Continuing Education for MENTAL HEALTH PRACTITIONERS
Creative Approaches in Attachment Healing: Turning Insight to Change
Creative Approaches in Attachment Healing: Turning Insight to Change
Creative Approaches in Attachment Healing: Turning Insight to Change
Built for practitioners who want hands on approaches to working with attachment anxiety in adult relationships.
Continuing Education Contact Hours Available For NYS LCATs + LMHCs
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Art Therapy Test Prep
Exam preparation course. Not eligible for CE credit.
For art therapists interested in taking the ATCB board-certifying exam, and/or New York state art therapists seeking licensure.
10 Modules
860 Practice Test Questions
Updated 2025
$297 / $99 x 3 Monthly Payments
The Secure Spark Studio for Practitioners
Creative Approaches in Attachment Healing: Turning Insight to Change
Creative Approaches in Attachment Healing: Turning Insight to Change
A twelve-part continuing education series on healing attachment wounds: psychoeducation, case material, experiential practice, and creative integration.
Up to 36+ Continuing Education Contact Hours Available for LCATs + LMHCs
Attachment Anxiety in Adulthood
"I know they're emotionally unavailable, but I can't stop thinking about them."
"They didn't text me back right away, and suddenly my whole body went into panic."
"We keep having the same fight over and over again."
Let me guess: your clients aren't short on insight, but they struggle with application.
They’re high-functioning, capable, and emotionally intelligent. They’re the generous ones, the ones who carry the emotional load at work, at home, and in their relationships. They can name their pattern, trace it back to childhood, and explain it to you clearly in session. Then, in the moment that matters, the old response takes over.
What they need isn’t more information. It’s a repeatable process that helps them access their inner wisdom and creative flow, so they can bring it to their attachment challenges in real time.
Insight is the first step, not the last.
Your clients arrive with plenty of understanding. What's missing is a way to translate insight into feeling differently. Each of the twelve courses follows the SEED Framework, a repeatable structure for helping clients feel safe enough to evolve their attachment patterns, while accessing deeper intuition and self-love.
S – Soulful Inquiry
Asking the question that opens something new, not the one that confirms what the client already knows.
E – Exploration
Setting expectations, cognitive distortions, and limiting beliefs aside so the client can meet what is actually there.
E – Expression
Moving emotional energy through creative and embodied practice to build nervous system capacity and make intuitive wisdom readable.
D – Deep Receiving
Setting expectations, cognitive distortions, and limiting beliefs aside so the client can meet what is actually there.
Same structure, twelve different clinically relevant areas of attachment healing. By the end of the year, it's second nature.
Four seasons. One curriculum. Twelve courses.
Healing doesn't move in a straight line, so this series doesn't either. The seasons serve as organizing gateways: four distinct clinical territories, each one re-visitable, each time from a deeper place. You can begin in any season, or with any particular course: each lesson stands on its own.
Winter: Grief, Trust & Inner Safety
Spring: Voice, Worth & Emotional Expression
Summer: Embodiment, Boundaries & Relational Repair
Fall: Release, Integration & Transcendent Love
The 12-Part Series: A Year-Long Journey
Each Course is 3 CE's · $97 per course / or $194 per season (buy 2 get 1 free).
New here? We recommend starting with Course 1. But every course is built to stand alone. Enter at any season, in any order, and revisit as often as you need. Click the "Learn More" button to visit the sales and enrollment pages for your course selections. The logins for your student dashboard will be emailed to you upon payment receipt, and you will have lifetime access.
Fall
Course 1 - 3.0 CEs - $97
Healing Adverse Attraction Patterns
Using attachment theory and experiential interventions to explore relational reenactment, projection, and romantic attraction.
Course 2 - 3.0 CEs - $97
Harmonizing Internal Splits and Healing Toxic Shame
Using attachment theory and expressive interventions to support emotional integration and relational agency.
Course 3 - 3.0 CEs - $97
Fostering Secure Attachment and Discernment in Love
Using attachment theory and experiential interventions to explore transcendent love, relational discernment, and inner security.
Winter
Course 4 - 3.0 CEs - $97
Healing Fears of Abandonment with Parts Work and Mythic Story Telling
Using attachment theory, parts work, and mythic storytelling to explore and ease fears of abandonment, in adult relationships.
Course 5 - 3.0 CEs - $97
An Experiential Approach to Reducing Attachment- Related Anxiety and Rumination
Experiential methods for mapping the rumination loop, redirecting compulsive behavior, and connecting to the protective parts beneath anxious thinking.
Course 6 - 3.0 CEs - $97
Boundaries That Cultivate Emotional Emotional Safety and Soulful Intimacy
An experiential attachment-informed approach to cultivating boundaries, emotional regulation, and secure relational connection.
