Your first 30-minute session is FREE.
25 years of clinical experience.
Longer session time to complete integrative processing.
Unlimited text communication.
512-649-0302
25 years of clinical experience.
Longer session time to complete integrative processing.
Unlimited text communication.
512-649-0302
What is Attachment?
Humans are built to count on someone not to intentionally let us down. As young kids, our own brains and bodies weren't developed enough to be able to deal with stress. We needed to know that a loving parent was going to connect, and to catch us when we felt like the world was falling out from under our feet. If that caregiver faltered or failed, "attachment breeches" settled into our fragile systems.
Attachment means knowing that even when connection wobbles, love stays intact and a repair will bring us back to equilibrium. Without that certainty, the body lives in a constant, tight fear: “If I’m not perfect, if I’m too much, they’ll leave me.”
These attachment breaches often echo into adulthood through the sharp betrayals of partners, grown children, or friends. Gaslighting, blame, or being left out all carry the same quiet cruelty: the message that your essential being doesn’t matter.
Attachment means knowing that even when connection wobbles, love stays intact and a repair will bring us back to equilibrium. Without that certainty, the body lives in a constant, tight fear: “If I’m not perfect, if I’m too much, they’ll leave me.”
These attachment breaches often echo into adulthood through the sharp betrayals of partners, grown children, or friends. Gaslighting, blame, or being left out all carry the same quiet cruelty: the message that your essential being doesn’t matter.
A Safe, Close Therapeutic Relationship is Everything
Healing attachment wounds (also known as C-PTSD) means teaching a hyper-vigilant nervous system how to safely settle in an imperfect world.
I know the exhausting rhythm of a dysregulated nervous system firsthand. Families are imperfect; mine was no exception. In my late 20s, I was fortunate to find a therapist whose genuine, steady care finally sealed the scar over my heart. It takes one to know one. Only a therapist who has navigated that loneliest longing knows how to help you rescue yourself from it.
We recreate that safe, stable relationship right here within the container of therapy. And it is within this exact relationship that the deepest healing begins.
I know the exhausting rhythm of a dysregulated nervous system firsthand. Families are imperfect; mine was no exception. In my late 20s, I was fortunate to find a therapist whose genuine, steady care finally sealed the scar over my heart. It takes one to know one. Only a therapist who has navigated that loneliest longing knows how to help you rescue yourself from it.
We recreate that safe, stable relationship right here within the container of therapy. And it is within this exact relationship that the deepest healing begins.
What's It Like to Work with Me?
We'll develop more than just a weekly routine... we'll become a team. I rely heavily on attachment work because a warm, reliable relationship with me is exactly how people learn to trust others again. To make sure you feel truly supported, I'm available via text between sessions for encouragement and care, and I offer drop-in emergency support when you need it. Ideally, my steady, consistent presence will help soothe and heal those deep places inside that were let down or wounded in childhood.
- An Interactive Dynamic Duo: If you’re looking for a silent nodder, I’m not your person. I think out loud, trust my gut instincts, and pull the hidden pieces into the light with you.
- Gently Challenging: I’m here to help you protect your inner peace, which means I will lovingly call you out when you’re repeating old scripts.
- Serious Work, Light Hearts: We are going to scoop up some deep childhood pain, but we will also let the air back into the room. Laughter keeps us grounded.