Attachment-Based Therapy

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on the attachments people make in early life, and how these experiences are taken in and influence the kinds of relationships people form as they mature and develop. If relationships have not been favourable in infancy or childhood, in particular if a child’s developing attachment to its main carers is broken or unsatisfactory, it can often be difficult to feel emotionally secure.

As a result, ways are found of surviving (such as substance misuse, avoidance, depression, anxiety, workaholism, overeating) in a world that is experienced as unsafe, unstable, insecure and frightening. These earlier ways of relating are then experienced in the present, affecting our relationships and the world around us, leading to painful and unsafe experiences, unsatisfactory relationships, and feelings of unhappiness.

The initial therapy sessions provide an opportunity for me to begin to understand your attachments, to people or to behaviours. This therapeutic approach will help you become more consciously aware of why you feel a certain way, and how in the past and present, important persons and situations have impacted you and may still be having an influence today.

It offers you an opportunity to experience, which might be for the first time in your life, a relationship where it feels safe enough to explore your fears and mourn past losses. As you feel safer to explore your difficulties and find ways of understanding them, it will begin to feel possible to have a more secure, fulfilling and creative life.

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Individual Counselling
Using a variety of skills from different therapeutic models, tailored to your individual needs, I work at your pace. Brief therapy can be active and directive to achieve specific goals. Longer term work can facilitate deep and lasting change.

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Addiction Counselling
If your day to day functioning or health or relationships are impacted by issues of dependency, I can help you overcome self-destructive behaviour. I have experience of working with substance abuse, compulsive behaviour and disordered eating.

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Online Counselling
Modern technology allows continued connection wherever we are. If work, travel or any change in routine demands time out from face to face therapy, then online counselling via a high quality video link can offer convenience and immediate support.

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“Human interdependency is necessary. Establishing and maintaining solid human attachments assures safety, security, comfort and well-being.”

John Bowlby

Attachment-Based Therapy

Individual Counselling

Addiction Counselling

Online Counselling