Attachment Theory and Interpersonal Processes in FOT 

25th, 26th and 27th of April 2025 (three-day workshop)

Psychotherapy is a process of connection, interaction, and change. When successful, it helps our clients move beyond repetitive, problematic patterns into new, more satisfying ways of relating and living.

Most therapists will agree about the importance of a therapeutic relationship. The quality of interpersonal interaction is the most important therapeutic factor because all other interventions happen within that interaction. The client's problems will not get resolved in interactions that replay the kind in which the problem was created. “We need [to provide] a new kind of interaction, one in which the client actually lives in a new way beyond the old stoppage” (Gendlin, 1996, p.286).

This workshop will enhance your:

• Ability to be therapeutically present and respond in a precise, client-specific way

• Understanding of different attachment styles, coping mechanisms and inflexible relational tendencies and how they play out within the therapeutic relational dynamic

• Specific relational skills in engaging a variety of clients

• Ability to make required adjustments while applying the client-centred, process-oriented therapy to respond in client-specific ways

• Skills in tracking the interpersonal process across sessions and effectively using process comments

• Knowing what are the essential componenets and steps in developing safe attachment

• Awareness about how clients embody, evoke or enact their problems in therapeutic relationship

• Understanding what can replay and will resolve the presenting problems for every client

• Skills in noticing and working through the trasference and countertransference