Attachment-Based Therapy
Healing Through Connection, Understanding, and Secure Relationships
What Is Attachment-Based Therapy?
Attachment-Based Therapy is a research-driven, relationship-focused approach that helps individuals, couples, and families understand how early experiences shape their emotional patterns, communication styles, and ability to connect with others. Rooted in attachment science, this therapy explores how past relationships—especially those formed in childhood—impact present-day emotions, self-worth, and relationships.
How Attachment-Based Therapy Can Help
Many struggles—such as anxiety, self-doubt, difficulty trusting others, or recurring relationship conflicts—can be traced back to attachment patterns developed early in life. Attachment-Based Therapy helps by:
✔ Healing Emotional Wounds – Processing childhood experiences and past relationships that shape current emotional patterns.
✔ Building Secure Relationships – Strengthening trust, intimacy, and emotional safety in romantic relationships, friendships, and family connections.
✔ Breaking Negative Cycles – Understanding how fear of abandonment, avoidance, or people-pleasing behaviors may be affecting your well-being.
✔ Developing Self-Compassion & Confidence – Replacing self-criticism with self-acceptance and learning to embrace your authentic self.
✔ Strengthening Parent-Child Bonds – Helping parents create a secure, nurturing environment for their children.
Who Can Benefit from Attachment-Based Therapy?
Attachment-Based Therapy is helpful for:
✔ Individuals – Struggling with self-worth, trust issues, emotional regulation, or past relationship wounds.
✔ Couples – Seeking deeper emotional connection, improved communication, and healing from past relational patterns.
✔ Families – Navigating parent-child relationships, family conflict, or emotional distance.
No matter your life stage, understanding your attachment style and emotional patterns can lead to greater self-awareness, stronger relationships, and lasting emotional well-being.
Attachment-Based Therapy Across Montana
At Bozeman Therapy & Counseling, we offer in-person therapy in Bozeman and secure virtual therapy statewide. Whether you're in Missoula, Billings, Helena, Great Falls, or a rural Montana community, you can access specialized attachment-focused therapy from the comfort of home.
Many clients choose virtual therapy because it:
✔ Provides access to experienced therapists regardless of location.
✔ Allows for flexible scheduling without travel barriers.
✔ Offers the same deep, transformative work as in-person sessions.
Meet Our Attachment-Based Therapy Specialists
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Cindy Poulsen, LCSW
Works with individuals and families to heal attachment wounds and strengthen emotional connections.
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Sarah Loux, LCPC
Helps clients understand emotional patterns and develop secure, fulfilling relationships.
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Sarah Marsh, SWLC
Specializes in parent-child attachment, early childhood development, and family therapy.