Attachment Across the Lifespan

I draw from an attachment focused lens providing psychotherapy for individual adults who have undergone early relational trauma, sub-optimal care, struggles with anxiety, depression, adjustments, loss, grief or can address a broader range of relationship issues based on the client’s needs. When working exclusively with individual adults, they are met with an attuned, responsive, empathetic, regulating experience. You can expect to be met by a fully engaged and responsive therapist ready to meet your individual needs.  For many adults seeking psychotherapy they often come with unresolved past traumatic experiences, whether little "t" or Big "T" traumas resulting in life challenges. I believe that treating adults from an attachment perspective is vital to integrating or making sense of past traumas and organizing your narrative into a coherent story to bring new meaning to one's life. It is through feelings of safety and security that an individual is able to begin the process of healing, while integrating past emotionally upsetting challenges and experiences.

EMDR is a psychotherapy treatment modality that provides relief of symptoms associated with having life experiences that are overwhelming and difficult to process.  When a memory gets stuck in it's original form it develops blocks to healing and limits a person's capacity for full emotional development.  EMDR helps to reprocess memories and transform internal belief systems from limiting to discovering one's full potential to heal and thrive.  If deemed appropriate I use somatic processing, helping clients to connect to their physiological sensations and feelings that are in some cases blocked by adaptive strategies that no longer serve them.  For more information please visit: www.emdria.org

EMDR intensives are longer sessions that deliver several hours of focused treatment. EMDR intensives allow for deeper and faster reprocessing of trauma and distressing experiences with quicker relief.  EMDR intensives are structure in 3 hour blocks.  They are offered to reprocess and clear past memories more rapidly in a short period of time.  Lunch breaks are offered for full day intensives.  

Children who have neurodiversities require a parenting style that aims to respond to their vulnerable autonomic nervous systems. Attachment parenting is rooted in attachment theory and based on the interpersonal neurobiology of the human experience, mind, and body. Attachment parenting reflects a highly attuned, emotionally present, connected, co-regulating parent. When children who are neurodivergent are demonstrating confusing and challenging behaviors and your typical behavioral strategies don’t work, it's time to try something different. Their autonomic nervous system needs maturation through co-regulation.  I'm here to teach you how.