Attachment Theory

Shaped by both nature and nurture, we seek connection across a wide social landscape. In therapy, safety and empathy guide us through our earliest experiences. Gently, we unravel the layers, fostering self-compassion, insight, and acceptance of our authentic selves. Over time, this process builds trust in who we are and reaffirms our right to simply exist.

Attachment-based therapy is a brief, process-oriented form of psychological counseling. The client-therapist relationship is based on developing or rebuilding trust and centers on expressing emotions. An attachment-based approach to therapy looks at the connection between an infant’s early attachment experiences with primary caregivers. Attachment-based therapy aims to build or rebuild a trusting, supportive relationship that will help prevent or treat anxiety or depression.

I specialize in Attachment Theory, helping clients understand how early relationships shape emotional patterns and connection styles. Whether struggling with insecurity, fear of abandonment, or difficulty trusting others, I guide clients in recognizing and healing attachment wounds. Using evidence-based approaches, I help build secure attachment within, fostering self-trust, emotional resilience, and the ability to form deeper, healthier relationships with oneself and others.

Attachment-Based Family works by rebuilding trust within the parent-child relationship—providing a solid foundation that promotes authentic connection and enhances teen mental health. This type of family counseling provides a clear path to achieving what both parents and children want most: closer, more meaningful relationships with one another. As a result, teens feel safe turning to their parents for support—and that leads to improvements in teen mental health and reductions in suicide risk.

Attachment Theory shows how our attachment to our primary caregiver and upbringing impact how how we form and sustain relationships throughout life. By understanding your attachment style, you will gain a deeper understanding of why you react to certain things and how to heal and grow in all relationships.

Attachment-based therapy is a brief, process-oriented form of psychological counseling. The client-therapist relationship is based on developing or rebuilding trust and centers on expressing emotions. An attachment-based approach to therapy looks at the connection between an infant’s early attachment experiences with primary caregivers. Attachment-based therapy aims to build or rebuild a trusting, supportive relationship that will help prevent or treat anxiety or depression.

Attachment-based therapy is an approach aimed at helping people develop secure attachments. This is done in several ways, one of which includes helping the client understand how early in life experiences with attachment figures affected them. As a therapist, my aim is to cultivate a relationship that feels safe, and where the client can be honest and open without judgment. The basic idea is that a safe relationship with a therapist can help you start to feel safe in other relationships.

Attachment theory (by John Bowlby) explores the impact of early relationships on individuals' emotional development and interpersonal patterns. In therapy, clients may examine their attachment history and how it influences their current relationships and sense of self. The therapeutic process often involves exploring attachment styles, such as secure, anxious, or avoidant, and working towards developing more secure attachment patterns.

Understanding one's attachment style alongside other attachment styles, generally known as anxious, avoidant, and secure attachment styles, helps illuminate great opportunities for interpersonal and personal growth in one's life. This is determined through assessment, bibliotherapy, insight into one's condition, and experiencing growth through the integration of one's Self within their efforts to connect and bond with others.

As an attachment therapist, I am well versed in the needs of babies and children and the ways these create trauma and future problems as adults. If our parents did not teach our brains how to regulate our emotions, we do not magically gain these skills later, and often experience trauma or anxiety as a result. In couples & parenting work I help couples/parents recognize and unlearn the attachment styles they learned as children showing up in their relationship to be effective partners & parents.

Attachment-Based Therapy is a wonderful, life-changing approach to healing and psychological restoration. It helps adults and children build strong and meaningful relationships with their family members, friends, significant others, and communities. A lot of times, childhood trauma leads to unsatisfying relationships. This type of therapy allows clients to identify and heal from their trauma in order to live a fulfilling life.

I am trained in attachment theory from a positive psychology lens and can conduct the adult attachment interview for individuals and couples.

I have found exploring Attachment Theory with clients to be extremely helpful when working on the way that people relate to others in their lives. This can help contextualize your reactions and build a map of how to move forward to deepen relationships.

I utilize attachment theory in my practice to help you understand the bond with your newborn, addressing any attachment challenges or disruptions. By exploring early experiences and attachment styles, I guide you in fostering secure attachments, promoting healthy bonding, and resolving issues like postpartum depression or anxiety, ultimately supporting the parent-child relationship.

I have taken courses in Gottman, Attachment methodology such as EFT.

I have the training in the skills to understand attachment theory

Attachment Theory suggests that early relationships with caregivers can shape an individual's beliefs, behaviors, and relationships throughout life. This therapy focuses on exploring and improving patterns of attachment that may be causing distress or dysfunction in current relationships. I will help you understand your attachment style and how it impacts your interactions with others. Through this understanding, you can develop more secure attachment patterns, leading to healthier relationships

We’ll explore where you learned to protect yourself emotionally and how those early experiences shape current relationships. By understanding these protective strategies, we'll shift old patterns and create healthier, more secure connections. This process builds emotional resilience, deepens trust, and opens the door to richer, more fulfilling relationships. You’ll learn to navigate relationships with more clarity, safety, and confidence, leading to deeper and more meaningful bonds.