in complex cases
• Gather with exceptional clinicians from the attachment community
• Take home our new 100 page Primary Attachment Therapy Manual

Our trainings offer a supportive context for refining your own attachment responses and deepening your capacity for professional intimacy, which can enhance practitioner effectiveness in a range of helping contexts.

If you have taken a P.A.T. Immersion, or learned P.A.T. through M.E.T.A. or the M.E.T.A. clinic, in the last ten years, you are welcome to register.

Learning Objectives:
• Understand the overall P.A.T. model and treatment trajectory
• Recognize their own attachment responses and be able to self-regulate in the therapy setting
• Build and strengthen clinical skills in

  • Using eye-open and eye-closed mindfulness in the transpiring present moment
  • Assessing client felt sense of relational safety in the moment
  • Activating, tracking, and engaging the client’s attachment system
  • Using active body language to engage the limbic system
  • Working in shared states, and with clinical immediacy & transparency
  • Assessing and supporting client authority, autonomy, agency, and self-worth in the moment and over time
  • Challenging and untangling hyperconnected neural networks to support increased security and brain reorganization
  • Recognizing and embracing tipping point states to support integration

Donna Roy, Jessica Montgomery, and Rick Cummings, along with seasoned P.A.T.-trained TAs, will be the teaching team:

Donna Roy, MS, L.P.C., CHT, Hakomi Trainer, is a licensed professional counselor and a Certified Hakomi Therapist and Trainer, serves on the Hakomi Institute board of directors, and has had a private counseling and consulting practice in Portland, Oregon, for 25 years. She continues to offer Hakomi certification support and to teach in Hakomi trainings in the Pacific NW and with other global Hakomi teams. In 2011, she spearheaded the co-development of Primary Attachment Therapy (P.A.T.) and offers P.A.T. trainings locally and internationally. Her background includes teaching in Portland State University’s Department of Counselor Education, founding a local affordable counseling clinic, and authoring a chapter entitled, “Body-Centered Counseling & Psychotherapy” in Theories and Interventions in Counseling and Psychotherapy, published by Prentice Hall. She has advanced training in couples, marriage, and family therapy, experiential dreamwork, and clinical supervision.

Jessica Montgomery, M.S.W., CHT, Hakomi Trainer is a somatic counselor, Hakomi Trainer and catalyst. Blending brain science with mindful experiential techniques and profound regard for the unbroken wisdom within, Jessica facilitates individuals, couples and communities toward greater wholeness. Based in Portland Oregon, she has taught internationally in diverse settings from integrative medicine to wilderness retreats to bodyworker and counselor education. As co-developer of the Primary Attachment model, she supports practitioners in expanding capacity for professional intimacy. Jessica is skilled at synthesizing key information across disciplines and brings a strong social justice perspective to her work, inspiring embodied approaches to personal and social evolution.

CE Information: 14 NBCC CE hours

(ACEP #5476): Hakomi Institute has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEP No. 5476.) Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Hakomi Institute is solely responsible for all aspects of the program. CE Policy

Fees & Credits

Early Bird
$950 through September 22
Cost
$1050
CEs
14 NBCC CE hours (ACEP #5476): Hakomi Institute has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEP No. 5476.) Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Hakomi Institute is solely responsible for all aspects of the program.

Details

Mode :
In-Person
Language :
English
Faculty
Donna Roy and Jessica Montgomery
Prerequisite
Primary Attachment Therapy Training (If you have taken a P.A.T. Immersion, or learned P.A.T. through M.E.T.A. or the M.E.T.A. clinic, in the last ten years, you are welcome to register.)
Scholarship Info
Partial scholarships are available for anyone working with, or membership within, a community of color, other marginalized groups, and international students. Apply on the registration form.

Time & Location

Dates
November 7 - 9, 2025, from 9:30am to 5:30pm
Location
Mildred Hall, 5138 NE 23rd Avenue, Portland, Oregon
Time Zone
PDT

Registration