Are your clients stuck in old patterns and negative self-concepts? Do they find themselves repeatedly with people or in situations that echo the past? Do you want to know more about how the body holds attachment patterns?

Interactions between children and their primary attachment figures result in procedural learning that informs how they think, feel and behave. Evidence confirms that this learning, which is held in place by the body, provides a template for future relationships. When these procedural behaviors are maladaptive, they limit our clients. Current neuroscientific research defines 3 steps necessary to release clients from the grip of maladaptive procedural learning. Both EMDR and Sensorimotor Psychotherapy incorporate these 3 steps and can be used together for optimal treatment of the early attachment wounds that give rise to procedural (implicit) memory.

This workshop aims to demonstrate ways to integrate somatic interweaves with the AIP model to process early attachment wounds.

Biography

Lana Epstein, MA, LICSW
is an EMDRIA-Approved consultant in EMDR, an ASCH-Approved Consultant in Hypnosis and a Senior Trainer for Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute.  She has served on the Board of NESTTD and is a past supervisor at the Trauma Center, Boston.  Lana presents nationally and internationally and maintains a private practice in Lexington, MA.