Through the lens of Synergetic Play Therapy, this presentation reimagines attachment as more than a bond between child and caregiver. Instead, attachment is explored as an internal process that shapes how individuals relate to themselves in moments of stress, emotion, and connection.

Participants will examine how attachment patterns develop as intelligent protective strategies, how these patterns continue to organize experience across the lifespan, and why emotional age often differs from chronological age. Drawing on neuroscience, co-regulation, and play therapy, this presentation highlights how the therapeutic relationship creates opportunities for individuals to develop greater capacity, flexibility, and security within themselves, transforming the way they relate to both self and others.

Attachment Reimagined: Understanding Attachment and Emotional Development Through a Synergetic Play Therapy Lens Learning Objectives:

  • Explain attachment through a Synergetic Play Therapy lens as an internal process that influences how individuals relate to themselves, their emotions, and their experiences across the lifespan.

  • Describe how attachment patterns develop as adaptive protective strategies and how emotional age influences the re-emergence of these patterns during times of stress and activation.

  • Identify the role of co-regulation and the therapeutic relationship in supporting the development of increased emotional capacity, flexibility, and more secure attachment patterns.

CE Credit Hours: 1 CE Credit Hour, NBCC Content Areas: Counseling Theory/Practice and the Counseling Relationship, Human Growth and Development

Synergetic Play Therapy Institute has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7450. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Synergetic Play Therapy Institute is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

Synergetic Play Therapy Institute is also an Approved Provider for the following associations:
*Australian Play Therapists Association (APTA) Approved Provider
*British Columbia Play Therapy Association (BCPTA) Approved Provider 23-01

Continuing education credit hours may be awarded to graduate-level counselors or students enrolled in a graduate-level mental health program. If you do not qualify for continuing education credit hours and would like to receive a certificate of completion for this course please contact the Institute directly.

Your participation in this course has directly contributed to the Synergetic Play Therapy Foundation‘s mission of making play therapy trainings accessible and affordable to clinicians worldwide, as well as to fund research initiatives in Synergetic Play Therapy! All proceeds from this course have been donated to the Synergetic Play Therapy Foundation to support this mission!

Each lesson of this course must be completed in order to receive a CE Certificate. Please click on the blue letters below, “Synergetic Play Therapy Institute – Course Agreements”, to begin. Once you have completed this first lesson, you will gain access to the next lesson to view the course video.

Please remember that your access to this course and its content will expire 365 days from the date of purchase.