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Digital Seminar

Guide Couples to Better Sex with Attachment-Focused Therapy


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Speaker:
Anne Power, MA, BACP accred., UKCP
Duration:
1 Hour 11 Minutes
Format:
Audio and Video
Copyright:
12 Feb, 2025
Product Code:
PDR031669
Media Type:
Digital Seminar
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Never expires.


Description

Working with attachment styles is critical for any couple, and this holds true for their sex lives too. In this session, you’ll draw on the proven principles of attachment theory.

You’ll master evidence-based techniques from the psychodynamic and Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) approaches to guide your clients to cultivate more secure attachment bonds, so that they can achieve improved trust, intimacy and communication in and outside the bedroom.

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This online program is worth 1.25 hours CPD.



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Anne Power, MA, BACP accred., UKCP, has qualifications from The Bowlby Centre, WPF, 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.

Her published works include over twenty academic papers and two books all of which use attachment theory to understand relationships and clinical experience. Her first book Forced Endings in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis: Attachment and Loss in Retirement is based on research with retired and retiring therapists.

Her more recent book Contented Couples: Magic, Logic or Luck? is based on interviews with eighteen long-term couples from very different traditions, including arranged marriage. It explains couple dynamics in an accessible way and describes how partners’ complementary attachment patterns can work well together.

Anne posts on Instagram @and_attachment with content for people who want to understand attachment in their relationships, Her TEDx talk Attachment Theory is the Science of Love also addresses this theme and has been watched by over half a million people.


Objectives

  1. Identify integrative psychodynamic skills for working with a couple in relationship assessment. 
  2. Examine the Experiences in Close Relationships measures (ECR-R) and Adult Attachment Interview. 
  3. Identify aspects of underlying relational dynamics to promote relational change.

Outline

  • Help your clients identify their attachment styles
  • How clients' attachment histories may be playing out in their current sex and relationship dynamics
  • How clients' attachment patterns may be impacting their communication, intimacy and conflict resolution
  • How clients can adapt based on their attachment patterns to optimise their sex and strengthen their relationships for the better

Target Audience

  • Psychotherapists
  • Counselors
  • IAPT Practitioners
  • Psychologists
  • Psychiatrists
  • Social Workers
  • Nurses
  • Other Mental Health Professionals

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