Attachment Style Therapy in Seattle, Washington and Kansas City
Does this sound familiar?
You crave closeness but are afraid of it at the same time
You feel lonely and misunderstood in your relationship
You worry about losing yourself in your relationship
You struggle to address conflict either by withdrawing from or clinging to your partner
We all have needs for both connection and space in our relationships.
How a Therapist for Attachment Style Can Help
At Northbound Therapy Studio, PLLC, Brittany Purrington, LMHCA, LPC, CIT is a therapist for attachment style that offers individual therapy to help you make sense of your attachment patterns and relationship stress.
Brittany uses her specialized training in relational depth therapy and Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy to help you bring ease, connection, and confidence back into your relationship.
Together, we’ll explore your past experiences with attachment figures and learn new ways of approaching your partner, your relationship, and yourself.
Through this work, you may be surprised to notice improvements in other areas of your life as well.
Attachment Style Therapy can help you…
Feel safe and connected in close relationships without bracing for abandonment or engulfment
Navigate conflict with confidence and care (goodbye anxiety spiral and shutting down)
Advocate for your needs
Feel deserving of love just as you are without having to earn it
Experience intimacy without the urge to pull away or self-protect
Trust yourself and feel steady in relationships
Approaches to Attachment Style Therapy
Internal Family Systems Therapy
Work with the parts of you that learned skills, such as withdrawing or seeking reassurance, in order to earn love as a child. IFS is all about reparenting your inner child so that you can feel confident in your relationships now.
Relational Depth Therapy
Uses the therapeutic relationship itself as the primary vehicle for healing. Depth therapy also helps us go beneath the surface of situations. You may have heard fights with your partner are not just about the toilet paper - often something deeper is getting triggered.
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Individual Therapy
A one-on-one relationship with a therapist that itself becomes a safe, corrective attachment experience — offering consistency, attunement, and repair that gradually rewires your expectations of what relationships can feel like.
Therapy is a place to finally experience what it feels like to be truly seen, heard, and met —
and to carry that feeling into every relationship in your life.
Frequently Asked Questions for an Attachment Style Therapist
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Yes. If you resonate with avoidant attachment, you may feel afraid that your relationships will take away your autonomy or individuality. You may feel overly responsible for taking care of your partner’s emotions and crave more space to do your own thing. I can help you navigate the boundaries in your relationship so that you can take up more space in a productive way and get your needs met. Individual therapy is a space dedicated for you and you only. If you’re ready lower the stress levels in your relationship and feel ease at home again, schedule a consultation today.
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Yes. If you identify with the anxious attachment style, you may often feel afraid that your partner will leave you. You replay conversations in your head and wonder if you said the wrong thing. You read into your partner’s tone of voice or silence and worry that they’re mad at you or don’t care. I can help you process your feelings so that you can feel more trusting and secure within your relationship. In individual therapy, your emotional experience is valid and even embraced. If you’re ready to feel seen and understood in your relationship, schedule a consultation today.
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Yes, it is. Disorganized attachment style is another category of attachment style. Adults with disorganized attachment often crave closeness with others, but then withdraw once closeness arrives. You have a deep longing for connection and a terror of it. In individual therapy, I can help you make sense of this internal conflict and learn to approach it in a new way. If you’re ready to build the close relationships you desire while also feeling steady and confident, schedule a free consultation today.
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Yes, I offer Attachment Style therapy online in Washington State, Kansas, and Missouri.
All of our sessions will be held online via a HIPAA-secure video platform. Studies show that virtual therapy over video is just as effective as in-person therapy. It can also be more convenient for scheduling.
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I offer individual therapy because you need a place to process your own feelings and triggers without the input of your partner. I can help you untangle whether these relationship issues are a sign that the relationship is unhealthy or that your own trauma history is getting in the way. Often it is both, and often, it can be worked through.
Sometimes couples therapy, in addition to individual therapy, is appropriate. I intentionally maintain relationships with a small number of couples therapists whose approaches I trust and whose work I feel confident referring to. So you can be sure that if we work together, you’ll be supported the whole way.