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Inner Child and Early Attachment Trauma Certificate: Tools to Heal the Wounds from Childhoods Where Love Was Absent, Withheld, Conditional, or Confusing
Join Thousands of Therapists Saying Things Like
“Applies to more of my clients than any other course I've taken…”
The wounds of childhood are the invisible thread running through trauma, relationship struggles, anxiety, and depression…
But these early injuries are buried beneath shame, self-blame, and protective patterns that make them difficult to reach — even for experienced clinicians.
That’s where this certificate training changes everything –
You'll join Dr. Lindsay Gibson, New York Times Best-Selling Author of Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents, and Kelly McDaniel, #1 Amazon Best-Selling Author of Mother Hunger.
They’ve spent their careers researching how childhoods where love was absent, withheld, conditional, or confusing impacts adult clients…
…and what we as therapists can do to guide them toward healing in treatment.
Now in this exclusive self-paced course they’ll share a complete clinical toolkit of cognitive, emotional and experiential interventions that will let you…
- Treat the attachment wounds fueling reactivity, relationship issues and more
- Teach clients how to give themselves the love they should have got
- Break through deep-seated shame and low self-worth
- Reframe toxic beliefs around rejection, love, and identity
- Disrupt patterns of emotional avoidance, dependency, and much more!
If you treat trauma, working with attachment injuries and the pain of childhood is something every skilled clinician needs to be able to do…
…and so many who’ve taken this training are saying “This is the missing piece I’ve been looking for.”
Register now.
P.S. If you sign up today, you’ll get a FREE bonus training with dozens of additional strategies for attachment trauma healing.
Inner Child and Early Attachment Trauma Certificate
Tools to Heal the Wounds from Childhoods Where Love Was Absent, Withheld, Conditional, or Confusing£487.48 Value
Just £191.66 Today — Unbelievable Savings!
Plus, earn up to 19.25 CPD Hours included in the course tuition.
Click here for course objectives and outline
Click here for course objectives and outline
Here’s What Clinicians Like You Are Saying About This Course…
"Not to be overly dramatic, but this course honestly changed my life." — Jane R., Social Worker
"One of the best CE courses I have taken in terms of contact, applicability, and personal growth." — Angie M., Counsellor Worker
"This course applies to more of my clients than any other course I've taken." — Coleen W., Marriage and Family Therapist
"This was one of the best trainings I've ever experienced." — Shantray S., Counsellor
"Love, Love, Love." — Savanah A., Counsellor
"This was the BEST continuing education I have ever done I believe. I learned so much and will use this personally and professionally." — Linda O., Counsellor
"One of the best courses I have done, will rewatch... Absolutely loved this course."— Sarah A., Counsellor
Here's What You'll Learn
Get a complete toolkit for healing the inner child and attachment injury.
Start with Kelly McDaniel, as she guides you through her groundbreaking framework on “Mother Hunger” and the lasting impact of unmet maternal needs. Then, deepen your work with Dr. Lindsay Gibson as you learn how to identify and repair the toxic legacy of emotionally immature, rejecting, or self-involved parents — so clients can finally set boundaries, release shame, and become who they were meant to be.
Module 1
Mother Hunger: Treating Trauma, Grief and Attachment Wounds from Unmet Maternal Needs
In module 1 best-selling author and therapist Kelly McDaniel brings her groundbreaking concept of Mother Hunger to life – making it instantly useable for your clinical practice. You’ll start by exploring how a lack of nurturing from mother figures leaves lasting wounds – and how it presents in your clients as anxiety, low self-worth and unstable relationships. Then Kelly will show you exactly what to do in treatment so clients can name the wound without shame, heal attachment injuries, build the self-compassion they’ve been missing…even re-parent the parts of themselves with unmet needs. Packed with REAL clinical tools for your sessions students are saying that this training completely changed how they understand their clients – and themselves.
,Outline
- The three core elements of maternal needs
- Child development impacts when core needs are unmet
- How insecure attachment impacts adult functioning
- Tools to identify attachment injury and complicated grief
- PTSD vs. Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
- Brain changes from CPTSD and mood disorders
- Identify the “apology ache”
- How to reduce the craving our clients have for closure
- Tips for managing the fantasy of the ideal parent figure
- Disenfranchised grief and creating a container
- Journaling and creative ways to support healthy grieving
- Attachment-focused interventions to identify bonding behaviours
- Family constellation work to help clients explore their maternal bond
- Imagery of positive attachment experiences techniques
- Self-soothing practices for emotional regulation
- When is group work helpful and when is it not?
- Address countertransference
- Treatment termination
Module 2
Adult Clients of Emotionally Immature Parents: Treating the Toxic Legacy of Controlling, Rejecting or Self-Involved Parents
There’s a reason Dr. Gibson’s book has sold over 1 million copies. And now in this session, she’ll turn her decades of clinical research and experience into the clinical roadmap you need to untangle the lifetime of psychological damage left by emotionally immature, rejecting, or manipulative caregivers. Her proven strategies will help your clients overcome feelings of inadequacy, leave the “rescuer” role behind, set healthy boundaries, and heal from their toxic legacy. If you work with clients struggling to heal from childhood wounds (and who doesn’t), this is a must-have training.
