Attachment-Focused Therapy in Maple Ridge, BC
Our earliest relationships shape how we experience safety, connection, and threat. Attachment-focused therapy explores how relational patterns formed early in life may still influence emotions, boundaries, and sense of self today.
Attachment adaptation help us understand how the nervous system learned to function in the context of closeness, distance, responsiveness, or inconsistency. Although we talk about attachment “types” - they are not static. Attachment adaptations fluctuate contextually, and can shift over time.
What Attachment Patterns Can Influence
Attachment patterns may show up as:
difficulty trusting or relying on others
fear of abandonment or rejection
emotional shutdown in conflict
over-functioning or people pleasing
difficulty expressing needs
intense sensitivity to relational shifts
These responses often began as intelligent adaptations to preserve connection or safety.
Attachment & the Nervous System
Attachment is deeply intertwined with regulation. When early experiences felt unpredictable, overwhelming, or misattuned, the nervous system may remain alert to relational threat long after the original context passed.
Attachment-focused therapy helps slow down these patterns so they can be observed, understood, and gradually reshaped.
A Trauma-Informed Attachment Lens
At Healing Quest Counselling, attachment work is integrated with:
Nervous system stabilization
Parts-informed exploration of relational strategies
EMDR when appropriate
Building capacity for secure, reciprocal connection
The goal is to increase flexibility, self-trust, and relational choice. Attachment patterns can shift over time. Therapy offers space to develop new experiences of safety, responsiveness, and mutuality