ATTCH holds many professional development training events to help professionals become trauma informed, learn trauma-specific treatment approaches, enhance their clinical skills, and to promote wellness within. clinical practice.
We hold annual trauma and attachment conferences, typically in the Spring, Summer and Fall and several workshops throughout the year. Most of our conferences teach people how to use our Integrative Trauma and Attachment Treatment Model (ITATM) ®. We typically bring guest speakers to our Spring confernence. ATTCH is honoured to have brought many world renowned speakers and leading edge training experiences for our participants. You can learn about past events below.
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This comprehensive conference will cover the following topics and allow you to take your trauma processing to a deeper level:
Understanding the foundations (including neurological, social, physiological, and psychological implications of trauma and attachment dysregulation)
Phase-based clinical applications to promote healing and integration of trauma and attachment dysregulation
Practical application of trauma processing activies
Demonstration of trauma processing
A variety of integrative trauma treatment tools and skills to enhance your trauma treatment toolkit
Strategies to promote helper self care and prevent compassion fatigue
Next Training Dates: Winter Trauma Conference - January 17 - 21, 2022 ITATM & CTIC Stream Part 1 (Clinical & Non Clinical) - January 17 & 18, 2022 or March 28 & 29, 2022 (both streams) (Part 1 is also available pre-recorded via distance learning) Part 2 Clinical - January 19 - 21, 2022 or April 11-13, 2022 9:00-4:30 EST ITATM & CTIC Stream Part 2 Non Clinical - May 4-6, 2022, 9:00 - 4:30 EST ITATM-A & CTIP Stream New ** Part 3 (Clinical) - Advanced Training in ITATM Protocol November 8-10, 2021 or March 2 - 4, 2022 *Must have completed parts 1 & 2 as well as 6 group consults to register New ** Part 3 (Non-Clinical) - Advanced Training in ITATM-A Protocol - April 6- 8, 2022 *Must have completed parts 1 & 2 as well as 6 group consults to register
What People are saying about our certification and conference events: Danielle Alexandria, Toronto, Ontario: "I’m currently completing my certified trauma integration practitioner training through ATTCH. Lori Gill, the director, is an incredibly gifted teacher. Her knowledge, intelligence, integrity, and compassion make her a rare and very bright light in the industry. I have been blown away by what I’ve learned! If you’re interested in learning the latest and most effective trauma therapies, I recommend their courses and programs without hesitation!”
Jennifer Bolt Bauline, NL - Very informative, excellent take away and a wonderful presenter.
Shannon Vanderveen, St.Anns - Really grateful for this learning opportunity, networking with others and taking time to grow as a young student! Thank you!!!
Valerien Lannan, Placentio NL - What an amazing week. I have learned so much for both myself and the children + youth i serve. i am very grateful for this experience. Thank you!
Seema Sharma, Ontario - Thank you so much for your warm and engaging presence and sharing your expansive knowledge with us. This training has been amazing, I have learned so much as a practitioner and about myself. This lens has truly shifted the way i understand those I serve and hope to support. It feels so right. Thank you so much for the opportunity to do the live demo. It was so experiential and different than I’ve ever experienced. Thank you for creating a space and presence to make me feel comfortable enough to try and engage in it. All the best.
Carol Cowan, St. Catharines, Ontario - The Trauma and Attachment Certification provided by Lori Gill is essential to any practitioner in the field today. The solid foundation and framework provided in the certification is fundamental to understanding many of our clients struggles in their lives today. The certification also provides great tools and techniques that can be used with our clients to provide the profound levels of healing that are required. The conference itself is also a wonderful opportunity to network with other professionals in the field. I look forward to the conference every year and have used the skills and knowledge gained almost daily in my social work practice.
Christine - Attended the 5 day trauma and attachment certification training and truly loved every minute. the information and psycho education was very helpful and the live demos of clinical process and experiential/role play was extremely powerful and helpful in integrating the new information and trauma processing. Thank you again Lori and the ATTCH team, Sue, and Lisa. A very healing and inspiring experience.
