Attachment-Based Therapy relies on John Bowlby’s Attachment Theory to inform the therapeutic process. Attachment Theory emphasizes the quality of an infant’s connection to its parent, most primarily its mother. If a child is adequately cared for and responded to, they will grow up to form healthy relationships. If a mother is too distant, unresponsive, or overly cautious, the infant is more likely to grow up to experience unhealthy relationships. Children must get adequate care and love to learn to trust others and themselves.
Attachment-Based Therapy’s goal is to help you rebuild the context of your relationships in more healthy, positive ways. Your therapist will show you openness, caring, and empathy. You can experience what a healthy relationship looks and feels like through this therapeutic relationship.
Although therapists can use it for individual or group therapy, you may benefit from Attachment-Based Therapy in a family therapy setting.
Your therapist will help you discover your particular attachment style based on your relationship with your parents and your early memories of family relationships. They also will explore your current relationship dynamics as they relate to your upbringing. With this understanding, you and your therapist can then begin to restructure your existing relationships based on a foundation of love and trust.
Therapists Who Specialize in Using Attachment-Based Therapy
I enjoy working with individuals who have experienced scary or stressful childhood experiences and would like a safe space to process those experiences. Sometimes those experiences turn into mood disorders, PTSD, anxiety, or failure to thrive in relationships. I am interested in helping guide you to working through these struggles and finding peace in your life. I also enjoy working with couple...
We are currently accepting new clients at Main Line Counseling and Wellness Center's Paoli office and would love to hear from you! We have multiple therapists who practice out of our Paoli location, including Licensed Professional Counselors, Licensed Clinical Social Workers, and Psychologists. Our therapists specialize in working with children, adolescents, adults, couples, and families and us...
No one should have to face any of life's challenges on their own, and that is how therapy can be helpful. Creating sustainable change, helping others to feel heard and understood, and working collaboratively to meet goals are main priorities for me in the therapy process. I have worked extensively with children, adolescents/teens, adults, families, and couples to meet their individual goals and...
ACCEPTING Clients for 1/10/21. Do you need help with the mounting daily stress and anxiety? You are not feeling like yourself and wonder how you got to this point. Do you wake up thinking “I need something to change. I just need some direction and support.”? Maybe you are not sure what needs changing or even how to go about it. What you do know is that you are exhausted – tired of thinking abou...
After a 25 year career in teaching, I decided to go to grad school. In 2009 I earned my MS in counseling. I have been in practice as an MFT for 10 years. I love being a therapist. It is fulfilling a life-long dream of mine and I find it so gratifying and rewarding. I work with individuals, couples, families and teens. As a retired teacher I worked with teens on a daily basis for 25 years. As a...
Are you tired of struggling to thrive in relationships with friends, family, and lovers? Are your emotions running your life? Interacting with others can be overwhelming when you have experienced trauma, grief, depression or anxiety. This can lead to coping through addictions or harmful behaviors. I believe we all have the capacity to change and that focusing on strengths can give clients a new...
I love stories and as a counselor, I find it a privilege to help people take ownership of their life stories. Some of us wish that our stories featured different characters, took place in a different setting, or would follow a new plot line. The truth is that we all need to do some editing or re-writing from time to time. My goal as a counselor is to provide a safe place for you to come as you ...
I work with clients experiencing relationship issues, anxiety, depression, trauma, life transitions, and marriage and family concerns. I work from an interpersonal, attachment-based, and systemic perspective, informed by body awareness and mindfulness practices. In the container of a safe and trusting therapeutic relationship, we will build awareness of your process--physical, mental, emotional...
I work from a humanistic and strengths based perspective. My job is to help clients feel more empowered, safer and stronger by providing guidance to clients as they discover and build on the tools and skills they already had in their own personal “toolbox”. I have worked with clients ranging from toddlers in Early Intervention to adolescents in schools to older adults in various settings. I hav...
Are you ready to make a positive change? Taking the first step to engage in therapy isn't easy, but it is brave and it is worth it. I believe in the power of showing up and providing genuine support in a positive, non-judgmental environment. Regardless of what it is, we can start the process of healing and problem solving. I am a member of and work with the LGBTQIA+ community and am passionatel...
Finding the right therapist is an important step in your healing process. I believe people possess more strength and resilience than they realize and my passion is assisting with that realization. My areas of focus include life transitions, grief and loss, trauma, depression, anxiety and addiction. You will be met with compassion and understanding while we work together to address the issues...
"Because I'm suffering I'm looking for a counselor. Why should I choose you?" First, you will not be viewed as being just like everyone else, but will be appreciated with all your complexities. You can choose in-person sessions in a comfortable, professional setting or select tele-medicine. Additionally, I have several assessments available to assist in fine-tuning our work. We will collaborate...
Have your best efforts to achieve long-lasting love, pregnancy or parenthood feel inadequate or overwhelmingly difficult? Or Maybe the dream is not at all what you expected? I am ready to help you address the challenges that surround parenthood and relationships so you can build a life of love, connection, and support that reflects your values. Maintaining a safe, nonjudgmental space for you to...
Welcome! I believe that one of the essential ingredients of change and transformative psychotherapy is the relationship between the individual and the therapist. Feeling understood and comfortable only helps reduce one's symptoms, encouraging self-acceptance, but also leads toward deeper work which promotes lasting change and a deeper experience of one's whole self. My Treatment approach is...
*Thank you for stopping by; I currently do not have openings for new clients.* I specialize in working with children age 2 1/2 - 12, who are struggling with life transitions, stress, depression, anxiety, oppositional behavior, grief, trauma, anger, aggression, attachment, and family concerns. I supportively work with each child and family so the therapy experience is engaging and transformative...
