Attachment Theory

Attachment, connection, belonging and community are as necessary for human existence as water and food. It is within loving and caring relationships that we learn how to cope with and manage our feelings, find motivation and initiative to pursue our goals and intentions, and learn empathy and compassion. Being hurt, abused, violated or betrayed within a trusted relationship, especially our earliest relationships with our caregivers, often create future relationship insecurities and anxieties.

I have experience working with children, adolescents and adults who suffer from attachment disorder(s) due to abandonment, abuse/neglect, adoption, etc.

I use attachment theory with clients to gain a better understanding of how we relate to ourselves and our relationships. I find that using attachment theory allows clients to gain a better sense of self improving self-esteem and allowing more insight into what we need from ourselves and others in our relationships.

Attachment theory is one of the keys to understanding yourself and your patterns in relationships. Attachment work in therapy is crucial to helping you strengthen the relationship you have with yourself and with other people. Working on attachment issues can help relationships make more sense and flow with more ease. This work is a game changer when it comes to finding and maintaining healthy, satisfying, long-lasting relationships.

We are wired for connection, and we develop a blueprint for how to be in relationshp based on our earliest relationships. Our attachment style describes how we show up in relationships, which can be secure, insecure, or a combination of both. Therapy can help you explore how to be more secure in your relationships in a way that allows for healthier connection with yourself and others.

Thought patterns form based off our environment as children that influence us for the rest of our lives, often on a subconscious level. I refer to it a blueprint that we follow without ever questioning if the blueprint works for us. Examination of these patterns can help in the addressing of individual and relational breakdowns. I utilizing assessments that identify the patterns and tools that are designed to address those patterns. Besides, it's what counselor's do - talk about mom and dad!

Attachment therapy aims to help individuals who have issues with relationships stemming from childhood experiences such as neglect, abuse, or trauma. These experiences can affect a person's ability to form healthy and secure connections in adulthood, leading to problems like anxiety, depression, and difficulty in forming and maintaining close relationships. The goal is to help individuals develop a more secure attachment style, leading to better relationships and overall emotional well-being.

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.

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 pattern 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.

I specialize in understanding the profound impact of early relationships on individuals' emotional and social development. I apply attachment theory to help individuals explore and transform their attachment patterns. I assist clients in recognizing and addressing insecure attachment styles that may be affecting their relationships and overall well-being. I guide clients in developing secure attachments, fostering healthier connections, enhancing resilience, and promoting personal growth.

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.

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.

Techniques routinely used during sessions; important to understanding how you connect with people, how you see the world, how you work through family and friend connections

I understand the profound impact early relationships have on our well-being. I will create a secure and empathetic therapeutic space, mirroring the dependable support of a secure attachment. Through attentive listening and validation, I help clients explore and understand their attachment patterns, unraveling any past wounds that may affect current relationships. Together, we work towards fostering a more secure sense of self-worth, allowing for healthier, more fulfilling relationships.

Attachment theory focuses on the how we have learned to experience ourselves and others through the relationships that we were raised in, and can help to inform who some people struggle with trust, intimacy and communication in intimate partner relationships as well as how these struggles may be improved through therapy and couples therapy. Attachment theory is closely related to both family systems and object relations models of psychotherapy.

An attachment-based approach to therapy looks at the connection between a client's early attachment experiences with primary caregivers and the client's ability to form healthy emotional and physical relationships as an adult. Attachment-based therapy aims to build a trusting, supportive relationship between the client and counselor that will be used as a blueprint for other relationships and to alleviate mental health conditions such as anxiety and depression.

I believe attachment is one of the most important aspects of understanding humans and how we related to ourselves and others. Attachment describes the profound importance of our relationships with our caregivers, friends and romantic partners. We develop patterns to protect these relationships. Attachment theory allows us to identify these patterns and choose with patterns are healthy for us and which ones we would like to change.

I help individuals who struggle maintaining secure and healthy relationships by providing them with an understanding of how their attachment style can influence cognitive distortions and behavior.