General comments from some of our conference evaluations:
“Looking forward to tomorrow.”
“Doing the role-play was eye-opening and fast.”
“An incredibly valuable learning experience. Each session with Lori I leave with extended resources, practice, and theoretical knowledge."
2021 Spring Trauma & Attachment Conference
Conference Workshop Overview: This comprehensive conference will cover the following topics: o Day 1 ~ April 12 AM
Erik Peper - Reduce Zoom Fatigue and Optimize Health: From Tech Stress to TechHealth
o Day 1 - April 12 PM
Jamie McHugh - Inhabiting Ourselves: Embodying Mindfulness and Somatic Self-Care
o Day 2 ~ April 13
Dr. Paul Frewen ~ The Use of Virtual Reality and Neurofeedback in the Treatment of Trauma
o Day 3 - April 14
Ilene Serlin, Ph.D, BC-DMT ~ Trauma-Informed Dance Movement Therapy
o Day 4 - April 15
Jake Ernst, MSW RSW ~ Finding Your Routes of Safety
o Day 5 - April 16
Cherie Spehar ~ Writing the Way Through: An Immersive Journal Therapy Experience for Working Through Trauma
Past Trauma and Attachment Professional Development Events
ATTCH is pleased to be offering another summer conference series offering training in our Integrative Trauma & Attachment Treatment Model (ITATM) live online on January 25 & 26, 2021 & February 10-12, 2021. This comprehensive conference will cover the following topics and allow you to take your trauma processing to a deeper level:
Understanding the foundations (including neurological, social, physiological, and psychological implications of trauma and attachment dysregulation)
Phase-based clinical applications to promote healing and integration of trauma and attachment dysregulation
Practical application of trauma processing activies
Demonstration of trauma processing
A variety of integrative trauma treatment tools and skills to enhance your trauma treatment toolkit
Strategies to promote helper self care and prevent compassion fatigue
Day 1: Foundations of Trauma and Attachment (core CTIP & CTIC training) Day 2: Phase-Based Clinical Applications to Promote Healing and Integration of Trauma and Attachment Dysregulation Day 3:Trauma Processing Experiential Part 1 Day 4: Trauma Processing Demonstration and Applied Practice Part 2 Day 5: Trauma Processing Demonstration and Applied Practice Part 3
ATTCH is pleased to be offering another Summer conference series based on request on July 13-17, 2020 Niagara Region Hilton Garden Inn, Niagara on the Lake. This comprehensive conference will cover the following topics and allow you to take your trauma processing to a deeper level:
Understanding the foundations (including neurological, social, physiological, and psychological implications of trauma and attachment dysregulation)
Phase-based clinical applications to promote healing and integration of trauma and attachment dysregulation
Practical application of trauma processing activies
Demonstration of trauma processing
A variety of integrative trauma treatment tools and skills to enhance your trauma treatment toolkit
Strategies to promote helper self care and prevent compassion fatigue
Day 1: Foundations of Trauma and Attachment (core CTIP & CTIC training) Day 2: Phase-Based Clinical Applications to Promote Healing and Integration of Trauma and Attachment Dysregulation Day 3: Trauma Processing Demonstration and Applied Practice Part 1 Day 4: Trauma Processing Demonstration and Applied Practice Part 2 Day 5: Trauma Processing Demonstration and Applied Practice Part 3
ATTCH is pleased to be offering another Winter conference series based on request January 2020 in Niagara Region Hilton Garden Inn, Niagara on the Lake. This comprehensive conference will cover the following topics and allow you to take your trauma processing to a deeper level:
Understanding the foundations (including neurological, social, physiological, and psychological implications of trauma and attachment dysregulation)
Phase-based clinical applications to promote healing and integration of trauma and attachment dysregulation
Practical application of trauma processing activies
Demonstration of trauma processing
A variety of integrative trauma treatment tools and skills to enhance your trauma treatment toolkit
Strategies to promote helper self care and prevent compassion fatigue
Day 1: Foundations of Trauma and Attachment (core CTIP & CTIC training) Day 2: Phase-Based Clinical Applications to Promote Healing and Integration of Trauma and Attachment Dysregulation Day 3: Trauma Processing Demonstration and Applied Practice Part 1 Day 4: Trauma Processing Demonstration and Applied Practice Part 2 Day 5: Trauma Processing Demonstration and Applied Practice Part 3
