Attachment Based Addiction Treatment Certificate Program

Taking your clinical practice to the depths of the human condition.

higher education highly accessible

Working with the complexities of the human condition is challenging. At times, this sort of work can be discouraging, confusing and taxing. Sometimes there is a significant gap between the level of professional training and the complexity of suffering of your patients. This certificate program aims to narrow that gap, all the while continue to cultivate the character, content and craft of the therapist.

9 Modules across 12 Months

With three cohort starts every year (January, May, September), this post-graduate certificate program aims to narrow the gap between a professionals training and the acuity of patient’s difficulties. This certificate program hopes to serve as an adjunctive to the types of treatment for those with substance use/abuse disorders and 12-step communities. At the time of completion, participants will have another lens by which to understand the etiology of addiction, an understanding of why such disorders are treatment resistant, and a set of skills to incorporate into clinical practice, aimed at getting to the depths of successful sobriety and recovery.
Participants may be eligible to Continuing Education credits (27 total), depending on their state board requirements. Meetings are held in combination of in-person, teleconference, and on-the-job-site meetings, making the certificate program highly accessible for the working professional. The ABAT Certificate Program has the following modules:

  • Module 1: A history of researchers, clinicians, and their ground breaking ideas

  • Module 2: The heart of attachment: the brain and nervous system

  • Module 3: The basics and essentials: attunement, balance, coherence

  • Module 4: Attachment classifications and assessment

  • Module 5: Addiction and attachment specific nervous system

  • Module 6-9: Brown & Elliott’s 3 Pilar Model of Attachment Repair

enrollment periods

The ABAT Certificate Program begins in January, May and September of every year.

  • Real-time classes taught in-residence and through teleconferencing.

  • Ability to join later cohort if life interrupted your progression through program.

  • Program covers history, scientific foundations, theory, and skills development

tuition costs

Tuition for the ABAT Certificate Program is unique - TIPP uses a subscription model. You pay a consistent flat rate, every month. Once you’ve completed the ABAT certificate program, you no longer pay. Simple. Straightforward. Affordable.

  • ABAT Certificate Program Costs: $175/month plus one-time $120 book fee.

  • Anticipated Time to Complete Certificate Program: 12 months

  • Anticipated Total Costs for ABAT Certificate Program: $2220

Rooted in Three Traditions

Contemporary Relational Psychoanalysis and the Sciences of Attachment +

Ecumenical Christian Theology and Interreligious Kinship +

Intersectional Multicultural Psychology

On the surface -these are important traditions. Just underneath the surface is a depth unappreciated by many, and essential for the complexity of the patients we work with.

“The emotional quality of our earliest attachment experience is perhaps the single most important influence on human development.”

— Alan Sroufe and Dan Siegel.