Attachment Trauma Healing

At Alchemy Collective, we provide specialized treatment for attachment trauma—the wounds that develop when early caregiving relationships are characterized by abuse, neglect, inconsistency, or misattunement. Our approach recognizes how these formative experiences shape your sense of self, your expectations in relationships, and your nervous system's capacity for connection and regulation.

Attachment trauma occurs when primary relationships that should provide safety and security instead become sources of danger, abandonment, or emotional neglect. These experiences create deep, often non-verbal patterns of relating to yourself and others that can persist into adulthood, manifesting as relationship difficulties, emotional dysregulation, negative self-beliefs, boundary challenges, and nervous system dysregulation.

Common attachment patterns that develop from early relational trauma include anxious attachment (hypervigilance about abandonment, seeking reassurance, emotional intensity), avoidant attachment (discomfort with closeness, self-reliance, emotional restriction), and disorganized attachment (contradictory approach-avoid behaviors, fear of those you depend on, chaotic relationships). These patterns developed as adaptations to unpredictable or unsafe early environments but often create suffering in adult life.

Our therapeutic approach combines relational healing, somatic processing, parts work, and nervous system regulation. The therapeutic relationship itself provides a new attachment experience—one characterized by attunement, consistency, and appropriate boundaries. Within this relationship, we help you identify attachment patterns, process early memories and their emotional impact, work with defensive parts that developed to protect you, and gradually build internal and relational security.

We utilize specialized approaches including the Comprehensive Resource Model (CRM), attachment-focused EMDR, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Internal Family Systems, and relational psychotherapy. These modalities address attachment trauma at multiple levels—cognitive, emotional, somatic, and relational—creating comprehensive healing.

Many clients experience profound transformation through attachment work, developing greater security within themselves, healthier relationship choices and patterns, improved emotional regulation, and a deeper sense of inherent worth independent of others' responses. While early attachment experiences have a powerful impact, research confirms that attachment patterns can change through new relational experiences and intentional practice.