IAT Level 2 Online – IAT Institute

Course Instructors

David Elliott Co-Founder of Integrative Attachment Therapy

Traill Dowie Co-Founder of Integrative Attachment Therapy

Start Here: Your Level Two Learning Journey

0.1 Welcome and How to Use the Pre-View Materials

0.2 What to Prepare Before the First Live Session

Module 1: From Knowledge to Clinical Capacity

1.1 Why Level Two Exists

1.2 How Clinical Expertise Develops Through Deliberate Practice

1.3 From Knowledge to Clinical Discrimination

1.4 Competencies 1–2: Formulation and In-Session Strategy Analysis

1.5 Competencies 3–4: A Flexible Three-Pillar Stance and Responsive IP

1.6 Competencies 5–6: Rupture, Repair and Earned Security

1.7 Competencies 7–8: Trauma Integration and the Therapist as Secure Base

1.8 What to Expect in the Four Live Sessions

1.9 Individual Reflection: Your Current Learning Edge

Module 2 — The Three Insecure Attachment Organisations

2.1 Insecure Attachment as Adaptation, Not Pathology

2.2 Dismissing Attachment: Deactivation, Connection and Optimal Distance

2.3 Dismissing Attachment: Collaboration and Metacognition

2.4 Dismissing Attachment: Therapeutic Distance and IPF Adaptation

2.5 Anxious–Preoccupied Attachment: Hyperactivation and the Outside-In Orientation

2.6 Anxious–Preoccupied Attachment: Returning Attention to the Self

2.7 Anxious–Preoccupied Attachment: IPF, Secure Base and Exploration

2.8 Disorganized/Fearful Attachment: Fear Without Solution and the Need for Stability

2.9 Disorganized/Fearful Attachment: Metacognition and Organisation of Mind

2.10 Positive Opposites Across the Three Patterns

2.11 Individual Reflection: Three Patterns, Three Therapeutic Postures

Module 3 — Advanced IPF Decision-Making

3.1 From Protocol to Judgment: Pacing the IPF Process

3.2 Titration and Affect Bandwidth

3.3 Productive Versus Overwhelming Activation

3.4 When to Slow: Reading the Client’s Regulatory Cues

3.5 When and How to Scaffold

3.6 Shifting Emphasis Between the Three Pillars

3.7 Working with Dissonance: Trauma Activation and Imaginal Containment

3.8 Preparing for Live Deliberate Practice

3.9 Individual Reflection and Live-Session Preparation

Module 4 — Live Session 1: Working with Dismissing Attachment

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Module 5 — Live Session 2: Working with Anxious–Preoccupied Attachment

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Module 6 — Live Session 3: Working with Disorganized and Unresolved Attachment

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Module 7 — Live Session 4: Integration, Complexity and Continuing Development

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