Attachment Theory

Kendra Smith (she/her)

Licensed Professional Counselor

MA, LPC, NCC

The way we were taught to relate to the primary people who provided us care when we were babies and children can shape how we act in relationships as adults. Establishing an understanding of how we connect with others in different contexts can help improve communication skills and expression of intention, which can improve the quality of relationships. I use individual family of origin history to help guide clients as they work on understanding their participation in relationships.

Carrie Farrell (she/her)

Licensed Professional Counselor

Licensed Professional Counselor, Licensed Massage Therapist

Attachment Theory rests on the understanding that, as humans, we have a biological need to bond with each other. Experiences with early relationships and caregivers create a blueprint that informs the sense of safety and security you bring to adult relationships. This blueprint can be updated and revised through exploration of the therapeutic relationship, between client and therapist.

Gabriel Trees (He / Him)

Marriage and Family Therapist Associate

Masters of Arts, Marriage, Couple & Family Therapy

The attachment styles we develop early in life can have a profound impact on the way we relate to others in adulthood. Awareness and appreciation of this has been shown to lead to a greater understanding of ourselves and our partners. Let’s work towards creating better relationships with yourself and with others.

Mary Bruce-Owenby (she/her)

Licensed Marriage Family Therapist

LGBTQIA-affirmative couples therapist

I use the PACT (Psychobiological Approach to Couples Therapy), a model that incorporates attachment theory as it relates to couples. Attachment theory focuses on our human need to form close, emotional bonds, and the impact of our first experiences of closeness with our caregiver on future relationships. There are attachment styles that emerge from this early experience that show up in our later relationships, and understanding them is key for becoming even more knowledgeable about your partner.

Bree Koenig (she/her/hers)

Licensed Professional Counselor

LPC, MS Clinical Psychology

Chelsea Kellogg (she/her/hers)

Licensed Marriage Family Therapist

LMFT

I incorporate attachment work into every session and it is a grounding theory of my style and approach to providing therapy. Therapy is most effective when a therapeutic relationship forms between the therapist and the client. Attachment theory guides me in how I build that relationship with my clients.

Joby Mahto (she/her)

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

LCSW

Andy Pfandler (he/him)

Marriage and Family Therapist Associate

MA

Attachment underlies much of my work and was a key part of my training. Understanding how our attachment needs change throughout our lives and can be met by different people, at different times, in different capacities, can be deeply rewarding therapeutic work.

Christopher Creaturo (he/his)

Licensed Professional Counselor

MA, LPC

Mentalization Based Therapy derived from Attachment Theory. Person-Centered work to establish model of the secure relationship in therapy and allow for Attachment style repair.

April Dvorak

Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner

APRN, PMHNP-BC

Eden Baron-Williams (she/her)

Marriage and Family Therapist Associate

MA, Marriage and Family Therapist Associate

Everyone has strategies to get their needs met. Often times these once essential strategies become patterns in our life that keep us from connecting and turning toward one another. Attachment and emotion-focused therapy invites us to understand and build compassion for our old patterns, while building new, healthier strategies for connection by identifying our emotions and giving voice to our needs.

Rachel Bagley, MS, NCC, LPC (she/her)

Licensed Professional Counselor

I have been trained in Experiential Attachment Psychotherapy. I have a passion for working with those wanting to find more security in their attachment style and in their relationships.

Mara Sobesky (she/her)

Marriage and Family Therapist Associate

Master of Arts in Marriage, Couple, and Family Therapy

Anchor Within Counseling

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Behavioral Health Office

Jordan Curtis (He/him)

Professional Counselor Associate

MA, NCC

I believe in the power and primacy of relationship when it comes to psychotherapy. In therapy, we will explore your relationship to relationship and your attachment strategies. Whether you come to me for individual or couples work, we will work towards earned secure attachment for you. I want you to be able to enjoy the benefits of attachment security: health, purpose, emotional regulation, resiliency to trauma & grief, and rich & stable intimate relationships.

Nova (Stephenie) Knutson (she/her)

Professional Counselor Associate

MA, CHT

Attachment therapy uses principles of modern neuroscience and research about the ways humans form inner relationship models based on our early relationships. Unless they are interrupted, we carry these forward into current relationships, for better or for worse. I work with a client's present moment relational experiences to unravel old relationship patterns and foster new, more satisfying ones.

Janel Ruehl (she/her)

Licensed Professional Counselor

QMHP

I specialize in Restoration Therapy, a blend of attachment, family systems, and mindfulness-based theories.

