How Therapy Can Help With an Avoidant Attachment Style
How Therapy Can Help With an Avoidant Attachment Style
It can help you communicate your wants and needs to your partner, so you will feel closer and more empowered in your relationship.
It can help you better understand your partner, so that you can more effectively meet their emotional needs.
It can help you learn how to recognize and express your feelings.
It can help you resolve childhood attachment issues, so they are more manageable in your current relationships.
It can help you be a more emotionally available parent.
It can help you lead a fuller, more emotionally rich life, and feel more connected to yourself and others.
Related Resources
These offerings support the healing process for those with avoidant attachment styles:
Attachment 101 Course: Learn the basics of attachment styles, including avoidant patterns, and how they show up in relationships.
Understanding Shame Workshop: Shame often drives emotional distancing. This workshop helps you identify and transform those patterns.
Individual & Couples Coaching: Work one-on-one or with a partner to practice emotional expression and secure connection.
The Secure Love Podcast: Listen to real-time coaching with couples navigating attachment issues, including avoidant dynamics.
Secure Love Book: Julie Menanno’s bestselling book walks you through the steps of building secure connection, no matter your attachment style.
“It can help you lead a fuller, more emotionally rich life, and feel more connected to yourself and others.”
In Chapter 9 of Secure Love, we explore attachment injuries—what they are, how they form, and what it takes to repair them. These moments of relational pain shape our protective strategies, but they also offer an opportunity for deeper connection if we’re willing to stay emotionally engaged.