Attachment

I have been trained in attachment theory and utilize it in my work with clients. I believe that the impacts of attachment styles developed in early childhood can show up in relationships through adulthood, and in the importance of working with and challenging them in a compassionate way to ensure healthy relational outcomes.

Together we will explore early life experiences to understand more about how you came to be who you are today. The way we attach, or do not attach, to our primary caregivers as a child has a huge impact on our adult relationships. We will identify your personal attachment style, and examine how this plays out in your past and current relationships. We can work together to assist you in developing a healthier attachment style to improve your relationships, and feel more secure in them.

I believe that attachment is the foundation for all relationships. I help my clients to understand their attachment style and how this may be preventing them from developing healthy relationships and ultimately living the life that they want.

I work with mentalizatiion-based treatments and the Brown?Elliot Three Pillars model of attachment disorder repair.

My work as a therapist is informed by attachment theory. I believe our early caregiving relationships shape the lens through which we see the world and often set the tone for relationships we have in adulthood.

I specialize in helping clients identify the attachment wounds driving their self-doubt, emotional reactivity, and relationship patterns. Whether you’re anxiously clinging, avoidantly withdrawing, or bouncing between both, I help you untangle the survival strategies that once kept you safe but now keep you stuck. Together, we build a more secure, grounded way of relating—where love doesn’t feel like a threat, and connection doesn’t require self-abandonment.

My approach is rooted in understanding how pur early attachment experiences shape our relationships and emotional regulation, and focuses on re-establishing secure, compassionate connections with oneself and others.

We all have attachments and all have attachment wounds. It is my experience that these inform and impact how we show up for ourselves and within relationships with friends, romantic partners, and family. I use my training and experience to bring these attachment patterns and wounds into the therapy experience to help clients increase awareness and understanding, as well as working towards healing these patterns and wounds.

As a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional and Certified Brainspotting practitioner, my knowledge and approach centers attachment issues throughout a person's lifespan.

Lastly, while training in Somatic Experiencing®, I was introduced to the work of Dr. Diane Poole Heller.I have completed Modules I – IV of Dr. Heller’s Dynamic Attachment Re-patterning experience (DARe). DARe is an approach that focuses on helping individuals create more meaning, connection, and emotional intimacy in their relationships by processing early attachment wounds and identifying individual attachment styles.

I work with individuals struggling to ground and regulate themselves, feel very deeply about things, and struggle within relationships.

Our attachment styles develop when we are young. These patterns affect the way we relate in relationships during both easy and challenging moments. Experiential and practical exercises will help you know your own attachment style. You will find tools to support you to lean into relationships that are healthy as well as learn to ask for what you need and set appropriate boundaries. The capacity to lean into someone, to trust someone and let them trust you, is a great gift.

My work supporting individuals across the spectrum of mental illness owes itself to attachment theory, self-concept development, and DBT/interpersonal effectiveness skills-building modalities. As human beings, we are, by definition, social and relational organisms that exist within a spectrum of ubiquitous contexts. Together, we will work to better-understand family dynamics, explore various attachment styles, and build better communication/boundary-setting skills.

An individual with attachment challenges may struggle in relationships ( Maintaining them, trusting other people, feeling safe in a relationship and forming healthy bonds with others. Creating healthy emotional bonds has a tremendous impact on our lives. Let me help you create the sense of belonging with your loves ones!

Some 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.

Are you struggling with communication blocks, grieving, or dealing with loss or betrayal? Trusting again can be difficult if you have been hurt. However, healing comes from finding relationships that show you that you are lovable, worthy, and resilient. Let’s begin to repair this deeply painful relational wound. You matter, and you are worth it!

I believe that attachment is the foundation for all relationships. I help my clients to understand their attachment style and how this may be preventing them from living the life that they want/.

Two essential human needs are to belong and to be authentically ourselves. We seek both attachment to our caregivers and peers as well as the ability to express our truest feelings, needs and values. If you grew up in a setting where others did not understand or have capacity for you and your feelings you may have developed shame or learned to disconnect from your authentic self. I use relational, somatic, parts work and trauma therapies to help you heal, reconnect, find safety and empowerment

Attachment Theory is paramount in the work that I do with my clients. I utilize psychoeducation with my clients to help them understand Attachment Theory and how that relates to the emotional bond they feel with others, particularly with their partner. I help my clients identify their attachment styles. Once they can identify their style, they can understand what they are longing for and be able to communicate their needs to their partner in a healthier, more effective way.