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Houston Attachment Disorder Therapy

Attachment Disorder Therapy in Houston


The Resilience Center of Houston is an exceptional resource for individuals seeking therapy for attachment disorders in Houston and surrounding areas. Our team of skilled therapists is dedicated to helping clients heal from the emotional challenges caused by attachment issues. With a compassionate, evidence-based approach, we provide personalized treatment that empowers individuals to build secure, trusting relationships and enhance their emotional well-being. Whether you're struggling with trust, intimacy, or emotional regulation, The Resilience Center offers the expertise and support needed to navigate and overcome attachment difficulties.


What is an Attachment Issue?

An attachment issue refers to difficulties in forming secure emotional bonds with others, often originating from early childhood experiences. These issues can impact relationships throughout life, causing challenges in trusting others, managing emotions, and maintaining healthy connections. Individuals with attachment issues may struggle with intimacy, fear abandonment, or experience intense emotional reactions in relationships.


How Do Attachment Issues Form?

Attachment issues typically form in early childhood when there is a disruption or inconsistency in the relationship between a child and their primary caregivers. Common causes include:

  • Neglect or Emotional Unavailability: When caregivers fail to meet the emotional needs of a child, it can create a sense of insecurity.

  • Abuse or Trauma: Physical, emotional, or sexual abuse can severely affect the ability to form healthy attachments.

  • Inconsistent Parenting: Caregivers who are unpredictable or inconsistent in providing support can create confusion and fear in a child, affecting their ability to form secure attachments.

  • Separation or Loss: Early separation from primary caregivers, due to death, divorce, or other factors, can lead to attachment difficulties.


What Are the Typical Symptoms of Attachment Issues?

The symptoms of attachment issues can vary but often manifest in both children and adults in the following ways:

  • Fear of Abandonment or Rejection: Intense fear of being left alone or unworthy of love.

  • Difficulty Trusting Others: Struggling to trust people, leading to emotional withdrawal or detachment.

  • Clinginess or Dependency: Over-reliance on others for emotional validation or security.

  • Avoidance of Intimacy: Reluctance to form close relationships or express vulnerability.

  • Anger or Aggression: Difficulty regulating emotions, leading to frustration or anger in relationships.

  • Low Self-Esteem: Negative self-image and feelings of inadequacy in relationships.


Are Attachment Issues Treatable?

Yes, attachment issues are treatable, and individuals can learn to form healthier emotional connections with the help of therapy. Houston attachment therapy offers several effective treatment methods, including:

  • Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT): Helps individuals identify and challenge negative thought patterns and behaviors that result from attachment issues.

  • Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT): Focuses on strengthening emotional bonds in relationships and helps individuals express their emotions in healthier ways.

  • Attachment-Based Therapy: Specifically designed to address attachment issues by helping individuals understand how their early experiences affect their current relationships.

  • Trauma-Informed Therapy: For those whose attachment issues stem from trauma, this approach focuses on healing emotional wounds and building resilience.


How Can Seeking Therapy Assist with Attachment Issues?

Seeking professional therapy can be life-changing for individuals struggling with attachment issues. Houston attachment therapy provides a safe and supportive environment to:

  • Understand Attachment Patterns: Therapy helps individuals recognize how their early relationships shape their current behaviors and emotions.

  • Build Healthier Relationships: By working through attachment issues, individuals learn to form more secure, trusting, and fulfilling relationships.

  • Enhance Emotional Regulation: Therapy teaches effective ways to manage emotions, reducing feelings of fear, anger, or anxiety in relationships.

  • Develop Coping Skills: Clients are equipped with tools and techniques to navigate attachment-related challenges and build resilience.


At The Resilience Center of Houston, we have licensed therapists that are trained to treat a wide variety of mental health and behavioral health issues for children, teens and adults in the Greater Houston area.


Our expertise includes working with children, teens, adults, and seniors who struggle with life stressors and transitions, behavioral problems, and mental health disorders. Our therapists are licensed in Texas with a masters or doctoral level education and offer a wide-variety of evidence-based therapeutic techniques and approaches to provide you optimal professional care.

 

At The Resilience Center of Houston, we are open, affirming, and welcoming of all ethnicities, cultures, socio-economic statuses, genders, sexual identities, religions, and abilities. We work with people from all over greater Houston and accept reimbursement from 30+ insurance and EAP companies.


Call or email us today to get more information on our Houston attachment therapy or schedule an appointment with a compassionate professional you can trust.


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What are the different types of anxiety disorders?

What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder?

