Bonds, Healthy Bonds in Role Play

Are you struggling to connect with your avoidant clients? Not surprising as they struggle to connect with everyone. Tinelle Evans Reno, LPCC and Halley Palmer, LICSW will give an overview of attachment styles, and their effect on the individual. Then, focusing primarily on avoidant attachment style, an often overlooked relational type, they will demonstrate how to support clients utilizing TTRPGS. This presentation will be supplemented with visual examples and clips from their own live streams.

Learning Objectives:

1. Define four primary attachment styles: avoidant, anxious, disorganized and secure.
2. Identify the impact of avoidant attachment styles on the individual’s relationships and ability to be intimate with others.
3. Identify specific interventions in role playing games to support the client with development of secure attachment.
4. Identify advantages and disadvantages to utilizing TTRPGs to support clients with avoidant attachment.