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Live Webinar: The Friend Frustrated Client

Live Webinar
Date & Time: November 17, 2026 | 12:00•1:30 PM ET

Title:
The Friend Frustrated Client: An Attachment-Informed Intervention for Adult Friendship Concerns
Presenters:
Stephanie Cox, MS, LMHC
Description:
Adult friendship is having a public reckoning. The Surgeon General has called loneliness a national epidemic, and the data three years later shows little improvement. Yet clinicians have almost no clinical framework for it, leaving them with little more to offer their friend frustrated clients than a “shrug” and advice to join a club.
This session introduces a framework for better friendship literacy, based off recent research, the principles behind a Secure Base of Friendship, along with the Seven-Step Secure Friendship Arc, an attachment-based intervention adapted from Emotionally Focused Individual and Couples Therapy specifically for platonic rupture, designed by Stephanie Cox. This session will walk participants through its full application with a case vignette.
Participants will also learn to be culturally sensitive to how friendship looks different based on culture, neurotype, and other differences, they will learn to differentiate healthy relational maintenance from the protective behaviors that quietly erode friendships, and will leave with a grief-processing framework for a loss type, friendship loss, that current clinical training gives almost no dedicated language for.
The overall objective for this course is to provide practitioners with an attachment informed, intervention for their friend frustrated clients to build, maintain, repair and keep their platonic bonds healthy so that their clients can engage in more secure base friendships and experience less friendship loss and community isolation.

NBCC ACEP No. 1000
November 17, 2026
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