Addictions and Attachment: Connection as a Path to Healing

To heal addiction, you have to go back to the start…

• Explore the link between trauma, attachment, and addictions.
• From gambling, sex addiction, alcohol or drug addiction to healing attachment patterns.
• Discover healthy and safe ways towards the recovery.
• Explore shame and the shame cycle.
• Co-morbid mental health concerns.
• Methods for assessment.

Addictions and trauma expert, author and clinician Robert Cox takes a holistic and compassionate approach to addiction, whether to alcohol, drugs, sex, money or anything self-destructive. He presents addiction not as a discrete phenomenon confined to some individuals only, but as a continuum that runs through (and even underpins) our society. He does not see addiction as a  medical “condition” but rather the result of a complex interplay of personal history and a rupture in the attachment, emotional development and brain chemistry.
  
Distilling cutting-edge research from around the world, Robert Cox avoids glib self-help remedies, instead promoting self-understanding as the first key to healing and wellness. Blending personal stories and science with positive solutions, it is a must-see course that will change how you approach treating addiction in your clients.

• Identify regions of the brain affected by trauma and addictions.
• Practice assessing levels of addiction and co-morbidities.
• Determine treatment modalities accordingly.
• Identify the role that attachment plays in healing.
• Explore the benefits of various therapeutic approaches, including therapy groups, as the centres for healing.
• Describe how shame and the shame cycle play a part in addiction and relapse cycles.

Target Audience:

The target audience for this event includes addictions specialists, psychologists, clinical social workers, counsellors, and other clinical mental health professionals.