Life After Love:
Supporting Clients Impacted by the Loss of Important Relationships
Clare Rosoman
ICEFFT Trainer, Supervisor, and Therapist and Director of the Brisbane Centre for Attachment and Relationships
In this 2hr webinar, we will explore the loss of love through the attachment lens and how we can help our clients to grow from heartbreak so that they can nourish themselves and heal, and go on to create healthy, meaningful attachments moving forward.
Objectives:
Firstly, we will look at the attachment view of love and how we can use this to validate and be with our clients when they face the devastation of lost love.
Secondly, we will look at how we can use attachment theory to help our clients to learn more about the impact of their attachment history on their attachment strategies and on growing their awareness of how they show up in relationships.
Thirdly, we will look at the 4 phases of loss as outlined by Bowlby and the Dual-Process model of grief and loss and how we can support our clients in the “work" of grief.
Fourthly, we will outline some ways to help our heartbroken clients to engage with their emotions in ways that support growth and healing and how they can “lead with security” into their next big love relationship.
The content of this webinar comes from Clare’s newly released book “An Emotionally Focused Guide to Relationship Loss: Life After Love.” It is designed help therapists to support clients suffering from the loss of an important relationship – whether this is a romantic, platonic or family relationship. It touches on concepts of grief and loss without focusing specifically on loss through bereavement. It is appropriate for therapists working with clients in monogamous and consensually non-monogamous relationships who might be facing loss through the reconfiguration of a relationship such as, from partner to friend or from committed dyad to co-parents.