Digital Seminar
Rewiring Attachment After Trauma
Practical, Parts-Informed Strategies for Secure Connection
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- Faculty:
- Frank Anderson, MD
- Duration:
- 1 Hour 30 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Copyright:
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Mar 26, 2026
- Product Code:
- POS150625
- Media Type:
- Digital Seminar
Description
Attachment wounds don’t just live in the past – they shape nervous-system patterns, parts-based protectors, and relational cycles in the room. In this fast-paced, clinician-focuses session, Dr. Frank Anderson shows how to blend attachment science with a trauma-and parts-informed lens to reduce hyper/hypo-arousal, unblend protective parts, and foster earned security. You’ll leave with step-by-step interventions you can use immediately – across individual, couple, and family work.
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Handouts
| File type | File name | Number of pages | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manual - Rewiring Attachment After Trauma (1.6 MB) | 19 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Transcript - Rewiring Attachment (1005.5 KB) | 19 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Rewiring Attachment After Trauma - French (1.6 MB) | 19 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Transcript - Rewiring Attachment - French (1005.5 KB) | 19 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Rewiring Attachment After Trauma - Italian (1.6 MB) | 19 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Transcript - Rewiring Attachment - Italian (1005.5 KB) | 19 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Rewiring Attachment After Trauma - German (1.6 MB) | 19 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Transcript - Rewiring Attachment - German (1005.5 KB) | 19 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Rewiring Attachment After Trauma - Spanish (1.6 MB) | 19 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Transcript - Rewiring Attachment - Spanish (1005.5 KB) | 19 Pages | Available after Purchase |
Faculty
Frank Anderson, MD Related seminars and products
Frank Anderson, MD, completed his residency and was a clinical instructor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He is both a psychiatrist and psychotherapist. He specializes in the treatment of trauma and dissociation and is passionate about teaching brain-based psychotherapy and integrating current neuroscience knowledge with the IFS model of therapy.
Dr. Anderson has lectured extensively on the Neurobiology of PTSD and Dissociation and wrote the chapter “Who’s Taking What” Connecting Neuroscience, Psychopharmacology and Internal Family Systems for Trauma in Internal Family Systems Therapy – New Dimensions. He co-authored a chapter on What IFS Brings to Trauma Treatment in Innovations and Elaborations in Internal Family Systems Therapy, and recently co-authored Internal Family Systems Skills Training Manual.
His most recent book, entitled Transcending Trauma: Healing Complex PTSD with Internal Family Systems was released on May 19, 2021.
His memoir, To Be Loved, was released on May 7, 2024.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Frank Anderson maintains a private practice, is the co-founder of the Trauma Institute, and is the co-founding producer of Trauma Informed Media. He receives royalties as a published author. He receives a speaking honorarium, recording, and book royalties from PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Frank Anderson is a member of the New England Society Studying Trauma and Dissociation and the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation.
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Objectives
- Identify two ways trauma disrupts attachment and co-regulation (behavioral and neurobiological).
- Choose at least three common protector/manager strategies that maintain insecure cycles.
- Apply a brief, three-step protocol to unblend protective parts in session.
Outline
Framing & Goals
- “Attachment x Trauma x Pars” quick map
- Normalizing clinician counter-activation
What Trauma Does to Attachment
- Nervous-system states, memory, and meaning-making
- Insecure patterns (avoidant, anxious, disorganized) in clinical presentation
Case Mapping: The Attachment-Parts Cycle
- Live diagram: triggers – protective parts – exile pain – relational spiral
- Assessment mini-tools: trigger ladder, protector inventory, window-of-tolerance snapshot
Skills Practicum: Repair in Real Time
- Three-Step Unblending: Name – Validate Function – Negotiate Space
- Co-Regulation Micros: paced breathing + vocal prosody cueing; eyes-open resourcing; orienting
- Attachment Repair Moves: rupture acknowledgement, parts-direct compassion, titrated proximity language
- Brief demo or role-play + optional dyad practice
Troubleshooting & Special Populations
- When protectors won’t step back
- Dissociation flags
- Working with couples/parents
- Cultural attunement cues
Risks and Limitations
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Physicians
- Psychologists
- Other Mental Health Professionals
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