Attachment-Focused Psychotherapeutic Pathway to Clinical Mastery Diploma

Level 7 Awarded and Accredited by CPCAB

Who is this course for?

Level 7 Momentum is for experienced counsellors and psychotherapists who already have a good grounding in attachment and are ready to go further with it in their clinical work.

You might be at that stage in your practice where you’re noticing more. You’re thinking differently about what happens between you and your clients, becoming more curious about the patterns that emerge in the relationship and wanting to understand what sits underneath some of the more complex work you’re doing.

For some therapists, Level 7 is also part of their progression towards senior professional recognition, including Senior Accreditation and the highest column of SCoPEd. For others, it’s less about the title and more about wanting to keep developing as a practitioner and feeling ready for the next level of learning.

You’ll need to have completed Level 4 and Level 5 training, or equivalent attachment-based study, and have a minimum of three years’ post-qualification experience with more than 450 post-qualification counselling hours.

And if you’re wondering what makes Momentum different, it’s simply the way we timetable the course.

You’ll be studying the same Level 7 Diploma, with the same course content and expectations, but instead of learning across 31 weeks, Momentum runs over 24 weeks with longer weekly sessions.

So if Level 7 feels like the right next step for you, but you’d prefer to start in January and complete the course within a shorter timeframe, Momentum gives you that option.
24 weeks online live classes
Term Time January-July
Course cost or deposit + 7 Interest-Free Monthly payments

Course Content

Supervision


  • Foundations of Supervision: Roles, Relationships, and Skills
  • Understand the Principles of Evaluation and Feedback in a Supervisory Context
  • Theories, Models, and Modalities of Supervision
  • Working with Difference, Diversity, and Power in Supervision
  • Ethical, Legal, and Professional Issues in Supervision
  • Reflective Practice
  • Contracting

Modality Review

Couples Therapy


  • Advanced Skills in Attachment-Focused Couples Therapy (AFCT)
  • Attachment-Focused Approach to Relationship Counselling
  • Cultural Competence and Diversity in AFCT
  • Addressing Complex Relationship Dynamics in AFCT
  • Core Practices in AFCT
  • Addressing Mental Health and Trauma in AFCT
  • Integrating Theoretical Perspectives in AFCT

Presenting Couples Therapy Models

Clinical Research


  • Introduction to Conducting Research & Systematic Reviews
  • Fundamentals of Conducting Research & Systematic Reviews
  • Research Appraising Psychological Ideas and Theoretical Integration

Systematic Review

Advanced Trauma Practice


  • Working with Trauma – Sexual Trauma and Sexual Abuse
  • Working with Trauma Using the Flash Technique
  • Working with and Understanding Religious Trauma
  • Endings

Course details

Supervision Practice

12 hours of supervised practice of two supervisees

Supervision

1 ½ hours monthly of clinical couples supervision – with an Attachment Therapist

Supervision of Supervision

6 hours of supervision of supervision – with an Attachment Therapist (can be the same supervisor)

Couples Therapy

8 hours of Couples work

Personal Therapy

20 Hours of Personal Therapy with an Attachment Therapist

How Optima supports you on your Level 7 Journey

Level 7 training asks you to think deeply, clinically and personally, so support is built into the course from the beginning. You are not expected to arrive already feeling like an expert. You are supported to grow into more advanced attachment-focused practice, step by step.
You will be supported through:
  • A clear Level 7 learning pathway so you understand how the course develops and how each stage builds your clinical confidence, theoretical depth and professional identity.
  • Tutor guidance at key milestones to help you stay on track with your learning, written work, clinical thinking and research development.
  • Advanced teaching that links theory to real therapeutic practice, so attachment, trauma, relational process, rupture and repair, supervision and research all stay connected to the therapy room.
  • Support with research and critical thinking, helping you develop your ideas, engage with literature and connect research to meaningful clinical questions.
  • Case discussion and practice-based reflection, so you can explore how attachment-focused practice shows up in real client work, supervision, couples work or professional development.
  • A safe relational learning environment, where depth, uncertainty, challenge and vulnerability can be explored without you feeling exposed or left on your own.
  • Reflective work on yourself as therapist, including your own attachment responses, defences, relational patterns, countertransference and use of self in the therapeutic relationship.
  • Supportive challenge, because Level 7 learning should stretch you, but it should not leave you feeling unsupported.
  • Peer connection and cohort learning, giving you a thoughtful professional community where ideas, clinical questions and personal reflections can be shared.
  • Clear structure around assignments and expectations, so the academic level feels manageable, purposeful and connected to practice.
  • Space to develop your attachment-informed specialism, whether your focus is supervision, couples therapy, research, advanced clinical practice or senior professional development.
  • Encouragement beyond the course, including pathways into supervision, couples work, research-informed etc
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course Fees

