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April 2026

2026 English Language Training

Training Details 

April every Monday 10am-3pm PST NBCC and other CE  Victoria LeBlanc
August 21 - 23 8am - 5pm PST ICEA and CERP CE 

Tina McRorie

Barbara Nicolson

Lysa Parker

October every Friday 10am-3pm EST NBCC and other CE  Victoria LeBlanc
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April, August and October dates

June 2026

2026 Greek Language Training

Trainer: Maria Papafilippou, MSc

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June 19 - 21

October 2026

2026 Turkish Language Training

Trainer/Eğitmen: Dr. Aslıhan Tokgöz @DrOnaran 

İletişim, Dr. Aslihan Tokgoz - Onaran Contact: APUzmanProgrami@gmail.com , Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DrOnaran

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Attached at the Heart Training Events

Attached at the Heart Training Events

 

If you're a professional working with parents, you're invited to join an upcoming training. 

 

Training FAQ:

  • Your training is immediately useful. You don't need a new career or the "right' moment or client. You can start using what you learn right away.  

     

  • People in your field have trained with us. We're not a certification, licensing, therapeutic program or treatment modality. This flexibility means that we're relevant for almost anyone who works with parents or families. Pros in these fields are well represented in our training:

     

  • Perinatal health professionals who work in childbirth education, prenatal, birth and postpartum care, midwifery, doula, and lactation practices value expanding their knowledge and toolkit around the foundational choices that impact lifelong parent-child benefits.

     

  • Mental health and education professionals who work with children and families value our priority on the parent-child and family relationships. These pros also appreciate that our grounding in theory opens options that fit families where they, allowing them to broaden and build.

     

  • The $700 English language registration fee is one and done. There's nothing else to buy before or after training. Support, access to our pro network and directory listing is included. (Price varies for training in other languages.) 

     

  • Generous CE credits. Your annual CEs might be completed in our training. Ask your trainer for details.

     

  • 25 live-online contact hours, including interaction and discussions with peers and experienced trainers. Weekly training sessions are typical for English language training; be sure to check the schedule.

     

  • Small groups allow valuable discussion time and time to focus on what's most important to your practice. 

 

Training covers:

  • Eight Principles of Parenting, attachment, Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), Positive Childhood Experiences (PCEs)
  • Building a team of supportive adults around parents and children
  • Healthy birth and postpartum practices, child nourishment, oxytocin's role
  • Empathy, coping with stress, responding to child crying, nurturing touch
  • Healthy and safe sleep habits, navigating parent-child separations and childcare
  • Positive discipline and healthy guidance 
  • Healthy parent-child relationships and safety as children mature

 

Join a growing group of global, cross-disciplinary parenting professionals. Expand your practice to support parents in health-giving relationships that span generations. 

 

Note that AHPP training is well-suited for perinatal professionals working with families in the early stages of parenting. AHPP is not a therapeutic or treatment modality. AHPP training is not a licensing certification. 

AHPP training is not accreditation, nor does it serve as a license to practice mental health therapy or psychological and medical counseling. AHPP Online is not a certification program, therapeutic modality or clinical intervention. AHPP Online is a professional development training that promotes healthy parenting. AHPP Online training is designed for qualified professionals focused on supporting early parenting. 

Here is What Our Attendees Have Said:

"The lesson plans are meticulously organized, easy to follow and beautiful! I'm excited to present this information to parents."

"...I am a therapist with training in trauma and attachment, [and] having the material available in a way that is accessible to parents has been very helpful. I also appreciate that this course covers so many topics that are applicable to new parents, who are eager to learn and have questions about so many of these topics."

Program evaluation respondents overwhelmingly said they would recommend AHPP training to others, adding that the training was an easy, satisfying, positive experience with effective materials that helped them feel confident teaching and using what they learned.

Meet Our Trainers

Barbara Nicholson, MEd, CEIM, AHPP Co-Author

Team Trainer
Barbara Nicholson, MEd, CEIM

API co-founder, co-author of Attached at the Heart (AATH) book and curriculum, parent educator and speaker served as a La Leche League support group facilitator for over 25 years. Her early education and training as a special education teacher and long service as a parent group leader supporting breastfeeding has grown to include her passion for parenting education and professional lead trainer for the AATH program..

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Lysa Parker, AHPP Co-Author

Team Trainer
Lysa Parker

API co-founder, co-author of Attached at the Heart, parenting educator and speaker has blended her training and experience in special education, human development and family studies into a career that has included special education, parent education, curriculum development and professional trainer.

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Samantha Gray

Team Trainer
Samantha Gray

Samantha was the API Executive Director for 14 years and supported the AHPP program development. She works as the executive director of a community theatre, Theatre Bristol, and as the coordinator of Bristol's Promise Parenting Education Program and Parenting Sweet. She writes a weekly column for the Bristol Herald Courier on parenting and teaches weekly Attached at the Heart Parenting Program Online classes.

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Victoria LeBlanc

Team Trainer
Victoria Leblanc

Victoria is a therapist, parenting coach, public speaker, trainer, wife and mother of two. Her specialization in attachment, trauma, and at-risk youth allows her to take a holistic approach to family work.  She is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC), with a Master's degree in Health and Human Development from Montana State University. 

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Tina McRorie

Team Trainer
Tina McRorie, Team Trainer

Tina has been supporting parents with science-backed information on many aspects of parenting and child-development for over 20 years. She has been involved with API as a support group leader, AHPP educator and on the team bringing the AHPP trainings to you.

Tina earned degrees in psychology from the University of California at Santa Cruz and New College of California, has worked as a social worker in the foster care system and used the Eight Parenting Principles in raising her own two kids, who are now wonderful young adults.

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Aslihan Tokgoz, PhD

Lead Trainer Turkish Language
Aslihan Tokgoz

Aslihan is an experienced Turkish mental health professional who has seen the positive impacts AHPP has had with other Turkish mental health professionals and medical doctors who work with parents. She is a passionate parenting advocate with a goal of bringing the AHPP program to Turkish professionals and parents to promote research-based compassionate and holistic parenting and family flourishing. 

Contact:  https://www.instagram.com/DrOnaran

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Maria Papafilippou

Lead Trainer Greek Language
Maria Papafilippou

Maria works in private practice as a parent counselor and psychotherapist and serves as the scientific director of the three-year training program for professionals in “Counselling Parents in Attachment Parenting.”  

She started Attachment Parenting Hellas, assisted with translating the “Attached at the Heart” book into Greek and has provided scientific editing for the educational guide “Sinai/no” for the team of Genderhood. She is a training member for NeuBric (Neonatal Brain Care), a multidisciplinary, trauma-informed training program that aims to foster the neuro development of preterm babies, designed by Ilitominon in collaboration with EFCNI for the medical personnel of NICUs.

Maria is a certified parent educator in Positive Discipline and holds a master’s degree (MSc) in Mental Health Studies from King’s College London- Institute of Psychiatry with specialties in Family Systemic Psychotherapy and Child Psychology. She has studied Psychology (BA) at the American College of Greece (Deree) and Political Science and History (BA) at Panteion University. 

Maria is a proud mother to two children.

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