Online therapy for attachment issues from just $25/session with licensed therapists (PhD, PsyD, LCSW, LMHC, LMFT) specializing in evidence-based approaches including attachment-focused therapy, emotionally focused therapy, and schema therapy. At Grouport, we offer online individual therapy, online group therapy, and virtual IOP options designed to help you understand the attachment patterns shaping your relationships, heal the early wounds that created them, and build the secure connections you have been wanting but could not seem to create.
Whether you prefer personalized one-on-one care or the shared support of a therapist-led group, our online attachment therapy connects you to expert guidance from the comfort of your own home. Online therapy is especially well-suited for attachment work because the therapeutic relationship itself becomes a corrective attachment experience, and building that relationship from a space where you feel physically safe can help you engage more openly.
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At Grouport, we offer a range of online therapy options to help individuals with attachment issues understand the relational patterns that developed in childhood, recognize how those patterns are replaying in adult relationships, and develop the capacity for secure, fulfilling connection. Many members choose to mix and match therapy formats.
Online therapy for attachment issues: personalized, flexible, and therapist-led. Understand the relational blueprint you developed in childhood, recognize how it shapes your adult relationships, and build the capacity for the secure, lasting connections you deserve.
Whether you're interested in group therapy, individual sessions, couples or family therapy, or IOP, or a combination, you'll start by selecting the type of support that fits your needs. You can also choose the care frequency that works best for you. Complete our onboarding form and sign up directly for the plan that suits you best.
After signing up, you'll connect with a dedicated care coordinator who will walk you through available therapists, group options, and scheduling. You'll make the final choice about your care, including which therapists you'll meet with and when, based on your goals, preferences, and schedule.
Attend your weekly online sessions, whether group, individual, couples, family, or IOP, at the cadence that works best for you. Our team will be here to support you every step of the way, ensuring you're happy with your care plan and helping you make changes whenever needed.
Whether you're interested in online group therapy for attachment issues, individual therapy sessions, a combination of both, or our virtual IOP for more intensive care, you'll start by selecting the format that fits your needs and schedule. You can customize the frequency of sessions and even pair live therapy with our DBT self-guided program for added support between sessions. Just complete our onboarding form and sign up directly for the plan that suits you best.
After signing up, you'll connect with a dedicated care coordinator who will discuss your mental health challenges, goals, and preferences. They'll walk you through the range of therapy options best suited to your needs for managing attachment issues. You'll make the final choice about your care, including which therapists you'll meet with and select session times that are most convenient for you.
Attend your weekly online therapy sessions to build coping skills, mood regulation strategies, and stability tools tailored to attachment issues. Our team will be here to support you at every step of the way, ensuring you're happy with your care plan and helping you make changes whenever needed.
Attachment issues affect every relationship in your life. They are relational patterns, rooted in early experiences, that shape how you connect with romantic partners, friends, family, and colleagues. If these patterns keep repeating, therapy can help you break the cycle.
Common signs to watch for include:
If you recognize these patterns in yourself, working with a licensed therapist can help you understand your attachment style, heal early relational wounds, and build the capacity for secure, lasting connection.
Insecure attachment does not just affect romantic relationships. It shapes how you relate to friends, colleagues, family, and even yourself. The patterns operate automatically, below conscious awareness, which is why you can understand the pattern intellectually and still feel unable to change it.
Attachment issues are most visible in romantic relationships because intimacy activates the attachment system at full intensity. Anxious attachment drives reassurance-seeking, jealousy, and fear of abandonment. Avoidant attachment drives emotional shutdown, distancing, and discomfort with vulnerability. Disorganized attachment creates a chaotic alternation between desperate pursuit and frightened withdrawal. The anxious-avoidant pairing is one of the most common and painful relationship dynamics.
One of the most common attachment-driven relationship patterns: one partner pursues closeness (driven by anxious attachment) while the other withdraws (driven by avoidant attachment). The more the anxious partner pursues, the more the avoidant partner withdraws. The more the avoidant withdraws, the more the anxious partner escalates. Both partners are acting from fear, but the cycle creates exactly the outcome both dread: disconnection.
