Attachment Core Pattern Therapy

Attachment Core Pattern Therapy is the couples therapy approach correlated with How We Love. ACPT invites you to understand your relational patterns with curiosity and care, opening space for connection that’s safe, real, and heart-centered.

Attachment Core Pattern Therapy focuses on uncovering relational templates formed early in life and how they continue to influence your present-day conflict cycles. With compassionate awareness of your individual attachment styles and the core pattern it creates, we’ll explore how these dynamics show up in your relationship. Over time, and with curiosity and care, these patterns can soften—making space for new ways of relating, connecting, and feeling safe within yourself and the relationship.

What to Expect:

ACPT sessions are active, collaborative, and relational. In our sessions, we’ll explore your attachment patterns with curiosity and care, noticing how they show up in your emotions and body, and their impact on your relationships. I’ll guide you to recognize the onset of these patterns, and together we’ll build your understanding through insightful discussion within the comfort of the listener’s embrace.

Each session is a safe space to uncover, tend, and cultivate the seeds of connection that have always been within you, waiting to grow. When moments of vulnerability, disconnection, or emotional activation arise, we’ll work with them in real time, practicing ways to repair and relate that feel safer and more supportive. This approach helps insight move beyond analytic understanding into lived experience, allowing lasting change in how you connect with yourself and one another.

Throughout our sessions, I’ll support you in cultivating clarity, emotional safety, and intention in your relationship, nurturing connection that feels more grounded, responsive, and meaningful.

Specialties ACPT Is Great For:

My work is guided by the belief that therapy should meet you where you are. Rather than relying on a single approach, I adapt and blend different methods to support your goals and what you are navigating in the moment. These are the types of sessions we may use this approach in:

Couples therapy at Upward Roots supports partners who want to strengthen their foundation before patterns become entrenched, as well as partners navigating longstanding cycles of hurt who need support untangling the impact of trauma or betrayal. Using Attachment Theory, we explore how each partner’s family-of-origin and relationship history shows up in the present, and work together to restore safety, trust, and a more secure, connected bond.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Starting therapy often begins with a massive sigh, an exhaustion of looking for help, for relief, for change. I welcome your curiosities and hope that you will begin to find answers to your unsettled questions on the pages of my website.

Here are answers to the most common questions I am asked about working with Upward Roots. For any additional questions, please reach out so I can support your next step of growth.

Upward Roots offers trauma-informed therapy, EMDR, attachment-based individual and couples therapy, and EMDR intensives.
- Individual Trauma Therapy (C-PTSD & PTSD)
  Sessions are oriented toward helping the nervous system process and release stored trauma that continues to show up as anxiety, chronic stress, emotional reactivity, or shutdown. EMDR is integrated with parts work and somatic psychotherapy to address developmental, relational, and situational trauma, as well as body-based trauma responses.
- Individual Attachment Therapy
  Early and ongoing relationships shape how we protect ourselves, connect with others, and navigate closeness. This work begins by identifying your unique attachment style and reflecting on relational patterns such as people-pleasing or hyperindependence. Mind-body approaches, including imagery, inner child healing, parts work, boundary setting, and nervous system regulation, support greater security and flexibility in adult relationships.
- Couples Therapy
  Relational distress often emerges from repeated patterns rather than isolated conflicts. Using evidence-based, attachment-focused frameworks such as PACT, the Gottman Method, Attachment Core Pattern Therapy and EMDR for couples, therapy focuses on slowing these cycles, strengthening communication, understanding each partner’s internal worlds, and repairing relational injuries while remaining mindful of the impact of past trauma.
- EMDR Intensives
  For some individuals, extended in-person sessions allow for deeper focus and momentum than traditional weekly therapy. EMDR Intensives range from half-day to multi-day sessions in Carlsbad, California, and are designed for accelerated, immersive trauma processing, integration, and nervous system regulation.
- Support for Therapists and Clinicians
  Holding space for others can make it easy to neglect your own internal landscape. Individual and group settings offer room to explore personal patterns, countertransference, and burnout within a supportive, trauma-informed, relational context.
1. By scheduling a free 20-minute phone consultation. I want to make sure both of us feel confident in our ability to meet your therapy goals together before we start unpacking your history in sessions. We can decide together if weekly sessions, twice a week sessions, or an intensive is the right therapy container for you at this time.
2. We will choose the day and time that works best for your emotional availability for this deeper therapeutic work. Consistency is a key ingredient in felt-safety and trust. We will build safety within predictability, knowing that each week we will meet and attune to your inner world together, on the same day, at the same time, whenever possible.
3. In our first sessions, we’ll explore together the influences on who you are today–the significant people and places that leave you feeling your most confident, secure, and calm self. We will begin with resourcing through imagery, resource tapping, and somatic movement to encourage felt-safety in your attachment and nervous systems.
4. Together, we will set your goals and direction for your healing. We will discuss which formal diagnosis makes the most sense if you are seeking reimbursement on a PPO insurance plan.
5. Healing takes time and trust. We’ll unpack the stories and, with time, find the freedom to move your body and find the flexibility to think more kindly of yourself–past, present and future.
- Individual therapy: 50 minutes – $200 | 80 minutes – $320
- Couples therapy: 50 minutes – $200 | 80 minutes – $320 | 110 minutes – $440
- Extended or deep work sessions: 3 hours – $720 | 4 hours – $960
- EMDR intensives: Half day – $900 | Full day – $1,700
Extended sessions and intensives are prorated. Sliding fee options may be available. Upward Roots is out-of-network for insurance, but Superbills are provided for PPO reimbursement for standard sessions.
At this time, Upward Roots is out-of-network with all insurance providers. If you plan to seek reimbursement, you can contact your insurance company to ask about your out-of-network benefits. Sharing the billing codes used in sessions will help them provide clear and accurate information about your coverage:
- 90791 - All first sessions
- 90834 - 50-minute individual sessions
- 90837 - Individual sessions, 53-60 minute sessions
- 90847 - 50-minute couples session

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