On Friday, June 7th, Dr. Lora Wiens is providing a training for clinicians at the McHenry County Mental Health board in Crystal Lake, IL for 3 free CEU credits titled Borderline Personality Disorder: A Response to Attachment Trauma.

Her presentation will discuss how to understand the symptoms of BPD as a natural response to Attachment Trauma. Dr. Wiens will explain how the disrupting the development of attachment early in life can result in attachment needs and being immediately accompanied by a range of trauma responses, including fight, flight, freeze, and faun. She will explain how helping someone with BPD understand the rapid cycling internally between different parts of the self in response to attachment threat can significantly help them to develop self-compassion and to connect with others in ways that are not emotionally dysregulating and/or destructive to the relationship.