Attachment issues affect friendships too. You may struggle to maintain close friendships, feel like you are always the one making more effort, interpret a friend's busy schedule as rejection, or avoid deepening friendships because vulnerability feels unsafe. Some people maintain many surface-level connections while struggling to let anyone truly know them.
Insecure attachment is a significant risk factor for depression, anxiety, and low self-esteem. The chronic relational stress, emotional dysregulation, and sense of never feeling truly safe or loved take a cumulative toll. Attachment issues also increase the risk of substance use and disordered eating as ways to manage the emotional pain.
Perhaps the most consequential impact: insecure attachment can be transmitted to the next generation. If you did not receive secure attachment as a child, you may struggle to provide it for your own children, not because you do not love them but because the template for how to do it was never installed. The good news: research shows that understanding your own attachment history is the single strongest predictor of providing secure attachment to your children.
Attachment patterns show up at work in ways you may not recognize: difficulty with authority figures (triggered by parental dynamics), fear of criticism or evaluation, inability to collaborate without losing yourself, avoidance of feedback, or over-reliance on mentors and managers for validation. The workplace becomes another stage where the same relational script plays out.
Starting therapy can feel intimidating, especially if you are already exhausted by the patterns you want to change. Here is what your first few sessions typically look like, so you know exactly what to expect.
Your therapist will ask about your relationships: the patterns you have noticed, what keeps going wrong, and how it feels when you are close to someone. They will also ask about your early family environment: who was there, who was not, and what closeness felt like growing up. This is not about blaming your parents; it is about understanding the blueprint.
Together, you will explore your attachment patterns: Are you anxious (driven by fear of abandonment and a need for closeness)? Avoidant (driven by discomfort with vulnerability and a need for independence)? Disorganized (alternating between both, often rooted in frightening early experiences)? Or some combination? Understanding your style is the foundation for changing it.
You and your therapist will define what progress looks like for you. This might include tolerating vulnerability without shutting down, managing jealousy without seeking reassurance, communicating needs directly instead of withdrawing, choosing available partners, or developing the capacity to trust. Goals are concrete and tied to the specific patterns you want to change.
Your therapist will introduce approaches tailored to your attachment style and goals: attachment-focused therapy to understand and rework your relational patterns, schema therapy to address the core beliefs driving them, emotionally focused techniques for couples work if relevant, and mentalization skills to understand your own and others' emotional states. You will leave with a clear framework and the beginning of a new relational experience with your therapist.
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At Grouport, our virtual attachment therapy integrates several evidence-based techniques designed to help you understand your relational blueprint, heal the early wounds that created it, and develop the capacity for secure, fulfilling connections:
Attachment-focused therapy works directly with the relational patterns rooted in your early experiences. Your therapist helps you map the connection between how you were cared for as a child and how you relate to others now: the triggers, the automatic responses, the defenses you developed to protect yourself. Critically, the therapeutic relationship itself becomes a corrective experience. Through consistent, reliable, emotionally attuned interactions with your therapist, you begin to internalize a new model of what relationships can be. This is what researchers call "earned secure attachment," and it is one of the most well-validated paths to changing attachment patterns in adulthood.
Schema therapy is especially effective for attachment issues because attachment patterns are, at their core, schemas: deep, self-perpetuating belief systems formed in childhood. The abandonment schema ("People I love will leave"), the mistrust/abuse schema ("People will hurt me if I let them close"), the emotional deprivation schema ("My emotional needs will never be met"), and the defectiveness schema ("I am not lovable as I am") all drive insecure attachment behavior. Schema therapy identifies these patterns, traces them to their origins, and uses techniques like imagery rescripting and limited reparenting to heal the wounds at the root rather than just managing the symptoms on the surface.
EFT is the gold-standard couples therapy for attachment issues and is increasingly used in individual therapy. It is built entirely on attachment theory: the premise that conflict and disconnection in relationships are driven by unmet attachment needs and the fear of losing the bond. EFT helps you identify the negative interaction cycle you and your partner are trapped in (typically a pursue-withdraw pattern), access the vulnerable emotions underneath the surface behaviors (fear, loneliness, need for reassurance), and communicate those needs directly so your partner can respond. EFT has the strongest evidence base of any couples therapy approach.
