Attachment

Our relationship with those closest to us affects how we form our own identities, and impacts how we interact with everyone else around us. Attachment and trauma experiences go hand in hand, and play a huge role in how and why one experiences mental health concerns, including anxiety, depression, low self-worth, anger, dissociation, and so much more. I aim to help you recognize these attachment concerns and how they affect you, and work through them.

When it comes to couples counseling, attachment-focused therapy is a game-changer. It recognizes that our emotions are at the heart of our relationships, and that by better understanding and managing our emotions, we can create deeper, more meaningful connections with our partners. Couples learn to identify and express their emotional needs and to learn how to respond to their partner's emotional states in a supportive and caring way.

I offer a supportive space to explore and address attachment issues. Grounded in Attachment Theory, I recognize the crucial role early relationships play in shaping our emotional well-being, influencing how we connect with others throughout our lives. We'll navigate feelings of insecurity, fear, or avoidance that may arise, fostering a healthier, more secure sense of attachment.

As a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional and Certified Brainspotting practitioner, my knowledge and approach centers attachment issues throughout a person's lifespan.

Our attachment styles develop when we are young. These patterns affect the way we relate in relationships during both easy and challenging moments. Experiential and practical exercises will help you know your own attachment style and find tools to support you to lean into relationships that are healthy as well as learn to ask for what you need and set appropriate boundaries. The capacity to lean into someone, to trust someone and let them trust you, is a great gift.

This theory focuses on exploring our early childhood attachment style, which has been created throughout our childhood with our caregivers. This attachment style lays a foundation for how we see the world and develop trust and is carried out into our future relationships with partners and close friends. I support clients by guiding them through a better understanding of their attachment style, as well as supporting clients to work through their past to a healthier attachment with others.

Completed attachment based training, including EFIT and EFT. I believe that most of the symptoms bringing people to therapy are the result of nervous system dysregulation secondary to childhood attachment traumas. Caregivers' inability to attune to a child, lack of modeling of appropriate emotion management, and child's efforts to adjust to their flawed environments, etc. all lead to long term difficulties with navigating interpersonal relationships and sense of internal turmoil.

As my entry to the field began in research and theory, I enjoy incorporating Attachment Theory into the way I treat relationship issues, emotion regulation, and coping strategies. Maybe you find your mind waiting for the second shoe to drop when things are calm. Maybe conflict makes you shrink up and want to run the other way. Maybe you struggle to engage with the risk inherent to relationship. Attachment-based interventions can help us practice secure attachment behaviors (when it *is* safe).

Struggling with feeling connected? You're not alone. Let's untangle those knots together. Whether you're feeling distant in relationships or find it hard to trust, my therapy sessions provide a safe space to explore and heal. No judgment, just understanding and support. Let's build the foundation for healthier, happier connections. Reach out today and take the first step towards a more fulfilling life.

Attachment injuries refer to emotional wounds that occur within close relationships when one's need for security, understanding, and responsiveness is significantly neglected or betrayed. Rooted in attachment theory, which emphasizes the importance of secure bonds between individuals—most notably between parents and children—these injuries can have profound effects that extend into adulthood, particularly for the adult children of immature parents.

I help parents strengthen attachment with their child through play, helping the child feel seen and heard.

I am Certified in Attachment Focused EMDR. I empower clients to develop a secure attachment style so they can enjoy healthy relationships. I work with clients that have experienced family of origin or relational trauma that created anxious attachment or avoidant attachment styles that now keep them from having the healthy relationships they want. I utilize inner child experiential techniques, CBT and other modalities to assist clients in developing their securely attached functional adult.

Our relationship with those closest to us affects how we form our own identities, and impacts how we interact with everyone else around us. Attachment and trauma experiences go hand in hand, and play a huge role in how and why one experiences mental health concerns, including anxiety, depression, low self-worth, anger, dissociation, and so much more. I aim to help you recognize how you identify attachment concerns and how they affect you, and work through them in sessions.

As babies, we come into the world quickly forming relationships with our caregivers. Those caregivers can either be a source of safety and connection or a distant or harsh parent. As children dependent on our caregivers we begin to create safety for ourselves in any way we can. As we grow older we carry these ways of survival with us which plays out in our adult relationships. These may manifest in us as codependency, low self-esteem, and people-pleasing.

Attachment shows up in the families we grew up in, how we connect with friends and partners, how we handle our own families of creation, and more. I draw from attachment theory whether working with individuals, couples, or families, to support people in creating strong and secure connections with self, others, and the world.

Attachment lies at the core of everything we say and do. It's impossible to talk about good mental health without it.

As babies, we come into the world quickly forming relationships with our caregivers. Those caregivers can either be a source of safety and connection or a distant or harsh parent. As children dependent on our caregivers we begin to create safety for ourselves in any way we can. As we grow older we carry these ways of survival with us which plays out in our adult relationships. These may manifest in us as codependency, low self-esteem, and people-pleasing.

A very common question to ask a therapist when they are interviewed is "What is your theoretical lens or orientation." My answer always comes easily; "I am an Attachment-Focused Therapist." For me, that means that the health of the relationships that are closest and most dear to a client directly correlates to their mental health. I have received extensive training in using Attachment-Focused Therapy and in understanding the neurobiological components related to relational conflict.