Clinical Mastery Series
Advanced Deliberate Practice for IAT Practitioners
Move Beyond Understanding the Model. Develop Mastery in Using It.
Exceptional therapists are not defined simply by what they know, but by how skilfully they bring that knowledge to life in the therapy room.
The IAT Clinical Mastery Series offers a unique opportunity to refine your clinical practice through focused, experiential learning with the co-founders of Integrative Attachment Therapy. Through the proven methodology of deliberate practice, you will strengthen the therapeutic skills that matter most in creating secure attachment experiences and lasting therapeutic change.
Open to practitioners who have completed at least IAT Level 2.
6 live online sessions | Small cohort | Monthly | Experiential
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From Learning the Model to Mastering the Practice
Most professional trainings focus on helping therapists understand a therapeutic model.
Clinical expertise develops differently.
Research consistently shows that expert performance is built through deliberate practice: the systematic identification, repeated practice and progressive refinement of specific therapeutic skills, supported by expert feedback.
The IAT Clinical Mastery Series has been designed to provide exactly this kind of learning environment.
Rather than acquiring more theory, you will strengthen the clinical capacities that enable you to apply Integrative Attachment Therapy with increasing confidence, precision, flexibility and effectiveness.
View scheduleWhy Deliberate Practice?
Deliberate practice is one of the most extensively researched methods for developing expertise across fields including psychotherapy, medicine, elite sport and music performance.
Unlike traditional learning, deliberate practice focuses on refining specific skills through cycles of:
- focused practice
- immediate coaching
- repeated application
- increasing complexity
- reflective integration
This enables therapists to develop not only greater knowledge, but genuine clinical fluency.
What Makes the Clinical Mastery Series Different?
Unlike traditional supervision or case consultation, the Clinical Mastery Series is specifically designed to strengthen your therapeutic performance.
Rather than primarily discussing clinical work, we actively practise it.
Each session centres on one fundamental question:
Which therapeutic skill, if strengthened, would most enhance your effectiveness with clients?
Together, we identify that skill, create structured practice around it, receive expert feedback, and immediately integrate the learning through repeated application.
What You Will Develop
Throughout the series, participants progressively develop greater:
therapeutic presence and embodied attunement
moment-to-moment clinical discernment
confidence applying the IAT model flexibly
understanding of complex and nuanced attachment adaptations
precision in case conceptualisation
confidence selecting and sequencing interventions
ability to recognise subtle attachment dynamics
effectiveness when working with disorganised attachment
capacity to repair therapeutic ruptures
self-trust as an attachment-informed therapist
flexibility in adapting interventions to individual clients
overall clinical mastery
Typical Areas of Practice
Depending on participants’ developmental needs, sessions may explore skills such as:
- Ideal Parent Figure work
- Safe Haven and Secure Base interventions
- tracking attachment activation
- affect regulation
- scene work
- working with disorganised attachment
- responding to therapist uncertainty
- rupture repair
- pacing therapeutic interventions
- strengthening corrective emotional experiences
Each cohort evolves around the actual clinical challenges participants bring into the room.
What Happens During a Typical Session?
Each session combines experiential learning with focused skills development.
Activities may include:
- brief faculty teaching
- live demonstrations
- structured role plays
- deliberate practice exercises
- fishbowl demonstrations
- breakout practice groups
- repeated skills rehearsal
- expert coaching and feedback
- integration and reflection
Participants repeatedly practise specific therapeutic skills until increasing confidence and fluency are achieved.
Programme Structure
Six-Month Clinical Mastery Journey
- Six live online sessions
- One session per month
- Two-hour sessions
- Stable learning cohort
- Highly interactive experiential learning
- Personalised expert coaching
Participants enrol in the complete series rather than attending individual sessions, allowing progressively deeper development and continuity of learning.
Programme Dates & Pricing
Your six group sessions
Each session lasts two hours. Please add all six dates to your diary, using the column for your time zone.
Session 1
US Eastern – New York
Mon 2 Nov 2026
7pm – 9pm
EST
Central Europe – Paris
Tue 3 Nov 2026
1am – 3am
CET
Eastern Australia – Melbourne
Tue 3 Nov 2026
11am – 1pm
AEDT
Session 2
US Eastern – New York
Mon 30 Nov 2026
7pm – 9pm
EDT
Central Europe – Paris
Tue 1 Dec 2026
1am – 3am
CET
Eastern Australia – Melbourne
Tue 1 Dec 2026
11am – 1pm
AEDT
Session 3
US Eastern – New York
Tue 12 Jan 2027
7pm – 9pm
EDT
Central Europe – Paris
Wed 13 Jan 2027
1am – 3am
CET
Eastern Australia – Melbourne
Wed 13 Jan 2027
11am – 1pm
AEDT
Session 4
US Eastern – New York
Tue 2 Feb 2027
7pm – 9pm
EDT
Central Europe – Paris
Wed 3 Feb 2027
1am – 3am
CET
Eastern Australia – Melbourne
Wed 3 Feb 2027
11am – 1pm
AEDT
Session 5
US Eastern – New York
Tue 2 Mar 2027
7pm – 9pm
EDT
Central Europe – Paris
Wed 3 Mar 2027
1am – 3am
CET
Eastern Australia – Melbourne
Wed 3 Mar 2027
11am – 1pm
AEDT
Session 6
US Eastern – New York
Tue 6 Apr 2027
7pm – 9pm
EDT
Central Europe – Paris
Wed 7 Apr 2027
1am – 3am
CET
Eastern Australia – Melbourne
Wed 7 Apr 2027
9am – 11am
AEDT
Join us to participate in a lovely international group, with a diversity of clinical experience and perspectives.
Meet Your Faculty
USA
Dr David Elliott
Co-Founder of Integrative Attachment Therapy, internationally recognised psychotherapist, supervisor, trainer and co-author of Attachment Disturbances in Adults.
Australia
Dr Traill Dowie
Co-Founder of Integrative Attachment Therapy, psychotherapist, supervisor and international trainer with extensive expertise in experiential learning and therapist development.
Who Is This Series For?
This programme is designed for practitioners who have completed at least IAT Level 2 and who wish to continue refining their therapeutic craft.
It is particularly valuable for therapists who wish to:
- deepen their confidence in applying IAT
- receive expert guidance on challenging clinical situations
- continue developing beyond formal training
- strengthen therapeutic effectiveness
- cultivate long-term clinical excellence
Cohort Commitment
Clinical mastery develops through continuity.
For this reason, participants enrol in the full six-session journey, allowing the cohort to build trust, shared learning and progressively deeper levels of clinical sophistication.
Join the Next Clinical Mastery Series
Developing therapeutic excellence is an ongoing journey.
We invite you to join a community of committed practitioners dedicated to refining their clinical craft through deliberate practice, expert feedback and experiential learning.
Applications now open.