Mentalization-based treatment develops your capacity to understand your own mental states and those of others. People with insecure attachment often struggle to accurately read other people's intentions, misinterpreting neutral behavior as rejection or hostility. They may also have difficulty understanding their own emotional reactions, acting on feelings before they can make sense of them. MBT helps you slow down, reflect on what you and others are actually feeling and thinking, and respond based on understanding rather than automatic attachment-driven reactions. This is especially valuable for disorganized attachment, where emotional responses can feel chaotic and unpredictable.
IFS approaches attachment issues by working with the different "parts" of your personality that developed in response to early relational experiences. You may have a part that desperately seeks closeness (an exile carrying the pain of childhood loneliness), a part that pushes people away to prevent getting hurt (a protector), and a part that numbs out when things get too intense (a firefighter). IFS helps you develop a compassionate relationship with all of these parts, understand what they are trying to protect you from, and gradually unburden them from the pain they carry, so they no longer need to control your relationships.
DBT skills provide practical, in-the-moment tools for managing the intense emotions that attachment triggers activate. Distress tolerance skills help you survive moments of acute attachment panic (a partner being unavailable, a perceived rejection, the urge to check their phone) without acting impulsively. Emotion regulation helps you identify and modulate the feelings driving your attachment behaviors. Interpersonal effectiveness skills help you communicate needs and set boundaries in relationships without either surrendering yourself or pushing people away.
Every Grouport therapist is a licensed, accredited mental health professional with specialized training in attachment, relational patterns, and interpersonal difficulties.
Our therapists typically have over a decade of clinical experience across diverse settings, with specialized expertise in attachment issues, relational patterns, and interpersonal difficulties development, and evidence-based interventions like CBT, interpersonal therapy, behavioral activation, and social skills training.
We continually evaluate outcomes through internal studies and outcomes studies with researchers from leading universities such as Carnegie Mellon, University of Essex, and University of Cologne.
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80%
of our members start with moderate to severe mental health symptoms
70%
of our members feel significantly better within just 8 weeks
50%
of our members achieve remission levels within just 8 weeks
Group, individual, couples, family, IOP, and teen therapy — all online, all therapist-led. Mix and match care options to fit your needs — and get discounted pricing when you bundle.
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Attachment issues often co-occur with other mental health conditions. Our licensed therapists are experienced in treating a wide range of challenges, and many members address multiple concerns simultaneously through our flexible therapy options.
Grouport provides online group therapy, individual therapy, couples therapy, family therapy, teen therapy, intensive outpatient program (IOP), all held virtually over video chat. We also offer a DBT self-guided program. Many members combine multiple therapy types to best fit their needs.
Attachment theory identifies four primary styles. Secure attachment (earned through consistent, responsive caregiving): comfortable with intimacy and independence, trusts others, communicates needs directly. Anxious attachment (developed when caregiving was inconsistent): fears abandonment, seeks constant reassurance, becomes preoccupied with relationships. Avoidant attachment (developed when caregiving was emotionally unavailable): uncomfortable with closeness, values independence to an extreme, shuts down emotionally when things get intimate. Disorganized attachment (developed when caregivers were frightening or chaotic): alternates between desperate pursuit and frightened withdrawal, often rooted in early trauma.
Yes. This is one of the most important findings in attachment research. While your attachment style was shaped in childhood, it is not fixed for life. Through therapy, you can develop what researchers call "earned secure attachment," which functions identically to attachment security that developed naturally in childhood. The process involves understanding your patterns, healing the underlying wounds, and building new relational experiences (starting with the therapeutic relationship itself) that rewire your attachment system. Change is gradual but lasting.
Yes, every Grouport therapist is accredited and licensed. Our network includes Licensed Psychologists (PhD, PsyD), Licensed Social Workers (LCSW), Licensed Mental Health Counselors (LMHC), and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists (LMFT). Our therapists specialize in evidence-based approaches including attachment-focused therapy, emotionally focused therapy (EFT), schema therapy, and mentalization-based treatment.
