Jennine Estes-Powell, LMFT

Jennine runs multiple group practices in Washington and California. She is a practicing therapist with over 20+ years of experience and is co-author of the book " Help for High Conflict Couples."

Jennine specializes in relational healing, attachment injury, and trauma-informed care, and brings both clinical depth and real-world leadership experience to her work with clients and clinicians.
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Course curriculum

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About this course

  • $125.00
  • 2 lessons
  • 0 hours of video content

Learning Objectives

Participants will be able to:

  • Identify and assess attachment injuries and betrayals using EFT and attachment theory.

  • Conceptualize cases involving attachment injuries using the AIRM framework.

  • Apply interventions in session while maintaining a stance that supports accountability, safety, and emotional eng

  • Navigate high emotional intensity and common challenges when treating attachment injuries and betrayals.

Betrayals and Attachment Injuries in Relationships: Using AIRM, EFT, and Case Conceptualization

Attachment injuries and betrayals strike at the heart of connection, often leaving relationships stuck in cycles of blame, shutdown, or emotional chaos. In this 3-hour training, clinicians will deepen their ability to assess, conceptualize, and treat attachment injuries using the Attachment Injury Resolution Model (AIRM) within an Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) framework.

Participants will learn how to identify different types of attachment injuries—affairs, abandonment, emotional neglect, medical or reproductive trauma, and chronic misattunement—and understand how these injuries show up in session as protest, withdrawal, or escalated conflict. The training will focus on how to slow the process down, organize the chaos, and track the emotional and attachment themes that matter most in the room. This will help both the couples therapist and the individual therapists. 

Through case examples and structured conceptualization, clinicians will practice mapping injuries using EFT and AIRM to clarify treatment direction, timing, and interventions. Special attention will be given to therapist stance, managing high affect, and supporting both partners without colluding with blame or minimizing harm. Participants will also learn how to assess readiness for AIRM work, recognize common pitfalls, and repair ruptures that occur during the process.

By the end of this training, clinicians will feel more confident and grounded working with high-stakes attachment injuries and betrayals, equipped with a clear roadmap for helping couples move from injury and disconnection toward accountability, safety, and emotional repair.

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