Abigail Garcia-Garwicki

Having worked with children, teenager, young adults, and adults; I have utilized attachment based theories to assist in working through past trauma and current issues with relation to attachment concerns. I offer a safe space where we can work together to process and work through past attachment issues in order to develop healthier relationships.

Relationships/marriage can be a difficult space to navigate. It is my experience and support that allows for us to come together in a safe space to work through any underlining issues that do come up in relationships through the use of communication tools, quality time, and understanding one another's love language I will help you build a stronger foundation for a healthier marriage/relationship.

PTSD and trauma have a significant impact on our day to day lives. I have had the pleasure of supporting individuals living with PTSD and/or having past trauma develop a safe space to be vulnerable and utilize EFT to create healthier tools to live with our past experiences in a healthier way in the present.

In use of trauma therapy, I utilize Emotion Focused Technique. Trauma often gets trapped within the body. Each time that it gets triggered we revert back to a time where we experienced this similar feeling and our body reacts to it. In using EFT we learned to work through the bodies reaction to trauma and reduce our response through tapping different points of the body in order to create a space where the body is no longer trapped in a trauma space and we are able to respond more effectively.

Developing healthy communication, quality time and understanding love languages are cornerstones of couple's therapy. We work together to understand one another's communication styles and to increase time needed to create an emotional bond with our partner.

Understanding attachment and how it has played out in our life assists us in developing a greater understanding of how we act in relationships, whether platonic, professional, or emotional. Utilizing attachment theory we work through breaking down unhealthy attachment patterns and developing healthier views of attachment to others.

Integrating different forms of therapy helps to individualize the steps that we will use together to reach your goal. Most often I use attachment, and family systems therapies; as well as, psychodynamic to work towards the core issues identified in treatment so that you identify patterns and manage any triggers that have led to unhealthy coping skills or relationship dynamics.