THERAPY FOR
Attachment Disorders
You deserve relationships where you feel seen, safe, and supported.
Attachment is the emotional bond we form with others, especially in early childhood, and it plays a fundamental role in shaping how we connect and interact with the world around us. Healthy attachment is essential for emotional well-being, as it provides a sense of safety, trust, and security.
When we experience trauma, particularly in childhood, it can disrupt these foundational bonds, leading to challenges in how we relate to others throughout life. Trauma can interfere with our ability to develop secure attachment, leaving us vulnerable to unhealthy relationship patterns and difficulties with trust and intimacy.
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The impact of trauma on attachment isn’t always obvious, but it can profoundly affect our emotional responses, decision-making, and how we navigate relationships. Building healthy attachment is key to healing from trauma, as it helps foster a sense of safety and belonging, allowing us to form secure, supportive relationships in adulthood.
Therapy can offer a safe space to understand and heal attachment wounds, providing the tools needed to create more fulfilling and emotionally safe connections moving forward.
AN OVERVIEW OF
Attachment Styles
SECURE
Secure attachment develops when caregivers are consistently nurturing, responsive, and emotionally available. This foundation helps individuals feel safe to trust others, express their needs, and form balanced relationships.
When trauma isn’t present—or when repair and support follow difficult experiences—people can internalize a sense of safety and worthiness that supports healthy connection throughout life.
DISMISSIVE - AVOIDANT
Avoidant attachment usually forms when caregivers are emotionally distant, rejecting, or unresponsive to a child’s needs. In this environment, expressing vulnerability may have been met with criticism, punishment, or neglect. As a result, the child learns to minimize their emotional needs and rely only on themselves.
Trauma in this context teaches that closeness isn’t safe, leading to difficulty with intimacy and a tendency to shut down in relationships.
ANXIOUS
Anxious attachment often develops when caregiving is inconsistent—sometimes loving, sometimes unavailable or emotionally distant. This unpredictability can lead a child to become hyper-focused on maintaining connection, often by people-pleasing, overanalyzing, or seeking constant reassurance.
Trauma in early relationships reinforces the belief that love is fragile or conditional, making adult relationships feel emotionally overwhelming or uncertain.
FEARFUL - AVOIDANT
Fearful attachment often stems from early environments where the caregiver was a source of both comfort and fear—such as in cases of abuse, neglect, or chaotic relationships. The child faces an impossible dilemma: the person they depend on for safety is also a source of danger. This creates confusion, fear, and a deep sense of internal conflict around closeness.
As adults, individuals with this attachment style may crave intimacy but simultaneously fear it, leading to unstable or emotionally intense relationships.
The patterns you’re stuck in were once ways you stayed safe. Now, it’s okay to outgrow them.
WITH SCARLETT SOLUTIONS:
Build a sense of safety and trust in relationships
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Explore and understand early relational wounds
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Develop healthier attachment patterns over time
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Learn how to express needs and emotions more openly
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Strengthen boundaries without fear of rejection or abandonment
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Improve emotional regulation and reduce reactivity
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Heal fear-based beliefs about love, connection, and self-worth
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Practice new relational skills in a safe, supportive environment
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Increase self-awareness and self-compassion
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Shift from survival-based patterns to more secure, connected ways of relating
