The Southern Regional Committee

Present a workshop entitled:

\'The Existenial Consequences of Adult Attachment; An Integrative Approch.\'

Presenter Bio: Dr. Barbara Dowds MIACP, MIAHIP, is a humanistic psychotherapist in private practice in Greystones, Co. Wicklow. She has lectured on the BSC in Counselling and Psychotherapy in PCI College for the last nine years and offers CPD seminars on genetics, neuroscience, attachment and early development. Barbara was on the editorial board of Eisteach from 2005-2012. She has written a book Beyond the Frustrated Self: Overcoming Avoidant Patterns and Opening to Life (Karnac 2014) on aspects of attachment. In past life, she was a university lecturer and researcher in molecular genetics, before changing her career into psychotherapy in 2002.

Workshop Outline: This workshop will review the implications of insecure attachment on adults in terms of relationships, charge and energy flow, emotional awarness and regulation and physical health. The argument will be that these affective somatic and relational patterens have existential consequences. There will be a particular focus on how avoidant attachment impacts on adult life (the subject on the presenter\'s book) issues discussed will include cathexis, boredom, soullessness, boundaries, impingement and autobiograohical narrative and memory. The workshop will comprise presentation slides, audio visual material, personal development exercises as well as discussion of how attachment styles can manifest in client issues.

Training Level: All Levels

CPD certificates will be emailed to participants after attendance at the Workshop.