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Mobilizing Transformation:Tailoring Treatment to the Presenting Attachment Style
Through lecture and videos of clinical work, Karen Pando-Mars will illustrate ways to intervene given the distinct configurations of secure and insecure attachment styles, and will demonstrate how to tailor therapeutic interventions to best attune to and motivate patients.
When dismissive defenses generate distance, Karen will teach how to hold connection. When patients become highly anxious or volatile, learn how to help them contain emotion and self-soothe. With AEDP, establishing a secure base provides an essential foundation. When treatment is informed by the attachment style of each person sitting in front of us, we can strengthen this base and mobilize
transformation.
Presenter
Karen Pando-Mars, LMFT
Karen Pando-Mars, MFT, is a licensed psychotherapist in San Rafael, California. She was irresistibly drawn to AEDP in 2005 and captivated by the depth and breadth of its transformational model. She immersed herself in training and consultation with Dr. Fosha and three years of core training with Dr. Frederick. Ms. Pando-Mars is one of the founders of AEDP West, Co-Director of the Center for Transformative Therapies in San Rafael, and currently is a supervisor for the Bay Area Core Training. She presents AEDP trainings around the San Francisco Bay Area and offers individual and small group supervision to psychotherapists. She is known for her warmth and approachability, and her ability to create safety in the supervisory relationship. Ms. PandoMars' long-time interest in deepening connection between self and other has been grounded through AEDP's precise tracking of attachment principles and related neuroscience, and this influence is woven throughout her work with individuals, couples and groups. Licensed since 1989, her background in somatic and experiential therapies includes Focusing, Process-Oriented Psychotherapy, Sandtray, EMDR, and Authentic Movement. She was a founder of The Sandtray Network and a contributing editor of its journal. As adjunct faculty at Dominican University, in San Rafael, California, she taught AEDP as the overarching theoretical model in her Alternative and Innovative Psychotherapies course.