Lawrence VENASKA (He/Him)

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

LCSW

I have an overarching lens I view my work through which is attachment theory. Approximately 85% of the general US population has less than optimal development due to disruptions in the process of attunement we all need to be able to best regulate our own neurology and well being. Secure attachment can be achieved later in life as an adult even if not achieved in childhood.

Dani Dierking (She/Her/Hers)

Licensed Art Therapist

LAT, LPC, ATR

This has consistently been a driving theory in my work with adults. Your early childhood relationships impact how you relate to others today, and this is essential to be explored to improve your own resiliency.

Dr. Katie Statman-Weil (she/her)

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

EdD, LCSW

I use the latest research in relational neuroscience to help you create a shift in the ways that you think about your child. My approach is strength-based, relationship focused, and integrates the complexity of the human experience in all interactions. I work with you to figure out what it is your child is communicating through their behavior so we can use those clues to figure out what they need to feel more regulated and calm.

Trish Nicholson (she/her)

Professional Counselor Associate

Board-certified (NCC)

I focus on understanding and addressing how early relationships influence your current emotional and relational patterns. By helping you recognize and heal attachment wounds, we’ll explore how your past relationships influence your current emotional patterns and work on healing any attachment wounds. My goal is to help you build healthier, more secure connections in your life.

Dore Everett, LCSW (He/Him)

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

LCSW

Attachment work in therapy explores how dysfunctional attachment templates get represented in adult relationships by clients developing a personal, healthy, therapeutic relationship with their counselor. This relationship lays the groundwork to understand clients’ attachments to others through consistent and supportive communication.

Benji Hurston (them/them)

Professional Counselor Associate

M.A. in Professional Mental Health Counseling

Jed Rendleman (he/him)

Marriage and Family Therapist Associate

MFT

Emotions are the currency of attachment. Emotions signal what’s important for us to notice, both for ourselves and in relationship. Attuning to your own emotions and the emotions of others promotes healing and connection. Easier said than done! I use techniques that help individuals and couples slow down, sit with feelings, and gain language to better understand/communicate them. Through this process I help clients foster more secure and satisfying relationships.

Jessica Butler (She/her)

Marriage and Family Therapist Associate

M.A MFT

The goal of attachment theory is having kindness and compassion for yourself and others, with the acknowledgment that every interaction is a new chance to build connection or repair a hurt one. Part of how we do this is learning to communicate and advocate for our emotional needs to be met in a safe way.

Anne-Marie Basso (she/her/they)

Licensed Marriage Family Therapist

Masters Degree

Wyatt Okeefe (he/they)

Licensed Professional Counselor

MA, LMHC, LPC, LPCC

Exploration of attachment styles can help couples find creative ways to better meet their needs and those of their partner(s) Understanding one's attachment style can help alleviate unhealthy relational habits that destroy relationships. romantic and non-romantic interpersonal issues can be explored and addressed to alleviate anxiety and distress.

Portland Therapy Project

Licensed Professional Counselor

Courageous Couples Counseling (He/Him)

Licensed Marriage Family Therapist

PACT Therapy (Psychobiological Approach to Couple Therapy) integrates attachment theory, neuroscience, and experiential techniques to help couples deepen their connection. Developed by Dr. Stan Tatkin, PACT focuses on understanding attachment styles, enhancing emotional regulation, and improving communication. It aims to strengthen relationships by addressing underlying psychological patterns and fostering secure, supportive bonds between partners.

Firefly Institute

Licensed Professional Counselor

Attachment theory is a theory of affect regulation and interpersonal relationships. Adult attachment anxiety is conceptualized as the fear of interpersonal rejection and abandonment, negative view of the self or feelings of increased anxiety or depression within relationships. Children can experience insecurity within their relationships and the behaviors we see are a result of that anxiety.

Michael Morales (he/his)

Licensed Marriage Family Therapist

LMFT

For many of us, our first years of life can influence how we interact with our chosen intimate partners and family members today. In counseling, we will explore how those early experiences have created a kind of relational framework that informs how you relate to yourself (think self-esteem issues) and others (think conflict resolution styles). We will also explore how you learned to resolve conflict and get your needs met (think safety, connection, or feeling empowered).

Blossom Counseling

Licensed Marriage Family Therapist

LMFT

Jessica Feinsmith MA LPC (She/her/hers)

Licensed Professional Counselor

LPC

I believe that to heal we must feel, and that can be very scary to do alone or with a stranger. If you struggle with insecurity within yourself and relationships, connecting and building a trusting relationship with a therapist will take time. I utilize attachment and bonding interventions to holistically develop a trusted relationship between myself and the client to create a secure attachment.

