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Learn why setting healthy boundaries can feel difficult, how attachment wounds and relational trauma play a role, and how DBT, mindfulness, and IFS can help.

Do you find yourself worrying that people will leave, reject, or stop caring about you? A fear of abandonment or rejection can create significant anxiety in relationships, leading to overthinking, people-pleasing, difficulty trusting others, or feeling emotionally overwhelmed when relationships feel uncertain. Often, these fears are connected to attachment wounds and relational trauma. When important relationships involve emotional neglect, criticism, inconsistency, betrayal,

Learn about the four attachment styles, how relational trauma influences relationship patterns, and how therapy can help you build more secure connections.

For some people, when they hear the word “trauma,” what often comes to mind is a single, overwhelming event. While this may be true in some cases, trauma can also develop within relationships. This is especially true when the people we depended on for love, safety, and connection repeatedly hurt, reject, criticize, or neglect us. This is often referred to as relational trauma. Relational trauma can occur when painful experiences in relationships throughout our life shape ho