Attachment-Focused Therapy for Adults in NJ & PA
Therapy for the anxious, avoidant, and everyone in between.
Are You Tired of Feeling Uncertain in Your Relationships?
If you constantly push people away or struggle with the fear of rejection, you’re not alone. These emotional scars from attachment trauma can leave you feeling disconnected, anxious, and unsure of your relationships, even when you want nothing more than to feel safe and loved.
Maybe you’ve noticed yourself overanalyzing every conversation with your partner, wondering if they’re going to leave you. Or perhaps you find yourself withdrawing emotionally whenever things get too close, afraid of being hurt again. These patterns are not your fault—childhood attachment wounds have a lasting impact on how we trust, love, and relate to others.
What If You Could Break Free from These Patterns?
Now, imagine waking up every day feeling confident and secure in your relationships. The fear of abandonment no longer controls your actions, and you trust yourself—and others—without hesitation. This isn’t just a dream; with attachment trauma therapy, it’s within reach. You can finally heal those deep-rooted childhood wounds and build the healthy, meaningful connections you’ve always wanted.
Understanding Attachment Styles and How Trauma Affects Relationships
Attachment styles form during childhood and have a profound impact on our adult relationships. When childhood experiences involve neglect, abuse, or inconsistent caregiving, it can lead to insecure attachment styles—such as anxious, avoidant, or disorganized attachments. These attachment wounds often show up as fear of intimacy, chronic mistrust, or an inability to regulate emotions in close relationships.
Healing attachment trauma requires a compassionate, personalized approach that addresses the root causes of emotional distress. At Siobhan Strickhart Psychotherapy I offer:
EMDR Therapy: Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a powerful, evidence-based therapy that helps individuals reprocess traumatic memories without re-living them. It is particularly effective in healing the emotional scars left by childhood trauma.
Inner Child Work: By reconnecting with the parts of yourself that were hurt or neglected in childhood, inner child work helvps you heal from past wounds and develop a greater sense of self-worth.
Reparenting Techniques: Through guided self-compassion and new coping strategies, reparenting allows you to become the supportive caregiver you needed in childhood, creating space for deep emotional healing.
What Is Attachment Trauma?
Attachment trauma happens when we experience instability, neglect, or abuse in our formative relationships. It can lead to problems with emotional regulation, trust, and forming secure attachments in adult relationships. Through therapy, we help you uncover and address these early wounds, guiding you toward healthier relationships.
Signs of Attachment Trauma
Signs of attachment trauma may include:
Difficulty trusting others
Fear of abandonment
Emotional withdrawal in relationships
Anxiety or insecurity in close relationships
Difficulty forming lasting relationships"
Imagine if you could…
✓Really, Truly, Actually Connect
We'll start with helping you connect to yourself and your body with compassion. This will help you build secure bonds with others, with the safety and closeness you’ve been seeking.
✓ Trust Yourself and Others
If you’re feeling ready to reclaim your inner compass and develop healthy boundaries, I can help you learn to trust your intuition and build authentic connections.
✓ Manage Emotions Without Fearing Them
Navigate your emotional landscape with understanding and self-compassion. I will hold space for fear and shame, so you can ultimately move away from them and towards the full spectrum of your feelings.
✓ Communicate Effectively and Set Boundaries
Expressing your needs and desires with clarity is a skill many of us never learned. I can help you to establish healthy boundaries for empowered and fulfilling relationships.
You’re worthy of love and connection.
You always have been.
If you’re looking for therapy to heal from childhood trauma in NJ or PA, you've come to the right place. It’s time to feel good about who you are.
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Attachment trauma is based on the understanding that our early experiences with caregivers shape our ability to form healthy relationships as adults. If those early experiences were disrupted by neglect, abuse, or even just inconsistency, it can create a form of trauma called "attachment trauma."
Think of it this way: your early attachments are like the emotional foundation of the house that is your self-concept and life. If that foundation is shaky, it makes everything built on top of it unreliable and prone to collapse, even in a light breeze. Attachment-focused therapy can help you repair the foundation. Schedule a consultation here.
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Attachment-focused therapy is a type of psychotherapy that delves into the core of how we connect with others. I will work to help you build a stronger, more secure foundation for connection by building safety and trust with you. We may use parts work (IFS), CEN therapy, or other compassion-focused tools. It’s honestly a beautiful process, and I love helping people with it. Schedule a consultation here.
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That may be part of our work together! The truth is that our attachment styles may vary based on who we’re interacting with, though we all tend to lean towards one pattern or another. For example, you may be avoidant with your friends (stepping away when things feel too close), but maybe you err anxious in romantic relationships (fearing abandonment or loss, even when there’s security).
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Therapy is not about blaming parents, but it is about providing context. Most of the time, parents do the best they can with what they have. Sometimes that “best” is not very good, and it’s important to know that as context for what you’re experiencing.
I also know that intergenerational trauma, racism, poverty, and other systems of oppression may have an impact on a parents’ ability to show up for you. Nonetheless, the impact on you was real. You deserve to have feelings about it, and you also deserve to feel better.
I would love to help. Schedule a consultation here.
FAQs
Common questions about Attachment-Focused Therapy
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