Rebuild Clients’ Healthy Instincts and Restore Their Trust in Themselves after Manipulation

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Brynn Cicippio, LMFT, CAADC Related seminars and products

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Brynn Cicippio, LMFT, CAADC, has over ten years of clinical experience working with the long-term consequences of unhealthy and addicted relationships. She has been designated a Clinical Fellow by the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT) and is also an AAMFT Approved Supervisor. A former adjunct professor in LaSalle University’s Counseling and Family Therapy program, Ms. Cicippio earned her master's degree in Clinical Counseling Psychology from Lasalle University.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Brynn Cicippio maintains a private practice. She receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Brynn Cicippio is a member of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy and the Pennsylvania Association for Marriage and Family Therapy.

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Objectives

1. Analyze how abuse impacts clients' instincts and attachment patterns.
2. Support clients with interventions to challenge maladaptive attachment patterns.
3. Develop specific clinical skills and interventions to increase secure attachment and develop healthy instincts.

Outline

• How narcissistic abuse impacts instinct and attachment
• Client presentation of good decision making and healthy instincts and attachment
• Clinical skills to challenge clients’ maladaptive attachment patterns and promote secure attachment
• Skills to rebuild instincts with the appropriate associated emotion
• Case examples of healthy risk that support secure attachment and innate instincts

Target Audience

• Counselors
• Social Workers
• Psychologists
• Psychiatrists
• Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners
• Therapists
• Art Therapists
• Marriage & Family Therapists
• Addiction Counselors
• Physicians
• Nurses
• Other Mental Health Professionals