Attachment-Focused Psychotherapeutic Pathway to Clinical Mastery Level 7 Diploma — 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 is particularly suited to practitioners who aspire to senior accreditation and the highest column within 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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Work with clients who feel stuck despite insight or coping strategies

Want more confidence with attachment, shame, avoidance, dysregulation and relational rupture

Want to sue the therapeutic relationship as part of the work

Are drawn to depth, meaning repair and developmental understanding

Want a clearer attachment-informed identity in your clinical practice

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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

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

Students will not be left trying to translate attachment theory into practice on their own.

We guarantee that every key attachment concept will be clearly linked to practical client work, formulation, intervention, supervision or reflective practice. This means students will understand not only the theory, but how it can be recognised, explored and applied in real therapeutic relationships.

Optima Training Clarity Guarantee

Course details

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.

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With a deposit of £600 plus VAT

Monthly Payments

10 monthly payments of £249.50

(£299.40 inc VAT)

Total Course Fee

£2495
(£2994 inc VAT)

Inclusive of CPCAB Registration Fee

Start date

September 2026

All 31 sessions are online – term time only

Sessions are 4 hours

Supervisee hours

12 Hours of supervision practice

Couples Hours

8 Hours of clinical practice

Supervision of Supervision

6 hours of supervision of supervision in addition to your monthly supervision. With an attachment informed supervisor

Personal Therapy

20 hours of personal therapy with an attachment informed therapist

Interest free payment plan
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 Pre-requisites

  • 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