Attachment-based Therapy

Attachment-based therapy is a therapy approach focused on exploring and understanding how early childhood bonds with primary caregivers shape the adults we become, our relationships, self-worth, and emotional regulation. The goals of attachment-based psychotherapy are to address the limiting effects of negative early attachment experiences and to strengthen the capacity for secure relationships.

Attachment-based therapy is an approach to therapy that specifically targets those thoughts, feelings, communications, behaviours, and interpersonal exchanges that a person has learned as a result of early attachment experiences. It uses the safety and trust built in the therapist-client relationship as a safe base to heal relational trauma, and serves as a corrective model for secure connections and future bonds in the clients life.

As a result of Attachment-based psychotherapy, the client finds new ways of behaving in relationships and new ways of approaching the world of work and exploration. Their internal working model becomes more open and adaptive, supporting better intimate relationship and more engagement and action in the world.