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Attachment Styles

Attachment-style therapy in West Palm Beach offers the opportunity to build strong, healthy relationships. If you find yourself yelling and not feeling heard, you may be struggling with attachment issues that can sabotage your relationships. Our therapists understand the deep impact of your attachment style on your relationships. With compassionate and confidential attachment-style counseling, you can heal your attachment disorder and learn how to form healthier, more fulfilling connections with others. Call us today to find relief and healing with a skilled attachment-style therapist in West Palm Beach.

Attachment StylesWhat is Attachment Style Therapy?

Attachment theory was developed by Mary Ainsworth and John Bowlby to explain human bonding. They believed that the attachment between mother and baby heavily influences the child’s emotional and mental development. The researchers believed that mental disorders could be traced back to separations from or inconsistent or harsh treatment from the mother.

Children grow up healthy and thrive when they experience love and nurturing, security, responsive interaction, and encouragement for exploration. Without these crucial aspects of child and mother attachment, the child’s development can have severe and long-lasting consequences.

In therapy, your counselor can help you use this theory to understand your attachment style, helping you recognize your typical relationship patterns and work toward developing a more secure attachment.

Contact our therapists today for attachment style therapy in West Palm Beach and start healing attachment wounds and improving your relationships with a secure attachment.

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Understanding Attachment Styles

Secure Attachment

A secure attachment style results from a healthy attachment between the mother and baby. Researchers believe for a child to grow up with a secure attachment style, the baby requires physical contact with the mother. A mother’s response to the baby’s cries creates a healthy, secure attachment.

A baby who feels safe, supported and encouraged to explore leads to an adult with a secure attachment.

Individuals with attentive mothers can grow up mentally healthy and develop secure relationships with others in adulthood.

Even if you didn’t have an attentive or relaxed mother growing up, you can still develop a secure attachment through counseling at our centers in West Palm Beach. Liz brings specialized trauma training to sessions and creates a supportive environment allowing you to reshape childhood patterns.

Types of Attachment Styles

Avoidant Attachment

People with an avoidant attachment style try to minimize closeness and emotional intimacy with others. These people learned early on that trying to become close to others leads to disappointment or regret.

These are usually people who had avoidant mothers as babies. When the baby would cry, the mother would fail to soothe the baby. The baby learned that depending on or trying to be close to others is unsafe because it leads to being let down.

If you experience difficulty trusting others, emotional distance, or fear of intimacy, you may have an avoidant attachment style.

Anxious Attachment

While avoidant attachment describes someone who rejects intimacy, those with anxious attachment styles have a heightened need for it. This need comes from a fear of rejection from others. This may lead to feelings of jealousy and insecurity.

Babies who receive inconsistent support and physical contact with their mothers develop this attachment style. When the mother is inconsistent, the baby and the adult grow up not trusting others. While they crave connection to others, they also fear losing it and may act in ways that jeopardize their relationships.

Characteristics of anxiously attached individuals include clinginess, neediness, and jealousy.

Disorganized Attachment

People with disorganized attachment styles are said to have a combination of avoidant and anxious behaviors. These people want intimate relationships, but when people get too close, they sabotage.

They may have conflicting behaviors which may confuse their loved ones.

These babies are usually the children of parents with trauma. The mom pro

vides inconsistent responses to the baby’s cries. At times, the caregiver can have been frightening, intimidating, disoriented, even abusive or neglectful.

People with this attachment style typically experience inconsistency, unpredictability, and difficulty regulating emotions.

How Attachment Styles Impact Relationships

The attachment theory states that our attachment style, formed during the first few years of life, affects our relationships throughout life.

Here is how each attachment style manifests itself in relationships:

Through compassionate attachment-style counseling in West Palm, you can heal your attachment and learn to create healthy, loving relationships.

Attachment Styles Therapy in West Palm Beach

Some therapy interventions commonly used at the Trauma Therapy Center for attachment counseling include:

With compassionate and confidential therapy, you can heal your attachment disorder and adopt a secure attachment style.

Call us today for a free consultation to find attachment-style therapy in Palm Beach County.

For more information about our counselors or to schedule an appointment with an attachment style therapist, call the therapy center.

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The Benefits of Attachment Style Therapy

Attachment therapy can improve your relationships with others, whether romantic, with family, or at work.

The benefits of attachment therapy include:

Your therapist will tailor your attachment counseling specifically to your needs and situation. Look for someone who specializes in attachment styles and trauma therapy.

Finding the Right Therapist for You

Here are some things to look for in an attachment-based therapist:

If you’re looking for an intuitive and caring therapist like Liz, call our office today to speak with someone who can help you improve your well-being.

What to Expect in Attachment Style Therapy Sessions

Therapy with Liz offers a unique approach to understanding and healing attachment styles.

Liz recognizes the profound impact of early childhood experiences on your current relationships. Through compassionate and insightful conversations, you’ll gain a deeper understanding of your attachment style and how it shapes your interactions with others.

Here’s what you can expect in attachment style therapy:

By working together, you can break free from negative patterns, develop stronger emotional connections, and experience greater happiness and fulfillment in your life.

With attachment counseling led by our skilled trauma therapists, you can unlock a secure attachment. Through techniques such as REBT, CBT, and EMDR, you can transform your attachment style and rewrite your emotional narrative. Begin your healing journey today in West Palm Beach, FL, and embrace a future filled with healthier relationships and inner harmony. Our therapists are fully committed to your healing.

Sources: Contributions of Attachment Theory and Research: A Framework for Future Research, Translation, and Policy by Jude CassidyJason D Jones, and Phillip R Shaver 

Page Modified on Dec 3, 2024 by Liz Chelak (Trauma Therapist)