Attachment-Focused Psychotherapeutic Pathway to Clinical Mastery Diploma

Level 7 Awarded and Accredited by CPCAB

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Who is this course for?

The Level 7 course is for qualified counsellors and psychotherapists who are ready to deepen their attachment-focused practice and develop towards advanced professional recognition. It’s especially well suited for practitioners aiming for senior accreditation and the highest column in SCoPEd.

Applicants must have completed Level 4 and Level 5 training, have a prior understanding of attachment theory, and be established practitioners with over 450 post-qualification counselling hours and a minimum of three years’ post-qualification experience.

This course is for therapists who already know attachment work matters and are ready to take their clinical thinking, relational depth and professional identity to the next level.
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31 weeks online live classes
Term Time September-June
Course cost or deposit + 10 Interest-Free Monthly payments
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Course Content

Supervision

  • Contracting
  • Foundational supervision principlesacting
  • Evaluation and feedback principles
  • Differences, Diversity and Power
  • Ethical, Legal and Professional Challenges
  • Reflective Practice

Modality Review

Couples Therapy

  • Fundamentals of Attachment-Focused Couples Therapy (AFCT)
  • Advanced Skills in AFCT
  • Attachment Approach to Relationship Counselling
  • Cultural competency and client diversity
  • Complex relationship dynamics
  • Core Practices in AFCT
  • Addressing Mental Health and Trauma in AFCT

Presenting Couples Therapy Models

Research

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

Systematic Review

Religious Trauma

  • Working with Religious Trauma
  • Trauma Flash Technique
  • 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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The Attachment Training Clarity Guarantee

We guarantee this course will help integrate attachment into who you are as a therapist and transform the way you understand yourself, your clients and the therapeutic relationship.

You leave with greater clinical confidence, deeper self-awareness and a clearer attachment-informed professional identity.

Optima Training Clarity Guarantee

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.

Secure your place with a £600 + VAT deposit.  The course cost is £2495 plus VAT (£2994), inclusive of registration fees.  The remaining fee can be paid in full, or we offer an interest-free payment plan of 10 monthly payments of £299.40 (inc VAT).

Deposit

£600

£750 (inc VAT)

Repayments

10 monthly Instalments

£299.40 (inc VAT)

Total Payable

£2495

£2994 (inc VAT)

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.
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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

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.

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