Total Health: Nutrition and Mind-Body Medicine Summit
A free, full day of live sessions with leading practitioners and educators on how food, the nervous system and the mind work together in healing — and what that means for the clients you serve.
How We Heal Trauma
The Future of Trauma Healing, Resilience & Our Capacity for Change
The Nervous System Reset
An on-demand trauma-informed course to calm your nervous system and reclaim your life, with Dr. Arielle Schwartz & Dr. Scott Lyons. You don't need more insight. You need your nervous system to respond differently.
Your Healing Journey
The premier somatic healing program to help you move beyond what’s keeping you stuck - and step more fully into the relationships, purpose, and life you desire.
Our earliest relationships shape how we experience ourselves, others, and the world around us. When those experiences involve abandonment, inconsistency, rejection, or emotional disconnection, their influence can reach into nearly every part of our lives.
Shame can become woven into our sense of who we are. We may learn to fawn or people-please to preserve connection, silence our needs to avoid rejection, or confuse emotional intensity with intimacy because uncertainty and longing have become so familiar. These patterns can shape the relationships we choose, the treatment we accept, the boundaries we struggle to maintain, and how much of ourselves we feel safe bringing into connection.
Join three leading experts to explore the deeper dimensions of attachment trauma and approaches that can help shift patterns of insecurity, protection, and disconnection.
How early relational wounds, nervous-system responses, and deeply held beliefs interact to sustain anxious, avoidant, and other protective attachment patterns.
The role of shame, fawning, people-pleasing, and confusing emotional intensity with intimacy, and why these patterns matter in therapeutic work.
How physiological responses to safety, separation, bonding, and relational threat influence our capacity to trust and experience closeness.
How somatic approaches, attunement, co-regulation, and new relational experiences can support attachment repair and more secure ways of relating.
Diane Poole Heller, Ph.D., is an internationally recognized speaker, author, and expert in attachment theory and trauma resolution. Her signature approach, DARe (Dynamic Attachment Re-patterning experience), gives therapists and individuals practical skills for healing attachment and trauma wounds, supporting greater intimacy, wholeness, and more fulfilling relationships.
Peter A. Levine, Ph.D., is the developer of Somatic Experiencing® (SE™), a naturalistic and neurobiological approach to healing trauma developed over 50 years and taught to over 30,000 healers in 42+ countries. He is the author of several best-selling books, including Waking the Tiger and In an Unspoken Voice, and has received multiple Lifetime Achievement awards for his groundbreaking work.
Dr. Scott Lyons is a licensed holistic psychologist, body-based trauma expert, and author of Addicted to Drama. He is the creator of The Embody Lab and developer of Somatic Stress Release™, and has taught over half a million people internationally. Scott has been featured in The New York Times, Forbes, and The Guardian, and hosts The Gently Used Human Podcast.
This free event is designed for helping professionals who want to deepen their understanding of attachment trauma and explore more integrated approaches to healing.
It's also for anyone seeking to better understand their own attachment history, shift painful relationship patterns, and develop a greater capacity for trust, intimacy, and secure connection.
No previous training in attachment theory or somatic therapy is required to attend.
Yes. This live online event with Dr. Peter Levine, Dr. Diane Poole Heller, and Dr. Scott Lyons is completely free to attend.
Wednesday, November 4, 2026, from 2:00–3:00 PM Eastern Time. The event will take place online.
Yes. Register for free to receive access to the event replay, even if you can't attend live.
The event is especially relevant for therapists, psychologists, counselors, social workers, somatic practitioners, coaches, wellness practitioners, healthcare professionals, and other helping professionals interested in attachment trauma and relational healing. Anyone exploring attachment patterns in their own life is also welcome.
No. The event is designed to be accessible to anyone interested in relationships and healing, while offering meaningful perspectives for experienced practitioners.
Yes. Attachment styles provide an important starting point, but the event will go beyond labels to explore how attachment patterns develop, how they appear in our relationships and bodies, and what may support change.
Yes. The event is a standalone educational experience, and practitioners interested in exploring these approaches further will have an opportunity to learn more about The Embody Lab's Somatic Attachment Therapy Certificate.
The Somatic Attachment Therapy Certificate integrates contemporary attachment science, developmental trauma, neuroscience, somatic therapy, and relational practice, giving you a wider range of ways to work with the patterns that shape how people connect, protect themselves, and experience relationship.
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