Attachment in Couple Relationships

Description

Whether we are working with individual clients or with straight or same sex couples, attachment history can help us reflect on relational experience. Whether our client is a ‘Pursuer’ or a ‘Withdrawer’ the behaviour which so challenges their partner is very often a form of attachment distress which is being communicated in an unhelpful way.

 Participants will come away with a map for understanding couple relationships, this will include:

• How partners choose each other
• Why couples fight
• What makes the difference between a developmental and a defensive couple bond
• What's going on for clients who can't find a relationship or can't sustain one.

All of these will be understood through an attachment lens. We will consider how couple relationships are impacted by: the secure base, caregiving and care-seeking skills and internal working models. We will consider ways that attachment dynamics influence a couple’s sexual relationship.

In couple dynamics this is introductory.

In attachment terms this is intermediate.

About the Trainer - Anne Power

Anne Power has qualifications from The Bowlby Centre, Westminster Pastoral Foundation, Tavistock Relationships and Relate. Her clinical work has been in voluntary settings, in the NHS and in private practice in London where she now works online with couples and supervisees. She has taught on a number of therapy trainings in London.  

Annie interviewed twenty-two diverse contented couples for her book. She asked them all what had made their relationship last and she uses their words to illustrate attachment dynamics.  Contented Couples: Magic, logic or luck? was published in 2022 and reflects on interviews with eighteen long-term couples.

Anne’s first book, Forced Endings in Psychotherapy, investigated the process of closing a practice for retirement or other reasons. Her published papers explore attachment meaning in the consulting room and in the supervision relationship.

Watch Anne in her TEDxTalk - Attachment Theory is the Science of Love

Cost - £95 / Student £75

Handouts and CPD certificate are included in the price.

Please note that a delegate space is not guaranteed until payment is received.

Minimum numbers: 12 - Please note that the workshop is subject to cancellation or re-scheduling if the minimum number required to make them viable is not reached. In this situation, the following options will apply:

• Receive a full refund.
• Hold the space until a new date has been offered.
• Move the booking to another workshop.
• Receive a credit note to use at a future date.

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