Attachment Trauma Therapy for Healing Relationships in Sandy Springs, Georgia
Online Therapy throughout Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, South Carolina & Vermont
Integrating Somatic Tools, Secure Connection, and Self-Trust
Love, connection, and trust shouldn’t feel like a constant battle between fear and longing.
If you find yourself chasing one moment and shutting down the next, replaying conversations in your head, and wondering if you’re “too much” or “not enough,” it isn’t just bad luck. It’s an attachment wound trying to keep you safe.
Maybe you’re the one who keeps trying to fix things even when you’re exhausted.
Or the one who pulls away before anyone can get too close.
Maybe every argument feels like proof that love will always slip away.
These patterns aren’t personality flaws. They’re survival strategies that once helped you feel protected, even if they now make closeness hard to hold.
Secure, fulfilling relationships aren’t just for other people. They’re for you, too.
Attachment trauma therapy helps you understand how early emotional experiences still shape the way you relate, protect, and connect today. Using a blend of attachment-based and somatic therapy, we’ll explore what your nervous system has learned about love and begin teaching it something new: safety, balance, and self-trust.
What Is Attachment Trauma?
Understanding How Early Wounds Shape Adult Relationships
Attachment trauma isn’t always about one defining event. It’s the quiet ache that builds when emotional safety was uncertain growing up. It’s the experience of learning love as something you had to earn, chase, manage, or survive.
When care felt inconsistent, love began to carry conditions. Maybe you learned to anticipate moods, minimize needs, or stay invisible to keep the peace. Those early survival strategies often become the blueprint for how we show up in adult relationships — even long after we’ve outgrown the circumstances that required them.
Over time, attachment trauma can show up as:
Feeling anxious, unseen, or easily dismissed in relationships
Struggling to trust others or fearing rejection
A push–pull dynamic — wanting closeness, then needing space
Overfunctioning or people-pleasing to feel secure
Emotional numbness or difficulty accessing your needs
These patterns aren’t proof that something is wrong with you — they’re signs that your nervous system adapted to love that felt unpredictable.
Attachment therapy helps you gently uncover these old relational templates, so you can begin to experience connection that doesn’t cost your peace.
How Attachment Therapy Helps You Heal
Creating Safety, Rebuilding Trust, and Practicing Secure Connection
Attachment therapy offers a space to slow down and notice the patterns that once felt automatic—the reaching, retreating, or caretaking that helped you feel safe in the past. Together, we’ll begin to understand these patterns not as problems to fix, but as messages from your nervous system about what it still needs.
In our work together, you’ll learn to:
Recognize your attachment patterns with compassion, not shame
Build awareness of your body’s cues for safety and connection
Practice new ways of relating that feel calm, clear, and honest
Strengthen self-trust so you can navigate closeness without losing yourself
Attachment therapy isn’t about “getting rid of” old parts of you. It’s about integrating them—helping the parts that once protected you learn what it means to rest in safety.
Through this process, you begin to experience connection differently.
Not as something you have to chase or manage, but as something that can finally feel mutual, grounded, and secure.
Who Can Benefit from Attachment & Relationship Therapy
Understanding How Attachment Styles Shape the Way You Love and Connect
Attachment and relationship therapy can help if you identify with one (or a blend) of the following attachment styles:
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Anxious Attachment — The Pursuer
You crave closeness and fear losing it at the same time.
You might replay texts, overanalyze tone, or worry that conflict means the relationship is falling apart. When connection feels uncertain, you tend to reach, fix, or overgive — hoping to feel secure again.Therapy can help you learn to self-soothe, express needs directly, and build trust that love doesn’t have to be earned.
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Dismissive Avoidant Attachment — The Protector
You value independence and space, but underneath, there’s a quiet fear of being needed too much or not enough. When emotions run high, you might shut down or retreat to regain control.
Therapy helps you safely reconnect with vulnerability — to stay present with intimacy instead of feeling engulfed by it.