Brooke Lytz (Vaille) (she/her)

Marriage and Family Therapist Associate

Marriage and Family Therapist Registered Associate #R9241

I am Level 1 Certified in Restoration Therapy (RT). RT is a model based in attachment, family dynamics and mindfulness to help clients identify ways in which they get "stuck" and how to form more loving and trustworthy ways of being and communicating.

Rose Novak (she/her)

Professional Counselor Associate

M.A. Professional Mental Health Counseling

Early childhood and relational experiences are at the heart of many mental health related diagnoses and symptoms. We will likely explore how you developed into the person you are today and if you have any behaviors or concerns that you would like to evolve from. We will practice relational ways of being together, so that you may start to experience relationships differently outside of therapy.

La Saechao (she/her)

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

LCSW, LICSW

Ashley Adler (she/her/hers)

Marriage and Family Therapist Associate

Master of Arts in Marriage, Couples, and Family Therapy

Attachment therapy is all about learning more about attachment-based patterns: how you show up in the world with your loved ones. These patterns that originated in our childhoods can have big impacts on our close relationships, and creating awareness brings more choice.

Melissa Tomecek (she/her)

Licensed Professional Counselor

LPC, LMHC

Jenny Larson (she/her)

Licensed Professional Counselor

MA, LPC (OR), LMHC (WA), EMDR Certified

Attachment-based therapy specifically targets those thoughts, feelings, communications, behaviors, and interpersonal exchanges that clients have learned either to suppress and avoid or to amplify and overemphasize because of early attachment experiences. Attachment theory helps us examine early experiences with caregivers in order to better understand how strategies and patterns developed and heal from those early relationships so that we can build the relationships we want in our life now.

April Slabosheski (she/her)

Professional Counselor Associate

MS, NCC

Attachment theory suggests that our experiences with childhood caregivers continue to shape our lives as we grow older. In therapy, we will explore the connections between your earliest relationships, the ways you see yourself, and what you expect from others. I believe that consistent and trustworthy connections like the one we can form in therapy can support you feeling a deeper sense of belonging in yourself and the world.

Becca Flatt (She/Her)

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

MSW, LCSW

Attachment theory is a major part of how I conceptualize how I work with clients. I personally feel attachment plays such an important role in human experience because it's how we relate to the people around us. In therapy, the relationship between the therapist and the client is significant as trust and vulnerability are a major part of the client's process through treatment.

Daniel Maher, LCSW (He / Him)

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

LCSW

Gemma Baumer (she/her)

Licensed Professional Counselor

Licensed Professional Counselor, M.A. in Counseling

As infants and children, we are completely dependent on our caregivers for survival. This need for attachment is innate within us, and forms an intense drive for love and belonging. When these needs are not easily met by caregivers, we make adaptations and accommodations. These show up as different patterns of attachment, which can stick with us into adulthood. Attachment work includes working with these patterns and exploring how we show up in relationship with ourselves and others.

Jessica Baker, M.A. LMFT (She/her)

Licensed Marriage Family Therapist

B.S. Health Psychology, M.A. Counseling, LMFT

I often find that a person's attachment style is one of the strongest factors in how they related to the world and other people. When working with children I always hold their early experiences in mind and take them into account when working toward goals. The issues that couples face can often be traced to their attachment pattern. My role is to help translate each person's needs to their partner.

Liam Woods (he/him)

Marriage and Family Therapist Associate

Masters In Counseling

I specialize in helping individuals and couples understand their attachment patterns and take concrete steps toward developing secure attachment. Attachment plays a central role in most romantic relationships, as well as in many family and close friendship dynamics. While much of the existing literature on attachment focuses on identifying these patterns, it often falls short in providing practical tools and strategies to work through attachment issues and foster earned secure relationships.

Arrival Counseling annie dolle LCSW (she/her/hers)

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

LCSW

From family work (family crisis and adoptions) to the most vulnerable peoples (Emergency Department social work), I know that our attachment templates are primary to the way that we experience ourselves, our relationships, and our world. I keep this awareness close and utilize attachment theory in my work, always.

"Paisley" Jen Burrell (she/her)

Licensed Marriage Family Therapist

LMFT, LPC

Attachment theory in counseling explores how early relationships shape current emotional well-being and interpersonal dynamics. In sessions, we examine your attachment history to identify patterns impacting your relationships. The goal is to foster healthier attachments, improve communication, and create a secure emotional foundation for more satisfying connections. Attachment-informed counseling helps navigate human connections, fostering personal growth and fulfilling relationships.

