Attachment Informed Therapy - Lelah Nichol, LCSW

Attachment-informed therapy in [City/State] for adults who want to understand how past experiences shape present-day anxiety, relationships, and self-worth.

Attachment based therapy for Adults and Adolescence in Marin County, California

Understand Yourself More Deeply—So You Can Heal More Fully

Attachment-informed therapy helps you explore the invisible threads that connect your present-day struggles to the relationships and experiences that shaped you.

Whether you’re navigating relationship anxiety, self-criticism, or emotional disconnection, therapy provides a safe place to examine the deeper roots behind these patterns—without judgment or pressure.

Issues it Treats

I use attachment-focused therapy to support clients struggling with:

Chronic self-doubt or low self-worth
Relationship anxiety and emotional distance
Repeating unhealthy relational patterns
Deep-rooted perfectionism and people-pleasing
A lack of emotional safety or trust in childhood

Common Concerns Attachment-Informed Therapy Helps With

Do You Keep Finding Yourself in the Same Emotional Loops?

Maybe you pull away when you want connection. Maybe you stay too long in relationships that don’t feel good. Or perhaps your inner critic is always loud, but you don’t fully understand where it came from.

Attachment-informed therapy helps you trace these patterns back to the emotional roots—so you can respond from a place of clarity instead of reactivity.

What Type of Change is Possible With Attachment-Informed Therapy?

Go From This:

Repeating the same relational patterns
Feeling disconnected from your own needs
Holding on to outdated beliefs about your worth
Reacting from old wounds without realizing it
Constantly questioning your emotions or decisions

To This

Building safer, more secure relationships
Expressing your needs without guilt or fear
Letting go of self-blame and emotional shutdown
Responding with insight instead of old patterns
Developing self-trust and emotional confidence

How Attachment-Focused Therapy Works

A Compassionate Exploration of Your Emotional Blueprint

This therapy isn’t about assigning blame—it’s about understanding what shaped you, and how it continues to show up in your life. Together, we explore your early relationships and emotional experiences to see how they may be influencing your present-day thoughts, behaviors, and expectations.

With curiosity and care, we’ll help you rewrite those internal scripts—so you’re no longer driven by outdated fears, but guided by self-awareness and clarity.

How Attachment-Focused Therapy Can Change Your Life

Imagine Feeling Safe in Your Relationships — and in Yourself

As you begin to understand your attachment history, you’ll start responding from a more grounded place—not from fear, self-doubt, or protection. You’ll develop the tools to trust yourself more deeply, set healthier boundaries, and create relationships built on mutual respect and emotional safety.

You can learn to soothe the parts of you that feel scared or stuck—and start showing up in your life with greater ease, confidence, and connection.

Healing the Root of Relational & Emotional Patterns

Your early relationships shaped how you feel in the world—but they don’t have to define you.
You’re allowed to break the cycle—and build something more secure, grounded, and real.
Insight creates change. When you understand where patterns come from, you can begin to release them.
You don’t have to carry the emotional weight of your past into your future.
Therapy helps you reconnect to the parts of you that learned to survive—and guide them toward healing.