From Insecure to Secure Attachment: The Relational Path from Loving in Torment to Loving in Peace

The Relational Path from Loving in Torment to Loving in Peace

This inspiring conference brings together leading voices in attachment, trauma, neuroscience and relational practice to explore how relationships can become powerful agents of healing.

Presenters will explore how, without effective intervention, insecure attachment and blocked trust in childhood can result in deeply painful patterns of relating throughout life, and relational trauma can be passed from one generation to the next. At the heart of the day is one vital question: how can these deeply embedded relational patterns change? Through cutting-edge theory, neuroscience, moving case material and practical interventions, speakers will show how cycles of relational trauma can be interrupted and trust, connection and secure attachment can result.

Dr Suzanne Zeedyk

Internationally recognised speaker and trainer, her events have reached more than 150,000 people. Research scientist. Honorary Fellow in the School of Psychology at the University of Dundee. PhD from Yale University with extensive academic background in developmental psychology. Work focuses on infant development, trauma, attachment, emotional connection and the developing brain. Founder of Connected baby, translating scientific research into practice for parents and professionals. Selected publications: Sabre Tooth Tigers & Teddy Bears: The Connected Baby Guide to Attachment. Dances of Connection. Connected Baby. Short film series.

Dr Dan Hughes

Founder of Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy with children/families. Originator of PACE. International acclaim for changing the way people work therapeutically with children and families. Selected publications: Building the Bonds of Attachment. Healing Relational Trauma. Attachment Focused Family Therapy. Attachment Focused Parenting. Brain Based Parenting.

Dr Amanda Jones

Consultant Perinatal Psychotherapist and former Strategic & Clinical Lead, Perinatal Parent Infant Mental Health Service, North East London NHS Foundation Trust and Warwick Medical School. Expert in parent-baby attachment ruptured relationships and psychodynamic parent-infant treatment. With the Anna Freud centre, Amanda was the therapist in the Channel 4 documentaries ‘Help me love my baby’. Also 5 documentaries ‘Breakdown or Breakthrough: pregnancy, birth and the first 18 months of life’ (with NSPCC).

Dr Margot Sunderland

Director of Innovation and Research at Trauma Informed Schools and Communities UK. Neuroscience scholar and child, adolescent, and adult psychotherapist with over 30 years’ experience, including intensive work with traumatised teenagers in residential care. Author of more than 20 books on child mental health. Selected publications: The Science of Parenting (First Prize winner, British Medical Association Book Awards) Conversations That Matter. She is also Director of Education and Training at the Centre for Child Mental Health and a founding director of the Institute for Arts in Therapy and Education.

Dee and Cassie Bamford

Dee Bamford – Senior Integrative Arts Psychotherapist Cert in CBT skills, CATT (Children’s Accelerated Trauma treatment) Over 20 years, Dee has provided intensive psychotherapeutic work for families and individuals from diverse backgrounds. In the presentation, Dee and her care experienced adopted daughter Cassie will share a lived perspective on their therapeutic relationship, showing how safety, attunement and emotional regulation within a parent-child bond can foster healing from early relational trauma.