Trauma and Child Attachment Styles: What is the Connection?
1:00 - 3:00pm CST
Location: Virtual Learning via Zoom
Course Description
Every parent wishes for their child to lead a happy and healthy life, but sometimes disparities can arise in the form of trauma or attachment issues. If you're a therapist, social worker, psychiatrist, or psychologist seeking to gain a better understanding of how childhood development works, our training on Trauma and Child Attachment Styles is the perfect way to develop your skillset. Our course dives into how early-development can inform attachment styles, as well as ways you can be proactive in helping strengthen that bond between parent and child. With this information under your belt, you'll have the experts' knowledge necessary to recognize signs of insecure attachment before they become more pronounced and occur more frequently.
Learning Objectives:
- Learn about the working models of attachment
- Understand the impact of insecure attachment
- Identify signs of insecure attachment by facial expressions
- Learn tools to assess for insecure attachment patterns
- Develop a care plan to treat insecure attachment
About Your Trainer
Lisa Anderson, LPC, CSW
Lisa Anderson has been in the Human Services field for decades with an eclectic professional work experience within different systems. She has worked in public, non-profit, medical and private practice sectors.
Lisa started her career in the Medical field, first as a Discharge Planner and then as a social worker in a federally funded clinic. Lisa then moved into the position of Director for the Sexual Assault Recovery Program in Rock County and developed and ran the CASA Program in Rock County at Family Services-SWANI. During this time Lisa was a Treatment Level Foster Parent for 10 years but this ended when Lisa switched paths again and started at Wood County as a Specialized Foster Parent Social Worker and then became the Supervisor for the Wood County Children’s Specialized Unit which included, Comprehensive Community Services Program and Long-Term Care. Lisa transitioned to the Fox Valley, where she was hired as the Outagamie County Crisis Supervisor for the Mental Health Division for 9 years. She also provided outpatient services at Psychology Associates of the Fox Cities.
Currently, Lisa is the owner of L.K. Anderson Consulting, LLC and A Healing Place, Complete Counseling Care. In her private practice, Lisa provides specialized trauma therapy to children, teens and adults. Lisa also provides technical consultation to agencies, such as clinical supervision, team building and Trauma Informed Care. Additionally, Lisa has presented to a variety of audiences on topics, such as, Trauma Informed Care, Trauma Informed Parenting, Self-Care for Foster Parents, Self-Care for Professionals, Ethics and Boundaries; Hoarding, Suicide Prevention, Crisis Planning, Building Resiliency; Secondary Trauma/Stress, Using Telehealth in Private Practice and Team/Relationship Building. She is also an adjunct professor for Advocate/Aurora Family Therapy Training Institute where she teaches a course in Trauma and Family Systems.
Recently, Lisa became a published author for the book, Loosen the Grip: Strategies for Raising Independent and Confident Critical Thinkers. A book about parenting from a different perspective.
Lisa is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Certified Social Worker. She received her Master of Science and Bachelor of Arts degrees at UW-Whitewater.
Lisa brings to all her training a level of energy, narratives of professional and personal stories to help build upon concepts and interactive exercises with her audience to have them become an integral part of the training.