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Attachment Communication Training

Thursday, October 22nd, 2026   10:00 AM EDT -1:00 PM EDT
Terry M. Levy, Ph.D., B.C.F.E.
$59.99 Cost For Member: $39.99

Communications is the basis of meaningful relationships and secure attachment. Healthy communication promotes empathy, understanding, support, and safety, and fosters constructive problem-solving and conflict management. The communication method we have developed is Attachment Communication Training (ACT), which can be used with any dyad (i.e., parent-child, adult partners, siblings). ACT is a structured, goal oriented, and directive approach to teaching communication skills and mitigating destructive patterns of interacting. Therapists teach family members specific communication skills in order to interrupt habitual negative behaviors, and modify relationship patterns and dynamics.

About the Presenter

Terry M. Levy, Ph.D., B.C.F.E., has been a psychotherapist, trainer, supervisor, author and consultant for over 50 years.  Dr. Levy is the director of Evergreen Psychotherapy Center and the Attachment Treatment and Training Institute in Evergreen, Colorado.  He is a licensed clinical psychologist in Colorado and Florida, a Board Certified Forensic Examiner, and a Diplomate and Master Therapist of the American Psychotherapy Association.  He is the co-author of Attachment, Trauma & Healing (2nd edition, 2014, Jessica Kingsley Publisher, London), editor of Handbook of Attachment Interventions (2000, Elsevier Press) and co-author of Healing Parents: Helping Wounded Children Learn to Trust and Love (2006, Child Welfare League of America).

Learning Objectives:

  1. Describe the Attachment Communication Training guidelines of sharing and listening.
  2. Explain the difference between a therapist-centered and relationship-based approach to communication training in dyads.
  3. List the specific contracts established prior to starting Attachment Communication Training.
  4. Discuss how the Life Script is used in Attachment Communication Training.

Agenda:

Part I (10:00 - 11:30 AM)

PowerPoint, therapeutic concepts and ground rules for Attachment Communication Training (ACT).


Part II (11:45 AM - 1:00 PM)

Clinical videos showing Attachment Communication Training sessions with parents-children and adult couples. Q&A.

This workshop offers 3 Live Interactive Continuing Education Credits

This presentation is open to:
  • Social Workers
  • Professional Counselors
  • Therapists
  • Psychologists
  • Licensed Mental Health Practitioners
  • Medical Doctors and Other Health Professionals
  • Other professionals interacting with populations engaged in mental health based services
Course Level: introductory
Level of Clinician: beginner
  • New practitioners who wish to gain enhanced insight surrounding the topic
  • Experienced practitioners who seek to increase and expand fundamental knowledge surrounding the subject matter
  • Advanced practitioners seeking to review concepts and reinforce practice skills and/or access additional consultation
  • Managers seeking to broaden micro and/or macro perspectives

Participants will receive their certificate electronically upon completion of the webinar and course evaluation form.

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