Healing the Mother Wound | 1.5 Credit Hours | April 27th | 12:00-1:30PM

Healing the Mother Wound 📅 Date: Monday, April 27th 🕓 Time: 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM EST 📍 Location: Virtual 🎤 Facilitator: Ashley Esry, LICSW, LCSW, LCAS Healing the Mother Wound explores the lasting psychological and emotional impact of early maternal relationships on identity, self-worth, attachment, and relational patterns. This training provides clinicians with a trauma-informed framework for understanding how unmet needs, emotional neglect, enmeshment, or inconsistent caregiving can shape adulthood functioning. Through clinical discussion, reflective exercises, and case-based examples, participants will examine how the “mother wound” shows up in therapy and how to support clients in building self-compassion, healthy boundaries, and emotional regulation. This engaging and clinically grounded training helps therapists deepen insight into attachment-based wounds while offering practical interventions to support healing and resilience. Participants will learn to: Define the concept of the mother wound and its developmental origins Identify common emotional, cognitive, and relational patterns associated with maternal attachment injuries Recognize intergenerational and cultural factors influencing the mother-child dynamic Apply therapeutic strategies to support repair, boundary setting, and re-parenting Integrate compassion-focused and trauma-informed approaches into clinical practice Learning Objectives: Describe the psychological and relational impact of the mother wound across the lifespan. Identify clinical presentations commonly associated with maternal attachment wounds. Apply evidence-informed interventions to support client healing and emotional integration. 🎓 1.5 Credit Hours | ACEP Number: 7925 💻 Online format