Attachment Trauma Therapy in Hopkins, MN
Find greater safety in your relationships and within yourself.
Attachment trauma therapy helps children, teens, and adults understand relationship patterns, strengthen emotional regulation, and build more secure connections. In-person in Hopkins and online throughout Minnesota.
Do These Patterns Feel Familiar?
→ You replay conversations long after they've ended.
→ You worry people are upset with you, even when there's little evidence they are
→ You feel guilty saying no or setting boundaries
→ You long for close relationships but find it difficult to fully trust others
→ Conflict leaves you feeling overwhelmed, causing you to shut down, withdraw, or become highly anxious
→ You feel responsible for keeping everyone else happy, even at your own expense
→ You wonder why the same relationship patterns keep repeating despite your best efforts to change
These patterns are often learned ways of staying safe in relationships. They can change with Attachment Therapy in Hopkins, MN.
There is hopeHow Attachment Therapy in Hopkins, MN Can Help
Through attachment-focused, nervous system-informed care, it is possible to:
𑁍 Feel more secure in your relationships
𑁍 Set healthy boundaries with greater confidence
𑁍 Respond to conflict with more calm and less fear
𑁍 Develop greater trust in yourself and others
𑁍 Experience more emotional balance and resilience
𑁍 Build relationships that feel safer and more fulfilling
𑁍 Feel worthy of love and connection without having to earn it
How Attachment Trauma Therapy Works
Attachment trauma affects both the mind and body. My approach combines attachment-focused and somatic therapy to support greater safety, emotional regulation, and more secure relationships.
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Understand the Pattern
Together, we'll explore how early relationships shaped the ways you connect with others, respond to stress, and view yourself.
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Regulate the Nervous System
Using somatic therapy, mindfulness, and other nervous system-informed approaches, we'll build greater emotional regulation and a stronger sense of internal safety.
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Build Secure Connections
As therapy progresses, you'll have opportunities to develop healthier boundaries, increase self-trust, and experience more secure ways of relating to yourself and others.
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Integrate Lasting Change
The goal isn't simply to understand your attachment patterns. It's to help create new experiences that support lasting emotional and relational change.
"The Only Way Out is Through"
UnknownWhat Is Attachment Trauma in Hopkins, MN?
Attachment trauma develops when early relationships do not consistently provide the safety, connection, and emotional support we need. Experiences such as emotional neglect, inconsistent caregiving, chronic criticism, abuse, separation, or early medical stress can shape the way we relate to ourselves and others.
The patterns that develop are not signs of weakness. They are protective responses that once helped us adapt and can continue to influence trust, boundaries, emotional regulation, self worth, and relationships into adulthood.
Although these patterns can feel deeply rooted, they do not have to define your future. With greater safety, awareness, and supportive relationships, it is possible to build more secure connections with yourself and others.
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This is how you get started with therapy in Hopkins, Minnesota:
Connect for a brief, no-pressure free consultation to see if this work feels like a good fit for where you are right now.
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Ask questions and learn what sessions are like, including how we move at a pace that feels comfortable, collaborative, and grounded in consent.
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If it feels like a good fit, we’ll schedule your first session and begin moving forward in a way that feels steady and supportive..
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Parenting Support
If daily routines feel chaotic, power struggles are constant, or you’re unsure how to support your child’s big emotions, you’re not alone. Family therapy and parenting support help bring clarity, regulation, and connection back into family life, helping parents feel more confident and supported while creating more calm, understanding, and steadiness in everyday family interactions.
Transforming Touch® (TEB)
If you feel constantly on edge, disconnected, emotionally overwhelmed, or like your body has a hard time slowing down, you’re not alone. Transforming Touch® is a gentle, body-based approach that supports nervous system regulation, safety, and healing through therapeutic touch, co-regulation, and connection.
Somatic Therapy
When stress or trauma feels stored in the body and talking alone hasn’t brought relief, somatic therapy can help. Transforming Touch® (TEB) is a gentle, body based approach that supports nervous system regulation through safety, attunement, and connection. This allows healing to unfold without force and at a pace that feels supportive, steady, and respectful of the body’s natural process of integration and regulation.
Play Therapy
If your child is having frequent meltdowns, anxiety, or emotional shutdowns, play therapy can help. Through play, children explore emotions, build coping skills, and strengthen their sense of safety and autonomy in a way that feels natural and supportive. Play therapy also allows children to express experiences that may be difficult to put into words while developing confidence, emotional understanding, and regulation skills.
Attachment Trauma
If relationships feel difficult, emotions feel overwhelming, or you find yourself people pleasing, shutting down, fearing abandonment, or struggling to feel safe with others, attachment trauma therapy can help you heal these patterns and build more secure, connected relationships.
Anxiety Therapy
If your mind feels like it never slows down, you struggle with overthinking, overwhelm, or constant worry, you’re not alone. Anxiety therapy helps support nervous system regulation, emotional balance, and coping skills while creating greater understanding, steadiness, and ease in daily life.
Have questions about attachment trauma therapy?
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Attachment trauma therapy recognizes that early experiences are often stored in both the mind and body. Along with exploring thoughts and emotions, we focus on creating greater nervous system regulation, safety, and more secure patterns of connection.
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Yes. While early experiences can have a lasting impact, the brain and nervous system remain capable of change. Therapy can support healthier relationships, greater emotional regulation, and a stronger sense of safety over time.
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Yes. Attachment patterns can affect people at every stage of life. Therapy is always tailored to your age, experiences, and individual needs.
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Free Flow Healing is a private-pay practice.
Transforming Touch® sessions are offered at a specialty rate due to advanced training and certification.
My fees for Transforming Touch® are:
60-minute session: $195
75-minute session: $225
90-minute session: $255
I am a out of network mental health provider.
Superbills are available upon request. A Good Faith Estimate will be provided as required under the No Surprises Act.
*I do accept HSA/FSA/HRA cards for payment as well.
Why you should consider working with an “out of network” therapist:
No limitations on sessions. We can meet for as long as you need without having to worry if insurance will cut us off, or end coverage, which could abruptly end your care.
Allows me to offer you more flexible, personalized, and intentional care.
Helps me keep your information completely confidential, without needing to share diagnosis or notes with insurance companies.
Allows us to avoid surprise billing issues, which can lead to lapses in treatment.
Lets us focus on what’s best for you, not what insurance says is best for you!
Find more answers about therapy with me here, or fill out a contact form. I would be happy to answer all your questions.
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