The Hold Me Tight® / Let Me Be Me Program for Adult Children and Their Parents – March 1 & 2, 2025
This program is designed to facilitate new conversations and strengthen family bonds.
Whether you are 22, 42, 62, or 72 what parent doesn’t want to heal ruptures with their grown up kid and what adult child doesn’t wish to be understood and accepted in their separate autonomous lives?
We often don’t know how to be with each other. Adult children and their parents remain a family for more decades than ever before. Roles keep changing, and with these shifts, moments of distress are inevitable, and insecurity triggers.
Dr. Nancy Aikin, Clinical Psychologist, Certified EFT Trainer and Co-Director of the Greater Sacramento-Davis EFT Center will teach Dr. Sue Johnson’s empirically validated concepts of love from Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) – modified to fit the attachment systems present in family life. With the help of theory, exercises, structured private family conversations and group support, participants will grow an appreciation of how to reframe their needs for connection to better fit each of the stages they find themselves facing as a family.
If you’d like to hear what participants share about their experience, please scroll to the bottom of this page.
Saturday, March 1 & Sunday, March 2, 2025
9:00 am – noon & 1:00 – 5:00 pm PT (both days)
Location: Online
Having a free Zoom account and downloading the free Zoom application on your device are the only requirements for participation. We will provide the meeting details prior to the training. Please contact Erin if you have questions about Zoom (visualerin@yahoo.com).
Registration:
There are two steps to register:
1. Make your payment.
2. Return to this webpage and fill out the registration form below.
Step 1: Payment
Payment Option A: $750 per family ($650 by February 1st)
To use Venmo – @Nancy-Aikin (last four digits of phone number are -1912): Please notate “March Family Workshop”
To use Zelle – paulaaikin@gmail.com (Make sure to copy/paste to avoid common spelling errors!) Please notate “March Family Workshop”
To use Credit/Debit/PayPal:
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Payment Option B: – for those in need, donation (range: $100 – $650) CLICK HERE TO DONATE*
Step 2: Fill out the registration form (one form per family)
Cancellation Policy:
Two weeks+ advance notice – Full refund less $40 administrative costs
Between 7-13 days notice – One half of the total fee will be refunded
Less than 1 week notice – We are unable to offer a refund when canceled within one week of the workshop date, due to fixed costs and contractual obligations. When you enroll, it is with the understanding that you will attend. Please contact us as soon as possible if you need to cancel your attendance.
Testimonials:
“I’ve talked to my daughter about things I never would have had the opportunity to open to. The workshop brings opportunities we didn’t even realize were there to connect.”
-Parent of Adult Child
“The ‘Hold me tight and let me be me’ workshop was fantastic and very helpful for our family. The intensity is what makes this workshop great and time well spent! In two days of family therapy, we were able to get a better understanding of what we need to work on and how to do it. All in two days! Previous therapy has been helpful, but working on issues for an extended time as a family allowed us to put the pieces together and to start to really see a focused picture of what happens when things don’t go so well and what we can do to turn it around. The road ahead is still long but we definitely found a path forward. This was all possible thanks to the incredibly skilled, caring, experienced and prompt guidance from Nancy, Paul and their colleagues.”
-Parents of Adult Child
“We love your teamwork. You have different styles, different ways of sharing your wisdom. We also enjoy the group process; we didn’t feel alone. And my daughter got to hear other parents think they’re right too!”
-Parent of Adult Child
“It was really interactive and it kept my attention all day. I loved the exercises and the workbook.”
-Adult Child
“…Because the Aikins share themselves and open their home, our walls just came down.”
-Parent of Adult Child
“There were three generations present, and that made it even better.”
-Parent of Adult Child
“Tell them we don’t want to leave. Can we extend it to three days?!”
-Adult Child
“Hold Me Tight®” is a registered trademark to Dr. Sue Johnson.
Workshops
Drs. Paul and Nancy Aikin are EFT certified trainers, supervisors and therapists. They offer workshops for individuals, couples and therapists in the Davis and greater Sacramento, California area, as well as, national and international workshops.
For more information on upcoming workshops Click Here
ICEEFT Certified
Dr. Sue Johnson’s Visit
Dr. Sue Johnson is the founder and director of the International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy (ICEEFT).
We were very lucky to have her speak about her research and answer audience questions at the Veterans' Memorial Theater on January 20, 2015.