Clinical Mastery Series – Limited Early bird pricing Available now
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
Join the Next Cohort
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.
Why 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
Clinical Mastery Group – Cohort 1
Australia, Oceania, Asia-Pacific & Americas Cohort
- Australia: 9:00–11:00 AM – on Wednesdays
- US East: 7:00–9:00 PM – on the day before, i.e. Tuesdays
- US West: 4:00–6:00 PM – on the day before, i.e. Tuesdays
1st / 2nd September, 13th / 14th October, 3rd / 4th November, 1st / 2nd December, 5th / 6th January, 2nd / 3rd February.
20% discount
Six live online sessions
€695 Regular Pricing.
€560 Early Bird Pricing.
*Early bird pricing closes 1st August.
Clinical Mastery Group – Cohort 2
Europe & US East Coast Cohort
- Europe: 2PM to 4 PM
- US East: 8 AM to 10 AM
Tuesday 15th September, Tuesday 20th October, Tuesday 17th November, Tuesday 15th December, Tuesday 19th January, Tuesday, 16th February
20% discount
Six live online sessions
€695 Regular Pricing.
€560 Early Bird Pricing.
*Early bird pricing closes 15th August.
Limited Special Pricing Available Now
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.
Reserve your place20% discount
Limited Special Pricing Available Now
Six live online sessions
€695 Regular Pricing.
€560 Early Bird Pricing.
Early bird available until:
- Australia-friendly cohort – 1st August
- Europe-friendly cohort – 15th August
