Working Toward “Healthy Enough”: Parents and Adult Children in Therapy

Working Toward “Healthy Enough”: Parents and Adult Children in Therapy is a 3-hour advanced clinical workshop designed for psychologists and mental health professionals seeking to deepen their work with complex family and intergenerational dynamics.

Family and parenting issues frequently emerge in therapy across the lifespan, regardless of presenting concern. This training focuses specifically on the unique challenges that arise in therapeutic work with parents of adult children and adult children navigating long-standing relational patterns.

Drawing on an integrated cognitive-behavioural and attachment-based framework, the workshop emphasizes clinical formulation, developmental context, and relational capacity rather than symptom reduction alone. Participants will explore how narratives evolve over time, how attachment strategies shift across adulthood, and how clinicians can support clients in working toward emotionally integrated and realistic relationships.

Clinical themes include estrangement and reconnection, unresolved grief, changing family roles, boundary negotiations, and ethical considerations when relational change is asymmetrical. The workshop offers both conceptual depth and practical intervention strategies applicable to individual and family therapy settings.

This session is a follow-up to the January introductory workshop and responds to participant interest in deeper theoretical integration and applied clinical tools.

Information:

• February 24 2026
• 10am to 1pm (3-hour, live virtual training)
• $225 CAD
• Registration https://bit.ly/4sfqHCk