Attachment therapy can help you heal from emotional wounds that might be affecting your ability to form close, healthy relationships. It focuses on rebuilding trust, emotional connection, and self-worth, especially if your childhood experiences made it difficult to connect with others. If you’ve faced neglect, abuse, or even parents who were too busy or unable to fulfill your needs, attachment therapy can guide you towards healthier relationships and a more secure sense of self.
And the good news is that anyone can move toward a secure attachment style with the right support and guidance. Here is some more information about why attachment therapy is important.
The 4 Attachment Styles
Attachment theory explains how your early relationships shape how you connect with others. Here are the four main attachment styles that may impact your relationships:
- Avoidant Attachment
If you have an avoidant attachment style, you may value your independence but feel uncomfortable when things get too close. You might pull away from emotional intimacy, especially in stressful moments. - Secure Attachment
If you have a secure attachment style, you likely feel comfortable with both closeness and independence. You can communicate well and build stable, trusting relationships. - Anxious Attachment
With an anxious attachment style, you may often worry about your relationships and seek constant reassurance. Fears of rejection or feeling unworthy might affect your connections. - Fearful-Avoidant Attachment
If you have a fearful-avoidant attachment style, you may crave closeness but fear it at the same time, leading to mixed signals in relationships.
Who Can Benefit from Attachment Therapy?
Attachment therapy can be incredibly helpful for anyone who struggles with forming healthy, trusting relationships, especially if you’ve experienced:
- Childhood trauma, emotional or physical neglect, or abuse
- Growing up in foster care or being adopted
- Difficulty trusting others or a fear of abandonment
Even if you’re an adult dealing with low self-esteem, anxiety, or challenges in relationships, attachment therapy can help you heal and move toward healthier connections.
How Attachment Therapy Can Help You
Attachment therapy is designed to help you heal from the emotional pain that affects your ability to connect with others. Through AEDP therapy and other techniques, you’ll learn to:
- Build trust: You’ll learn how to trust others again and form deeper, more secure relationships.
- Overcome fear of abandonment: Attachment therapy helps you address the deep-seated fear of being left behind or rejected.
- Boost your self-esteem: You’ll gain the confidence and self-worth needed to feel deserving of love and healthy relationships.
- Open up emotionally: Attachment therapy helps you become more comfortable with vulnerability, which is crucial for creating deeper emotional connections.
When to Try Attachment Therapy
You might want to consider attachment therapy if you:
- Have difficulty forming or maintaining relationships
- Feel insecure, fear rejection, or struggle with low self-esteem
- Are dealing with past trauma or emotional pain that affects your current relationships
Whether you’ve experienced neglect, abuse, or simply didn’t form healthy emotional bonds growing up, attachment therapy can help you heal and move toward a more secure attachment style.
Our counsellors are specially trained to help you through this process, creating a safe space where you can grow and build the healthy relationships you deserve. We offer a free 15-minute consultation so you can see if the counsellor is a good fit for you. Book here.
