The Biology of Attachment & Neurodevelopment
6 Weeks - 6 Attachment Pains
Release the 6 attachment pains your body is still carrying — and restore your capacity to hold space for others.
Starts Monday, May 4th
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What Practitioners Say About The Biology of Attachment
& Neurodevelopment Module
"I'm so grateful — not just for the cognitive understanding, but for the experiential and emotional connection, and the growing awareness of my own power to tend to those core needs."
"This module really helped open my eyes to the impact, and then gave me tools that I can use to help re-pattern my brain."
"I know that how I show up is that much healthier and more secure."
"I notice myself being able to be much more present and open-hearted and feel comfortable with my patients who are struggling with addictions and acting out."
"I am now staying present and comfortable in my own body."
"I see you seeing me... I went back into all the times when I felt that I needed to be seen and I was searching for someone, and now I'm here for myself."
– Nastja
"As a trauma therapist, I was initially focused on that... without these tools, I honestly would be completely lost."
– Christine Alcantara
"I just can’t unsee it now. Now that I can’t unsee how dysregulated so many providers are, I feel that’s a missing link and we need support too."
– Brandi Mackenzie
"I’m feeling less fear of my body, less fear of the process... I feel so much more empowered and free to take care of myself."
– Kathie Truck
"What this is doing is allowing me to start to give them the tools so that they can have that safety felt in their body, even though they don’t have it in their environment."
– Sheri Marinovich
"I wasn’t willing to pay the price of success in a way that it’s like: forget about feelings, forget about the way you feel, just perform."
– Josefina Webster
"The somatic work is really, really landing... we are noticing our grandchildren and how our grandchildren are actually regulating and how we can attune to them now."
– Lanniece Hall
"I used to live in my mind... I totally disconnected from my body, and now I feel like I have this new—I don't want to say friend—part of this is me. This is me in my body."
– Agnes Rozanski
This an integrative & holistic training
A blending of several fields and modalities for an effective approach
The 6 Steps
My commitment: I will guide you through 6 essential steps to repair stored attachment wounds.
You'll learn the somatic, parts, and biological tools that restore your nervous system and your capacity to hold space for others.
Here Is The Step-By-Step Curriculum
This course maps how attachment wounds become biology — and the three-level approach to finally repair them.
WEEK 1: Attachment is Regulation
WEEK 4: The Autonomic Nervous System Development and PolyVagal Theory
WEEK 2: The Complete List of Needs Of Early Childhood For Healthy Neurodevelopment and Attachment
WEEK 5: The Biology Causes for Sensitivity, Reactivity and Insecurity
WEEK 3: Brain Development and the Programming of Neural Circuits
WEEK 6: Neurodevelopment-Informed Attachment Models and How to Repair
What's All Included in this Training
Below is the weekly schedule of live sessions.
Please note that time are listed as Pacific Standard Time zone.
Guided Somatic & Parts Work Sessions
Mondays at 10:00 am PST
60-minute sessions working through each attachment pain in sequence — somatic and parts work to safely repair stored attachment wounds.
Implementation Meetings
with Q&A
- Friday, May 15th at 8:00 am PST
- Friday, May 29th at 4:30 pm PST
A peer-to-peer discussion on ways to implement these course concepts into your own attachment patterns first — and in the work you do with others.
Integration Sessions
Thursdays at 2:00 pm PST
60-minute sessions that bring the week's somatic, parts, and biological work together — connecting the dots across all levels and helping you integrate what you're learning into your life.
Final Oral Presentation Practice Session
Friday, June 5th
(8:00 am or 4:30 pm PST)
A supported 60-minute peer practice session to prepare you for your Final Oral Presentation.
Final Oral Presentation
Friday, June 12th
(8:00 am or 4:30 pm PST)
A 60-minute peer role-play session practicing attachment and neurodevelopment concepts. Attendance at one session time is required to complete the course.
A 60-minute session with Kim Barthel — clinician and occupational therapist with 40 years in neurodevelopment and attachment. Kim explored how developmental trauma shapes the brain's survival adaptations into a predictive internal model that quietly drives every relationship and health outcome across a lifetime — and why co-regulation, repair, and change are always possible.
