Enhancing Safety & Healing Attachment Wounds

Enhancing Safety & Healing Attachment Wounds
This course features renowned expert Dr. Diane Poole Heller, who explores the deep connection between early attachment injuries, trauma resolution, and adult relational patterns. The series examines how attachment wounds shape our sense of safety, connection, and intimacy, and how these early experiences continue to influence relationships and success across all areas of life.

ABOUT THIS PROGRAM
This expert series delves into the specific origins and impacts of disorganized, avoidant, and ambivalent attachment styles—understood as unconscious survival strategies developed in response to chaotic or threatening early environments.

Through a somatic and attachment-informed lens, participants explore how these patterns become embedded in the nervous system and relational templates. The program focuses on gently repatterning these deep relational blueprints to support greater safety, trust, and connection.

The overarching goal is to foster secure attachment experiences that support intimacy, resilience, and wellbeing.

Faculty

Diane Poole Heller (Dr.)

Diane Poole Heller (Dr.)


Diane Poole Heller, PhD, is an internationally recognized speaker, author, and expert in Attachment Theory and Trauma Resolution. Her signature approach—DARe (Dynamic Attachment Re-patterning experience)—offers therapists and individuals practical skills for healing attachment and trauma wounds. As Senior Faculty for SETI, Diane studied with Dr. Peter Levine and taught Somatic Experiencing® internationally for over 25 years. She is the author of The Power of Attachment, Crash Course, and the audio book Healing Your Attachment Wounds. Her film Surviving Columbine aired on CNN, supporting community healing after the shootings.