Therapy for relationships & attachment
Understand and heal attachment wounds, and foster healthier and more meaningful connections with the help of our attachment-focused therapists
- Difficulty trusting others
- Patterns of leaving the relationship when it starts to feel “serious”
- Struggling to open up emotionally
- fear of being abandoned or rejected
- Frequent misunderstandings or arguments
- Sacrificing your own needs
- Feeling overly dependent
- Difficulty moving past the end of a relationship
- Patterns of pursuing emotionally unavailable partners
- Feeling lonely or dissatisfied in your current relationship
- Losing your sense of individual identity in your relationship
- And many others!
Attachment wounds can make it difficult to form healthy relationships or to leave unhealthy ones. You may struggle with trusting others, and subsequently distance yourself emotionally to protect against potential pain.
Navigating the complexities of relationship troubles alone can feel daunting and overwhelming. However, understanding and addressing these pain points through therapy can provide a path toward healing and building the secure, supportive connections you deserve.
Common signs of attachment challenges include:
Are you struggling to form or maintain healthy relationships? Do you find yourself feeling anxious, insecure, or overly dependent in your relationships?
Attachment issues often stem from early childhood experiences, and they can affect how you relate to others throughout your life.
While the contributing factors vary per person, here are some common causes:
What contributes to attachment issues?
inconsistent caregivers
neglect or abuse
stressful home environments
experiencing early separation or loss
biological factors such as temperament
While you can’t go back and change your past experiences, you can let go of the relational patterns that aren’t serving you anymore. By addressing your attachment concerns in therapy, you can work toward building more fulfilling relationships.
You aren’t bound to your early attachment patterns. Developing healthier relationships is possible.
- Therapy helps you explore the roots of your attachment patterns and learn how they influence your current relationships.
- It teaches you tools to regulate your nervous system, replace maladaptive behaviors, and strengthen your ability to communicate your needs when you experience relational triggers, in order to help you feel safer and more grounded in relationships.
- Therapy can also help you process and repair past attachment wounds contributing to unhelpful patterns, while simultaneously serving as a model for secure attachment.
How therapy helps
start your therapy journey
relationship to self
The Manhattan Psychotherapy
Collective provides evidence-based
support for a range of relationship issues.
types of relationships
As relational beings, we've dedicated our practice to helping individuals develop more secure patterns of relating. Our clinicians have undergone a variety of advanced training and education with a focus on anxiety. We encourage you to check out our About page to learn more about our team members and their specialties.
As relational beings, we've dedicated our practice to helping
individuals develop more secure patterns of relating. Our
clinicians have undergone a variety of advanced training and education
with a focus on anxiety. We encourage you to check out our About page
to learn more about our team members and their specialties.
"situationships"
traumatic relationships
parent-child dynamics
family issues
romantic relationships
friendships
Attachment-focused
Trauma-focused
Somatic
EMDR
Psychodynamic
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Dialectical behavior (DBT)
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
KAP
Relationship patterns can often recreate themselves on a subconscious level. Relationship triggers can also often create a felt sense of danger in our bodies, leading us to want to run away or seek reassurance from our partner. This is why we take a whole-body approach to addressing attachment issues.
Your psychotherapist may use a range of modalities, depending on your needs and experiences. Each treatment plan is tailored to you, with your goals and preferences at the forefront.
Our mind-body approach to attachment and relationships
how we approach relationship issues
Therapy Frameworks
