Live Online Courses
Providing Attachment-Based Care in Inpatient and Residential Programs
90-min Live Webinar: June 3, 2025 at 2-3:30pm ET.
Learn about Attachment Based Care for Teams (ABC4T), an innovative milieu team training program designed to engage all team members in providing attachment-based care for troubled young people and their families. 1.5 CE credits available.
Redefining Trauma Treatment: Integrating EMDR and ABFT
90-min Live Webinar: September 16, 2025 at 2-3:30pm ET.
This webinar will highlight the advantages of combining EMDR with ABFT, drawing on recent clinical experiences and insights from a collaborative work group that developed a clinical guide for this integrated approach. 1.5 CE credits available.
Family-Based Youth Suicide Prevention Workshop
This live online workshop provides an introduction to state of the art, empirically supported family-based suicide risk management practices to help therapists and clinical staff manage suicide concerns when they arise.
September 11 & 12, 2025.
7 CE credits available.
ABFT Introductory Workshop (Fall 2025)
This live online introductory training reviews the theory, research, and clinical strategies of ABFT. Attendance at the full workshop fulfills Level 1 training.
Part 1: October 9-10
Part 2: October 16-17 & 23-24
6.5-19.75 CE credits available.
ABFT Advanced Workshop (Spring 2026)
This Level 2 training will further develop the skills of therapists who have started using ABFT with their clients. Participants will learn emotion-focused skills and explore person of the therapist issues impacting one’s work.
March 5-6, 12-13, & 19-20, 2026
19.75 CE credits available.
ABFT Supervision
ABFT International offers individual and group case consultation meetings for therapists looking to implement ABFT more effectively with clients. During supervision, therapists learn how to conceptualize from an ABFT framework so that they can utilize ABFT with a variety of different clients, presenting problems, and difficult situations. Level 2 training.
Self-Paced Online Courses
Fundamentals of ABFT
Learn directly from the ABFT treatment developers, Drs. Guy Diamond & Suzanne Levy, with on-demand videos. Course contains 6 pre-recorded lectures and 7 recorded excerpts from demonstrations of ABFT therapy sessions. It is equivalent to the Part 1 Intro Workshop. 8 CE credits available.
ABFT for Victims of Domestic Violence
Learn how to use ABFT to help caregivers support their children in the aftermath of domestic violence. 90-min webinar recorded on Oct 1, 2024 as part of ABFT Special Topics Series.
ABFT Demonstration Videos
See ABFT in action! Review excerpts from demonstrations of ABFT therapy sessions illustrating core components of each task, such as emotional deepening, using process-oriented interventions, enactments, intentionality, and rolling with resistance.
ABFT Curriculum for Universities
Teach a course in ABFT! We offer a fully supported university curriculum for a professor to teach a 9 to 11-hour module of ABFT as part of a university course or as an extracurricular program.