Integrative Attachment Therapy Foundations Online
The most comprehensive psychotherapy model for treating attachment insecurity.
We provide a 3-level international accreditation pathway for mental health professionals wishing to support adults to resolve attachment insecurity.
Explore the TrainingAttachment insecurity during childhood is a significant risk factor for mental health disturbances later in life.
When underlying attachment insecurity is recognized early in psychotherapy, the therapy process becomes more effective and efficient. The Integrative Attachment Therapy Level 1 training provides all you need to know to begin helping adults in therapy with this state-of-the-art-and-science approach.
Learn how to
Understand Attachment Patterns
Get essential, practical information about the nature of attachment, its development during early childhood, and how it affects later development and personal and relational well-being.
Learn how to
Identify Attachment Patterns
Understand why it is clinically beneficial for therapists to recognise if a client or patient has an attachment disturbance. You will learn methods for identifying the various attachment patterns.
Learn how to
Treat Attachment Insecurity
Receive detailed, practical guidance for learning and practicing Integrative Attachment Therapy. IAT builds upon and goes beyond current attachment-focused treatments.
Why Integrative Attachment Therapy?
Integrative Attachment Therapy combines the best aspects of several therapeutic approaches to resolve attachment insecurity and to promote healthy and secure attachment relationships.
This approach recognises that there is no single “one-size-fits-all” therapy that can address the complex and multifaceted nature of attachment disturbances and their effects. Skill with IAT helps the clinician tailor the treatment to the patient and avoid trying to fit the patient to a therapy method.
Multimedia Format
The program includes text, video, audio, and links to external resources that supplement the course material. A searchable text component makes finding content easy.
Regular Content Updates
The IAT model and methods and the entire intellectual and clinical field of attachment are dynamic, living, growing systems. We honour this with lifetime access to ongoing updates.
Continuing Education Credit
The Level 1 course has been authorized to provide 100 hours of Continuing Professional Development credit from the UK-based CPD Certification Service.
Live Q & A Sessions
Join 60-minute monthly group sessions with a trainer – a forum to ask questions about the material and share your experiences as you begin to apply it in your practice.
Group Learning Community
Access the Community Discussion Forum on the learning platform – a place for collaborative communication and exploration of the learning experience and practical applications.
Self-Reflection and Quizzes
Short quizzes and questions at the end of each module are provided to aid your integration of the material and to meet Continuing Education certification requirements.
This work is truly integrative. I initially thought of this course as a review and reinforcement of material that I have learned thus far, but it is proving to be so much more, adding depth and breadth to the understanding of attachment theory and the approaches to treatment. Thank you!
Kerry
Level 1 Participant
I’m overjoyed to have completed Level 1 and look forward to Levels 2 and 3. I feel strongly that I can be a skilful clinician and a creative asset to this work. I am excited to meet other clinicians working in this field in this way. It’s been an honour so far.
Daniel
Level 1 Participant
Just finished up with Module 1 and my mind is buzzing with all the great angles and approaches around past, present and future healing modalities. I am grateful to be a part of it and to connect with this community. David, your presentation is wonderful. And the dialogue between David and Nigel is uplifting and hopeful. Much appreciated.
Kelly
Level 1 Participant
A very rich and rewarding first module in so many ways. Like others, I appreciate the openness and the overview of the various contributors and modalities in the field. Very exited to learn more and deepen my practice.
Zack
Level 1 Participant
I want to thank you David, Nigel and Traill for assembling such a thorough, comprehensive and accessible online training. One truly does get the sense that it is the ‘state of the art’ and i am privileged and honored to be continuing to build and refine my skills and understanding of this work. I anticipate the roll out of the next levels and am committed to this work!”
Tom
Level 1 Participant
This training has been so enlightening and has informed the therapy with my clients so deeply.
Jill
Level 1 Participant
The 12 Modules of IAT Level 1
The Foundations of IAT. Why should psychotherapists be interested in attachment security and insecurity?
In this episode, Traill discusses with Don Murphy the impact of early childhood attachments on mental health.
What is attachment? And what are the foundations of its recognition and study?
What shapes our attachment patterns and how do we become secure?
What shapes our attachment patterns and how do we become secure?
