Understand how early relationships shape your life – and build more secure patterns through evidence-based, body-based healing.
Individual Therapy: Trauma-Informed Attachment Approach
How Trauma-Informed Attachment Therapy Helps
Trauma-informed attachment therapy helps you understand how early relationships and life experiences, including trauma, shape your adult patterns. Many people struggle with challenges that feel out of their control:
- Repeating the same relationship patterns despite knowing better
- Feeling anxious or disconnected in relationships
- Struggling with emotional regulation or self-esteem
- Experiencing trauma symptoms that affect daily life
- Feeling stuck despite traditional therapy approaches
These patterns make sense when you understand attachment theory – how early relationships with caregivers create internal working models that influence adult behavior. Trauma further affects these patterns, shaping how we relate to ourselves and others.
I specialize in helping you understand these connections – integrating attachment-focused approaches, trauma-informed care, and somatic healing to address root patterns, not just symptoms.
Early Relationships and Trauma Responses
Your early relationships – especially with primary caregivers – teach you how to navigate emotions, connection, and safety. When these relationships are inconsistent, overwhelming, or traumatic, they shape how you respond to stress and relationships as an adult.
Secure attachment: Caregivers were consistently responsive and attuned, creating confidence in relationships and emotional regulation.
Anxious attachment: Caregivers were inconsistent, creating hypervigilance about abandonment and relationship security.
Avoidant attachment: Caregivers were emotionally unavailable, creating self-reliance and discomfort with intimacy.
Disorganized attachment: Caregivers were frightening or frightened, creating confusion about safety and connection.
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Trauma – whether relational (abuse, neglect) or situational (accidents, loss, medical events) – further affects attachment patterns. Trauma survivors often develop heightened threat responses, difficulty trusting others, emotional dysregulation, and relationship challenges rooted in both attachment injuries and trauma responses.
Trauma-informed attachment therapy addresses both: understanding how early relationships shaped your patterns and how trauma affects those patterns today.
Integrating Body-Based Healing
Healing doesn’t happen only through conversation. Many attachment patterns and trauma responses are held in the body, nervous system dysregulation, chronic tension, emotional numbing, and fight/flight/freeze responses stored in muscle memory.
When clinically appropriate, I integrate somatic, body-based techniques to deepen healing:
- Nervous system regulation – Techniques to calm stress responses and build resilience
- Body awareness practices – Reconnecting with sensations, emotions, and body signals
- Breath work – Regulating emotional states through conscious breathing
- Mindfulness and presence – Cultivating awareness without overwhelming activation
My 10,000 hours of meditation practice, including 320 days of silent retreat, inform a contemplative therapeutic presence. I’m a Unified Mindfulness Level-2 Coach and Certified Realization Process Teacher, bringing depth to somatic integration while maintaining clinical boundaries.
Somatic techniques are offered when appropriate for your goals, never prescribed or required. Meditation and mindfulness are optional tools, never spiritual requirements.
Evidence-Based Approaches I Use
I integrate multiple therapeutic modalities tailored to your unique needs:
Identifies core emotional patterns formed in childhood (“schemas”) and transforms maladaptive coping strategies. Particularly effective for long-standing relationship patterns, perfectionism, and complex trauma.
Comprehensive interview providing clarity on your attachment style and targeted treatment recommendations. Offers a roadmap for healing based on your unique attachment patterns.
Identifies unconscious emotional learnings driving symptoms and facilitates transformational change at the root level. Highly effective for anxiety, relationship patterns, and emotional blocks.
Evidence-based guided imagery technique helping you internalize secure attachment through visualization. Developed by Dan Brown, PhD, shown to shift attachment patterns toward security.
Strengthens your ability to understand your own and others’ mental states improving emotional regulation, empathy, and relationship functioning.
These approaches are integrated flexibly based on your goals, preferences, and what emerges in our work together. You’re not fit into a one-size-fits-all model – therapy is tailored to your unique journey.
Who This Approach Serves
Individual therapy is appropriate for adults experiencing:
Relationship Patterns
- Repeating the same conflicts or dynamics
- Difficulty forming or maintaining close relationships
- Fear of abandonment or engulfment
- Anxious or avoidant attachment patterns
Anxiety & Emotional Regulation
- Chronic anxiety or worry
- Panic attacks or hypervigilance
- Difficulty managing emotions
- Emotional overwhelm or numbness
Trauma & Attachment Injuries
- Past abuse, neglect, or trauma
- Complex trauma (C-PTSD)
- Attachment injuries from caregivers
- Difficulty trusting others
Perfectionism & Performance
- Perfectionism or imposter syndrome
- High-achieving anxiety
- Burnout or chronic stress
- Never feeling “good enough”
Life Transitions
- Career changes or major decisions
- Divorce or relationship endings
- Grief and loss
- Identity exploration
Depression & Disconnection
- Persistent sadness or emptiness
- Loss of meaning or purpose
- Feeling disconnected from yourself
- Difficulty experiencing joy
My clients are often self-reflective, depth-oriented individuals seeking more than symptom management. If you’re curious about yourself, willing to explore root patterns, and ready for meaningful change, we may be a good fit.
What to Expect in Individual Therapy
First Session: Assessment & Goal-Setting
We’ll explore what brings you to therapy, your relationship history, current challenges, and therapy goals. I’ll explain how trauma-informed attachment therapy works and answer any questions. Together, we’ll create a treatment plan tailored to your needs.
Ongoing Sessions: Exploration & Healing
Each session typically includes:
- Present-focused exploration: What’s happening in your life right now
- Pattern recognition: Noticing how past experiences show up today
- Skill-building: Learning tools for emotional regulation, communication, and self-compassion
- Somatic integration (when appropriate): Body-based techniques to deepen healing
- Insight and reflection: Understanding connections between past and present
Session Logistics
- Duration: 50-60 minutes per session
- Frequency: Weekly or biweekly (discussed based on your needs)
- Format: Secure HIPAA-compliant telehealth
- Location: You must be physically in Colorado during sessions
Length of Therapy
Therapy duration varies based on your goals and needs. Some clients benefit from short-term work (3-6 months), while others engage in longer-term depth work (12+ months). We’ll regularly review progress and adjust as needed.
Assessment Options
For clients seeking deeper understanding of their attachment patterns, I offer:
- DMM Adult Attachment Assessment: Comprehensive interview providing attachment style clarity ($500)
- Schema Therapy Assessment: Identifies core emotional patterns and coping styles ($300)
These assessments are optional but can provide valuable insight and treatment direction.
Fees & Insurance
Session Fees
- Individual Therapy: $150 per session (50-60 minutes)
- DMM Assessment: $500 (includes interview, scoring, feedback session)
- Schema Assessment: $300 (includes questionnaires, scoring, feedback session)
Payment
Payment is due at the time of service via credit card, debit card, or HSA/FSA card through the secure client portal.
Insurance
I am an out-of-network provider and do not bill insurance directly. However, I provide superbills (detailed receipts) you can submit to your insurance company for potential out-of-network reimbursement.
Many insurance plans reimburse 50-80% of out-of-network therapy costs. I recommend contacting your insurance to verify your out-of-network mental health benefits before beginning therapy.
Sliding Scale
Limited sliding scale availability ($125-150/session) for clients experiencing financial hardship. Please inquire during consultation.
Ready to Begin?
I offer a free 15-minute phone consultation to discuss your situation, answer questions, and see if trauma-informed attachment therapy is right for you. There’s no pressure or obligation, just an opportunity to explore whether we’re a good fit.
Taking the first step toward therapy takes courage. I’m here to support you with compassion, expertise, and respect for your unique journey.