Attachment Treatment and Theory

Attachment Therapy Melbourne

Compassionate attachment therapy in Melbourne to help you understand and heal your attachment style and patterns.

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Attachment-Focused Therapy

At Core Life Psychology, I work with individuals who want to better understand their relationship patterns — with themselves and others. If you’ve ever felt anxious, disconnected, or stuck in repeating dynamics, attachment-focused therapy offers a path toward security, clarity, and deeper connection.

What is Attachment

Our attachment style reflects the patterns we developed early in life when seeking comfort, safety, and connection. These patterns shape:

How we relate to others (partners, friends, colleagues)
How we see ourselves
How we handle intimacy, boundaries, and conflict

Common attachment Styles

There are many different patterns when it comes to how we connect and relate. These can become more complex depending on our previous attachment and relational experiences

Secure Attachment
Here we experience both comfort with closeness and independence
Anxious-Preoccupied
Here we typically experience fear of abandonment, anxiety around separation, and greaterneed for reassurance
Avoidant-dismissive
difficulty with closeness, emphasis on self-reliance, and a tendency to move away from relationship
Disorganized Attachment
Here we often experience mixed, complex, and conflicted feelings about connection

How Unhealthy Patterns Show Up

Unresolved attachment patterns can lead to:

  • Fear of intimacy or being “too much”
  • People-pleasing or conflict avoidance
  • Difficulty trusting others
  • Cycles of push-pull in relationships
  • Overwhelm or shutdown during emotional connection

My Approach

I integrate a range of therapies to help people build and work towards secure attachment and connection:

Attachment-Informed Therapy
helping you build secure connection
Schema Therapy and Internal Family Systems
addressing modes and parts linked to attachment patterns
Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy
undoing aloneness, healing relational wounds
Mindfulness & compassion practices
Strong hallmarks of secure attachment can help to ground and Stabilize

How Therapy Can Help

Your attachment style and its origins
Unhelpful relational patterns and defences
Core beliefs about worth, safety, and connection
Tools to build more secure, fulfilling relationships
A stronger, kinder connection to yourself

Attachment-Focused Therapy in Carlton

If you’re ready to understand your attachment style and move toward healthier, more secure relationships, I welcome you to Core Life Psychology in Carlton. Let’s work together to create stronger, more connected patterns of relating — to others and yourself.

📍 In-person in Carlton (Melbourne) or via telehealth across Australia
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