Individual Therapy for Insecure Attachment & Relationship Healing in Ontario

Why do individual therapy?

One-on-one therapy sessions provide the space to work with a licensed therapist who is dedicated to helping you navigate life's challenges and move in the direction you want to go.

• Move beyond developing self-insight into your patterns and experience embodied change.

• Increase your capacity to be with your emotions.

• Increased nervous system regulation.

• Improve your relationship with yourself and others.

• Become more securely attached and self-assured.

• Become less dependent on validation from others.

• Connect with the parts of yourself you've been cutting yourself off from.

• Feel more integrated and whole.

• Increase self-acceptance and self-compassion.

• Increase your capacity to bring authenticity into your life.

• Bring your heart into your relationships.

• Improve your physical health and sleep.

• Increase your vitality and life satisfaction.

From the very beginning, our nervous system is shaped by our earliest relationships. When we don’t receive the nurturing we need—being seen, soothed, and cared for by our caregivers—our brain adapts to survive. These adaptations, while protective in childhood, can create patterns in adulthood that feel limiting: deep insecurity in relationships, chronic self-doubt, emotional overwhelm, or a persistent fear of abandonment.

If you find yourself caught in anxious or avoidant relationship cycles, struggling to trust yourself or others, or feeling like you have to work hard to be loved, you’re not alone. These patterns are not personal failings—they are the result of developmental trauma, the kind that leaves an imprint on your nervous system and sense of self.

My work is centered on helping you understand and heal these adaptations at the root. Using a trauma-informed, attachment-focused approach, I guide you toward nervous system regulation, self-compassion, and deeper, more secure connections with yourself and others. Therapy with me isn’t just about coping—it’s about reshaping how you experience safety, love, and belonging.

Through online attachment therapy and insecure attachment therapy in Ontario, I support you in your self-exploration, helping you take a new self-concept and self-regulation into your world.

If you’re ready to break free from old patterns and step into a more grounded, fulfilling way of relating, I’d love to support you on that journey.

Anxiety and Depression

Anxiety and depressive disorders are not symptoms to be managed or eliminated; they are often expressions of unresolved developmental trauma. NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM) considers how early relational and attachment patterns impact self-regulation, identity, and capacity for connection, which can manifest as depression and anxiety.

Relationship Challenges

Stress and Anger

Complex Trauma

Therapy for complex trauma, also known as developmental or attachment trauma involves clarifying what you want for yourself and discovering what is internally getting in the way of you experiencing what you want. Learning how to relate to yourself with compassion and manage the overwhelming feelings and dysregulation associated with complex trauma. It also involves working through the barriers that limit the individual's ability to form meaningful relationships, better manage emotions, and achieve personal goals in a safe and supportive space. Therapy for complex trauma can help individuals learn how to cope with their trauma and lead a more fulfilling life.

Through the lens of early attachment dynamics, core needs that were compromised in childhood can result in maladaptive relational patterns, such as:

• Fear of intimacy or vulnerability

• Difficulty setting boundaries

• Chronic people-pleasing or caretaking

• Hyper-independence

• Avoidance of conflict or emotional dependence

• Withholding, avoidance and self-isolation from relationships

• Relationships frequently wrought with challenges

• Self-judgement and shame

• Distorted relational beliefs

• Excessive need for control

  Therapy provides a safe, non-judgmental space to explore and bring awareness to your relational patterns your relationship challenges and to deepen your capacity to connect with yourself and others in a way that brings more fulfilment. You will be able to identify and release unconscious strategies that are no longer adaptive.

Insecure Attachment

Self-Esteem

Insecure attachment is seen the result of early relational trauma, where a child’s needs for connection, safety, and autonomy were compromised. These traumatic experiences do not necessarily involve overt abuse but can include chronic misattunement, neglect, or emotional unavailability from caregivers. The adaptive strategies developed to survive these experiences form the basis of attachment patterns that persist into adulthood, shaping how individuals relate to themselves and others.

Through insecure attachment therapy in Ontario, we will work with your current relational experiences, including how attachment patterns show up in the therapeutic relationship. This allows clients to develop awareness of their unconscious strategies and explore new ways of relating to themselves and others. With online attachment therapy, you can identifying and transform survival strategies and reconnect with core developmental needs helping you to develop more secure, fulfilling relationships.

NARM views self-esteem as arising from a person’s relationship to their authentic self rather than from external validation or achievements. When individuals are disconnected from their true feelings and needs, their self-esteem is often fragile or conditional. Genuine self-esteem comes from compassionate self-acceptance and the ability to stay connected to oneself, even in the face of challenges or imperfections.

Negative self-concept and self-esteem often results from internalized beliefs formed in response to early relational trauma. These views of oneself may be distorted or limiting. A child who learned that expressing emotions led to rejection might internalize a belief like, “I am too needy,” forming a negative view of themself.

Through insecure attachment therapy in Ontario, you can build your self-esteem, self-worth and self-compassion that isn't reliant on what others think of you.

Chronic stress is a state of persistent autonomic dysregulation, where the nervous system remains stuck in a heightened or collapsed survival response. When dysregulation results from unresolved early relational trauma, being in a state of safety or rest, feels foreign. The body and mind become conditioned to operate as if under continuous threat, even when no immediate danger is present. Anger is a natural and protective emotional response to boundary violations or unmet needs. Healing involves working with the nervous system in the present moment, completing emotions that have been disowned, reconnecting with core needs to support nervous system regulation and to restore emotional flexibility.