Early Bird

Apply during September or October and receive
our Early Bird course fee ÂŁ2495.00 (+VAT ÂŁ2994.00).
This includes CPCAB registration fees.

Full Fee

The full course fee is ÂŁ2670 (+VAT ÂŁ3204.00)

Interest free payment plan

We know professional training is a meaningful investment, so we offer an interest-free payment plan to help
you spread the cost or choose to pay in full.

You can pay in full or secure your place with a deposit and spread the remaining balance over seven
months.

Early Bird Payment Plan

To secure the Early Bird fee apply during September or October

Deposit

ÂŁ600 (+VAT ÂŁ720)

7 monthly Instalments
Total Payable

ÂŁ2495 (+VAT ÂŁ2,994)

Full Fee Payment Plan

Applications received from the 1st November

Deposit

ÂŁ600 (+VAT ÂŁ720)

7 monthly Instalments

ÂŁ295.83 (+VAT ÂŁ355)

Total Payable

ÂŁ2670 (+VAT ÂŁ3,204)

Please note: Your deposit secures your place. Monthly payments must be made on the agreed dates. Full payment terms will be shared before your enrolment is confirmed.

Course Prerequisites

  • Prior completion of a recognised Level 4 and Level 5 Diploma in attachment-based psychotherapy or its equivalen
  • A minimum of 540 previous guided learning hours (GLH)
  • Be established with over 450 post-qualification counselling hours (three years minimum post-qualification).
  • Member of a professional body
  • Minimum of 40 hours of personal therapy previously undertaken
  • Have an understanding of Attachment Theory

Which Level 7 route is right for you?

Both pathways lead to the same CPCAB Level 7 Attachment-Focused Psychotherapeutic Pathway to Clinical Mastery. The difference is the timetable and rhythm of the learning.

Level 7 Diploma

Level 7 Momentum

Qualification

CPCAB Level 7 Attachment-Focused Psychotherapeutic Pathway to Clinical Mastery.

CPCAB Level 7 Attachment-Focused Psychotherapeutic Pathway to Clinical Mastery.

Course content

Full Level 7 curriculum

Full Level 7 curriculum

Teaching format

Live online

Live online

Length

31 teaching weeks

24 teaching weeks

Session length

4 hours

5.5 hours

Start

September

January

Learning rhythm

More time between teaching sessions for reading, reflection and course work

Learning moves at a quicker rhythm, with fewer weeks between starting and completing the course

Best suited to you if…

You prefer to complete your diploma across three academic terms, with four-hour weekly teaching sessions

You’d like to complete the same diploma over a shorter period, with longer teaching sessions and an earlier completion date.

Diversity and Inclusion

Throughout the Level 7 diploma, diversity, identity, and inclusive practice are thoughtfully woven into teaching, case material, skills development, and reflective learning. The programme is culturally attuned, neurodiversity-informed, and aligned with the BACP Ethical Framework, creating learning spaces that are respectful, curious, and ethically grounded. Attention is given to difference, culture, power, and social context as essential parts of counselling practice, rather than something added on or treated separately.

As a student, you will be gently supported to explore your developing professional identity alongside your own values, assumptions, and lived experience. Through reflection, discussion, and relational learning, you will begin to notice how issues of power, difference, and positionality can show up in counselling relationships and in your work with clients. The course encourages thoughtful, compassionate engagement with complexity and difference, helping you to grow in confidence as an ethical, inclusive practitioner who can work with care, sensitivity, and respect within your scope of practice.