Attachment-Informed approaches to calming anxiety – 20 October
A deeper dive into Attachment Theory’s practical application to calm anxiety and reduce stress in your clients
Delivered by Dr. Ruth Lawson-McConnell, this workshop is the next step for people who have already attended the 1-day Power of Connection: Attachment Theory workshop provided through Grow, or who possess foundational knowledge of Attachment Theory.
It is for those who want to further develop their understanding by looking at Attachment Theory through the lens of how Attachment-informed approaches can calm anxiety and reduce stress in your clients. It will be a deeper dive into the Theory’s practical application.
What material does this seminar cover?
An understanding of anxiety from an attachment perspective and how to work with clients who are unable to bring their anxiety into psychological and physical rest.
Other key questions which will be addressed include:
How can we help our client’s come to psychological rest to increase their flourishing, rather than living in mere survival and reactivity due to high anxiety.
When: 20 October 2025, 9am – 3.30pm
Where: Online via Zoom
Cost: $320 inc GST. The price stated is per person.
Contact: Faye Johnson – [email protected]
For more information and to register – please visit the website:
**Note our Special Offer**
https://www.grow.co.nz/attachment-informed-approaches-to-calming-anxiety
NOTE – If your organisation is interested in having Ruth present face-face as a private workshop to 15 or more of your team, please contact Faye.
FAQs
Learning Outcomes:
1. Appraise the phenomenon of escalating anxiety in society from an attachment perspective.
2. Understand the importance of physical and psychological rest for human flourishing.
3. Assess how anxiety affects:
a. Our body: biological aspects, physiology, and chemistry of anxiety,
b. our mind: psychological (neuroscience and mental processes)
c. our feelings: emotional effects of alarm problems.
4. Be able to work with clients to calm their anxiety and lead them to psychological rest.
Who Should Attend:
This workshop builds on the foundational concepts Ruth presented in the Attachment Theory (link below) online one-day training. Therefore, it is open to all who have completed the first workshop, or who have not attended the previous training but possess foundational knowledge of Attachment Theory.
About the Presenter, Dr. Ruth Lawson-McConnell
Ruth Lawson-McConnell is a Registered Clinical Counsellor (Canada) and a member of the New Zealand Counselling Association and the NZ Psychological Society with nearly 30 years’ experience. She trained and worked in Scotland and Canada, and has been in New Zealand for the past 14 years. She has an MA (Honours) in Social Anthropology and Psychology (Aberdeen University) and a PhD (Counselling Psychology - Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland).
Ruth specialises in attachment issues both in adults and children. She works with a foster care agency supporting carers looking after children with complex developmental trauma. Ruth also has a private practice where she offers specialist supervision on attachment and trauma with adults, and parent consulting on children’s emotional and behavioural issues. Ruth has specialist training as a neuropsychotherapy practitioner and a trauma specialist working with partners of sex addicts.
June, 2025
Wednesday
August 26,2019
- Tuesday
- 9:00am - 10:00am
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