Center for Attachment & Trauma Services
Building Healthy Connections for Individuals, Families, Communities and the World

What is attachment?
We’re Wired to Connect. That Wiring Can Be Rewritten.
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Attachment is how humans survive—and thrive. From infancy, the brain builds internal maps of safety, love, and connection based on our earliest relationships. These early experiences shape our nervous systems, our behaviors, and view of ourselves and others. Disruptions in attachment (due to loss, neglect, chronic stress of a caregiver, trauma, or neurodivergence) can lead to emotional and behavioral challenges that we carry with us throughout our lifetime, even when it is no longer helpful.
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We support clients in identifying and healing:
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Insecure, avoidant, ambivalent, or disorganized attachment patterns
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Trust, safety, and regulation challenges
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Nervous system dysregulation rooted in in-utero exposure to substances or stress, and early experiences of abuse and neglect.​
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The good news is that thanks to neuroplasticity, these attachment patterns, and relationship maps are not fixed, and with the right support and guidance, we all have the capacity to rewire these foundational brain networks regardless of our early life experiences.
Understanding Trauma
Trauma Lives in the Body—But So Does the Power to Heal.
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Trauma is not just a memory—it’s a physiological imprint that can be stored without consciousness in our nervous system, the sensory system, and in our emotional brain. It can result from abuse, neglect, loss, medical trauma, systemic oppression, or unmet sensory/emotional needs. We may have no conscious memory of the event(s) but it lives on in our present experience when we encounter relational, sensory or emotion-based stimuli.
At CATS, we use whole-brain interventions to reestablish a state of safety in the brain, and release trauma stored in the body.
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Specialty Focus​
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Developmental and relational trauma
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PTSD and complex PTSD
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Birth trauma and NICU separations
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Trauma in neurodivergent individuals (ADHD, Autism, FASD)
Healing Tools​
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EMDR and Accelerated Resolution Therapy
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Neurodevelopmental Movement
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Expressive and Somatic Modalities
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Play
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Polyvagal Work and the Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP)
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TF-CBT
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