How can we as therapists best identify the attachment patterns in our patients?
What are the Three Pillars and how does IAT apply them to treat attachment insecurity in adults?
How does the therapist engage the patient collaboratively to enhance collaborative ability?
How does the IAT therapist explicitly and implicitly help patients to expand their metacognitive abilities?
How does the IAT therapist overcome the limitations of traditional attachment therapy for creating secure IWMs?
How is the IAT process modified when applied to patients with different forms of attachment insecurity?
What are the general guiding principles for the natural unfolding of an IAT process?
How to consolidate and build upon the IAT Level 1. What are the potential future training pathways?
Meet your instructors
USA
Dr David Elliott
A leading authority in attachment repair, David is a clinical psychologist who teaches internationally on attachment, personality psychology, and psychotherapy, including at the International School for Psychotherapy, Counselling and Group Leadership in St. Petersburg and the Psychosynthesis Academy in Stockholm.
Australia
Dr Traill Dowie
Dr. Traill Dowie is a philosopher, academic, psychotherapist, martial artist and minister of religion. He holds PhDs in Philosophy and Psychiatry. He’s an Associate Professor at Ikon Institute, devising psychotherapy training programs. Additionally, he’s a research fellow at La Trobe University and a certified clinician with MAPS.
Enrol to get started now!
Integrative Attachment Therapy Level 1
€1790 EUR + Local Tax
Secure your lifetime access to over 100 hours of training
12 Modules of IAT Level 1
Searchable Text Content with Engaging Video Content
Lectures on Key Concepts
Expert Dialogues to Deepen your Experience
Quizzes and Self-Reflection Questions
100 hours of CPD Certification
Lifetime Access and Ongoing Updates
Monthly Live Q&A Sessions
Access to Private Community Discussion Forum
Opportunity for Advanced Training
Prefer a payment plan?
€TBC EUR + Local Tax / month
x 3 monthly payments.
Enrol now and secure your lifetime access to IAT Level 1 today.
Enrol nowFrequently asked questions
The IAT Level 1 training program is online-based and self-paced. This allows for starting the program at any time that is convenient for you. It also allows for you to integrate your training experience with the practical realities of your life circumstances.
The comprehensiveness of the program — with extensive practical and theoretical information, and clinical treatment description, examples, and guidance — means that full participation is a commitment of attention, time, and engagement.
We do recommend that when you begin the program you maintain regular activity with it, so that you have the best experience of each step along the way building upon what you experienced before.
Yes. Enrollment in IAT Level 1 gives you free access to monthly Live 60-minute Q&A sessions with one or more of the IAT teachers.
These calls are opportunities for receiving answers to your questions that arise during the training and the application of your learning in clinical practice. Informative discussions are likely to emerge from some of the questions that are presented. These sessions are not obligatory for completion of the program, but we highly recommend them as a resource for vibrant inquiry and deeper experience of the material.
The Live sessions will be accessed through the Dashboard of the IAT Level 1 learning platform. They will be recorded and posted on the platform, so if you miss a session or if you’d like to review a session you attended, there will be easy, unlimited access.
Completion of IAT Level 1 provides you with a Certificate of Completion for 100 hours of CPD according to the CPD Certification Service.
Further training and successful completion of Levels 2 and 3 gives you opportunity for Registration as an IAT Therapist (IAT-T). IAT-T Registration includes listing on the IAT Institute website, which is valuable for receiving clinical referrals. Because clinical quality control is of utmost importance to us at the IAT Institute, maintenance of IAT-T Registration requires a minimum of one annual consultation/supervision session with a Senior IAT Trainer.
If you would like to become an IAT Therapist/Supervisor/Trainer (IAT-TST), completion of Level 4 provides for this distinction.
You will have unlimited, no-expiration access to the Level 1 training platform. This provides you with opportunity to go back anytime and review and refresh what you’ve learned in any or all of the Modules.
The comprehensive Search feature of the program allows for entering any term of your interest, such as ‘mirroring’, and immediately receiving a list of ALL appearances of that term throughout all 12 Modules. Selecting any item from that list takes you directly to that place in the program.
And because the program has frequent content updates as advances in the attachment field occur, your unlimited access provides you with opportunity for staying up-to-date and continuing learning.
