Attachment

My experience working with attachment disorders stem from experience working with adolescents and families in a family therapy setting, as well as group therapy for individuals in an IOP setting where I taught a Family Systems course as part of the intensive outpatient curriculum. The course included themes on attachment, "fair fighting", transitioning out of treatment, and non-violent communication.

Attachment can affect how we show up in our relationships and how relationships effect our wellbeing. We will redefine some shattered roles so that you can reimagine your relationships as whole.

Our early formative experiences create a blueprint for our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors later in life. Experiencing rejection, neglect, trauma, or other relational injuries impacts our sense of safety and distorts our core beliefs about belonging, worth, and lovability. This, in turn, hinders our ability to show up authentically and experience genuine connection with others, ultimately creating a repetitive cycle of painful disconnection. Therapy can help break the cycle.

Are you navigating the ways your attachment style leads you to show up in relationships, and how you relate to your community and your world? My work is firmly rooted in attachment theory and works to integrate your work in therapy with your nervous system, and support you in building more self-understanding and self-compassion, and to heal and grow beyond the attachment wounds you may be carrying.

Whether individually or through couples work, I help my clients navigate through their attachment issues, particularly when anxious attachment is at play.

Our early experiences with primary caregivers can set the stage for how one approaches relationships throughout life. I work with clients to establish a trusting client-counselor relationship that can be used as a blueprint for strengthening other relationships and can serve as a foundation for vibrant mental health.

We find how you are attached to help you understand yourself and your relationships. Being securely attached is important to our mental health and well being.

Our early bonds shape how we connect. When these bonds are insecure, it can lead to attachment issues impacting relationships and self-esteem. As an attachment specialist, I help clients understand their style (anxious, avoidant, etc.) and explore past hurts. Through therapy, we rewrite limiting stories and build secure connections for a more fulfilling life.

Attachment styles are not developed randomly. They are formed from all the "good" and "bad" encounters with our primary caretakers/family, which construct a mental and physical story of how we view and interact in our romantic, familial, and social relationships. These experiences can shape and distort our authentic self and influence our connections to others and the world. Gaining insight into your own attachment styles can be transformative in making shifts in creating deeper relationships.

Your family of origin forms the basis of how you engage and attach to others as adults. It's key to understanding how engage with others in the present. The type of caregiver you had—attentive, insensitive, or inconsistent—influences your ability to connect with your partner. The great news: YOU CAN CHANGE! We identify your relational dance and move on to help you grown into each other safely and happily by replacing negative feedback loops with positive feedback loops.

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.

Our attachment style begins to develop when we are very young children. Ideally, it is a secure attachment but often due to a variety of reasons it is insecure or even avoidant. This impacts adult relationships in ways that people are often unaware. If you need help understanding yourself in your personal relationships, Jeannette York can help.

My approach to attachment is to explore how early childhood attachment that we develop create the foundation on which we build adult relationships. In our work, we uncover those attachments and how your needs were not met in an effort to meet your needs as an adult and as you navigate adult relationships and nurture your inner child.

I have taught college level courses covering the subject of attachment theory. Furthermore, I co-led a year long attachment based group for adults involved with Department of Child Services in the state of Indiana, where the goal was to repair the attachment system of the parent in question, and teach them how to cultivate healthy attachment with children. I also ran a group that targets the symptoms of insecure attachment, such as emotional regulation skills, boundary setting, and assertiveness

The majority of my clients that I work with have some sort of attachment wound, usually stemming from childhood. With my clients I help them identity their attachment wounding, understand how this came to be, and then help them try to form a healthier relationship to others by challenging beliefs about themselves and how they relate to others.

Trained in psychodynamic and relational theories that help individuals understand their early and ongoing attachments to other people in their life.

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

When it comes to couples counseling, attachment-focused therapy is a game-changer. It recognizes that our emotions are at the heart of our relationships, and that by better understanding and managing our emotions, we can create deeper, more meaningful connections with our partners. ​Couples learn to identify and express their emotional needs and to learn how to respond to their partner's emotional states in a supportive and caring way.

First and foremost placing emphasis on clients identifying and formulating their own understanding of how they have "attached" to the world around them informs my ongoing studies but was the foundation of my education and interest in the world of psychology.

I seek to provide a secure attachment with my clients. Many of you have attachment wounds from childhood. I will have an attuned presence, and help you connect to your emotional parts, among using other supportive interventions.