TRAINING
The Art & Science of Attunement
Every graduate program tells you the therapeutic relationship matters more than the modality. Most of us left training believing it and never learned how to build it on purpose.
Attunement is a skill. Not just warmth. Not just being a good listener.
It is the specific, teachable ability to co-experience a client’s felt experience closely enough that it becomes clinical data about what they feel, what their feeling means, what it needs, and what it’s protecting them from.
Therapists who attune well don’t just connect better. They see more. They hold more. They work with clients other clinicians would call poor fits.
This training teaches attunement as a clinical instrument — what it is, how to do it, and what it makes possible in the room.
A step-by-step process for leveraging the therapeutic relationship
Friday, June 12, 2026
Brentwood, TN
4-hour Live CE Training
WHO THE TRAINING IS FOR
This training is built for clinicians who have heard their whole career that attunement matters and were never taught the practical steps to do it.
That includes:
Mid-career therapists who feel the gap between knowing attunement matters and being able to teach it to a supervisee.
New and emerging clinicians whose graduate programs named attunement and never operationalized it.
Therapists trained in cognitive frames who want a working bridge into affective work that isn’t just "track the feeling."
Supervisors who want to teach attunement and need a step-by-step process for it.
WHAT YOU’LL LEARN
By the end of this training, participants will be able to:
Describe a functional theory of emotion, including the role of feelings as somatic carriers of meaning, need, and longing.
Apply interoceptive awareness to attune to a felt experience, identifying the somatic sensation, constructed meaning, emotions, and underlying needs.
Demonstrate the eight aspects of the affective attunement process.
Identify common blocks to attunement, including therapist unattended feelings, and describe their impact on the therapeutic relationship.
Utilize attunement data to develop a working conceptualization of a client’s neural construct, including feeling, narrative, need and longing, and behavior.
LOGISTICS
| Date | Friday, June 12, 2026 |
| Time | 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM Central |
| Location | Brentwood, TN · address provided after registration |
| Format | In person · small cohort |
| CE Hours | 4 NBCC contact hours |
| Tuition | $125 |
| Capacity | 12 seats |
ABOUT YOUR TEACHER
Aron Strong, LMFT, is the creator of Attuned Systemic Repair. He owns Pathways Counseling in Middle Tennessee, co-founded inRelationship, and is leading a research partnership with Dr. Jennifer White Van Boxel at Northwestern University to study ASR’s clinical effectiveness. He’s a regionally recognized speaker, trainer, supervisor, and writer.
A fuller bio and the framework behind ASR can be found on the About ASR page.
CONTINUING EDUCATION
Continuing education for this training is provided by inRelationship, an NBCC-Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEP™). inRelationship is solely responsible for all aspects of the program. ACEP No. 7745.
4 NBCC contact hours awarded upon completion.
Registration, payment, refunds, and cancellation are handled through inRelationship. You can read about inRelationship’s CE Policies here.
REGISTER
Register Your Seat
12 seats. Small cohort. Intentional pace. Expect it to fill up.