Recognising and Interrupting Attachment-Based Conflict Cycles

In this course, licensed psychotherapist, counsellor, educator, and clinical supervisor Norah Marler, graduate-trained in psychological counselling, introduces a practical attachment-informed framework for recognising and interrupting recurring conflict cycles in couples therapy. Moving beyond the surface content of disagreements, Marler demonstrates how clinicians can identify attachment threats, protective strategies, distress language, unmet relational needs, nervous-system responses, and predictable sequences that maintain conflict. Using the three-phase Detect, Define, and Deepen framework alongside an extended clinical vignette, you learn to map interactional cycles, maintain therapeutic neutrality, identify opportunities for early intervention, strengthen accountability, and coach healthier responses during attachment activation. The course equips clinicians with practical questions and intervention principles for helping appropriate couples replace repetitive protective patterns with greater emotional regulation, vulnerability, responsiveness, healthy boundaries, and secure connection.