Presented by guest Dafna Lender, LCSW an international trainer and supervisor for practitioners who work with children and families. She is a certified trainer and supervisor/consultant in both Theraplay® and Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP), as well as an EMDR therapist.

Too many children feel hurt, angry, and disconnected from their parents; and too many parents feel discouraged that their child-rearing approaches aren’t working. As a clinician, despite attempting various interventions to help a parent be successful within a parent-child session, you find that the unhelpful parent attitudes and behaviors persist. This workshop will guide you in learning the steps towards successful parent attachment work. You will learn how to identify when a parent needs more focused individual work, how to set goals for parent-focused work, assessing when it is time to re-introduce child into the therapy room, how to navigate parent child sessions when the parent’s defenses are re-triggered and how to help parents initiate repair and stay present with the child to facilitate true healing and connection.