Relationship Coach & Attachment Specialist
After years of unsatisfying relationships, I learned what it takes to deliberately create ones that are secure, passionate, and deeply connected. As a Relationship Coach and Attachment Specialist, my mission is to help you do the same.
Awakening Relationships is a process I created to stimulate comprehensive changes in your emotions, perspectives, beliefs, behaviors, and all your relationships.
Whether it’s building a secure relationship with your current partner, healing past wounds, or reigniting your dating journey, our work together will support the life and relationships that help you grow and flourish.
My history has in some ways been non-conventional. I started in the self-help and recovery space over 22 years ago training in Psychodrama, Meditation, Eastern Philosophy and Mindfulness all while maintaining a successful career in the film and television business.
After having my daughter and going through a separation, I knew that my next-level calling was to help people heal the type of insecure attachment wounds that had led me to years of dysfunctional relationships.
My Relationship Coach and Attachment Specialist Trainings
There are a few trainings that have been foundational to my work as a Relationship Coach and Attachment Specialist. I completed two levels of certifications to become a Master Level Relationship Coach in a program focused on Attachment.
I then went on to gain my certificate as a DARe Practitioner (Dynamic Attachment Re-Patterning Experience). DARe is a somatic (body based) method for healing trauma and insecure attachment styles. Created by Dr. Diane Poole Heller, the DARe method transforms your ability to resolve trauma and restore the secure attachment that is innate to all of us.
Currently. I am on the DARe assisting team, helping train new practitioners in the method.
After that, I spent a year training with Dr. Gabor Mate and his team in his method called Compassionate Inquiry (CI). CI is a somatic based approach that helps clients recognize the unconscious dynamics that play into their lives and relationships, prompting actions and reactions that ultimately don’t serve them.
In the last few years, I also completed a 9 month training with Internal Family Systems to become IFS informed.
I hold certificates in MBSR (Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction), CBT Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Life Coaching, and Positive Parenting Solutions and have been training privately in Somatic Experiencing (SE) for more than 4 years.
Other training I’ve completed that highly inform my work are: Attachment and Trauma Therapy for Couples with Dr. Terry Levy, Neuroplasticity: Rewiring the Brain After Trauma with Lisa Wimberger, From ME to WE: Secure Functioning in Adult Relationships with Dr. Stan Tatkin, Attachment in Psychotherapy with Dr. David Wallin, and The Art of Healing in Relationships: Resolving Trauma & Restoring Connection with Terry Real, and Psychodrama with Sylvia Israel, LMFT.
Overall, I would describe my relationship coach and attachment specialist approach as “top-down” and “bottom-up”.
A combination of psycho-education and somatic healing that specifically targets the attachment system.
Here are some of the benefits you may experience from working with me:
For Individuals:
- Learn what a secure relationship looks like and how you can show up more securely in all your relationships
- Get clear on what you want in your current or next partnership and develop the ability to ask for your needs
- Dramatically shift how and who you are dating, get the essential tools to vet potential partners for availability, safety, and compatability
- Strengthen communication in all areas of your life
- Understand what healthy boundaries are and how to set them
- Heal past relational traumas that get in the way of building the secure relationship you want today
- Nervous system regulation so you can feel more confident, creative, and grounded
For Couples:
- Build a comprehensive Relationship Vision that will serve as the guiding light towards your ideal lives
- Learn effective communication techniques
- Resolve persistent conflicts; gain the skills to overcome them
- Boost your physical connection and add in more joy and playfulness into your relationship
- Deeply understand your relationship dynamics, triggers, and Attachment Styles so you can move forward on the path towards secure
- Go deep into how your past in impacting your present and the various parts of you getting activated in your relationship
- Understand healthy boundaries and how necessary they are to flourish as individuals and as a couple
- Find out how to stop an argument before it escalates into an explosive fight
I look forward to sharing my skills with you.
What is a relationship coach?
A relationship coach is a professional who helps individuals and couples improve their relationships. They provide guidance, support, and strategies to address various aspects of relationships, including communication, intimacy, conflict resolution, and personal growth. Relationship coaches work with clients to help them identify and achieve their relationship goals, whether those involve improving an existing relationship, navigating a breakup, or finding a new partner.
What is an Attachment Specialist?
An Attachment Specialist is a professional who focuses on understanding and addressing issues related to attachment in relationships. Attachment theory, originally developed by John Bowlby, posits that the bonds we form with our primary caregivers in childhood significantly impact our relationships throughout life. An attachment specialist will typically help individuals, couples and families understand and improve their attachment styles through various means including assessing attachment styles (secure, anxious, avoidant, disorganized), providing specific interventions to help develop healthier attachment patterns, helping clients develop skills for creating secure attachments, and offering ongoing support and guidance to individuals and families as they work through attachment-related issues. By addressing attachment issues, Attachment Specialists aim to help clients form more secure, healthy, and fulfilling relationships.