Spring Trauma Grief & Loss Conference (Fully Online)
ATTCH is pleased to be offering another leading-edge trauma and attachment conference series March 30 – April 3, 2020. This conference will be offered fully online unless otherwise indicated. This comprehensive conference will give you practical tools to take your trauma processing to a deeper level and learn effective tools and skills to work with grief and loss. Gain insight into leading edge treatments including Kaiser's approach to healing trauma. Join us in learning proven, effective, concrete tools to help kids, teens and adults heal from trauma, grief & loss. Expand your trauma skills by learning new hacks that kids, teens and adults welcome in their recovery (including so called “resistant” clients). Strengthen your repertoire of tools for creating safety and rapport with children, teens and adults who have experienced trauma and learn new integrative approaches for working with grief and loss.
This comprehensive conference will cover the following topics:
Trauma Processing using the ATTCH Integrative Trauma and Attachment Treatment Model (ITATM)* (In person only)
Learn tips and techniques for working with works with immigrant and refugees/ asylum seekers.
Learn evidence based one-time crisis intervention strategies that are effective in healing.
Taking you through an experiential practice of evidence-based techniques to process unresolved grief with clients.
Explore how trauma affects a child during the different developmental stages and how to invite parents to support their child’s recovery.
Deepen your knowledge and capacity to speak about neuroplasticity and the tremendous capacity for healing in terms parents and kids can hear.
Recognize impact of Kaiser’s ACEs study and significant health risks associated with unhealed trauma and effective tools to help mitigate risk and promote resilience.
Augment your therapeutic tool kit within a research based expressive arts practice.
Recognize the therapeutic power of group work in healing, opening, decreasing shame and building. resilience.
Aquire skills for supporting the trauma therapist to resource and decrease compassion fatigue.
Conference Workshop Overview:
Pre-Conference Event ~ March 29, 2020 Drum Making Workshop. Make your own hand drum and learn about traditional Indigenous practices during the process (Rescheduled to a later date)
Day 1
Stream A: Healing Trauma: Cool Hacks for Kids, Teens, their parents, and Adults Part 1 (Online only)
Stream B: Trauma Processing Demonstration and Applied Practice Part 2* (Rescheduled to a later date)
Day 2
Stream A: Healing Trauma: Cool Hacks for Kids, Teens, their parents, and Adults Part 2 (Online only)
Stream B: Trauma Processing and Applied Practice Part 3* (Rescheduled to a later date)
Days 3 & 4 ~ Strategies for Processing and Healing Grief with Anne-Marie Lockmyer 2 day training (Online only)
Day 5 ~ When Words Fail: Expressive Arts Approaches to Grief and Loss with Cher Curshen (Online only)
* Pre-requisite: Must have completed core 3 day certification trainings in order to complete these trainings.
Learn more and register via the linked paper registration form or online. *Please note that due to travel restrictions for our presenters this conference will now be offered online unless otherwise noted above.
Fall Trauma & Attachment Certification Conference Series 2019
ATTCH is pleased to be offering another fall conference series based on request on September 30 - October 1 at the Hilton Garden Inn, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada. This comprehensive conference will cover the following topics and allow you to take your trauma processing to a deeper level:
Understanding the foundations (including neurological, social, physiological, and psychological implications of trauma and attachment dysregulation)
Phase-based clinical applications to promote healing and integration of trauma and attachment dysregulation
The importance of establishing boundaries, self-compassion, and healthy relationships
Experiential review of trauma specific assessments
Practical application of trauma processing activies
Demonstration of trauma processing
A variety of tools and skills to enhance your trauma treatment toolkit
Experiential introduction to various biofeedback and neurofeedback tools used to treat trauma and calm the brain, mind, and body.