There is overlap, but they are distinct. Attachment issues are a broader framework describing how your early bonding experiences shape all your relationships. Codependency is a specific relational pattern of over-functioning for others, losing yourself in relationships, and enabling dysfunctional behavior. Anxious attachment can manifest as codependency, but not all anxious attachment is codependent, and codependency can develop from experiences beyond early attachment (such as growing up with an addicted parent). Someone with avoidant attachment would rarely be described as codependent.
The anxious-avoidant trap is one of the most common and painful relationship dynamics. An anxiously attached person (who seeks closeness and reassurance) partners with an avoidantly attached person (who values space and independence). The more the anxious partner pursues, the more overwhelmed the avoidant partner feels and withdraws. The more the avoidant partner withdraws, the more triggered the anxious partner becomes and escalates. Both are acting from fear, but the cycle creates exactly the disconnection both dread. Couples therapy using emotionally focused therapy (EFT) is specifically designed to break this cycle.
No. They share the word "avoidant" but are clinically distinct. Avoidant attachment is about discomfort with emotional intimacy in close relationships. Someone with avoidant attachment may be socially confident, successful, and well-liked but shuts down when a romantic partner gets too close. Avoidant Personality Disorder is a DSM-5 diagnosis involving pervasive social inhibition, feelings of inadequacy, and avoidance of all social situations due to fear of judgment. Completely different presentations with different treatment approaches.
Attachment patterns are deeply rooted, so meaningful change typically takes longer than addressing surface-level symptoms. Many people begin understanding their patterns and developing new skills within 8-12 weeks. Deeper relational rewiring, where secure attachment becomes your default rather than something you have to consciously practice, usually takes 6-12 months. Some people benefit from longer-term work, particularly if attachment issues are rooted in early trauma. Your therapist will work at your pace.
Finding the right therapy starts with understanding your needs. If you need to understand and rework your personal attachment patterns, individual therapy provides focused care. If your attachment issues are most visible in your romantic relationship, couples therapy using EFT directly addresses the dynamic between you and your partner. If you benefit from seeing your patterns in action with others, group therapy provides a relational laboratory. Schedule a free call with a care coordinator for a personalized plan.
We offer flexible therapy options with straightforward pricing:
Online Group Therapy: Averages $32/session ($140/month).
Online Individual Therapy: Averages $103/session ($448/month).
Online Couples Therapy: Averages $114/session ($492/month).
Online Family Therapy: Averages $148/session ($640/month).
Virtual IOP: Averages $311/week ($1,348/month).
Online Teen Therapy: Averages $103/session ($448/month).
DBT Self-Guided Program: One-time fee of $500.
Payment Options: Monthly, Quarterly (Save 10%), Biannually (Save 15%). No long-term commitment. Switch therapists anytime. Cancel anytime!
Yes. We offer separate therapy groups for Adults (18+) and Teens and Adolescents (under 18). Our teen therapy programs are tailored for adolescents. Adolescence is a critical period when attachment patterns are being tested and reshaped through peer and romantic relationships. Early intervention can prevent insecure attachment from becoming a lifelong relational pattern.
Insecure attachment develops when the early caregiving environment does not provide consistent, responsive, emotionally attuned care. This can result from caregivers who were inconsistent (sometimes available, sometimes not), emotionally unavailable or dismissive, intrusive or controlling, frightening or abusive, or physically absent. It can also develop from circumstances like frequent moves, hospitalization, or loss of a caregiver. Importantly, insecure attachment does not require "bad" parenting; well-meaning parents who were overwhelmed, depressed, or simply repeating their own attachment patterns can create insecure attachment in their children.
Our therapy outcomes are backed by outcomes studies with researchers from leading universities such as Carnegie Mellon, University of Essex, and University of Cologne. 80% of our members start therapy with moderate to severe symptoms. Within just 8 weeks, 70% of members see clinically significant reduction in anxiety and depression, and 50% achieve remission levels.
You can cancel your subscription at any time. No long-term commitment is required. Simply email us at support@grouporttherapy.com and we will send you a quick cancellation form to fill out. If your sessions occur within the member portal, you can also cancel under the manage subscription tab.
Whether insecure attachment patterns are driving the relationship difficulties, emotional volatility, and disconnection that brought you here, or you're looking to prevent another year of lost time, therapy can help you take back control. Start building a life defined by secure connection rather than anxiety or avoidance.