Carol-Joy Brendlinger

Qualified Mental Health Professional

I am trained in Restoration Therapy which is based on Attachment Theory.

Palma Corral Sotelo (she /her)

Professional Counselor Associate

MA, NCC, PCA

My approach is relational, and I use attachment theory and human development as the underpinnings of my practice. We explore attachment styles without boxing you into one style. We use it only as a framework to understand your dominant strategies for autonomy, love, and connection. We will work to expand your abilities to hold both your needs for freedom, and to be in relationships without having to sacrifice one for the other.

Nani Waddoups (she/her)

Licensed Professional Counselor

Attachment Theory is an extraordinarily helpful tool to understand how we developed our baseline relational styles. By studying our earliest emotional attachments to our primary caregiver(s), we can understand how we developed our sense of trust, security, and self-assuredness in relationship to others. Knowing your attachment style can become a navigational compass in relationships.

Leah Haas (she/her)

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

LCSW

I provide psychoeducation related to Attachment Theory and help clients explore how their attachment style has shown up in their relationships throughout their life. I help clients heal insecure relationship wounding, so they can improve their relationships with themself and others (including dating relationships, sexual relationships, and committed relationships).

Dr. Reece Henrichs-Beck (they/them)

Clinical Psychologist

Ph.D.

Emily Berry (they/them)

Licensed Professional Counselor

LPC

I believe deeply in the power of human connection and how it shapes us. Our earliest significant relationships heavily influence how we learn to see ourselves and relate to others and the world. These dynamics evolve over our adult lives. It can be tremendously helpful to look at these histories and patterns to learn about ourselves and make change from a deeper place of self-understanding.

Sawyer Salameh (They/Them)

Licensed Professional Counselor

LPC

I use attachment theory as a foundation to support both individuals and couples. This approach helps us understand how you interact with others and with yourself, offering insight into the patterns and dynamics that influence your relationships. By exploring your attachment style, we can identify and address these patterns, which are often shaped by early interactions with family members and guide how you relate to the world.

Gary Conachan III (he/him)

Professional Counselor Associate

MS

Attachment theory can be helpful in understanding both ourselves and selves-in-relationship: with friends, family, significant others, and our planet. The therapeutic relationship can be incredibly healing when it becomes a secure attachment and model for other relationships in our lives.

Dr. David Ixtlahuac (he/him/his)

Licensed Marriage Family Therapist

LMFT

Caitlin Truitt (she/her/hers)

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

LICSW

For both couples and individuals, attachment theory can help uncover the root of relationship patterns. I love it because it can help us better understand our reactions and needs with compassion and gentleness, rather than shaming ourselves with harsh criticisms.

Pearl Waldorf

Licensed Professional Counselor

It is during our early development that our ways of understanding relationship are being mapped into our brains. Attachment therapy can awaken these networks for reconfiguration. Deep change is possible in how we experience ourselves, in our ways of connecting with others and in our capacity to act effectively in the world.

Sonia Holdaway (she/her)

Licensed Professional Counselor

MS

Attachment theory is at the heart of my work with both couples and individuals. If you are wondering why you seem to have the same problems in relationships over and over, or you feel clingy or suffocated in relationships, I can help. My clients often say they find our work helpful for looking at the impact of attachment patterns on present and past relationships.

Sabrina Sheehy (she/her)

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

LCSW, MSW

Emily Smith (she/her)

Marriage and Family Therapist Associate

MA

Attachment theory underpins all of the work that I do, as I believe we are all wired for connection with one another. Attachment styles are characterized by different ways of interacting and behaving in relationships, and are influenced by both present-day relationships as well as our earliest relationships with our caregivers. I will work with you to explore and heal attachment wounds and move towards a greater sense of safety and connection in relationship with others.

Majken Elek, MA

Licensed Professional Counselor

Our early childhood attachments with our caregivers creates a template for how we respond and relate with ourselves, and our relationships. They inform our beliefs about the world and from this, we internalize relational patterns. We can cultivate understanding of why we attached the way we did and how we can utilize neuro-plasticity to create new templates to get our emotional needs met.

Abe Hatch

Licensed Professional Counselor

LPC

An attachment-based approach to therapy looks at the connection between an infant's early attachment experiences with primary caregivers, usually with parents, and the infant's ability to develop normally and ultimately form healthy emotional and physical relationships as an adult.

Bethany Ingram (she/her)

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

LCSW

Our early development, especially our first caregivers, impact how we relate to ourselves and to others. I will help you understand how your childhood impacts your internal world and your external relationships, and I will help you build consciousness around subconscious patterns stemming from your childhood so that you can make necessary changes in the areas you have felt "stuck".