Day 1: Foundations of Trauma and Attachment (core CTIP & CTIC training) Day 2: Phase-Based Clinical Applications to Promote Healing and Integration of Trauma and Attachment Dysregulation Day 3: Trauma Processing Overview and Experiential Day 4: Trauma Processing Experiential & Applied Practice Day 5:Trauma Processing Experiential & Applied Practice
Proceeds from the Fall conference will be donated to ATTCH Niagara to support the delivery of free and low cost trauma, wellness, and mental health therapy for those in need.
Summer Conference Series
ATTCH is pleased to be offering another summer conference series based on request on July 23 - 27 at the Hilton Garden Inn, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada. This comprehensive conference will cover the following topics and allow you to take your trauma processing to a deeper level:
Understanding the foundations (including neurological, social, physiological, and psychological implications of trauma and attachment dysregulation)
Phase-based clinical applications to promote healing and integration of trauma and attachment dysregulation
The importance of establishing boundaries, self-compassion, and healthy relationships
Experiential review of trauma specific assessments
Practical application of trauma processing activies
Demonstration of trauma processing
A variety of tools and skills to enhance your trauma treatment toolkit
Experiential introduction to various biofeedback and neurofeedback tools used to treat trauma and calm the brain, mind, and body.
Day 1: Foundations of Trauma and Attachment (core CTIP & CTIC training) Day 2: Phase-Based Clinical Applications to Promote Healing and Integration of Trauma and Attachment Dysregulation Day 3: Comprehensive Trauma Assessment Day 4: Trauma Processing Experiential Day 5 AM: The Use of Mindfulness, Somatic Awareness, Resourcing, and DBT Skills Training to Promote Regulation and Wellness Day 5 PM: An Introduction to Biofeedback and Neurofeedback for Treating Trauma
2018 Trauma & Attachment Conference
The Attachment and Trauma Treatment Centre for Healing (ATTCH) is holding its 6th annual Trauma and Attachment Conference from March 19 - 23 at the Hilton Garden Inn, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada. The conference schedule is as follows: 8:30 registration, 9:00 opening remarks and welcome and keynote speakers from 9:05 - 4:30.
Join us to learn about leading approaches for treating trauma and promoting post-traumatic growth. This comprehensive conference will cover a range of topics such as:
Understanding the foundations (including neurological, social, physiological, and psychological implications of trauma and attachment dysregulation)
Phase-based clinical applications to promote healing and integration of trauma and attachment dysregulation
Mind-brain based interventions for treating trauma-related disorders
Challenges and strategies for working with mTBI and PTSD
Attachment-focused somatic model for treating trauma
Expressive arts for treating trauma: A four-phase model
Comprehensive Resources Model: Healing attachment trauma through re-processing, re-wiring and re-consolidation of attachment wounds from gestation to the present
Day 1 & 2 ~ March 19 & 20, 2018 Foundational Stream(Ideal for those who have not completed the below foundational training): Lori Gill, MA, RP, CTS, Founder and Clinical Director of the Attachment and Trauma Treatment Centre for Healing Day 1 Understanding the Foundations of Trauma and Attachment Day 2 Phase-Based Clinical Applications to Promote Healing and Integration of Trauma and Attachment Dysregulation
Day 1 & 2 ~ March 19 & 20, 2018 Advanced Stream (Ideal for those who have completed the above foundational training): Day 1 Sarah Schlote MA, RP, CCC, SEP Working With Parts: Healing the Child(ren) Within Day 2 AM Dr. Paul Frewen, Mind-Brain Interventions for Trauma-related Disorders. Co-Author of Healing the Traumatized Self: Consciousness Neuroscience Treatment Day 2 PM Sean Robb, Ph.D Candidate & Kaleigh Alkenbrack, MD (GP-Psychotherapist) The Nuances on the combination of PTSD and mild-Traumatic Brain Injury (mTBI): Why this comorbid population is particularly challenging to treat.
