Attachment Theory

Often, the relationships in our lives follow the pattern of the relationships we have witnessed or experienced in our past. The importance of how we form these attachments to others and whether or not those attachments are secure cannot be overstated. Bowlby's work and others that followed demonstrated the importance of how we connect with other human beings and the significance of what happens to us psychologically if these attachments are unhealthy. This is crucial to one's health.

We are born utterly helpless. In order to get our basic needs met--for food, swaddling, sleep, basic comforts--we send out various signals. We learn very early which of these signals get results. These early lessons form the basis of attachment theory--that how we learned to relate to our first caregivers find echoes in how we relate to others. Four styles--secure, avoidant, anxious, and disorganized—inform a lifetime of behaviors and can be understood and transformed.

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.

We all need personal connection in our lives, and the way we engage with others is heavily influenced by how we grew up in our families of origin. If your early family life was dysfunctional, abusive, or neglectful, you will benefit from re-examining core beliefs and exploring ways to increase authenticity, intimacy and mutual satisfaction in relationships.

For those who often “lose themselves” in relationships. We discuss ways to deconstruct controlling patterns that play out in enmeshed relationships and those who find themselves people-pleasing or avoiding "healthy conflict." Goal is empowerment and freedom. Implementing psycho-education and tools for people who find themselves resentful of others due to lacking their own boundaries. Helping to create new patterns in relationships, increase self-awareness and improves thought processes and und

Working with attachment theory means I pay close attention to how a person shows up in relationships which includes strangers.

Often in relationships, we are bringing our past into our present. Learn how to consciously build a healthy relationship from a place that is grounded in the present.

My philosophy is based on the idea that harm happens within relationship and heals within relationship. I have spent much of my clinical work focused on attachment, attachment theory and attachment wounds.

Whether you struggle with anxious or avoidant attachment styles, let’s explore your origin story to gain more security in your orientation to yourself, others, and the world around you.

Understanding attachment theory and add in the PloyVagal theory you get a sense of greater ways to regulate yourself in and out of your relationships. The patterns you learned in the styles of attachment in your multigenerational linage can play a large part in the way your body responds to conflict and connection. Over time we get to explore and heal these old patterns to bring on more thrive in your life.

Attachment theory is everywhere! Once we were born, we attached to something, an object, a person, or an existence! Attachment theory explains or predicts how we connect with others, including our loved ones, intimate partners, parents, children, or even in a professional setting. If you want a meaningful and healthy relationship with others, let's dive right into your attachment style!

I use attachment theory to understand and support the dynamics of interpersonal relationships, particularly the influence of early attachment experiences on an individual's emotional and relational well-being. In doing so, I focus on exploration of early attachment experiences, building a secure therapeutic relationship, mindfully exploring current relationships and employing interventions aimed at improving attachment security.

I integrate attachment theory to help clients understand how early relationships impact their current emotional and relational patterns. By exploring attachment styles, we uncover the roots of trust, intimacy, and dependency issues. My approach aims to heal attachment wounds, foster secure relationships, and enhance emotional regulation. Through this understanding, clients can develop healthier connections and build more fulfilling, stable relationships in their personal and professional lives.

Whether it's with a family member, friend, or intimate partner, relationships are an integral part of life. How those relationships add or extract value from our lives also depends on how we connect with others. This connection, or attachment, is developed in early infancy between a child and their caregiver and impacts our ability to both receive and give love, safety, comfort as well as impacts our thoughts, feelings, and expectations. Understanding attachment expands awareness and growth.

Attachment theory explains how early relationships with caregivers shape our emotional development and ability to form secure bonds as adults. Secure attachment, characterized by trust, safety, and emotional availability, fosters resilience, empathy, and healthy relationships, while insecure attachments can lead to difficulties with relationships and emotional regulation. By exploring attachment in a safe therapeutic space, clients can develop healthier ways of relating to themselves and others.

I believe that so much of who you are comes from the coding that you have built and developed starting from the first day you were born. I provide a space that helps you understand what makes you tick and inspires you to shift unhelpful relationship and behavioral patterns into ones that work for you.

Attachment theory explains how early relationships with caregivers shape our emotional development and ability to form secure bonds as adults. Secure attachment, characterized by trust, safety, and emotional availability, fosters resilience, empathy, and healthy relationships, while insecure attachments can lead to difficulties with relationships and emotional regulation. By exploring attachment in a safe therapeutic space, clients can develop healthier ways of relating to themselves and others.