Jami Howell

Clinical Psychologist

Attachment theory relates to the long-term interpersonal relationship style we have and how it affects our present day relationships with others. It's based on the general premise that attachment styles we developed in our early years influence our patterns of interacting in close relationships in later years.

Christopher Marquardt (he/his/they/them)

Licensed Professional Counselor

LPC

I tend to build emotional connections to my clients- I hope to mitigate the pain caused by other suboptimal relationships you've had in the past. For clients this looks like establishing a connection to someone who knows them very well and represents a reflection of their better self which, for one reason or the other, you may be unable to see.

Tever Nickerson

Licensed Professional Counselor

LPC

Sarah King (she/her)

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

CCSOT

I view my practice through an attachment theory lens, as I recognize the powerful impact our childhood attachments have on our current relationships and behaviors. Therefore, I use the relationship between myself and the client as the bases for creating a safe place to explore healing childhood wounds and generalizing that healing to other important relationships in our lives.

Kate Madden (she/they)

Licensed Professional Counselor

MA, NCC

Our earliest experiences with caregivers shape what we expect from the world, how we enter into relationships, and how we make sense of ourselves. By exploring and processing early attachment experiences—and forming reparative, adult attachment experiences—we can facilitate healing and growth.

Heidi Savell (she/her)

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

LCSW

I use attachment theory to inform the work I do with individuals, couples, and family members. I believe it is crucial to overall mental wellness to understand your patterns and needs around connecting with others and finding relational safety.

Nicole Lynch (She/her)

Marriage and Family Therapist Associate

MFT Associate

Catherine Palmer (She/her)

Licensed Professional Counselor

MS, LPC, MFT

Kristin Tebow (she/her)

Licensed Professional Counselor

LPC, LMHC

Danielle Davis (they/them)

Professional Counselor Associate

Carly Henderson (she/her)

Licensed Professional Counselor

LPC, LMHC, NCC

I have and continue to participate in graduate education and professional development that focuses on attachment and attachment related trauma. I continue to participate in graduate classes through Portland State University's Trauma Informed Services and Interpersonal Neurobiology (IPNB) programs and participate in an advanced study group focusing on trauma, attachment, and IPNB.

Maria Bonacci (she/her)

Licensed Professional Counselor

LPC

"Attachment" is a way to explore how and in what contexts we feel safe. I have studied Interpersonal Neurobiology which is deeply rooted in attachment theory and the interpersonal emotional information we internalize and which as a result impacts our day to day interactions.

Tina Lilly, MS LPC

Licensed Professional Counselor

I have researched and trained in various attachment-based theories related to parenting, adoption, couples and families.

Emma Bridges (she/her)

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

LCSW

I believe that attachment is the core of how we relate to others.

Fox Convey (she, they)

Professional Counselor

Masters of Arts in Clincial Psychology (MA), Registered Associate

Miranda Bayard-Clark, LPC (she/her)

Licensed Professional Counselor

Humans learn attachment from their primary caregivers. This relationship we have with our parents directly reflects our relationships with our friends, other family members, co-workers, and intimate partners. I work with clients to identify their attachment, and how it can help or hinder their personal success in creating and maintaining relationships.

Lauren Stines (she/they)

Marriage and Family Therapist Associate

MA MCFT

When we have a sense of security and belonging, we feel much more confident to explore the world. We can explore your attachment style, how it impacts how you relate to the world, and tap into your ability to change it and find a sense of security in your life and relationships.

Jessi Huffman (she/her)

Licensed Professional Counselor

LPC

I have had training in Interpersonal Neurobiology and Attachment Theory, or how the important relationships in our lives have had a physiological impact on our wiring and functioning. In therapy we can explore this relationally, ie. what comes up between us during sessions in the immediate moment, and we can also understand from a historical lens how the relationships in your life have shaped who you are, your sense of safety with others and the world, and what to do about all of it.

Aaron Kelsay (he / him)

Licensed Professional Counselor

LPC, CADC I

The journey to healing is so much about relationship, and the "theory of attachment" is a wonderful way to put into words how we relate to everything in our world. I use the language of attachment alongside the other modalities in order for couples, individuals, groups to understand how and why they relate they way they do. This awareness allows us to adjust how we relate, and in doing so, move towards healing and health.

