Please note that all registrations have to be paid in full before the event takes place - otherwise you will miss out on receiving the Zoom link (this is usually sent two days before the event takes place). This event will be recorded for all those who are registered on the day. Recording is available for three weeks – the link will be sent after the event.

Although prominent attachment researchers are slowly coming to recognize the severity and primary nature of early attachment trauma, that acknowledgement is slow to reach the clinical and certainly the client worlds, although it was named as an Adverse Childhood Experience in the now widely accepted ACES Study of 1995-1997.

Survivors of childhood neglect cannot point to anything to explain their perennial ennui, depression, attention deficits, difficulties with agency and most of all interpersonal relationships. They despairingly conclude “Nothing happened to me!” And they are right – so many things that should have happened in their childhoods, did not. Neglect is the story of a universe of missing experience, which is why it is invisible in plain sight. Neglected in childhood, the neglect continues throughout their life, in the world, and even among therapists. Not being able to point to a cause, they feel guilt, shame, confusion and loneliness, especially when they have seeming privilege and an outward appearance of many kinds of success.

This introductory workshop will bring this category of largely ignored “Big T Trauma” into awareness. It will present the rudiments of neuroscience, missing attachment experiences, symptoms and treatment, so attendees will become curious and motivated to learn more and bring a large and suffering population into view and into recovery.

Presenter: Ruth Cohn

Ruth Cohn, MFT, CST, BCN lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area, USA. She has been specializing in work with survivors of trauma, neglect and their intimate partners and families, since 1988. She has been studying neglect trauma and developing Neglect Informed Psychotherapy since 1998. She is the author of two books: Working with the Developmental Trauma of Childhood Neglect: Using Psychotherapy and Attachment Theory Techniques in Clinical Practice, and Coming Home to Passion: Restoring Loving Sexuality in Couples with Histories of Childhood Trauma and Neglect; and numerous articles, blogs, podcasts and videos on trauma, neglect and related themes, and is currently working on two other books.