This is a therapetic intervention conducted in weekly sessions with both mother and toddler present. The mother:infant and client:therapist relationships are examined and contrasted with historical relationship experiences. Behaviours within these relationships during counselling sessions are taken as manifestations of representational models and attention is drawn to them. In this way, the relationship experience with the therapist provides a corrective experience within which the mother's internal working models are examined, restructured and updated. This permits the mother to to change her self-representation with respect to her child which leads to changes in the relationship between mother and infant.

This intervention was demonstrated to completely negate the effects of maternal depression on mother:infant attachment (Cicchetti, Toth & Rogosch, 1999)