Patrick Bluett (he/him)

Licensed Professional Counselor

LPC, CST

What did your earliest relationships teach you about love and intimacy? What patterns of behavior did you adopt in order to protect those relationships? How are those patterns serving you now? Adult attachment theory provides a valuable framework for understanding the ways that you form and maintain relationships in order to meet core emotional needs. Through therapy, we can identify patterns that might not align with your relationship values and learn better ways of finding and keeping love.

Courtney Burns

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Exploring how attachment with caregivers early in our lives can be fertile ground for gaining new understanding to present day relationships.

Gina DeLeo (she/her)

Marriage and Family Therapist Associate

M.A.

I work collaboratively with partners, families and individuals who want to foster connection and form deeper, more loving relationships. I also work with parents to identify their struggles with parenting (be it a one time issue or an on going parenting struggle) and develop a plan to support the entire family system.

Stacy Sheffler (she/her)

Licensed Professional Counselor

How we attached to our significant caregivers in early childhood leads us to desire, gravitate and repel others. Understanding these styles can aid in seeking healthier relationships.

Annette Smith (she/her)

Professional Counselor Associate

MA, NCC, LPC Registered Associate

I have used Attachment Theory in the decades of work I have done with children and families. It is a lens through which I use to understand the needs of individuals and to explain the behaviors we see in both children and adults.

Cassandra Miasnikov (She/They)

Professional Counselor Associate

#R10187

Attachment theory helps us understand how early relationships shape the way we connect with others and see ourselves. In therapy, we explore these patterns with curiosity and compassion, identifying how they influence your current relationships and well-being. By fostering secure connections with yourself and others, we work to heal past wounds, reduce shame, build trust, and develop healthier, more fulfilling relationships rooted in safety, understanding, and mutual support.

Sarah Lange (She/Her)

Marriage and Family Therapist Associate

MFT Associate

Exploring what attachment was like in early childhood can help us understand what is going on in adult relationships.

Julianna Vermeys

Licensed Professional Counselor

LPC, NCC

I believe our attachments to our first caregivers offer us a window into how we feel and function in our current relationships and life endeavors. Using narrative and discussion to understand the complex web of attachment-based emotions and experience in the world, I can help you feel empowered and in charge of your life choices and behaviors.

Hanna Maxwell (she/her)

Licensed Professional Counselor

LMHC, LH61499938

Beau Henderson (He/Him)

Licensed Professional Counselor

M.A. in Counseling

Ashley Wilkins (she/her)

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

LCSW

Jenna Washburn (she / her)

Licensed Professional Counselor

MA: Mental Health Counseling - Specialization in Addictions

I have researched attachment theory and utilize its theories in most of my therapy interventions, particularly on issues of family systems, relationships, trauma, and boundaries.

Kate O'Brien (She/They)

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

LCSW-S

My framework includes many lenses and theories but one of the biggest and most important is attachment. Taking a look at attachments you were able to form or unable to form when you were young, even an infant, play a large part in how you connect with people now! I believe uncovering aspects of your former attachments can really offer valuable insight with supporting your present situations and your future.

Torey Andrus (she/her)

Licensed Marriage Family Therapist

LMFT

Rebecca Lundberg (she/her)

Student Counselor

I have completed extensive training in Attachment Theory, which I apply in my counseling work with individuals and couples. This theory explores how early relationships shape our emotional well-being and influence our interactions throughout life. By helping clients identify their attachment styles—secure, anxious, avoidant, and disorganized—I facilitate awareness of relationship patterns and emotional triggers to foster healthier communication and connection.

Ally Simone (she/her)

Licensed Marriage Family Therapist

LMFT T2066

Nicole Lynch (She/her)

Marriage and Family Therapist Associate

MFT Associate

Cameron Panfely (he/him)

Professional Counselor Associate

R10197, MS, BS

When our self-concept is first developing, it is a reflection of how we think our primary attachment figures view us. That is a powerful idea that massively impacts our developing self-worth, and the way we interact with others, especially significant others. No matter if you have an anxious, avoidant, or disorganized attachment, attachment theory provides roadmaps to developing a secure attachment at any time in your life.

Kara Kazemba (she/her)

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Emily Radcliffe (She/Her)

Marriage and Family Therapist

MA, MCFT Associate

Attachment theory has recently become more mainstream and a lot of folx are interested in how it applies to them or their partnership. I can help you explore your attachment style and how it manifests in your relationships both with others and yourself. I can also help you explore the roots of your attachment style in order to better understand how you got here. Learning about and naming attachment styles and wounds can be powerful and help foster secure attachment going forward.

