Integrative Attachment Therapy Level 2 Training
Deepen your understanding of IAT and its specific clinical applications.
This 3-day advanced skills workshop provides detailed clinical training in the IAT treatment of each of the primary forms of adult attachment disorders.
Explore TrainingsFrom Understanding Attachment to Practising Attachment-Focused Therapy
Level 1 introduces the foundations of Integrative Attachment Therapy and the Three Pillars of attachment repair.
Level 2 focuses on the next developmental challenge: learning to recognise, formulate, and respond to attachment dynamics as they unfold in real clinical work.
Through advanced training in attachment-based case formulation, deliberate practice, clinical discrimination, and subtype-specific intervention, participants deepen their ability to work effectively with dismissing, anxious-preoccupied, and disorganised attachment patterns.
This is where IAT moves from conceptual understanding into clinical application.
From Knowledge to Clinical Capacity
Many therapists can describe attachment patterns.
Far fewer can recognise those patterns as they emerge moment-to-moment in a therapy session.
Far fewer still can adapt interventions in real time while maintaining therapeutic presence, regulating their own responses, and responding effectively to attachment activation, rupture, trauma-related processes, or dysregulation.
Level 2 was designed to develop these capacities.
The focus is not on learning more theory.
The focus is on becoming a more capable attachment-informed therapist.
Advancing your practice of IAT
WHAT MAKES LEVEL 2 DIFFERENT?
Unlike Level 1, which focuses primarily on understanding the model, Level 2 focuses on deliverate-practice-based learning.
Participants repeatedly practise specific therapeutic skills, receive immediate feedback, make corrections, and gradually work with increasing clinical complexity.
WHAT YOU WILL DEVELOP
- Clinical Discrimination
- Attachment-Based Case Formulation
- Flexible Use of the Three Pillars
- Advanced Ideal Parent Figure Skills
- Rupture Recognition and Repair
- Therapeutic Presence Under Pressure
Working With Different Attachment Organisations
Dismissing Attachment
Learn to work effectively with deactivation, emotional minimisation, idealisation, reduced self-awareness, and discomfort with proximity and dependency.
Anxious-Preoccupied Attachment
Develop greater skill in responding to attachment hyperactivation, reassurance-seeking, externalised regulation, and heightened sensitivity to perceived abandonment.
Disorganised Attachment
Learn to work with fragmentation, instability, dissociation, fear, and disruptions in coherence of mind while maintaining safety, structure, and therapeutic organisation.
How Learning Happens
Level 2 combines:
- Faculty teaching
- Live demonstrations
- Clinical hot seats
- Deliberate-practice drills
- Structured triads
- Observer feedback
- Treatment planning exercises
- Clinical integration discussions
A Pivotal Step Toward Certification
Together with supervision and competency development, Level 2 forms part of the pathway toward certification as an IAT Therapist.
It is where participants begin moving from understanding attachment concepts toward developing the capacities required to apply them effectively in practice.
Completion of Level 2 is required before attending Level 3.
Upcoming IAT Level 2 Trainings
September 11th, 18th, & 25th, and October 2nd 2026
8AM Pacific / 11AM Eastern / 5PM CET
Live online
This training is led by senior faculty and co-founders of Integrative Attachment Therapy, Dr David Elliott and Dr Traill Dowie.
The training runs over :
– one first self-paced module of 3 hours
– followed by 4 consecutive live online modules of 3,5 hours each.
This training’s impactful format is primarily focused on hands-on, deliberate practice, with some prior self-paced theoretical inputs to view and to reflect on at your own pace before training start.
Completion of Level 1 is required before attending this training. Level 2 is a prerequisite for those wishing to progress to Level 3 and onwards certification as an IAT Therapist or IAT Practitioner.
Ticket price:
€1690 EUR or 6 x €325 EUR
Early bird special until August 21st:
€1390 EUR or 6 x €279 EUR
One time payment InstallmentsSeptember 3rd, 10th, 17th & 24th 2026
9AM AEST / 4PM US West Coast (day before) / 7PM US East Coast (day before)
Live online
This training is led by senior faculty and co-founders of Integrative Attachment Therapy, Dr David Elliott and Dr Traill Dowie.
The training runs over :
– one first self-paced module of 3 hours
– followed by 4 consecutive live online modules of 3,5 hours each.
This training’s impactful format is primarily focused on hands-on, deliberate practice, with some prior self-paced theoretical inputs to view and to reflect on at your own pace before training start.
Completion of Level 1 is required before attending this training. Level 2 is a prerequisite for those wishing to progress to Level 3 and onwards certification as an IAT Therapist or IAT Practitioner.
Ticket price:
€1690 EUR or 6 x €325 EUR
Early bird special until August 21st:
€1390 EUR or 6 x €279 EUR
One time payment InstallmentsThe 4 Components of the Level 2 Training
Deepening practical understanding of IAT and its clinical applications.
Experience directly the trauma-informed application of IAT to each of the primary insecure subtypes.
Benefit from detailed exploration of principles and practices that are shown through demonstrations.
Real-time role-playing practice with your Level 2 training peers, followed by group discussion/supervision.
Meet your instructors
USA
Dr David Elliott
A leading authority in attachment repair, David is a clinical psychologist (PhD Harvard University 1989) who teaches internationally on attachment, personality psychology, and psychotherapy. He’s on the faculty of the International School for Psychotherapy, Counseling, and Group Leadership in St. Petersburg, Russia, and the Psychosynthesis Academy in Stockholm, Sweden. He is past President of the Rhode Island (USA) Psychological Association. With Daniel Brown, PhD, David co-authored Attachment Disturbances in Adults: Treatment for Comprehensive Repair (2016), which won the 2018 ISSTD Pierre Janet Writing Award. David’s teaching is acclaimed for its practical depth and for his embodiment of the principles that are the basis of Integrative Attachment Therapy.
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.
Frequently asked questions
Level 2 training requires completion of an IAT Level 1 course, either the online version or a past live Level 1 workshop. If you have questions/requests regarding your qualifications, contact us.
Level 2 trainings are offered regularly throughout the year in various locations in the world. Visit this page for currently-scheduled trainings, and/or register your interest in receiving notifications.
