Working with relational trauma: An Attachment Narrative Therapy approach

Peter: you should try not to (remember) because remembering is mean.

Wendy: No, it’s not. It’s forgetting all the time that’s horrid.

From Wendy and Peter Pan, by Ella Hickson (based on JM Barrie)

Attachment Narrative Therapy (ANT) incorporates the dynamic maturational model of attachment (DMM) to understand the impact of relational trauma and to formulate programmes of intervention.

The day will include an outline of the DMM as well as exercises and techniques from the ANT model which can be applied to participants’ own therapeutic work.

There will be opportunity for case discussions and small group work to apply the ideas and some important considerations in the supervision of such work will also be included.

Speaker

Dr Chip Chimera worked for many years at the Institute of Family Therapy in London as Director of CPD and Innovation. Chip has a thriving independent practice and has extensive experience in carrying out assessments for the Court in Children Act proceedings. She offers supervision on high conflict families and other systemic work.

In 2018 she edited a special edition of Context on Parental Alienation. She teaches systemic practice and leads personal and professional development sessions at several universities.

Chip is also a psychodrama psychotherapist and is passionate about action methods in therapy.

Recent publications include ‘Olena’s Battle for Utopia’ a chapter in Vetere and Sheehan, Long Term Systemic Therapy (2020), and ‘And Nothing but the Truth’ in Vetere and Chrząstowski Safety, Danger, and Protection in the Family and Community (2024).

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