Thoughts from a Therapist

Helpful tips on How to Expand your Personal and Relational Wellness

Tag: attachment theory

  • What Is a Long-Term Relationship For?

    What Is a Long-Term Relationship For?

    Most of us know what we want from a relationship, but few of us stop to examine what a long-term partnership is actually for. From attachment and romance to play, growth, strategy, family, meaning, and community, healthy relationships serve multiple interconnected functions. Understanding how these functions influence one another can help us identify what is…

  • Self of the Therapist: Core Dimensions

    Self of the Therapist: Core Dimensions

    The content explores various dimensions influencing therapeutic relationships, emphasizing the impact of personal relationships, attachment styles, communication, and cultural values. It highlights the integration of neurology, emotional intelligence, creativity, and awareness in therapy, suggesting that effective therapy emerges from understanding these interconnected elements and promoting genuine presence and relational growth.

  • Interventions in Relational Counseling

    Interventions in Relational Counseling

    Relational therapy utilizes various acronym-based models to guide therapists. It emphasizes the importance of integrating different theoretical approaches for effective interventions, highlighting key intervention styles, including behavioral, pragmatic, structural, and more. These styles collectively support system needs and adaptability, allowing therapists to fluidly adapt techniques based on clients’ evolving dynamics.

  • Forming Secure Attachments – Handout for parents and caregivers

    Handout concerning helping a child to form a secure attachment – an alternative to behavioral intervention and other parenting strategies that might not have worked for your child

  • Tips for getting your Attachment needs met in your adult relationships

    meeting the needs of your partner is a great way of meeting your own needs… having your partner meeting your needs is a great way for them to meet their own needs… meeting your own needs is a great way to make yourself more able to meet the needs of others… meeting the needs of…

  • Attachment – why we say and emote one way when we truly feel and think a different way

    Quick summary: I was just re-reading some articles on Emotionally Focused Therapy and on Attachment Theory and I thought I might offer a noteworthy piece of information. Often we say what we don’t mean and we offer an emotional response which is different from how we truly feel in order to protect ourselves from attending…