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Specialized Approaches

Attachment-Based Therapy

Support for patterns shaped by closeness, trust, and early relationships

Attachment-based therapy explores how early and important relationships shape the way you connect, protect yourself, and seek closeness today.

Individuals and couplesTherapy service
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When This Can Help
  • Relationships bring up intense fear, shutdown, or insecurity
  • You repeat painful relational patterns even when you want something different
  • You want to understand how earlier experiences affect the present
  • You are looking for deeper relational healing, not just symptom relief
Support May Include
  • Understanding how attachment shows up in current relationships
  • Building greater emotional safety and self-awareness
  • Creating more secure, intentional ways of connecting
Good Match For

Individuals and couples

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What This Support Can Address

A clearer look at what people may be carrying when they reach out for this kind of care.

If you notice recurring patterns around trust, abandonment, conflict, over-functioning, people-pleasing, or emotional distance, attachment-focused work can help you understand what is happening underneath those responses.

Our Approach

How we try to make care feel both skillful and genuinely human.

We use attachment-focused therapy to help clients build insight, emotional safety, and more secure patterns of relating. The goal is not to pathologize your coping, but to understand it and create new possibilities.

Therapists Connected to This Work

These clinicians have specialties or treatment approaches related to attachment-based therapy.

Photo of Natalie Watson, Associate Marriage Family Therapist. Natalie is a therapist
        in San Luis Obispo providing therapy services with DeRose Therapy Group

Natalie Watson, AMFT

Associate Therapist

Photo of Marina Canella, Associate Marriage Family Therapist. Marina is a therapist
        in San Luis Obispo providing therapy services with DeRose Therapy Group

Marina Canella, AMFT

Associate Therapist