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
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
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