Katharyn Waterfield, MA, LPC

Licensed Professional Counselor

OR Lic #C4802

Through the study of Interpersonal Neurobiology (IPNB) we have a great new understanding of the restorability of wholeness where emotional damage was done from unresponsive, unconscious, or even violent caretakers. Our work is in the relationship, as the 'interpersonal' actually enables a new neurologic wiring as well as new realizations of worthiness and value.

Megan Sapp (she/her)

Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner

PMHNP, CNM, FNP

Laura Patiño (she/her)

Licensed Professional Counselor

MA, NCC

Adam Benjamin

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

LCSW, CHT

A thorough grasp of attachment theory is foundational to understand most forms of dysregulation or mental illness. I consider attachment patterns as I seek to tune in to each client's suffering. I also have training in attachment-based therapeutic techniques.

Lilyan Smith-Moore, LPC

Licensed Professional Counselor

We are creatures of love, and when we feel disconnected from others, we suffer. In therapy, I use attachment theory to help a person explore how their early family relationships (or lack thereof) shaped their ways of relating to others in adulthood. This type of therapy is especially useful for those who have been through childhood or family trauma.

Margot Standeven (she/her/hers)

Licensed Marriage Family Therapist

Masters in Marriage, Couple, & Family Counseling

We each have a particular attachment style that determines how comfortable we are in proximity to others. Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) helps couples understand the attachment style of each partner and the dynamic that exists between them.

Amanda Lowrey (she/her/hers)

Marriage and Family Therapist Associate

MA

Early childhood relationships, interactions, and experiences provide a blueprint for how we see ourselves, our relationships, and the world around us. Has the world felt safe? Have you found trust and reliability in others? Understanding your attachment style can be a powerful tool in unraveling old relationship patterns and fostering meaningful and secure changes!

Christine Bethel (she/her)

Licensed Marriage Family Therapist

LMFT

As with systems theory, I find attachment theory to be an extremely helpful model in supporting clients. We are indelibly marked by our early bonds with caregivers and typically, what we learned in those relationships sets our beliefs about the world and determines the patterns we follow in future relationships. Not that we can't change, attachment theory just helps us understand why.

Francis Aurora Otto (they | she)

Licensed Professional Counselor

MA, LPC, RSMT/E

Our earliest relationships form the templates for how we interact and what we expect from others. These patterns live in our body and in the ways that we engage with (or avoid) others. Over the past 10 years, I have learned how to recognize and work with individual attachment styles and relationship patterns through my in-depth studies with Bonnie Badenoch, PhD, LMFT.

Isabel McCune (she/her)

Professional Counselor Associate

MA, MPH, NCC

Erica Ochsenreither (she/her)

Licensed Professional Counselor

PhD, LPC, ATR-BC, LCAT

Ashley Sullivan (she/her)

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

LCSW

Leigh Varley (she/her)

Professional Counselor Associate

LPCA

Attachment theory explores how early relationships with caregivers shape our emotional development and interpersonal relationships throughout life. These early experiences influence how we bond, handle stress, and respond to intimacy and conflict. Gaining insight into these patterns can help us develop greater emotional well-being and healthier relationships.

Su Yim, MSW, LCSW (she/her)

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Attachment theory is all about love and safety. How we experience that from an early age influences the coping skills we develop for all of our relationships, especially during times of conflict and struggle. I love that we can change how we feel about ourselves, our relationships and the world at large through the context of new, safe, reparative experiences.

Allison Amo MA, LPC (she/her)

Licensed Professional Counselor

LPC

I strongly believe that our attachment experiences, from birth through adulthood, shape the way that we relate to ourselves and others. I will help you understand this lens through which you see the world, and open up possibilities for growth and healing, which ultimately leads to a more authentic and meaningful connections.

Brittney Dane (she/her/hers)

Qualified Mental Health Professional

QMHP

I help my clients gain insight into their problems and patterns using an integrative approach that draws from narrative therapy, attachment theory, and person-centered therapy.

Jackie Turner (she, her)

Marriage and Family Therapist Associate

MA, Marriage & Family Therapist Associate

Attachment theory is my main theoretical orientation and informs most of the work I do. I believe that we are all wired for connection and need it for survival - as a result, our relationships are essential, yet we often have relational wounds that can make it hard for us to connect, all the way down to the nervous system level. As such, it is central to our well-being to be able to explore and understand our patterns and learn to attend to those deep needs.

Hans Rasmussen

Licensed Professional Counselor

Professional Counselor Associate

I believe all current relationship conflict and difficulty can find its root in early relationships in life. We are inherently relational creatures and so much of what we struggle with in this life is finding our place in connection with those around us. This theory is core to each client's growth in therapy.