A 60-minute session with Dr. George Thompson — child psychiatrist and Polyvagal Institute advisory board member. He explored how relational trauma shuts down social engagement, creates six key blockages that keep healing stuck, and why repair means making dangerous relationships feel safe again — with a powerful reminder that listening itself is one of the most therapeutic tools we have.
A 50-minute session with Dr. Chris Boman — certified pediatric chiropractor specializing in neurodevelopment. He explored how birth trauma and upper cervical misalignment disrupt proprioception, locking the nervous system into chronic stress — and how this directly impacts early attachment, sensory processing, and nervous system patterns that can persist well into adulthood.
A 60-minute session with Frank Anderson — Harvard-trained psychiatrist, IFS expert, and author of To Be Loved. Frank explored how attachment trauma creates parts that block love, connection, and the authentic self — and why healing requires joining those parts with curiosity and compassion rather than trying to get rid of them. A deeply personal and clinically rich conversation on shame, meaning-making, and why trauma blocks love while love heals trauma.
A 35-minute session with Laura Bautista — somatic experiencing practitioner and THA mentor. Laura explored global high intensity activation — a nervous system pattern rooted in fetal stress and early attachment trauma that creates whole-body arousal with little capacity to self-regulate — and why it becomes the underlying template for emotional swings, dissociation, and chronic symptoms. A practical conversation on recognizing the pattern and why slow is fast when rewiring it.
A 60-minute session with Audra Snyder — adoptive parent and therapeutic parenting advocate. Audra shared her firsthand experience raising a son with reactive attachment disorder through 15 prior placements, and what it actually took to rewire attachment — not love alone, but structure, consistency, repair, and the courage to stay regulated when a child couldn't. A deeply honest and hope-filled conversation on therapeutic parenting, and why once broken is never the whole story.
Who Is This Training NOT For?
This training is not a good fit for those that:
- Only interested in professional but not personal growth
- Do not enjoy online learning
- Dislike working in a group environment
- Do not have 3 hours weekly to invest in yourself and your practice
- Will need but not willing to pay for one-one support
- Are wanting to receive therapy or medical care
Aimie Apigian, MD, MS, MPH
Physician. Researcher. Patient. Guide.
Aimie Apigian is a double board-certified physician in Preventive Medicine and Addiction Medicine with master's degrees in biochemistry and public health. She is the founder of Trauma Healing Accelerated and author of the USA Today bestselling book, The Biology of Trauma—with a foreword by Dr. Gabor Maté.
Her framework didn't come from textbooks. It came from necessity.
As a surgical resident and functional medicine physician, she saw patients whose stress had made them sick. As a foster-adoptive mother to her son Miguel, she experienced firsthand how trauma creates deep patterns. As someone who lived her own health collapse—chronic fatigue, autoimmunity, anxiety, and unexplained symptoms—she discovered what was missing from every approach she tried.
That missing piece became the Biology of Trauma® framework and an integration of psychology, somatics, and biology in the sequence the body needs to heal.
She is a certified Somatic Experiencing practitioner trained under Dr. Peter Levine, with additional certifications in NeuroAffective Touch, Internal Family Systems, and the Instinctual Trauma Response Model. She has presented at Oxford University's Masters Series on Trauma, the Institute for Functional Medicine, and the Integrative Medicine for Mental Health Conference.
Her podcast features conversations with leading trauma experts including Dr. Gabor Maté, Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, Dr. Peter Levine, and Dr. Stephen Porges.
She has guided hundreds of thousands through this work.
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Disclaimer: This is not a course that gives you a license as a provider nor is it a health or trauma recovery coach credentialing program. At the completion of each module, you will receive a Certificate of Completion indicating you have achieved competency on that specific topic of Biology of Trauma®. At the completion of all 6 modules of the Certificate Course, you will receive a Certificate of Completion from Trauma Healing Accelerated. This is a certificate that you will be adding to your professional work capacities.
You are still held to the restrictions, responsibilities, and privileges of your primary license and board.
Medical Disclosure: The information and programs presented on or through this website are made available to equip you with knowledge and tools. All the materials in this course are intended for educational purposes. This information or any programs that are offered are not (nor are they a substitute for) medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. For any physical or mental health issues, I recommend you work with a qualified health provider who will also support your desire to address the effects of trauma.
