Attachment & Relational Concerns
What Are Attachment & Relational Concerns?
Our relationships can have a significant impact on our emotional well-being. Attachment and relational problems can affect how we connect with others, communicate, establish boundaries, handle conflict, and experience closeness or trust.
Past relationships and experiences can sometimes influence the ways we relate to people in the present. This may contribute to recurring relationship patterns, difficulty trusting others, fear of rejection or abandonment, or challenges with emotional connection.
These concerns can occur in romantic relationships, family relationships, friendships, and other important connections.
How Can Therapy Help?
Therapy can provide a supportive space to better understand relationship patterns and develop healthier ways of connecting with others.
Depending on your needs, therapy may help you:
- Recognize recurring patterns in relationships
- Better understand your emotional needs
- Improve communication and conflict-management skills
- Develop healthy boundaries
- Build trust and emotional connection
- Explore experiences that may influence current relationships
- Develop healthier responses to relationship stress
- Strengthen self-awareness and self-confidence
Treatment is individualized and focused on the relationships and concerns that are most important to you.
Who Can Benefit From Therapy?
Therapy may be helpful for people experiencing difficulties in romantic, family, social, or other important relationships.
You may benefit from therapy if you:
- Have difficulty establishing or maintaining close relationships
- Experience recurring relationship conflicts
- Struggle with trust or vulnerability
- Fear rejection, abandonment, or losing important relationships
- Have difficulty communicating your needs
- Struggle with boundaries
- Feel disconnected or lonely despite wanting closer relationships
- Notice the same relationship patterns occurring repeatedly
- Want to better understand yourself and your relationships
What Can We Help With?
Our clinicians can provide support for concerns such as:
- Relationship difficulties
- Communication problems
- Trust and vulnerability
- Boundaries
- Conflict and recurring relationship patterns
- Fear of rejection or abandonment
- Difficulty with emotional connection
- Family and interpersonal difficulties
- Attachment-related concerns
- Relationship stress during major life changes
Attachment & Relational Therapy at Modern Me Psychology
At Modern Me Psychology, treatment for attachment and relational concerns is tailored to each person’s experiences, relationships, and goals.
Your clinician can help you explore patterns that may be affecting your relationships while developing practical skills for communication, emotional regulation, boundaries, and connection.
Therapy may also explore how earlier experiences have shaped expectations about yourself, other people, and relationships.
Our Clinicians Who Work With Attachment & Relational Problems
- Nahrain D. Tavolacci, Psy.D.
- Michael Tavolacci, Ph.D., LCPC
- Kristen Beeck, M.A., LPC
- Danielle Giovannetti-O’Halloran, LCPC
- Michael Saraceno, M.A., LPC, NCC
- Amanda Worth, M.A.
Related Approaches
Depending on your needs and treatment goals, approaches that may be incorporated into treatment include:
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Radically Open Dialectical Behavior Therapy (RO-DBT)
- Strengths-Based Therapy
Explore our Couples, Family, and Individuals pages to learn more about the types of therapy available at Modern Me Psychology.
Ready to Get Started?
Relationships can be complicated, and you don’t have to work through recurring patterns alone. Our Client Care Coordinator can answer your questions and help connect you with a clinician who may be a good fit.
Services are available in person at our Roselle, Illinois office and through telehealth for clients located in Illinois.
We accept several insurance plans, and coverage varies by plan and clinician. Contact us to confirm your benefits and whether your preferred provider and service are covered.