Spring
Course 7 - 3.0 CEs - $97
Emotions as Energy in the Body: Attuning to the Secure Self
Identifying authentic needs vs. protective strategies to improve self-definition and attachment security in adult relationships.
Course 8 - 3.0 CEs - $97
Exploring "The Sovereign" Archetype to Escape the Validation Trap in Love
Using attachment theory, archetypal reflection, and experiential interventions to reclaim personal power in relationships.
Course 9 - 3.0 CEs - $97
Experiential Approaches to Attachment Trauma Recovery and Strengthening the Inner Voice
Helping clients move from self-silencing to clear, grounded, and embodied self-expression.
Summer
Course 10 - 3.0 CEs - $97
Compassionate Communication: Decoding Mixed Signals in Love
Helping clients move from defensive reactions to clearer, safer, and more heart-centered communication, with attachment-informed strategies.
Course 11 - 3.0 CEs - $97
Boundaries as Devotional Acts: Protecting Connection Without Self-Abandonment
Helping clients honor their needs, standards, and self-respect to foster secure connections.
Course 12 - 3.0 CEs - $97
Elemental Embodiment: Sensuality, Safety, and the Healing Wisdom of Nature
Using nature-inspired, experiential approaches to reclaim body wisdom, intuition, and attachment security.
This is for you...
This is for you if...
✓ Your clients are high functioning and can explain their attachment patterns better than they can change it.
✓ You want embodied, expressive, and spiritually integrated approaches actually woven into attachment work.
✓ You have an active caseload and want something creative and tangible you can use next week.
This is not for you if…
✓ Your clients are in an acute state of psychosis, have recently demonstrated self-harming behaviors, or have had a psychiatric hospitalization in the last 90 days.
✓ You have a workplace environment that is not conducive to discussions about non-specific spiritual topics in therapy.
✓ You have clients that adhere to strict religious doctrines or ideologies that conflict with the modalities included.
Also available: Standalone CE courses
Looking for a different clinical focus, or acquiring contact hours quickly?
Click the "Learn More" button to visit the sales and enrollment pages for your course selections. The logins for your student dashboard will be emailed to you upon payment receipt.
LCATs/ LMHCs - 10.75 CEs - $197
Attachment, Creativity & Addiction
Explore 7 experiential lessons on the intersections between attachment, complicated grief, and addiction.
LCATs/ LMHCs - 10.0 CEs - $597
Healing Through The Chakras
Explore 7 mindfulness-based lessons on the intersections between western psychodynamic theories of healing, and the Hindu Chakra System.
LCATs/ LMHCs - 8.0 CEs - $197
Healing Complicated Grief
Explore 8 experiential interventions to address complicated grief through the lens of attachment theory and grief recovery.
Hi, I'm Briana
I’m a Licensed Creative Arts Therapist (LCAT), Board Certified Registered Art Therapist (ATR-BC), educator, and the founder of Soul-Centered Security®.
I didn’t come to this work because my own relationships were easy. Divorce, grief, and heartbreak brought me face to face with the same attachment patterns I was helping my clients understand. What helped was building a deeper relationship with my body, emotions, creativity, and spirituality.
Over the last 20 years, I’ve served more than 6,000 clients and students across inpatient psychiatry, community mental health, higher education, and private practice. My work weaves together attachment theory, creative arts therapy, embodied practice, and spiritual growth.
I also have additional training in trauma-informed somatic therapy, Internal Family Systems (IFS), hypnotherapy, and ketamine-assisted psychotherapy. And I am the author of Secure in the Spark: A Spiritual Path to Heal Attachment Wounds, available on Amazon and at Barnes & Noble.
My courses for practitioners share the tools and creative processes that supported my own growth, and the healing of the people I’ve had the privilege of serving.
Frequently asked questions
Do I have to take the 12-part courses in order? No. Each course stands alone and is designed to be entered at any point. That said, we recommend starting with Course 1 if you're new.
How will I receive my certificate? After completing your course work, there will be a learning evaluation, instructor evaluation, and webform to complete. After submitting your webform, your certificate will automatically be emailed to you.
How long will I have access to the course? Your purchase includes lifetime access, including to any updates we might make in the future. If a course is retired in the future, we will email you the digital files to download to your own device.
Which boards approve these courses? Briana MacWilliam, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed creative arts therapists (#CAT-0014) and licensed mental health counselors (#MHC-0224). The ATCB has also accepted our courses in the past, because of our state approval, however, we recommend contacting the ATCB directly if you have a concern.
What if I have further questions? You can contact us at [email protected].
Start where your clients are stuck.
PROVIDER INFORMATION
Briana MacWilliam, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed creative arts therapists; #CAT-0014, and is also an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors; #MHC-0224.
PLEASE NOTE:
While some subject areas overlap in education, a course that includes art therapy directives does not qualify a counselor to practice art therapy, and similarly an art therapist is not qualified to practice as a counselor, without proper licensing.
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