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MONIQUE RUTHERFORD Somatic Attachment Focused Expressive Therapy® & Training
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Are you passionate about mental health and loving family relationships?
Do you have a driving desire to move your clients toward greater emotional security?
Would you like a counselling practice that inspires greater compassion and creativity?
 
Join me, and let’s LIBERATE LOVE together.
 
We are all born wired to love!  This template is in our cells.
People everywhere, from all walks of life are not just ready for it,
they are L O N G I N G to love and be loved like they’ve never been hurt before.
Children deserve love, the kind of love that makes them thrive, not just survive. 
Our comrades, communities and classrooms need connection not isolation,
compassion not judgment, creativity not containment.
It seems that when our systems become overwhelmed, we forget how to love.
And we are in trouble…children continue to be abused, ignored or scapegoated,
relationships break up, communications break down, addictions block presence,
politicians peddle fear, trauma is passed on from generation to generation. 
Returning our systems, our families and our communities back to an alignment with love
is not just entirely possible, it is a necessity.
 
Are you ready to be the change you want to see in the world?
 
Therapists who really get that love can change the world and are being called to create a counselling practice founded on connection, compassion and creativity – people who are ready to be pioneers of this mission – now have an exciting chance to train with me to become a Somatic Attachment Focused Expressive Therapist, to Liberate Love in themselves and in their clients.  It is an opportunity to join a tribe of heart-centered counsellors who are not only ready to embrace their own barriers to loving unconditionally, but are ready to take a stand for humanity.  You’ll learn what it takes to support your clients with loving presence toward greater security in all of their relationships.  This is a movement, a cause.  And it calls for professionals who are ready to become certified and trained in my Somatic Attachment Focused Expressive Therapy Training.
 
Imagine being among a group of therapists that stands out above the rest – not because they have read more books, or conducted more research or even seen more suffering clients. No, that’s not what will set you apart.  

Exceptional therapists have the courage to visit openly the dark places in their own history in order to bring integration and wholeness to their hearts and lives.  They do this relentlessly, endlessly so that they can shine a very bright light for others to follow. These are the therapists that truly change the world. They take their clients where they have gone and consequently lighten their load. They become role models for others in the field. They do this because of their commitment not just to heal the places that may feel broken but to live an extraordinary life. These therapists are not simply practitioners – they are leaders.
 
Just imagine what it might be like to really find your tribe, to feel an unwavering sense of belonging, to take a stand for what you believe in, and to make a purposeful and meaningful contribution.  To co-create a legacy founded on LOVE.  Sound good?
 
JUST. SAY. YES.
 
If you feel deeply moved to make a difference and called to learn more with a growing tribe of like-minded professionals cheering you on, I invite you to consider joining this movement to LIBERATE LOVE.
 
My long awaited 9 month integrated training program will give you access to my unique practice methods and teachings.   A fusion of 20 years of personal and professional effort, suffering and insight, teaching therapists the art of presence, working with children who’ve been abused, children at risk of exclusion in the school system, parents who struggle to see their children through the eyes of compassion, adults affected by childhood sexual abuse and family violence, parents experiencing separation and divorce and the impact on the family, couples in distress and the lessons learned from my own attachment history, my own trauma in childhood, my own extensive journey of parenthood, my own journey of love, identity, divorce and loss followed by my ongoing journey of recovery and integration.
 
I have worked with hundreds of people and witnessed lives transform.  I am now ready to lead you to do the same…
 
Will you join me?
 
The range of truly unique and creative tools you’ll experience and learn in my program is extensive and will, without a doubt, increase your ability to impact your clients in profound ways.  You will be armed with the most current and potent expressive healing tools available – to implement from the very first workshop with your clients.
 
This. Is. LEADING EDGE.
 
But be warned:  These are not just your average run-of-the-mill training programs…
 
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 ATTACHMENT SYSTEM REPAIR
 
This beautiful, courageous work is designed to cultivate necessary levels of safety in order to nurture repair and realignment with security.  But its waaaaaaaay more than that.  It’s love-fuelled, intuitive, soulful and generous.  It’s educational, a little bit sciencey and incredibly practical.  It’s steeped in kindness, creativity, resonance and boundless love.
 
I’ve been described as, “having a rare gift for generating a sense of safety, trust and respect, delivering knowledge, skills and experience in a clear, engaging, personable and easy-to-understand way.”  As being, “knowledgeable, generous, inspiring, fun, a great listener, gentle, inspirational, passionate, wise, articulate, committed, dedicated, warm, calming, heart-centred, unique and highly experienced and professional”.
 