2017 Trauma and Attachment Conference Healing Complex Trauma and Attachment Dysregulation in Children, Youth, and Adults
We are thrilled to host Keynote speaker: Dr. Martin Teicher Director of the Developmental Biopsychiatry Research Program at McLean Hospital and an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard. Dr. Teicher has authored over 200 articles. The primary mission of Martin H. Teicher’s research is to improve the life of children, adolescents and adults by exploring the etiology and treatment of psychiatric disorders that arise during development. A major focus of his work is on the effects of childhood traumatic stress and he pioneered studies into the effects of abuse on brain development. Another focus has been on the use of technology to aid in objective psychiatric diagnosis.
The conference will be held at the St. Catharines Golf Club. Please see below for conference details and link for registration.
Day 1 & 2 ~ April 1 & 2 Foundational Stream: Day 1 Understanding the Foundations of Trauma and Attachment Day 2 Phase-Based Clinical Applications to Promote Healing and Integration of Trauma and Attachment Dysregulation – with presenter: Lori Gill
Day 1 & 2 ~ April 1 & 2 Advanced Stream (Ideal for those who have completed the above foundational training): Day 1 Healing Energy: Easing the Effects of Trauma with Energy Therapy with Carol Cowan Day 2 AM The Therapeutic Application of Adventure: Restoring a Sense of Connection and Personal Agency After Trauma with Sarah Connolly Day 2 PM Making "bad" decisions? Hot and Cold Decision-making and its relevance to psychotherapy and understanding behaviour with presenter: Sean Robb
Day 3 ~ April 3: Childhood Abuse, Brain Development, Psychopathology and Addictions with presenter: Dr. Martin Teicher
Day 4 ~ April 4: Treating the Child Survivor with presenter: Dr. Joyanna Silberg
Day 5 ~ April 5: Expressive Arts Therapies to Promote Healing Following Trauma with presenter: Cher Curshen
2016 Trauma and Attachment Conference Healing Complex Trauma Through Connection & Integration
Day 1 & 2 ~ April 9 &10: Understanding the Foundations of Trauma and Attachment & Day 2 Phase-Based Clinical Applications to Promote Healing and Integration of Trauma and Attachment Dysregulation – with Presenter: Lori Gill
Day 3 ~ April 11: Healing the Traumatized Self - with presenter: Dr. Ruth Lanius
Day 4 ~ April 12: Empowered Boundaries: Somatic Exercises for Healthy Anger, Assertiveness and Personal Agency Training – with Sarah Scholte
Day 5 ~ April 13: Energy Therapies and Mindfulness Practices to Calm the Dysregulated Mind and Body – with Carol Cowan (Prentice) and Cultivating Comfort with Connection and Self-Compassion to Heal Hurt Hearts – with Mindy Bilotta
Some Photo Highlights from our 2016 Conference
2015 Trauma and Attachment Conference Awareness, Regulation, and Healing
The Attachment and Trauma Treatment Centre for Healing (ATTCH) is holding its second bi-annual Trauma and Attachment Conference from March 30 - April 3 in Niagara Region, Ontario, Canada.
Join lead trainers Joseph Spinazzola, Ph.D. and Elizabeth Warner, Psy.D. from the Trauma Centre at Justice Resource Institute www.traumacenter.org founded by Dr. Bessel van der Kolk to learn about their leading edge approaches to healing trauma. This is a 5 Day Conference event. Daily, Partial, and Full Conference Rates available. CE credits also available. See link for details.
Please visit regularly for information about upcoming trauma and attachment trainings. If you would like to be added to our mailing list please contact reception@attch.org with this request. Trauma and Attachment Specialist certification Training - various ongoing dates see link for schedule and details