Generalized anxiety disorder involves excessive and persistent worry that interferes with daily life. Relentless worry results in physical symptoms, like restlessness, feeling on edge, difficulty concentrating, muscle tension, exhaustion, and sleep problems. Topics of worry typically center on everyday matters, like appointments, home repairs, work responsibilities, and family health.

What is Panic Disorder?

Panic Disorder is characterized by recurrent Panic Attacks. Panic attacks present with severe and overwhelming psychological and physical distress, involving some of the below symptoms.

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What are the physical symptoms of Panic Disorder?

  • Rapid heartbeat

  • Shortness of breath

  • Muscle tension

  • Sweating

  • Shaking

  • Restlessness

  • Dizziness

  • Tightness in the chest

  • Numbness or tingling

What are the psychological symptoms of Panic Disorder?

  • Feeling like you’re having a heart attack

  • Feeling like you’re going to die

  • Feeling impending doom

  • Feeling like you’re going crazy

  • Feeling like you’re losing touch with reality

  • Fearing you’ll lose control of yourself

  • Constant worry about when you’ll have your next panic attack

  • Fear you’ll embarrass yourself

What are Phobias?

A specific phobia involves intense and persistent fear of a particular object, situation or activity that is generally not dangerous. The experienced distress is acute and leads sufferers to go to extreme lengths to avoid what they fear.

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What are common phobias?

  • Fear of driving

  • Fear of flying

  • Fear of vomiting

  • Fear of needles

  • Fear of confined spaces

  • Fear of being alone

  • Fear of leaving the house

What is Agoraphobia?

Agoraphobia is characterized by the fear of being trapped or stuck in circumstances in which escape may be difficult or embarrassing, or help might not be easily available. The fear is acutely distressing and interferes with normal daily activities. The person typically avoids the situation, needs a companion, or experiences extreme anxiety.

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What are common situations agoraphobics fear?

  • Trembling        

  • Crowds

  • Enclosed Spaces

  • Open Spaces

  • Public transportation

  • Leaving the home

What is Post-traumatic Stress Disorder ?

PTSD can develop after a severe physical or emotional trauma such as a sexual assault, natural disaster, or serious accident. Those with PTSD feel intensely upsetting thoughts and emotions connected to their traumatic experience that persist long after the situation happened.

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What are PTSD symptoms?

The symptoms of PTSD can be categorized into four areas.

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Intrusion – repeated, unwanted thoughts, nightmares, and flashbacks of the event

 

Avoidance – steering clear of people, places, activities, and objects that are associated with the event.

 

Changes in cognition and mood – loss of interest, distorted thinking, difficulties concentrating, loss of certain memories, negative emotions, hypervigilance, social withdrawal, and anhedonia.

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Changes in behavior – social withdrawal, anger outbursts, recklessness, sensitive startle response, problems sleeping.

What is Social Anxiety Disorder?

Social Anxiety Disorder involves excessive discomfort in social situations and a fear of experiencing embarrassment, judgment, humiliation, condescension, or rejection in social situations that can negatively impact work, school, and other daily activities. People with this disorder will try to avoid social situations or endure them with great anxiety.

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What are commonly feared situations for those with social anxiety?

Commonly feared situations include attending parties, interacting at work, eating in public, or engaging in unscripted interactions.

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What are common Social Anxiety symptoms?

  • Trembling

  • Blushing

  • Sweating

  • Rapid heartbeat

  • Mind goes blank

  • Stomachache

  • Speaks very softly

  • Avoids eye contact

What is Separation Anxiety Disorder?

Separation Anxiety Disorder is is characterized by excessive fear of being away from those we are close to, who are also called attachment persons.

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What are signs of Separation Anxiety Disorder?

  • Anticipation of potential separation causes mounting fear

  • Persistent worry about the negative consequences resulting from separation

  • Obsessive focus on the multitude of situations that could lead to separation

  • Interferes with attending important activities, like work or school

  • Fears of sleeping outside the home and away from attachment persons

  • Nightmares about separation

  • Headaches, nausea, or vomiting

What is Selective Mutism?

Selective Mutism is a rare and debilitating childhood condition that involves a failure to speak in certain situations in which there is a natural expectation to speak. A child may talk at home, for example, and be nonverbal at school. The absence of spoken communication can significantly interfere with the child’s academic achievement and can stunt their social development and the formation of relationships with others. It is theorized that Selective Mutism may be an early and specific manifestation of Social Anxiety Disorder.

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What are behaviors associated with Selective Mutism?

  • Clinginess

  • Temper Tantrums

  • Excessive Shyness

  • Social Isolation

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