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
Therapy is a wonderful opportunity to increase self-awareness, understand and improve relationship dynamics, and feel more in control of maladaptive behavioral patterns and stress responses. I enjoy working with children, adolescents, and adults experiencing an array of emotional and behavioral concerns. I help clients accurately identify the roots to their challenges, shift to healthier...
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My practice is 100% disabled veteran owned. My husband retired with over 26 years in the Army. As such, over the years, I have been able to provide care in both rural and urban areas. Treatment provided in either English or Spanish. I wholeheartedly adhere to the National Association of Social Workers Code of Ethics. Moreover, depression, fear, and anxiety are some of the most common and...
I believe that much of our current suffering hold roots in our past, and can be difficult to approach alone. My therapeutic approach is relational psychodynamic, and my technique integrates narrative, somatic, attachment and trauma forward modalities. Together, we will pay attention to your narratives, and how relationships and systems have shaped, harmed and healed you. My hope for therapy is ...
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I am a licensed clinical psychologist who specializes in working with children, adolescents, and families. I received my doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology from Loma Linda University, and completed an APA accredited postdoctoral residency at Kaiser Permanente in Northern California. In my graduate training, I have worked within outpatient, hospital, and community mental health settings, and...
I believe that therapy is most successful when there is mutual respect and trust between the therapist and client. I have successfully worked with families, teens, and adults from diverse sexual orientations, ethnicities, cultures, and religious backgrounds. Some of my clinical specialties include couples/family conflict, social and cultural stressors, anxiety, depression, trauma, and meaning...
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( English | Italiano | español ) For over ten years I’ve been helping individuals from a variety of cultural backgrounds. I am experienced in helping clients overcome and manage anxiety, depression, current life transitions, conflict in relationships, or disconnection through loss. I am trained in CBT, EFT, and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR). I believe in everyone’...
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I am a Marriage and Family Therapist located in Lower Pac Heights and have a passion for supporting people of various identities find space to explore their lived experiences. I have experience supporting adolescents, families and adults with issues of anxiety, depression, self-esteem, substance abuse, sexuality, gender identity development, grief/loss, and multi-generational trauma. I also wor...
Our inner emotional worlds can feel murky, messy, and at times unmanageable. For me, therapy is a way to illuminate those dark spaces. My role is to guide you to uncover and empower the parts of you that have gone neglected and break through the patterns that no longer serve you. Together we will attempt to understand the parts of you that feel misunderstood, identify the ways you have undermin...