 
How the Certificate Training Program works:
 
Embrace your own Liberation first.
Identify your attachment style.  Explore how it developed and how it show’s up in your life now.  Learn how to self-regulate and re-orient back to security, often.  Embody self-love and compassion.  Then take what you’ve learned and explore with clients.
 
This unique, heart-centered, multi-modal training program promises to challenge your ideas about what love and healing is all about.  Not only will you be learning to help others – it will inspire you to redefine your values and renew your self-love vows.
 
This training program will deliver the ‘science’ of the work as well as provide an opportunity for you to literally experience the healing power of the Expressive Therapy and Sandplay Therapy modalities.  I have developed this body of work over my 20 years of teaching, training, counselling and holding space for others to transform their lives in my various professional roles.
 
It’s this perfect combination (sciencey, educational, experiential, creative, embodied, loving and imbued with spirit) that makes this work so unique and so unrivalled.  I promise that not just your clients, but your own heart as well, will give you a round of applause at the end of this training.  It will transform your counselling practice, rewire your neurology and enrich your relationships.  You will graduate laden with tools to empower and liberate love within yourself and your clients.
 
Initially it’s about showing up for yourself like never before.  It invites you to welcome the challenges you face as the very catalyst you’ve needed to bring you back to your heart, to your centre, to your truth.  To choose to go at a different pace, a self-honoured, client-centred pace, instead of a system-focused pace.  It may require you to make changes in your life.  To learn to say YES to you.  To receive the goodness that is already present.  To feel safety in the now.  To belong.  To feel deeply supported.  Seen.  Here.  Now.  Where you are….ahhhhhh….
 
You will come to honour your own wisdom.  You will become your own champion – embodying your own liberation first.
You will then learn how to empower your clients to do the same.  You will know how to guide them back to their heart, their centre, their truth.  It’s about choosing to prioritise love as a healing force.  It’s about making amends with ourselves on a very deep, cellular level.
 
This work is about way more than simply supporting our clients to feel heard.  It’s about sewing love into all the right places.  It opens the door for little miracles to occur.  For yourself, for your clients and for your community.
 
CAN YOU LET YOURSELF HAVE IT?
UNCONDITIONAL LOVE
You crave it.  It’s time….
 
 
Who is the Certificate Training Program for?
 
Graduates who’ve got the piece of paper and now need the tools to really get to the heart of the issue with their clients. 

Experienced Counsellors who are ready to transform and realign their practice with love and security. 

Anyone who wants to replace burnout with a renewed, sustainable and deeply compassionate view of their clients. 

Professionals who simply get a big, “YES” for it.  My kinda people…

 
It’s for those who deeply resonate with my message.  People who are not only ready to support clients from a deeply compassionate place but who also feel called to champion the message of living life from a place of empowered, centred security.  To help steer humanity back to a place of love and kindness.  People who are committed to self-love passionately.  Who value resonance – that deeply delicious feeling of being seen and understood.  It’s for professionals who want to make a difference, a meaningful contribution to life – without burning out.
 
It’s for Counsellors, Psychologists, Psychotherapists, Social Workers, Youth Workers, Chaplains, Guidance Officers, Welfare workers, Behaviour Management Specialists, Foster Carers, Allied Health Professionals, Sexologists, Relationship Educators, anybody who works to support the well-being of children, young people, parents or adults.  People who want to integrate this work into their own professional work, or who want to incorporate the work in its entirety.
 
It’s for client-focused therapists who value working intuitively and with deep presence with their clients.  It's for counsellors who want to learn the practice of working with clients from the heart, who are willing to turn up physically and engage in a hands on exploration of relationship – the very vulnerable dance between themselves and another.  The depth to which we explore this in ourselves is the depth to how well we support the growth and healing of it in others.
  
OH. MY. GODDESS.
YES!!!

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Certificate in Somatic Attachment Focused Expressive Therapy


Acknowledgement of Country

Diversity is Welcome

I would like to acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as Australia’s First People, Traditional Custodians and Sovereign owners of this country.  I value their cultures, identities and continuing connection to country, waters, kin and community.  I pay my respects to Elders past and present and am committed to making a positive contribution to the wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people by providing services that are welcoming, safe, culturally appropriate and inclusive.  I acknowledge that Sovereignty was never ceded.
I am  committed to embracing diversity and eliminating all forms of discrimination in the provision of counselling & training services. I welcome all people irrespective of ethnicity, lifestyle choice, faith, sexual orientation and gender identity.
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