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Fearful-Avoidant Attachment — The Push and Pull
You long for closeness but don’t fully trust it.
In one moment, you’re all in; in the next, you’re overwhelmed and want to disappear.
This back-and-forth often comes from early experiences where love and fear coexisted.Therapy provides a consistent, grounded relationship where you can learn that connection can be both safe and steady.
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Secure Attachment — The Goal, Not Perfection
Secure attachment isn’t about never feeling anxious or avoiding conflict. It’s about knowing how to come back to balance when disconnection happens.
In secure relationships, honesty replaces guessing. Repair replaces distance. You can name your needs without fear and hear someone else’s truth without losing your footing.
Therapy helps you strengthen your capacity for emotional regulation, clear communication, and mutual care — the foundations of relationships that feel steady, not performative.
Attachment and relationship therapy meets you where you are — whether you’re learning to stay, to speak, or to soften. Wherever you begin, healing starts by understanding the story your attachment style has been trying to tell.
For those seeking connection and healing in community, consider joining one of my Group Therapy offerings — including monthly groups on grief of family estrangement, caregiver fatigue and break up support.
My Integrative Approach
Attachment-Based, Somatic, and Culturally Attuned Therapy
Healing attachment trauma is both emotional and embodied. It’s not just about understanding why you react the way you do, but it’s about helping your body and nervous system learn that safety is possible.
My approach combines:
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We explore your relationship patterns with compassion, curiosity, and care — not to assign blame, but to bring awareness to what drives connection and disconnection. You’ll begin to recognize triggers, reframe old narratives, and build the emotional muscles that make secure love sustainable.
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Your body holds stories your mind can’t always access. Through grounding, Brainspotting, and mindful awareness, we help your nervous system shift from survival to safety. You’ll learn to notice cues of activation or shutdown — and practice calming your body’s response to closeness, conflict, and vulnerability.
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Our attachment patterns are shaped not only by family, but by culture, faith, and community. I hold space for those intersections — honoring your lived experiences and how identity, spirituality, and history influence your sense of belonging. This isn’t about fitting into a mold of “healing,” but about integrating the parts of you that have longed to be understood.
For couples preparing for marriage, Premarital Therapy offers guided support for building emotional safety and communication from the start.
Begin Healing Your Attachment Wounds
Healing the way you connect takes courage, but it doesn’t have to happen alone.
Therapy offers a steady space to slow down, make sense of old patterns, and begin building relationships that feel mutual, grounded, and emotionally safe.
In our work together, we focus on helping you:
Build secure attachment within yourself and your relationships
Navigate conflict and boundaries with greater ease
Release guilt and self-doubt tied to early attachment wounds
Cultivate connection that feels calm, consistent, and authentic
You don’t have to keep performing closeness or guarding against it.
There’s another way — one rooted in emotional safety, self-trust, and compassion.
Work With Me
I currently offer in-person therapy in Sandy Springs, Georgia and online therapy for individuals and premarital therapy for couples couples in:
Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, South Carolina, and Vermont.
If you’re ready to begin healing your attachment wounds and creating relationships that feel more secure, I’d be honored to walk with you.
Frequently Asked Questions About Attachment Therapy
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Attachment-based therapy helps you understand how early experiences with caregivers influence your current relationships. It focuses on developing emotional safety, trust, and secure connection — both with yourself and others.
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Somatic therapy helps you notice and regulate your body’s responses to stress, closeness, and conflict. By learning to read your nervous system’s cues, you can begin to feel more grounded and connected in relationships.
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Absolutely. Secure attachment starts with the relationship you have with yourself. Many clients begin this work individually, building the self-awareness and regulation that support healthy relationships later on.
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Yes. I offer online therapy for clients in Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, South Carolina, and Vermont, and in-person sessions in Sandy Springs, Georgia.
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Healing attachment wounds isn’t about rushing; it’s about learning to move at the pace of safety. Some clients notice changes within a few months, while others continue longer-term to deepen self-trust and emotional resilience.