Outline
- How emotionally immature parenting impacts your clients
- Self-disconnection and distrust of the inner world
- Exploring the four horsemen of self-defeat
- Healing fantasies, role-self, internaliser vs. externaliser styles
- Why clients find it so hard to break free from exploitation and emotional neglect
- Exercises to help clients express themselves without anxiety
- How to define and use values as guideposts for the future
- Emotional coercion: how clients can spot and deflect control maneuvers
- Communication skills to establish boundaries without guilt
- When to sever ties with someone
- Techniques to release clients’ feelings of personal “badness”
- Interventions to address fears of being selfish and incapable of love
- Repurpose self-doubt, shame, fear and guilt
- Practicing experiencing emotionally intimate connection
- Using countertransference effectively
Inner Child and Early Attachment Trauma Certificate
Tools to Heal the Wounds from Childhoods Where Love Was Absent, Withheld, Conditional, or Confusing
£487.48 Value
Just £191.66 Today — Unbelievable Savings!
Tools to Heal the Wounds from Childhoods Where Love Was Absent, Withheld, Conditional, or Confusing
£487.48 Value
Just £191.66 Today — Unbelievable Savings!
Plus, earn up to 19.25 CPD Hours included in the course tuition.
Click here for course objectives and outline
Click here for course objectives and outline
Your FREE Bonus Training
In this powerful 6-hour bonus training, you’ll join Dr. Shama Panjwani as she walks you through step-by-step techniques from mindfulness, guided memory work, and trauma-informed narrative therapy—designed specifically to help clients heal from attachment wounds. You’ll learn how to calm the nervous system, work with painful memories, and help clients rewrite the stories that have shaped their relationships and sense of self.
Your Expert Instructors
Kelly McDaniel, LPC, NCC, CSAT, is a licensed professional counsellor, best-selling author, and psychotherapist with over 20 years of experience. In her first book Ready to Heal (2008) she named an attachment injury as “Mother Hunger” and started a movement. Women resonated with the concept and wanted treatment. Since then, she’s devoted herself to nurturing insecure attachment and maternal deprivation in adult women. In her second groundbreaking book Mother Hunger: How Adult Daughters Can Understand and Heal from Lost Nurturance, Protection, and Guidance, McDaniel draws on her extensive clinical experience to explore the impact of Mother Hunger on adult relationships, including attachment trauma and its effects on intimacy, self-esteem, and emotional regulation. Her book has been praised by mental health professionals and readers alike for its compassionate approach, practical insights, and groundbreaking research.
Lindsay C. Gibson, PsyD, is The New York Times and Amazon #1 best-selling author of Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents (New Harbinger, 2015). Her groundbreaking work has sold over 1 million copies, been translated into 37 languages, and empowered thousands to break free from toxic legacies and reclaim their lives. With over 30 years of experience as a psychotherapist and psychdiagnostician, Dr. Gibson identified that many clients’ anxiety, obsessions, and depression stemmed from distorted beliefs and emotional coercion imposed by emotionally immature parents. She observed that while these parents might not fall into severe mental health categories, their emotional immaturity had profoundly damaging effects on their children.
Dr. Gibson currently works as a clinical psychologist in private practice. In her latest book Treating Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: A Clinician’s Guide (New Harbinger, 2024) she shares what therapists need to know to provide the most effective interventions for these clients.
Shama Panjwani, PhD is a counsellor and expert in trauma-informed care, specialising in attachment, immigration, and intergenerational traumas. She combines holistic wellness with traditional methods to ensure culturally competent practices. Dr. Panjwani is a faculty member at Keiser University and the owner of SoHolisticEnergy Counseling & Consultation, LLC, where she provides culturally responsive services and consults on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusivity (DEI). With a PhD in counsellor education from Mercer University, Dr. Panjwani is a certified and licensed professional counsellor. Her research focuses on mental health stigma, trauma, and social justice. With over nine years of experience, she conducts workshops to enhance access to effective care for the BIPOC community.
The Next Steps in Advancing Your Practice
Watch your email for your order confirmation, and get instant access to over 18 hours of engaging video training. Click here for course objectives and outline.
Review the course materials at your own pace and at your convenience! You'll have unlimited access to all course videos and materials. Plus, use the PESI Mobile app to access the course content on the go, wherever and whenever you want on your mobile devices.
Instantly collaborate with other professionals through interactive message boards. You'll be part of a community of hundreds of practitioners, providing valuable opportunities to share insight and experiences and to build your professional network.
Complete your online CE tests and earn up to 19.25 CPD hours!
Inner Child and Early Attachment Trauma Certificate
Tools to Heal the Wounds from Childhoods Where Love Was Absent, Withheld, Conditional, or Confusing
£487.48 Value
Just £191.66 Today — Unbelievable Savings!
Tools to Heal the Wounds from Childhoods Where Love Was Absent, Withheld, Conditional, or Confusing
£487.48 Value
Just £191.66 Today — Unbelievable Savings!
Frequently Asked Questions
100%. You can watch the sessions anytime, anywhere. No deadlines. No Zoom fatigue. Just engaging, pre-recorded training you can pause, rewatch, and absorb on your own terms.
You can earn up to 19.25 CPD hours (exact hours depend on your licensing board and location). CE credit is included in your registration—no extra fees.
This isn’t a rehash. You’ll learn unique frameworks from Dr. Lindsay Gibson and Kelly McDaniel—including "Mother Hunger" and work with emotionally immature parents—paired with hands-on tools you won’t find in other trainings.
Yes! You’ll learn how to work with anxious, avoidant, and disorganised attachment patterns in real-life therapy—helping clients develop self-trust, improve relationships, and find internal safety, often for the first time.
Great question! You’ll receive an exclusive displayable certificate of completion when you finish this course.
A certificate is a document issued upon completion of a training program. Certification on the other hand often requires you to meet specific standards, pass rigorous exams, and many even include additional practice, consultation, supervision, evaluations, and ongoing continuing education requirements. While you will need to pass an exam, this course does not include many of these elements — making this a "certificate" program.
This certificate does distinguish you as a professional who has trained more extensively in this area…and it's an acknowledgment that can set you apart in the eyes of clients.
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