Attachment

I help parents strengthen attachment with their child through play, helping the child feel seen and heard.

My foundational approach works on relational connection as a tool for healing embedded trauma. Many of my clients have suffered disruption in their ability to properly connect with others, and live in a constant state of activation which can manifest as stress, depression, disorganization, loss of executive function, overwhelm, and isolation. We will work together to find your sense of safety in order to restore your nervous system's natural ability to heal and connect with others.

I could listen to you talk for hours about your relationships with caregivers growing up or your family culture and explore the ways it impacts your current sense of self and relationships to others. I believe strongly that we are shaped neurobiologically to seek connection and belonging and the ways we are responded to as little ones really impact the way we feel about ourselves and how safe we feel in relationships. Lets deepen your self-understanding and get you feeling more secure.

Attachment styles are formed early in life by our caregivers and then greatly influenced by relationships we have throughout our lives. I believe that attachment styles are as unique as fingerprint. By supporting individuals and couples better understand their attachment styles

As my entry to the field began in research and theory, I enjoy incorporating Attachment Theory into the way I treat relationship issues, emotion regulation, and coping strategies. Maybe you find your mind waiting for the second shoe to drop when things are calm. Maybe conflict makes you shrink up and want to run the other way. Maybe you struggle to engage with the risk inherent to relationship. Attachment-based interventions can help us practice secure attachment behaviors (when it *is* safe).

Attachment styles impact our relationship with ourselves, others, and the world. Supporting awareness and integration, knowing ourselves can support us being able to choose how we want to connect in a way that honors our identities and creates safety.

I understand how early attachment experiences shape behaviors, emotional responses, and relational patterns into adulthood. I work with clients to identify and understand their attachment styles—secure, anxious, avoidant, or disorganized—and how they influence their interactions and relationships. By fostering awareness of attachment dynamics, I help clients develop healthier connections, improve communication, and cultivate more fulfilling relationships.

I'm immensely passionate about everything attachment - especially helping folks heal attachment wounds. Since we’re wired to need connection to survive, it makes sense that our relationships can "make or break us." Unfortunately, many of us carry wounds from disrupted / harmful attachments and as a result make choices that go against our own best interest repeatedly. When we understand attachment and how it has impacted us, we’re able to know ourselves deeper and truly heal.

Do you have difficulty being vulnerable in your relationships? Do you find yourself unable to reach the level of closeness or emotional depth you desire? I would love to help. I deeply enjoy helping people connect with others in their lives in ways they never thought possible. This usually entails giving yourself a chance to explore what has been getting in the way, which often means taking a compassionate look at the first relationships you developed in your life.

Having worked with children, teenager, young adults, and adults; I have utilized attachment based theories to assist in working through past trauma and current issues with relation to attachment concerns. I offer a safe space where we can work together to process and work through past attachment issues in order to develop healthier relationships.

I believe that attachment is the foundation for all relationships. I help my clients to understand their attachment style and how this may be preventing them from living the life that they want/.

Our early experiences with attachment and bonding shape the way we relate to others throughout our lives. If you're struggling with attachment issues, such as fear of abandonment, difficulty trusting others, or feeling disconnected from yourself or others, my approach could be well suited to working on these issues. I offer therapy that focuses on understanding and healing attachment wounds, which is correlated with healthier, more fulfilling relationships.

Do you push people away when you get too close? Or are you the kind of person that needs constant contact to know your relationship is okay? Lets talk about your attachment and find ways to make your relationships more meaningful.

Families are doing their best....but so often, their best is still pretty damn harmful. I am trained to help you get to the root of your attachment injuries and heal them for good. Once you start to re-wire your internal attachment system and relearn your own inherent worth and value, you will see major changes in the way you relate to yourself and to the people in your life.

Our connections to others in the present day is often influenced by our experiences in childhood with our caregivers. I find that it is crucial to explore and understand relational wounds that act as barriers to our ability to connect so that we can unearth deeper and more fulfilling relationships with those around us.

I work with individuals in therapy to identify the problematic thoughts, behaviors, and patterns that stem from our oldest and deepest attachment wounds. I help my individual clients develop self-compassion, self-acceptance, and self-worth by deconstructing and rebuilding their sense of self. I specialize in trauma informed approaches to working with anxiety and depression in the LGBTQ+ community and have extensive experience working with the effects of religious trauma and discrimination.

We are both wounded and healed in relationship. From infancy (and before in terms of generational trauma) we're learning who is safe and who isn't. Attachment work is about noticing and naming those subconscious patterns and finding new ways to engage with others so we can experience security and safety.

There are many reasons why we may find ourselves in patterns of not being able to feel like we can be in the type of relationship we can thrive in at our best selves. Whether that be in a romantic, familial, professional, platonic. relationship etc. Annikki strives to work along side you to get to the core root of where this is stemming from to help you find the joy and fulfillment you are seeking.

An individual with attachment challenges may struggle in relationships ( Maintaining them, trusting other people, feeling safe in a relationship and forming healthy bonds with others. Creating healthy emotional bonds has a tremendous impact on our lives. Let me help you create the sense of belonging with your loves ones!