In depth-oriented therapy for adults, healing attachment wounds requires more than insight—it requires real relational repair. Many people try to think their way through it: read the books, repeat the affirmations, avoid “toxic” people, aim to feel secure. Lasting healing, though, can’t happen in isolation. This is therapy for attachment trauma—work we do together in relationship.
You might not use the words “attachment wounds,” but you know the feeling:
These patterns often begin in early relationships where emotional needs were ignored or invalidated. Over time, your nervous system learned to protect you—by pulling away, clinging tightly, or splitting off from your own needs entirely.
Understanding the pattern doesn’t always change it. Attachment wounds are relational—formed through experience, not logic—so they need a new kind of experience to heal. Often your deepest growth comes from being in a relationship where you don’t have to hide your needs, minimize emotions, or earn your worth.
In a secure, attuned therapeutic relationship, you start to experience something different. You bring your real thoughts, reactions, and fears of being “too much”—and you’re met with warmth, curiosity, and respect. We don’t rush to fix. We slow down, notice what lands in your body, and stay with the part that wants to pull away—or fears being left.
Maybe you share something vulnerable and wait for the other shoe to drop. Instead, you’re met with steadiness. Over time, that becomes a new internal blueprint—not because the past disappears, but because something new is possible now. To see how we approach this work, explore the Realign Method™.
Without repair, it’s easy to repeat old dynamics—even with more awareness. You might abandon yourself to feel close, or stay distant to avoid being hurt. Repair doesn’t “fix” you; it helps you feel safe enough to be you. It restores your right to take up space, ask for what you need, and trust your emotional world again. This is the heart of therapy for attachment trauma
Change is often quiet at first: a longer pause before shutdown, an easier time asking for reassurance, a little more room to stay when closeness arrives. If you’re ready to stop managing this alone, therapy offers a steady place to begin—at your pace.
If this speaks to you, I’d be honored to connect and see what support could look like.
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