Catherine Gobel (she/her)

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

LCSW

Molz Wirtz-Wold (they/them)

Licensed Professional Counselor

MS, LMHC, LPC

Our relationships with the people who raised us gave us our foundation for understanding the world: are others safe or not? Can I trust people? As adults, we respond to those we care most about according to our experiences from birth to young childhood. Knowing our attachment styles can give us the ability to choose good partners, and have healthy relationships.

Chantal miniet (She/Her)

Licensed Professional Counselor

C8779

I help clients understand how early relationships shape their current patterns. Through exploration and validation, we address attachment wounds and develop healthier coping strategies. By fostering secure relationships and promoting self-awareness, clients experience healing and growth.

Veronica Vargas (she/her/ella)

Licensed Professional Counselor

MA, LPC

Tanna TenHoopen Dolinsky (they/she)

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

LCSW

Sophie Toolanen (she/her)

Licensed Professional Counselor

MA, LPC

Attachment and schema driven therapy were cornerstones of my graduate education program. I believe that the attachment, or lack there of, to our primary caregivers plays an integral part in shaping who we are and how confident and capable we feel. I have many years of experience working with individuals with Borderline Personality Disorder, which I see as a disorder rooted in attachment trauma.

Karel Chan

Licensed Professional Counselor

LMHC, LPC

Our adult relationships reflect our earliest relationships in life with our families of origin. Whatever the quality of those relationships, they taught us powerful messages about love, how it's given, and sometimes what we need to do in order to receive it. If love was absent, inconsistent, or highly conditional, then we move through life feeling a persistent lack of belonging, no matter who we are with. Understanding that these messages are not true can open us to freely give and receive love.

Jessica Besner (she/they)

Licensed Professional Counselor

LPC, M.S.

Currently completing a Somatic Attachment Therapy certificate, completed coursework in Attachment & Complex Trauma. Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) & Psychedelic Integration/Harm Reduction I am a certified KAP provider through Fluence and Journey Clinical and am currently offering KAP both in-person and through tele-health if necessary. I have completed training on psychedelic integration through Fluence and am currently in training to become a Somatic Psychedelic Facilitator.

Zara Roth (she/her)

Professional Counselor

M.A., QMHP, CADC, Registered Associate

Paige Cameron (She/Her)

Licensed Professional Counselor

MA, LPC C6978 EMDR Certified Therapist 339470

Amanda Ball (she/her)

Licensed Professional Counselor

MS, LPC

Attachment theory helps us untangle the complex web of early learning that can make engaging in fulfilling adult relationships difficult and painful. I hold special training in a method called Experiential Attachment, which naturally elicits the infant/caregiver attachment system, allowing for examination of early attachment wounding and engagement in a process of repair.

Kathleen Thompson (she/her)

Licensed Professional Counselor

LPC, CRC

Attachment Theory is about discovering that how a person was cared for & related to in their early years still effects us. When we were young we learned if the world was safe or not. To make us feel safe we isolated or became people pleasers. These patterns continue on into adulthood & can be very disruptive to relationships. There are ways to feel emotionally safe so you can thrive.

Camillia de la Garza Thompson (she/her)

Licensed Professional Counselor

MA, LPC, CMA

Attachment theory is solid research. It is also a set of modalities. Because it's not just a theory, I use a relational approach. It's about heart. Everything we can experience happens in it's wild/stiff/boring/complicated motion. We will explore it in a safe, stable, conversational way.

Fatema Rashid (she/her)

Professional Counselor Associate

MA, Professional Counselor Associate, R6840

I work with clients to help identify and heal attachment wounds. These wounds may have been caused by disruptions in early childhood relationships, past trauma, or ongoing difficulties in adult relationships. I believe in creating a compassionate, non-judgmental space where clients can feel safe and understood.

Sakura Counseling (She/He/They)

Licensed Professional Counselor

LPC

Having training in attachment theory serves as a solid foundation for understanding client’s development of maladaptive coping strategies and how this relates to the client’s emotional difficulties. Using this therapy, we can help clients increase self-compassion and kindness because clients who have attachment disorders/wounds often develop a negative self-view of themselves and others.

MereAnn Reid (She/her)

Licensed Professional Counselor

Registered Play Therapist, Certified AutPlay Therapist

Our earliest relationships construct a map for how we expect future relationships to unfold. Our sense of safety—both internal and shared—has its roots in how we were parented. All of this is changeable. As our brains grow and adapt across our whole lives, the greatest factor of influence is how and with whom we connect. We'll tune into relationship patterns and stuck spots, helping your child get their needs met and regulate emotions, while in connection with others.