Individual Services

I use the following to when working with Attachment for Adults:
 

• The Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) is the gold standard of assessing adult attachment. It provides a structured assessment that explores early caregiving experiences to identify attachment patterns and their influence on emotional regulation and relationships. It helps clients gain insight into how formative relationships shape beliefs about trust, intimacy, and safety. The process enhances reflective functioning, fostering empathy and perspective-taking, which are essential for healthy communication. By identifying insecure or disorganized attachment patterns, clinicians can tailor interventions that promote secure attachment and relational stability. The AAI provides a pathway to uncover and integrate unresolved experiences, supporting healing and a stronger sense of self.

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• Integrative Attachment Therapy (IAT) is an evidence-based therapeutic model developed by Daniel Brown, PhD, and David Elliott, PhD, and outlined in their award-winning book Attachment Disturbances in Adults: Treatment for Comprehensive Repair (2016). This approach is designed to repair attachment disturbances in adults by integrating principles of attachment theory, developmental psychology, and trauma-informed care. The model is structured around three core pillars:

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• Developing secure attachment representations focuses on creating corrective relational experiences that help clients internalize a sense of safety and trust. Through guided imagery and therapeutic dialogue, clients build new mental models of secure attachment to replace insecure or disorganized patterns.

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• Enhancing emotional regulation teaches practical skills to manage affect and stress, reducing hyperarousal and emotional dysregulation. Techniques include mindfulness, grounding, and self-soothing strategies that strengthen resilience and promote stability in daily life.

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• Fostering collaborative therapeutic relationships emphasizes the therapist-client relationship as a secure base for healing. Collaboration, empathy, and attunement allow clients to experience trust and connection within the therapeutic process, which generalizes to other relationships.

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IAT combines structured protocols with experiential techniques to help clients rebuild a sense of security and connection that was disrupted in early life.

As a Certified Trauma Therapist (CTT) I use:

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• Body-Based Nervous System Regulation: This approach uses somatic techniques to restore balance in the autonomic nervous system, often disrupted by trauma or chronic stress. Interventions such as breathwork, grounding exercises, and movement-based practices help reduce hyperarousal and dissociation. By targeting physiological responses, body-based regulation promotes emotional stability, trauma recovery, and overall well-being.

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• Experiential modalities such as psychodrama & art therapy. 

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• Parts of Self Based Self Compassion Work ​this approach combines mindfulness practices with self-compassion techniques to integrate fragmented aspects of the self, often resulting from trauma or internal conflict. By fostering non-judgmental awareness and kindness toward oneself, clients can reduce shame, enhance emotional regulation, and cultivate a sense of wholeness. It draws on principles from parts-based models and contemplative practices to support healing and self-acceptance.

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• EMDR: I follow EMDR’s standardized eight‑phase protocol, which is designed to help the brain reprocess traumatic memories so they stop feeling “stuck” or emotionally overwhelming. As the APA and VA describe, EMDR uses bilateral stimulation (eye movements, tapping, or alternating tones) while clients focus on a specific traumatic memory. This process helps the brain integrate the memory more adaptively, reducing the emotional charge it carries.

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• Narrative Therapy is a collaborative, strengths-based approach that helps individuals re-author their life stories. It views problems as separate from the person and encourages clients to identify alternative narratives that reflect empowerment and resilience. Through externalization and meaning-making, this method supports identity reconstruction and promotes psychological flexibility.

As a Certified Multiple Addiction Therapist (CMAT) and a Certified Sexual Addiction Therapist (CSAT) through the International Institute for Trauma and Addiction Professionals (IITAP), my approach is grounded in the understanding that addiction is rarely singular. Research and IITAP’s clinical framework emphasize that many clients present with multiple, intersecting addictions, and that lasting recovery requires addressing the full ecosystem of compulsive behaviors.

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Through my Certified Multiple Addiction Therapist (CMAT) training, I assess for and treat co‑occurring addiction types, such as:

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• Chemical dependency

• Financial disorders

• Compulsive sexual behavior

• Technology or behavioral addictions

• Eating‑related or stress‑coping addictions

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My CMAT training equips me to understand the unique dynamics of each addiction type and how they often reinforce one another. This allows me to create targeted, individualized treatment plans that don’t overlook hidden or secondary addictions.

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As a Certified Sex Addiction Therapist (CSAT), my work is anchored in a task‑based model of addiction recovery, a structured progression that helps clients:

• Build motivation and stabilize sobriety
• Identify cycles, triggers, and trauma histories
• Develop insight through formal assessment tools
• Repair relationships through truth‑telling and boundaries
• Rebuild identity, values, and meaningful connection