Digital Seminar
Secure Love in Practice
Clinical Tools for Attachment Repair and Overcoming Roadblocks in Couples Work
- Average Rating:
- 325
- Faculty:
- Julie Menanno, LMFT, LCPC
- Duration:
- 1 Hour 55 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Copyright:
-
Mar 21, 2026
- Product Code:
- NOS096700
- Media Type:
- Digital Seminar
Description
Grounded in attachment theory and Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), this workshop offers a clear, practical roadmap for helping couples build lasting, secure bonds. You’ll learn to guide partners toward emotional responsiveness and interrupt destructive cycles to foster connection rather than conflict. Then, you’ll discover the three most common challenges therapists face when navigating attachment repair with couples and get step-by-step instruction to overcome these roadblocks without losing momentum. Walk away with therapeutic tools, session structures, and scripts you need to help couples go from disconnection to attunement while keeping the session moving towards secure love. This session emphasizes therapist attunement, co-regulation, and emotionally corrective experiences as essential to transforming relational distress into secure functioning partnerships.
You’ll discover:
- What a secure relationship really looks and feels like
- The deeper emotions and fears that “fuel” negative cycles
- The most common reasons therapists get stuck in session and how to overcome each
- How to help partners move from insecure to secure love
Credit
Handouts
| File type | File name | Number of pages | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Transcript - Secure love in Practice (1.1 MB) | 29 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Secure Love in Practice (1.4 MB) | 18 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Secure Love in Practice - French (1.4 MB) | 18 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Transcript - Secure love in Practice - French (1.1 MB) | 29 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Secure Love in Practice - Italian (1.4 MB) | 18 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Transcript - Secure love in Practice - Italian (1.1 MB) | 29 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Secure Love in Practice - German (1.4 MB) | 18 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Transcript - Secure love in Practice - German (1.1 MB) | 29 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Secure Love in Practice - Spanish (1.4 MB) | 18 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Transcript - Secure love in Practice - Spanish (1.1 MB) | 29 Pages | Available after Purchase |
Faculty
Julie Menanno, LMFT, LCPC Related seminars and products
Julie Menanno MA, LMFT, LCPC, is a therapist, author, educator, masterful interpreter of Attachment Theory, and an Architect of Emotional Connection. She’s the author of Secure Love and the creator of The Secure Relationship, a platform that has reached millions worldwide, with a mission to dismantle the barriers that keep people from experiencing the joy of deeply connected, secure relationships.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Julie Menanno receives royalties as a published author. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Julie Menanno is a presenter with Psychotherapy Networker.
Additional Info
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Objectives
- Recognize common insecure attachment cycles as they present in couple therapy sessions.
- Apply language and interventions that disrupt reactive patterns and facilitate emotional safety.
- Identify clinical interventions to overcome three common therapist roadblocks.
- Describe a step-by-step model for increasing security, attunement, and mutual responsiveness in couples.
Outline
- Characteristics of secure functioning relationships
- Identifying and Interrupting Reactive Cycles
- Common escalations in couples
- Modeling secure responses and creating a safe emotional container in session
- Helping partners speak the language of attachment
- Translating criticisms and shutdowns into attachment longings
- Using “bottom-up” interventions to foster connection
- Building Lasting Secure Bonds
- Practicing emotional responsiveness and repair
- Rewiring relational expectations through repeated safe experiences
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Psychologists
- Psychotherapists
- Therapists
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Addiction Counselors
- Case Managers
- Physicians
- Nurses
- Other Mental Health Professionals
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Total Reviews: 325
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