- 2 immersive days of training with Dan Siegel
- Slides, tools, and clinical handout for ongoing application
- Up to 12 CE Hours
- Official CAPPS Clinical Certification* and Digital Badge
If you’re honest, you’ve felt it—the frustration of doing
everything “right” and still watching certain clients repeat the same
rigid, reactive patterns.
You’re not missing skill. You’re
not missing effort.
What’s been missing is a framework that
explains why clients get stuck—and shows you exactly how to
intervene.
That’s what this training delivers.
Built on
the Patterns of Developmental Pathways (PDP) framework developed by Dan Siegel, this
training gives you a clear, clinically usable map of how
personality patterns form—and how to shift them.
In just
two days, you’ll learn how attachment, temperament, and
development shape nine breakthrough personality patterns—and
exactly how those patterns drive your clients’ responses to trauma, stress,
and relationships.
You’ll walk away with targeted,
pattern-specific interventions that plug directly into EMDR, CBT, IFS,
somatic work, and more—so you can help clients move out of rigidity
and reactivity and into regulation, flexibility, and real
connection.
Earn up to 12 CE hours,
elevate your clinical impact, and join Dr. Dan Siegel in this groundbreaking
certification experience to be one of the first clinicians to become a Certified
Attachment and Personality Patterns Specialist (CAPPS)*.
Save your seat today!
*Professional Standards Apply. Visit evgcert.com/capps for more details.
Dr. Dan Siegel's Certified Attachment
& Personality Patterns
Specialist (CAPPS) Training
Clinical
Integrations for Trauma, Anxiety,
Attachment Insecurity, Relational Distress &
More
Just $249.00 Today — Unbelievable Savings!
Dr. Dan Siegel's Certified Attachment
& Personality Patterns
Specialist (CAPPS) Training
Clinical
Integrations for Trauma, Anxiety,
Attachment Insecurity, Relational Distress &
More
Just $249.00 Today — Unbelievable Savings!
After completing this course, you’ll be able to:
- Assess the 9 core patterns that explain how people respond to stress and trauma—and see how attachment shapes their level of development and healing processes.
- Pinpoint where safety, regulation, and growth break down—and learn exactly how to restore balance.
- Implement targeted interventions for each pattern without relying on rigid, step-by-step protocols.
- Integrate the personality patterns framework seamlessly with your existing therapeutic approach, whether EMDR, CBT, IFS therapy, somatic, or beyond.
- Repair relationships and cultivate secure attachment through integration-based methods.
- Teach fast, in-the-moment regulation skills to calm the nervous system and anchor presence.
- Apply the personality patterns framework to anxiety, trauma recovery, attachment stance transformation, relational distress, and more.
- Design integration-driven treatment plans that create lasting change within mind, brain, and relationships
Certified Attachment and Personality Patterns Specialist
(CAPPS)
CAPPS training is Dr. Dan
Siegel's expanded clinical framework inspired by the Patterns of
Developmental Pathways (PDP) model of personality development. PDP was
developed by Dr. Dan Siegel and the PDP Group: Laura A. Baker, PhD;
David N. Daniels, MD; Denise Daniels, PhD, and Jack Killen, MD.
In just three easy steps, you will become a CAPPS
clinician* starting today:
- Step 1: Complete the online course.
- Step 2: Pass the CE test and download your certificate.
- Step 3: Submit your application to Evergreen Certifications* — $129.99 fee covered for 2 years.
*Professional standards apply. Visit evgcert.com/capps for more information.
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Dr. Dan Siegel's Certified Attachment
& Personality Patterns
Specialist (CAPPS) Training
Clinical
Integrations for Trauma, Anxiety,
Attachment Insecurity, Relational Distress &
More
Just $249.00 Today — Unbelievable Savings!
- Move beyond traditional pathology-based “personality disorder” labels to recognize universal adaptive strategies underlying personality
- See how temperament drives each client’s ways of coping, relating, and growing
- Uncover how attachment experiences lead to low or high levels of personality functioning
- Integrate research linking temperament, attachment, and systems like the Enneagram
You’ll walk away with:
A compassionate,
science-informed lens for understanding personality as an adaptive process
toward wholeness and human flourishing—helping you uncover new routes to
healing, integration, and growth.
- Discover the PDP framework as a neurobiologically informed model of personality and adaptation
- Understand how safety, regulation, and integration shape growth across the lifespan
- Identify how temperament and its motivations and attentional orientation form each personality pattern’s foundation
- Recognize how trauma and non-secure attachment leads these adaptive strategies toward lower levels of integration—and what growth-edge work restores balance and cultivates higher adaptive functioning
You’ll walk away with:
A clear, science-based
framework for mapping personality through psychological development, attachment,
and neurobiology—revealing the deeper logic underlying your clients’
behavior.
- Translate brain science into tools that transform personality patterns from prisons of chaos and rigidity to playgrounds of connection and possibility
- Use insights from research to build regulation, empathy, and connection
- Combine the personality patterns framework and IPNB models to design interventions for real, lasting positive change
You’ll walk away with:
Practical tools to help
clients move toward higher levels of personality adaptation and flourishing,
focusing on mind, brain, and relationships—bringing the science of
integration directly into your clinical sessions.
