Brad Schlosser

Having relationships that feel safe and secure and loving is a basic human need. Sometimes the struggles we are having are clearly related to our attachments. Other times, the connection may be less obvious, but our ways of feeling and navigating interpersonal relationships tends to be a deep underlying factor of our distress. That is why attachment theory is my favorite lens through which to view therapy, although I certainly have many others.

Having relationships that feel safe and secure and loving is a basic human need. Sometimes the struggles we are having are clearly related to our attachments. Other times, the connection may be less obvious, but our ways of feeling and navigating interpersonal relationships tends to be a deep underlying factor of our distress. That is why attachment theory is my favorite lens through which to view therapy, although I certainly have many others.

Our culture's approach to sexuality is characterized by the dichotomy of sexual obsession and sexual shame. My approach to sexual addiction focuses on underlying driving factors of the behavior. Typically this includes things like attachment and intimacy difficulty, a deep sense of unworthiness or unlovability, and trauma.

I subscribe to the notion that personality disorders develop as a combination of biological tendency with environmental factors. The environmental factors include many things, but can be summarized as a lack of safe, emotionally attuned, consistent attachment with caregivers. This relationship is important for healthy development, and in it's absence we get borderline, narcissistic, avoidant, dependent, or other traits to cope. We can still complete the work of healthy development as adults.

Attachment theory is my primary theoretical lens.