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Digital Seminar

Adult Daughters of Narcissistic Mothers

Clinical Strategies for Attachment Trauma, Core Wounds and Identity Disturbance

Speaker:
Ellen Biros, LCSW, C-PD
Duration:
Approx 6 hrs
Language:
Presented in EN
Copyright:
Dec 09, 2025
Product Code:
POS150495
Media Type:
Digital Seminar - Also available: Live Webinar


Description

  • Dozens of tools for core shame, internalized criticism and more
  • Confidently navigate emotional enmeshment
  • Best practices to restore emotional safety and authentic identity
  • Keys to “low contact” and “no contact”

 

Anxiety, perfectionism, or relationships that never seem to work …

… whatever brings them to you, so many clients describe a childhood that wasn’t that bad” with a mother who was “hard to please.

But when you start exploring that maternal relationship, the room changes. Defenses come up.

There’s loyalty. Confusion. Shame. Attachment is anxious, avoidant – or both. And their identity? Well, it feels entirely shaped by others’ expectations.

That’s why therapist and author of Adult Daughters of Narcissistic Mothers, Ellen Biros, created this one-day training …

… to give you a clear blueprint to identify and skillfully treat the core wounds these clients carry so they can reclaim their voice, rebuild their identity, and create relationships rooted in authenticity and self-respect.

When you watch Ellen, she’ll show you how to:

  • Spot the subtle but powerful markers of narcissistic parenting and attachment trauma
  • Work with core shame, internalized criticism, and identity confusion
  • Help clients navigate loyalty binds, complex grief, and emotional enmeshment
  • Use clinical strategies to restore self-agency, emotional safety, and authentic identity

PLUS you’ll learn how you can best help clients navigate decisions around low contact, no contact, or strategic interaction.

Whether you’ve had one client like this or dozens, you know how stuck these cases can feel – and how painful it is for clients to remain trapped in old dynamics.

This training gives you the tools to help them break that cycle – and finally begin to heal.

Purchase now!

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Planning Committee Disclosure - No relevant relationships

All members of the PESI, Inc. planning committee have provided disclosures of financial relationships with ineligible organizations and any relevant non-financial relationships prior to planning content for this activity. None of the committee members had relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies or other potentially biasing relationships to disclose to learners.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.



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Ellen Biros, LCSW, C-PD, has over 25 years of experience working with individuals struggling with trauma, anxiety, substance abuse, depression, domestic violence, and personality disorders. She’s a Certified Personality Disorder Treatment Provider (C-PD) and specializes in working with survivors of narcissistic abuse and other manipulative personality disorders. Ms. Biros has trained thousands of therapists on a variety of issues including emotional manipulation, personality disorders, and covert abuse. She’s an adjunct faculty member at The University of Phoenix in the School of Social Work and was formerly an adjunct at Tulane’s University’s School of Social Work. Ms. Biros is the author of Recovering from Narcissistic Mothers: A Daughters Workbook.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Ellen Biros maintains a private practice and has an employment relationship with the University of Phoenix. She receives royalties as a published author. Ellen Biros receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Ellen Biros is a member of the National Association of Social Workers, the Georgia Society of Clinical Social Workers, and the American Clinical Social Work Association.


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Program Information

Access for Self-Study (Non-Interactive)

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Objectives

  1. Identify the relevance of attachment theory principles to psychosocial development.
  2. Examine how parenting styles contribute to the development of early maladaptive schemas.
  3. Determine how maternal parentification impacts clients’ cognitions, behavioral patterns, and identity in adulthood.
  4. Evaluate the role of parental enmeshment, control, and boundary violations in shaping clients’ relational expectations and conflict responses in adulthood.
  5. Use self-compassion, somatic, reparenting and self-soothing interventions to help clients restore identity, agency, and emotional regulation.
  6. Identify and address countertransference reactions in therapeutic practice to maintain professional boundaries.

Outline

NPD, the Narcissistic Parenting Style and Its Impact

  • Define narcissism and narcissistic personality disorder
  • Identify narcissistic traits in parental dynamics
  • Common behaviors and manipulation tactics
  • Role reversal and parentification
  • The interplay between narcissism and codependency
  • How maternal narcissism distorts emotional development

The Daughter’s Role in the Narcissistic Family System

  • The scapegoat, the golden child, the invisible child
  • Emotional survival strategies and learned helplessness
  • Core developmental injuries: shame, self-doubt, perfectionism
  • Common adult symptoms: anxiety, people-pleasing, identity disturbance

Attachment Trauma in the Context of Narcissistic Parenting

  • How narcissistic parenting disrupts secure attachment
  • Emotional neglect, gaslighting, and chronic invalidation
  • Fear of abandonment, rejection sensitivity, and relational hypervigilance
  • Role confusion and identify struggles

Complex PTSD and the Long-Term Impact

  • Differentiate PTSD from Complex PTSD (C-PTSD)
  • Neurological and somatic consequences of prolonged emotional abuse
  • The chronic nature of relational trauma and its ripple effects

Build a Trauma-Informed Therapeutic Alliance

  • Establish trust and emotional safety in therapy
  • Validate ambiguous, minimized, or forgotten abuse
  • Recognize and working through transference and countertransference dynamics
  • Therapist boundaries and emotional resilience

Clinical Strategies and Targeted Interventions for Attachment Injury, Empowerment, Identity Restoration and More

  • Techniques to rebuild self-identity and autonomy
  • Help clients recognize and deconstruct internalized criticism
  • Teach assertiveness, boundary-setting, and emotional regulation
  • Encourage self-compassion, resilience, and post-traumatic growth
  • Attachment-based and relational interventions
  • Reparenting strategies and inner child work
  • Somatic practices and self-soothing techniques
  • Research, risks and limitations

Helping Clients Navigate Decisions around Low Contact and No Contact

  • How to assess current contact and relational patterns
  • Identify ongoing manipulation, guilt, and emotional control
  • Explore the client’s values and goals around contact
  • Boundary-setting methods and communication scripts
  • Disengagement

Target Audience

  • Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Psychologists
  • Physicians
  • Case Managers
  • Addiction Counselors
  • Nurses
  • Other Mental Health Professionals

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