Therapy for Attachment
Therapy for Attachment in Los Angeles
Healing Your Heart and Connections: Attachment Therapy
It is a deeply human need to desire closeness, safety, and love. Yet, for many of us, relationships can sometimes feel like a source of anxiety, pain, or confusion. If you find yourself caught in cycles of pulling away, worrying about rejection, or feeling disconnected from those you love, please know you are not broken, and you do not have to navigate this alone.
I offer a gentle, compassionate space to help you understand your relationship patterns, heal old wounds, and blossom into secure, fulfilling connections. I work with individuals, couples, and adolescents as they navigate their unique paths toward relational healing.
A Nurturing Space for Softening and Healing
Your heart and your history are unique. I weave together deep emotional healing with gentle, practical guidance to help you safely explore your relational world. My approach is supported by:
Attachment Theory: We gently explore your personal attachment style—whether you tend to lean in with anxiety or protect yourself by pulling away—so we can understand what your heart needs to feel safe.
Psychodynamic Therapy: Together, we look back with kindness at your earliest experiences, helping you uncover and understand the root causes of the patterns repeating in your life today.
Attachment-Focused EMDR (AF-EMDR): A gentle, specialized approach to help your nervous system process and release the lingering pain of early relational hurts, neglect, or childhood wounds.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT): We practice compassionate, present-day tools to soothe your inner critic, calm emotional storms, and reframe fearful thoughts into loving self-talk.
Honoring Your Unique Journey
Whether you are trying to heal your romantic life, strengthen your family bond, or steady your everyday interactions, I tailor our work to where you are right now.
For Individuals
Finding Peace in Anxiety: Learning to soothe the constant worry that others will leave, and moving away from a frequent need for reassurance.
Creating Safety in Closeness: Helping you gently lower the walls you built to protect yourself, so you can experience true intimacy without feeling overwhelmed.
Embracing Your Own Worth: Learning to step away from people-pleasing so you can honor your own needs alongside the needs of others.
For Couples
Stepping Out of the Chase: Finding a steady, calm rhythm if you feel exhausted by cycles of pursuing and retreating with your partner.
De-escalating Triggers: Learning how to recognize when an old attachment wound is being bumped, so you can turn toward each other rather than pulling apart.
Building a Secure Base: Re-establishing your partnership as a safe harbor where both of you feel deeply seen, valued, and protected.
For Adolescents
Navigating Big Emotions: Providing a steady, non-judgmental anchor for teens as they face the intense social, romantic, and peer pressures of growing up.
Fostering Independence Safely: Helping teens develop a strong sense of self while maintaining meaningful, secure connections with family and peers.
Healing Early Triggers: Safely processing school, family, or social stresses before they become deeply ingrained relationship patterns.
What to Expect Along the Way
Healing happens in connection. As we work together at a pace that feels safe for you, you will begin to experience earned security. Together, we will help you:
Soothe your nervous system when relationship triggers arise.
Speak your truth and express your needs with clarity and love.
Deepen your intimacy while remaining rooted in who you are.
Open your heart to the steady, loving partnerships you truly deserve.
You Deserve to Feel Safe and Loved
Your patterns do not define your future. Let’s create a gentle path forward toward the deeply connected life you are longing for.
Frequently Asked Questions
Still have questions? Take a look at the FAQ or reach out anytime.
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Your attachment style is the unique blueprint you developed in childhood to feel safe and connected with your primary caregivers. If those early relationships felt inconsistent or stressful, you might carry an anxious, avoidant, or disorganized style into your adult life.
The wonderful news is that yes, it can change. Through therapy, you can develop what we call "earned security." By processing old wounds and learning new tools, your nervous system can learn to feel truly safe, steady, and secure in your relationships today.
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Traditional EMDR is great for single-event traumas, but Attachment-Focused EMDR is specially tailored for relational and childhood hurts—like feeling neglected, invisible, or unsafe growing up.
AF-EMDR uses gentle, rhythmic tapping or tones to help your brain and body safely process those old memories. It takes the "sting" out of your current relationship triggers, so you don't feel overwhelmed when an old wound is bumped.
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I believe healing requires both looking back and looking forward.
Psychodynamic therapy helps us look back with kindness to understand why you protect yourself the way you do.
CBT gives us practical, present-day tools to manage your thoughts and soothe your nervous system in the exact moment you feel anxious or triggered.
Together, they ensure you leave sessions with both a deeper understanding of yourself and concrete steps to use in your daily life.
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Because attachment patterns are deeply rooted and built over a lifetime, this work is a journey rather than a quick fix. Many clients begin to feel a sense of relief and notice small shifts in their reactions within a few months. Deeply shifting long-standing relationship patterns and healing early trauma typically takes longer-term, consistent work. We will always move at a pace that feels safe and comfortable for you.
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For teens, attachment work is all about creating a steady, non-judgmental "secure base." Adolescence is a time of major transition where teens are trying to figure out who they are away from their parents, while still needing to feel safe and loved. I help them navigate intense peer pressures, romantic firsts, and family dynamics, giving them a safe space to express themselves and heal early emotional triggers.