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
My clients come to counseling for help gaining a new perspective on themselves and their worlds. I am adept at helping people discover and strengthen connections between mind and body, and I'm interested in helping you identify and shift patterns of thought, feeling, and behavior that are no longer useful. I am a Certified Enneagram teacher and I have 10 years of experience working with this...
There are so many things that can bring us to therapy. We'll work on relieving your distressing symptoms while also going deeper, seeking to untangle some of the knots that may have led you there. I am adept at working with attachment disturbances, which are often at the root of our relational and intrapersonal problems. Integrating relational psychodynamic theories, interpersonal neurobiology,...
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To schedule your first visit with me, please use this online scheduling link - (https://portal.geneticforesight.com/book) --- Lara Taylor Kester is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with a Masters in Counseling Psychology and a Certificate in Traumatology from Holy Names University. She has also presented on mental health and geek culture at several comic conventions. Lara has over 10 ye...
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I am a Certified EMDR Therapist and an EMDRIA Approved Consultant. I specialize in treating complex trauma, sexual trauma and the full spectrum of anxiety and stress disorders with EMDR. I am passionate about working with clients whom have been diagnosed with personality disorders, children or spouses of individuals whom have been diagnosed with personality disorders, victims of sexual abuse an...
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