Attachment issues, or attachment disorders, are broad terms used to describe issues resulting from a failure to form normal attachments to primary caregivers in early childhood. Most children with attachment disorders have had severe problems or difficulties in their early relationships (they may have been neglected or physically or emotionally abused). One specific attachment disorder is Reactive attachment disorder (RAD), a condition typically found in children who have received grossly negligent care and do not form a healthy emotional attachment with their primary caregivers (usually their mothers) before age 5. A mental health professional who specializes in attachment issues can be a great help to both the child and the caregiver affected. Reach out to one of TherapyDen’s experts today!
I support client in learning about their attachment styles and how it formed in childhood. This often looks like taking an attachment style quiz and looking at your relationships to see how your attachment style effects your relationships. We will also work on healing towards a more secure attachment style.
— Desiree Norwood, PsychotherapistStephanie has experience with Attachment in practice.
— Stephanie Light, Therapist in Seattle, WAAnxious, avoidant, disorganized: Whatever you may experience in relationships, you make sense! Let's explore your behavior through an Attachment lens, being careful not to pathologize, but to understand your interactions with others and adapt in ways that you'd like to adapt.
— Sandy Rose, Associate Marriage & Family Therapist in Los Angeles, CAAs 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).
— Grace (Bomar) Finn, Marriage & Family Therapist in Nashville, TNOur attachment style begins to develop when we are very young children. Ideally, it is a secure attachment but often due to a variety of reasons it is insecure or even avoidant. This impacts adult relationships in ways that people are often unaware. If you need help understanding yourself in your personal relationships, Jeannette York can help.
— Jeannette York, Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist in Toluca Lake, CAI work with mentalizatiion-based treatments and the Brown?Elliot Three Pillars model of attachment disorder repair.
— Scott Hoye, Psychologist in Chicago, ILAttachment to our caregivers, which begins to develop in our very first months of life, continues to shape who we become and how we make decisions for the rest of our lives. If our needs weren't properly met in our first experiences in childhood, it often leads to difficulty feeling emotionally safe in future relationships to friends, family, loved ones, peers, and even strangers. Our attachment styles can even influence our values, purpose in life, and major life decisions.
— Symona Stans, Associate Clinical Social Worker in Los Angeles, CATraining in child-centered, attachment-theory, and experience in attachment-focused interventions allow me the opportunity to help you understand your child's brain, the root of attachment wounds, and finding coping strategies that will bring healing and joy back to your family.
— Claudia Mattox, Licensed Professional Counselor in Magnolia, TXA large part of the work that I have done in infant mental health is working on building attachment and increasing security in relationships. Attachment is important in every relationship, and I know how to help create and maintain secure attachments even if you have a pattern of insecure attachment in your life.
— Tasha Trembath, Associate Marriage & Family Therapist in Covington, WAHumans were not made to exist in isolation... unfortunately few of us learned at an early age just how important attachment is to our well-being, or the long-term negative consequences that can occur when our connection to caretakers or loved ones breaks, or is repeatedly and unpredictably unreliable. I help clients to understand their attachment styles, the inherent ways they seek out and maintain connections to others, weaving this work into clients' relationship coaching and trauma treatment.
— Carrie Hill, Licensed Marriage & Family TherapistIt is my belief that attachment style formulates from childhood and can be influenced and repaired well into our senior years. Creating a consistent trusting safe haven space for a client to experience a new way of being in relationship is critical. Additionally, I have participated in specific Somatic training to work with the younger physiology underneath a client's attachment style first versus from the cognitive brain. This has the potential to create longer lasting results.
— Vanessa Tate, Marriage & Family Therapist in Denver, COOur attachment-focused therapy delves into the deep-rooted patterns and relational dynamics that shape your attachment style by fostering understanding of how it influences their present relationships and emotional responses.
— Jeremy Kee, Licensed Professional CounselorDifficulties with attachment show up throughout our friendships, relationships, and family dynamics. As we look into your attachment style we discover what needs you felt were missing throughout your life and identify ways to heal those needs that were not met.
— Nikkia Kline, Licensed Clinical Mental Health CounselorI have specialty training in how trauma suffered during childhood impacts ongoing attachment styles.
— Chelsea Williams, Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor Associate in Bellingham, WAFor most people, repetitive, problematic patterns in relationships usually stem from attachment adaptations that were learned in childhood. Because we live with these patterns (sometimes others', sometimes our own) for so long, we often can't see the forest for the trees, so to speak. If you would like to gain more insight into why the same problems keep happening in your relationships, and learn how to change these patterns, please reach out.
— Ursa Davis, Licensed Professional Counselor Candidate in Edgewater, COSome people say that unresolved attachment issues are at the root of most of our relational issues - and I would have to agree. Underneath fights with your partner is a desire to feel safe and secure in your relationship. Fights happen because we don't feel safe and connected. I use proven interventions based on the science of attachment theory to help clients identify and express their important feelings and needs, leading to less conflict and greater connection with others.
— Jane Thibodeau, Somatic Psychotherapist, Marriage and Family Therapist Associate in , NCAre you navigating the ways your attachment style leads you to show up in relationships, and how you relate to your community and your world? My work is firmly rooted in attachment theory and works to integrate your work in therapy with your nervous system, and support you in building more self-understanding and self-compassion, and to heal and grow beyond the attachment wounds you may be carrying.
— Jackie Turner, Marriage and Family Therapist Associate in Portland, ORI have additional training in Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy which utilizes and attachment perspective to help heal the bonds between you and your partner(s).
— Sarah Newcomer, Marriage & Family Therapist in , OHOnce your understand yourself and meet your own needs, you will find confidence to make those tough calls or make good choices that lead to a flourishing life. After understanding what goes into attaching to others, you can develop the connection you want with your partner. The parent-child relationship builds expectations for the future that is invaluable. After receiving practical tools for communicating with your child you will feel closer and more happy at home.
— Dr.Angelica Rivera, Therapist in Houston, TX