Courtney Armstrong. Attachment Styles & Complex Trauma: from the archives

COURTNEY ARMSTRONG, MEd. LPC, is a licensed professional counselor and Nationally Board Certified Fellow in Clinical Hypnotherapy who specializes in grief and trauma recovery. With a career spanning more than two decades, she is the founder of the Institute for Trauma Informed Hypnotherapy and developed her Trauma Informed Hypnotherapy (TM) approach after studying with numerous trauma experts and helping thousands of clients overcome trauma and grief.<br /><br />Courtney is the author of, most recently, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0393712559/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=wescoatrapro-20&amp;creative=9325&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;creativeASIN=0393712559&amp;linkId=90d94bed2be0e09e4014ad553601ab60" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Rethinking Trauma Treatment: Attachment, Memory Reconsolidation, and Resilience</a>, as well as, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0393708403/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0393708403&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=wescoatrapro-20&amp;linkId=GU24KP6OEJ4NHFXY" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Therapeutic “Aha!</a>" (2015) and <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0983499918/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0983499918&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=wescoatrapro-20&amp;linkId=LOTNDT7X5XFV5GAK" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Transforming Traumatic Grief</a> (2011).<br /><br />In her 20 years of practice she has helped thousands of clients recover from trauma, and experience deep personal transformation.<br /><br />Courtney also offers training to mental health professionals, showing them how to use creativity, care, and humor to elicit transformation for their clients and make trauma recovery less painful. She is a regular contributor to magazines like the Psychotherapy Networker and The Neuropsychotherapist and has appeared on CBS Radio News, NPR affiliates, and networks in Europe, Asia and Australia.<br /><br />Courtney also was my g