- Assess personality through a PDP perspective on the impact of neurobiological aspects of temperament and the influence of attachment relationships on levels of adaptive functioning
- Apply the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) to understand clients’ attachment organization and its influence on levels of integration in personality development
- Map AAI findings to your client’s personality patterns, combining PDP-specific growth edges with integrative growth toward a secure attachment stance
- Translate assessment data into personalized treatment and repair strategies
- Deepen your own inner-awareness and attunement as a reflective clinician, building on the notion of “clinician, know thyself”
You’ll walk away with:
A structured, PDP-informed
and attachment-based method for assessing both personality patterns and the
security of attachment—giving you a reliable roadmap to guide targeted,
integrative treatment at both the level of personality functioning and of
attachment.
- Identify and work effectively with all nine core personality patterns
- Trace how early temperament form the foundation of each pattern and how attachment moves the expression of that personality toward low or high levels of adaptive functioning
- Pinpoint each client’s “growth edge” to foster integration and regulation
- Help clients use their Personality Pathways map to prevent burnout and build relational resilience
You’ll walk away with:
A step-by-step clinical
framework for transforming entrenched personality patterns into pathways for
regulation, resilience, and lasting change.
Earn your Certified Attachment and Personality Patterns Specialist (CAPPS) Certification* for Free ($129.99 Value).
*Professional standards apply. Visit evgcert.com/capps for details.
Full length-demonstration: Dan Siegel Demonstrating Use of PDP in Clinical Work
In this demonstration, Dr. Dan Siegel will walk through the full PDP framework with a client in session.
Secure Attachment Figure Exercise
In this experiential practice, Dr. Dan Siegel guides you through a neurologically grounded meditation to develop an internalized secure attachment figure. Through this practice, you will learn to transform non-secure attachment stances into an earned sense of being seen, soothed, and safe that travels with you into your clinical work and your life.
Expanded Wheel of Awareness Practice with Personality Patterns and Attachment Array
In this immersive, extended Wheel of Awareness practice, Dr. Dan Siegel will guide you through all nine personality patterns, the three forms of non-secure attachment, and the plane of possibility — weaving together the full CAPPS framework into a single experiential journey. This practice is designed to help you embody the science of integration from the inside out, both for your own growth and for the clients you serve.
Dr. Dan Siegel's Certified Attachment
& Personality Patterns
Specialist (CAPPS) Training
Clinical
Integrations for Trauma, Anxiety,
Attachment Insecurity, Relational Distress &
More
Just $249.00 Today — Unbelievable Savings!
Dear Fellow Therapist,
Over the years, I've had the privilege of working with clients, colleagues, and students across the globe—and one thing I keep hearing is how stuck therapy can feel when protective patterns take over.
At one point, these patterns kept someone safe. But now? They're keeping them from healing.
That's what led me to develop the Patterns of Developmental Pathways (PDP) Model. Not as a new theory, but as a map—a way to make sense of these patterns, and more importantly, a way to help clients move through them.
This work comes from decades of practice, study, and listening. It's the most integrative and applied model I've created—built for clinicians who want to work at the level where change actually happens.
I'm honored to finally teach this work in a full-length course. I hope it supports you the way it's supported me—and helps you feel less alone when the work gets hard.
Warmly,
Dan Siegel, MD
Dr. Dan Siegel is the founder and director of education of the
Mindsight Institute and founding co-director of the Mindful Awareness Research
Center at UCLA, where he was also co-principal investigator of the Center for
Culture, Brain and Development and clinical professor of psychiatry at the School of
Medicine.
An award-winning educator, Dan is the author of five New York
Times bestsellers and over fifteen other books which have been translated into over
forty languages. As the founding editor of the Norton Professional Series on
Interpersonal Neurobiology (“IPNB”), Dan has overseen the publication of
over one hundred books in the transdisciplinary IPNB framework which focuses on the
mind and mental health.
A graduate of Harvard Medical School, Dan
completed his postgraduate training at UCLA specializing in pediatrics, adult,
adolescent, and child psychiatry. He was trained in attachment research and
narrative analysis through a National Institute of Mental Health research training
fellowship focusing on how relationships shape our autobiographical ways of making
sense of our lives and influence our development across the lifespan.
Dr. Dan Siegel's Certified Attachment
& Personality Patterns
Specialist (CAPPS) Training
Clinical
Integrations for Trauma, Anxiety,
Attachment Insecurity, Relational Distress &
More
Just $249.00 Today — Unbelievable Savings!
Right away. All modules and bonus content are available immediately on-demand.
How is this different from other personality or attachment models?
PDP maps how adaptive protective strategies form—and shows you how to work with them. It's actionable, neuroscience-based, and designed to support real change.
Is this course practical or mostly theory?
It's highly practical. You'll watch a full demo session, get mapping tools, and learn how to personalize interventions based on your client's PDP.
What if it's not a fit for me?
No problem—just contact our customer service team and you'll be covered by our 100% satisfaction guarantee.
Will I earn CE hours or a certification?
Yes. You'll earn up to 12 CE hours and be eligible to receive your Certified Attachment and Personality Patterns Specialist* designation from the Mindsight Institute and Evergreen Certifications. *Visit evgcert.com/capps for professional standards.