17 Jan 2026

Working With Disorganized Attachment and Complex Relational Dynamics Through the Generative Attachment Model

Clients may present with fear, mistrust, and other avoidant patterns while intensely seeking connection and support, leading to conflicting behaviors in the therapeutic space. Using the Generative Attachment Model (GAM), Yulia Abramova, AMFT, APCC, will explore how to engage clients who actively resist connection and support.

GAM is a 7-Step process for creating a baseline for secure attachment through embodied and relational being.

This workshop is designed for clinicians to explore complex-PTSD (C-PTSD) through an attachment-based lens while employing process-oriented approaches.

Learning objectives:

  1. Identify common relational dynamics that clients with C-PTSD and disorganized attachment may present with
  2. Explore client connection, transference, and agendas for the psychotherapist to deepen the therapeutic alliance
  3. Practicing presence and maintaining connection while maintaining boundaries

Location:  ◼PTI's Offices  ◼Online, via Zoom 

Times: 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm

CEUs: 2

Cost: Suggested Donation: $35-$50

Yulia Abramova, MA, AMFT, APCC

Yulia Abramova entered the psychological field being 13 years old, when her school teacher offered her books of Boulby, Winnicot and Kernberg. Something clicked, as her own trauma history started to make sense. By 21 Yulia completed her MA in clinical psychology from Moscow State University as well as became an international trainer of Neuro-linguistic programming. Eager to connect her love for movement and body exploration with the history of developmental trauma and clinical knowledge, Yulia made a deep dive into somatic approaches of working with developmental trauma. Holding her own individual practice, as well as training emerging clinicians in the Institute of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy (Moscow, RF), Yulia together with 2 colleagues have developed and taught "Healing trauma program". Having her own experience living with C-PTSD, Yulia continues to find ways to support people out of experience of isolation towards capacity to receive connection.

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The Process Therapy Institute (CEPA Provider #050112) is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFT’s, LCSW’s, LPCC’s and/or LEP’s. PTI maintains responsibility for this conference and its content. All of the sessions meet the qualifications for the above given hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. Course completion certificates will be awarded at the end of the course in exchange for a completed evaluation form. For questions regarding this conference, including those about the CEU’s as well as accommodations for special needs, please email darnoldy@processes.org.

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