Attract Healthy
Relationships
Learn how to approach dating based on your attachment style
and recognize important signs to build healthy relationships.
Attract Healthy
Relationships
Who is this course for?
Are you tired of struggling with relationship after relationship? Fed up with feeling anxiety over whether your partner loves you? Or do you feel you are being too desperate for love and attention? This course is for those who want to break free from potential trauma loops and start attracting healthy relationships.
What will you learn?
Learn the key to attracting and building healthy relationships based on attachment theory. You will develop a full understanding of the four attachment styles, where you fall among them, as well as guidelines on how to attract the ideal relationship.
Attachment Master Class
How to attract and build healthy relationships
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1. Understand your attachment style
To help you understand how attachment influences relationships, we will provide you with examples of what secure and insecure attachment look like in couples.
After you get the hang of the basics, you will get to assess your own behavioral patterns in relationships. Find out your attachment style and learn about each of the four attachment styles in detail.
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2. How to heal insecure attachment
Healing attachment begins with healing your core self. In this masterclass, you will get a series of exercises for improving your self-agency and self-esteem. The Ideal Parent Figures visualizations will be used for you to gain awareness of your state-of-mind and create a positive map of secure, intimate relationships.
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3. Relationship advice specific to your attachment style
Dating and relationships can’t be one-size-fits-all. Make use of dating guidelines that are specific to your attachment style. Learn how to approach relationships and recognize important signs and red flags within them. In doing so, you are actively working toward a secure sense of self and healthier attachment patterns in your relationships.
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4. What to do if your partner has insecure attachment
If your relationship isn’t going well, this isn’t necessarily because of your attachment style. You might be with someone who has their own attachment issues.
It is important to understand the attachment style of the person you are with. You will learn how to date someone with insecure attachment, and how to deal with and help them overcome their attachment issues.
Learning Outcomes for Healthy Relationships
- Distinguish between the four attachment styles and identify your own attachment style
- Describe the causes and characteristics of each attachment style
- Characterize how your attachment style influences your behavior in dating and relationships
- Understand self development including self agency and self esteem
- Train positive states of mind and metacognition
- Reflect on your fears, beliefs, and behavioral patterns
- Identify, understand, and manage your emotional triggers
- Practice regulating your emotions
- Learn how to better express and communicate your needs with your partner
- Recognize when you are dating someone with an insecure attachment and adjust your approach accordingly
- Become aware of common patterns of insecure attachment
- Feel more confident and secure in your relationships (or while dating)
Skills gained:
Emotional Intelligence Emotion Regulation Secure Attachment Self-Development Self-Agency Self-Esteem
Metacognition Social Skills Relationship Skills Communication Skills Online Dating Skills
Course Curriculum Overview
- The Faculty (00:45)
- How will this course help me? (00:40)
- How to use the visualizations? (03:00)
- Securely Attached Couple (03:30)
- Insecurely Attached Couple (03:45)
- Summary of the Four Styles (24:30)
- How does someone become secure? (08:00)
- Generic IPF Visualization (13:30)
- Creating Secure Attachment Visualization (13:30)
Start your path to healing past relationships
Course Faculty
Paula Sacks
Completed advanced course training through Harvard Medical School:
- Graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a BA in Psychology in 1983
- Earned a Masters in Social Work from Simmons Graduate School of Social Work in 2004
- Completed a year long hypnotherapy externship in 2008
- Finished an additional year long externship in the Treatment of Attachment Disruption and Disorders in Adults in 2009
- In 1982, Paula was selected to lead a post-graduate research study on the Identification of Attachment Behavior: Strange Situation.
- Co-author of the book “Attachment Disturbances in Adults,” recipient of the 2018 ISST-D Pierre Janet Writing Award.
- In 2010, then governor Deval Patrick appointed Paula to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Licensure Board of Registration of Social Workers where she retired in 2015 as Board Chairman.
- From 2004-2017, Paula volunteered over 5,000 hours of therapy for low income clients at Community Legal Services and Counseling Center.
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Expert psychologists are talking about the Three Pillars Methodology
Diana Fosha, PhD
Author of “The Transforming Power of Affect” and Director of the AEDP Institute
Richly comprehensive, precise, and wise, it is honed by real clinical experience, with step-by-step treatment protocols tailored to each attachment classification. This book should be required reading for all graduate students in clinical programs, be they clinical psychology, psychiatry, counseling, or social work.
Dante Cicchetti, PhD
McKnight Presidential Chair, William Harris Professor of Child Development & Psychiatry
Rarely does a scholarly work contribute to the understanding of the processes underlying attachment and its dysfunction while simultaneously providing a clearly delineated prescription for treatment. Practitioners will profit from the detailed clinical vignettes and researchers will gain many ideas warranting empirical investigation.
Kathy Steele, MN, CS
Clinical Director, Metropolitan Counseling Services. Author of “Coping with Trauma-Related Dissociation”
Mental health professionals across disciplines will delight in the rich depth and breadth of this essential book, which seamlessly interweaves research, theory and treatment.
Onno van der Hart, PhD
Emeritus Professor of Psychopathology of Chronic Traumatization, Utrecht University
…An unequalled account of how far the attachment field has evolved since Bowlby’s groundbreaking studies of attachment bonds. It presents an outstanding, encyclopedic, and integrative overview of theoretical understanding, assessment, and treatment. All this leads to a highly inspirational and effective treatment model, consisting of three “pillars”.
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Who is this course for?
The Relationships Master Class is aimed at the general public as a complete guide to attachment styles and healthy relationships.
Does this course replace therapy?
How long does it take to complete the training?
This is a self-paced course that includes several hours of lectures and exercises to help with training secure attachment. After you complete the course, we recommend that you continue to practice the exercises regularly.
How do I access the course after purchasing it?
You will receive an email with all relevant login information needed to sign into our online learning portal.
Are the course sessions live or pre-recorded?
The course audio is all pre-recorded and there is a full reference inventory for each module.
To whom can I send feedback or suggestions?
We are always happy to receive suggestions that could help us improve the user experience. Contact us at our contact page. Please be aware that we cannot respond individually to every message, although we do read all emails.
What is your refund policy?
We guarantee satisfaction for all courses offered by The Attachment Project for up to 7 days. If our products fail to meet your expectations for any reason, simply contact us.
*We do not offer refunds for any of our courses once 10% or above have been completed and when more than 10% of the course material is downloaded – this includes accompanying workbooks and all bonus material.
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