I offer online somatic relational therapy navigating anxiety, trauma, relationship wounds, intimacy struggles, family pressure, and emotional overwhelm.
Attachment Therapy Online
Online therapy for anxious attachment, avoidant attachment, relationship anxiety, fear of abandonment, emotional overwhelm, and attachment related difficulties.
Relationships can sometimes leave us feeling emotionally overwhelmed, anxious, disconnected, hypervigilant, or deeply uncertain about ourselves and others.
You may find yourself constantly overthinking relationships, needing reassurance, fearing rejection, becoming emotionally attached very quickly, struggling with emotional closeness, or shutting down emotionally when relationships begin to feel vulnerable or uncertain.
For some people, relationships become a source of ongoing anxiety and emotional exhaustion. For others, closeness itself can feel uncomfortable, overwhelming, or emotionally unsafe.
These experiences are often connected to attachment patterns.
Attachment patterns are not signs of weakness or failure. They are often deeply human emotional responses shaped by earlier relationships, emotional experiences, family dynamics, past hurt, or the ways we learned to seek safety and connection over time.
I offer online attachment therapy for adults experiencing relationship anxiety, attachment difficulties, fear of abandonment, emotional dependency, intimacy difficulties, overthinking, emotional shutdown, and the emotional impact of relational experiences.
Therapy can help you better understand these patterns while developing greater emotional security, self awareness, regulation, and healthier ways of relating to yourself and others.
Online therapy for adults in London, Birmingham, Manchester, Cardiff and throughout the UK
What Is Attachment?
Attachment relates to the ways human beings seek emotional safety, connection, reassurance, closeness, and protection within relationships.
Our attachment patterns often begin developing through early emotional experiences and relationships, but they continue influencing how we experience closeness, trust, vulnerability, emotional safety, reassurance, and conflict throughout adult life.
When attachment wounds or relational insecurity are present, relationships can begin triggering intense emotional reactions that may feel difficult to fully understand or control.
Many people blame themselves for these experiences without recognising the deeper emotional and nervous system patterns underneath them.
Anxious Attachment
People with anxious attachment patterns often experience relationships with a high level of emotional anxiety, fear, and hypervigilance.
You may:
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constantly overthink conversations or messages
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feel anxious waiting for replies
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fear emotional distance or rejection
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become emotionally attached very quickly
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struggle with reassurance seeking
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feel highly emotionally affected by inconsistency
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worry about being abandoned or replaced
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feel emotionally preoccupied with relationships
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struggle to feel secure even within connection
Many people with anxious attachment quietly carry deep fears around not feeling chosen, emotionally safe, valued, or enough.
Relationships can begin affecting mood, self worth, nervous system regulation, concentration, and emotional stability far more than people around you may realise.
Avoidant Attachment
Some people respond to closeness differently.
Rather than becoming emotionally preoccupied with relationships, they may emotionally withdraw, shut down, become distant, or feel overwhelmed by emotional vulnerability and dependency.
You may:
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struggle to trust others emotionally
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feel uncomfortable relying on people
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pull away when relationships become emotionally close
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emotionally shut down during conflict
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avoid vulnerability
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struggle expressing emotional needs
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feel trapped or overwhelmed by intimacy
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disconnect emotionally when relationships feel uncertain or intense
Often these responses are protective patterns developed over time rather than conscious choices.
Many people with avoidant attachment still deeply want connection while simultaneously feeling emotionally unsafe within closeness itself.
Fearful Attachment & Emotional Push-Pull Cycles
Some people experience both anxious and avoidant patterns at different times.
You may deeply long for connection while simultaneously fearing vulnerability, emotional closeness, rejection, or dependence.
This can create painful push-pull cycles within relationships where you:
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seek closeness intensely
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become overwhelmed emotionally
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withdraw or shut down
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fear losing the relationship
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reconnect again anxiously
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feel emotionally exhausted by the cycle
These experiences can feel confusing, frustrating, and emotionally draining, especially when patterns repeat despite genuine self awareness or insight.
Attachment, The Nervous System & Emotional Safety
Attachment patterns are not only cognitive or emotional. They can also deeply affect the nervous system and body.
When relationships feel uncertain, inconsistent, emotionally unsafe, or threatening, the nervous system may move into states of:
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anxiety
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hypervigilance
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emotional overwhelm
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shutdown
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panic
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numbness
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chronic stress
Some people become highly activated by emotional uncertainty. Others emotionally disconnect completely as a way of protecting themselves.
Therapy can help create greater awareness of these nervous system responses while gradually building emotional safety, regulation, and healthier relational experiences.
What Attachment Therapy May Help With
Attachment therapy may help you:
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Better understand anxious or avoidant attachment patterns
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Reduce relationship anxiety and overthinking
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Develop healthier emotional boundaries
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Feel safer with emotional closeness and vulnerability
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Improve emotional regulation within relationships
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Build greater emotional security and self trust
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Process attachment wounds and relational pain
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Reduce emotional dependency and reassurance seeking
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Understand nervous system responses within relationships
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Develop healthier and more stable relational patterns
What To Expect
Starting therapy can feel unfamiliar, especially if relationships already feel emotionally vulnerable or overwhelming.
There is no pressure to know exactly what to say or where to begin. Early sessions often focus on understanding your experiences, exploring patterns gently, and creating a therapeutic space that feels emotionally supportive and manageable.
Some people arrive with very clear relationship concerns, while others simply know they feel emotionally overwhelmed, anxious, disconnected, lonely, or exhausted from repetitive relational patterns.
Therapy moves at a pace that feels appropriate for you.
Online Therapy Sessions
Sessions are held online through Zoom and last 50 minutes.
Online therapy can offer flexibility, privacy, and accessibility while still allowing for meaningful and connected therapeutic work.
I work with adults throughout the UK and internationally where appropriate.
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Arrange A Free 15 Minute Consultation
Taking the first step towards therapy can feel difficult, especially when relationships already feel emotionally overwhelming or painful.
If you would like to discuss beginning therapy or explore whether we may be a good fit to work together, you are welcome to arrange a free 15 minute consultation.
You are welcome to briefly share what brings you to therapy, or simply enquire about availability.