Relationship Coach & Attachment Specialist
After years of painful, repeating patterns in love, I learned what it actually takes to create relationships that are secure, passionate, and deeply connected. As a Relationship Coach and Attachment Specialist, my mission is to help you do the same.
That work is built on The Awakening Relationships Method — a 5-stage journey I’ve spent the last 10 years developing, designed to move you from insecure attachment to secure, connected love.
The stages are Identify, Understand, Transform, Regulate, and Align — together, they walk you from understanding your attachment style, to healing the patterns underneath it, to actually living secure attachment in your day-to-day relationships.
There are two ways to know you’re truly changing: how you feel, and what you do. This method is built around both — the inner shift and the way it shows up in your relationships.
Whether you’re building a secure relationship with your current partner, healing past wounds, or transforming how you date, our work together will support the life and relationships that help you grow and flourish.
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.
While the first years of my training centered on attachment and nervous system work with individuals, I went on to become a Certified RLT (Relational Life Therapy) Couples Relational Coach. Developed by Terry Real, RLT brings a direct, skills-based approach to couples work — helping partners break stuck patterns and build the tools for honest communication, healthy boundaries, and lasting intimacy.
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, and Attachment in Psychotherapy with Dr. David Wallin.
My approach is both “top-down” and “bottom-up” — a combination of psycho-education and somatic healing that targets the attachment system directly.
We work with both your mind (the patterns, beliefs, and stories shaping your relationships) and your body (the nervous system responses driving how you actually show up in them). That’s where lasting change happens.
Here’s what becomes possible when we work together:
For Individuals:
- Build genuine inner safety and self-trust, so love feels less like a threat
- Heal the past relational wounds standing between you and the secure relationship you want
- Feel more grounded, confident, and creative through nervous system regulation
- Learn what a secure relationship actually looks and feels like — and how to show up more securely in all your relationships
- Stop repeating the same relationship dynamic and break the cycle of anxious or avoidant patterns
- Set boundaries that protect your peace without guilt or over-explaining
- Communicate your needs, limits, and feelings without shutting down or blowing up
- Get clear on what you truly want in a partnership and learn to ask for what you need
- Shift how and who you date, with the tools to vet potential partners for availability, safety, and compatibility
For Couples:
- Understand your dynamics, triggers, and attachment styles so you can move toward secure attachment together
- Explore how your past is shaping your present — and the protective parts of you getting activated in your relationship
- Stop an argument before it escalates into an explosive fight
- Repair after rupture, so conflict becomes a doorway to closeness rather than damage
- Resolve the same fights you keep having, with skills that get to the root instead of patching the surface
- Communicate in a way that helps you actually feel heard — and able to hear each other — even when it’s hard
- Set healthy boundaries that help you each thrive as individuals and as a couple
- Reignite physical connection, playfulness, and joy
- Build a shared Relationship Vision that guides you both toward the life you want to create together
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.