Attachment Lab Counseling: Individual and Couples Therapy in Uptown Dallas
Uptown Dallas Trauma Recovery and Relationship Counseling
Your relationships are hugely important to you, but are also the source of your overwhelm, anxiety, loneliness, and pain. With yourself, you notice a pattern of overreacting in heated moments, over communicating to feel safe, and a pressure to please everyone which leaves you feeling fake and self-abandoned. With your partner, the same conflict recurs over and over like a nightmare, you fight in a way that feels primal, and intimacy is just a word, not a lived experience
If this resonates, welcome to attachment-based counseling in Dallas! Specializing in CPTSD recovery, couples counseling, and partner relationship trauma, we work with driven and creative adults who survived difficult childhoods and are feeling detached, anxious, or confused in their relationships. Clients come to us because they want out of survival mode and help from a therapist who doesn’t just nod and agree.
Meet the Therapist
Who I Help
Hi, I’m Abigail, and I’m honored that you’re here! As a therapist who has been on your side of the couch and has lived experience in what I treat, I value your courage every time you walk in the door. After nearly a decade in the field, I have noticed my most effective work is with:
Couples who survived trauma together or in their childhoods, struggle with conflict and intimacy, and want to learn to express their needs and emotions securely
Adults whose first bullies were their parents or pastors and want to be free of nightmares, panic attacks, and obsessive thoughts
Individuals who struggle with anxiety or avoidance in their relationships with their partners and who want to learn healthy boundaries and emotional regulation.
Services
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Offered in-person in Uptown Dallas or virtually anywhere in Texas, this is a space for adults to explore their relational concerns from childhood or current struggles with their partner with confidentiality and unconditional curiosity and support.
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Offered from a trauma-informed approach, couples therapy at Attachment Lab focuses on helping you and your partner deconstruct the communication pattern that you’re in, what experiences from your past inform it, the attachment needs you both have underneath the recurring conflict, and the role of emotions in your dynamic. We practice tools for emotional regulation and concrete skills and homework to put the insight you learn in session into practice at home.
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Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is an approach to healing trauma that allows you to reprocess painful memories and beliefs that keep you stuck. EMDR in Uptown Dallas is offered in-person or remotely in Texas from the comfort of your own home.
Specialities
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Couples Trauma Therapy
Work together to deconstruct a cycle of conflict, broken trust, or betrayal in Uptown Dallas or Texas online
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Premarital Therapy
Gain practical tools to build a healthy foundation with our premarital counseling in Dallas
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Counseling for Homeschool Abuse
Texas-based therapy services to help you process the unique pain of familial abuse that was shrouded in isolation and educational neglect
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CPTSD Therapy for Childhood Abuse
Process family of origin trauma in a way that honors your body, mind, and emotional self in-person in Dallas or virtually
What to Expect from Attachment Therapy
The first sessions are about us getting comfortable with each other, putting concrete language to your goals, and assessing your relational history.
As we build trust, sessions get more specific. I help you notice the patterns in your emotions, beliefs, physical sensations, and relational reactions and we explore where they started. That’s where attachment therapy in Dallas is unique: we don’t focus on managing symptoms, but understanding what drives them and how they helped you survive.
The work itself looks different based on the pacing that works for you and what is happening in your life outside of session. We may reprocess past memories to give you relief, learn tools for how to experience an emotion or reaction differently, or celebrate progress by reflecting on the work you’ve done. No matter the content, I’ll ask questions, provide reflection and feedback, and offer you unconditional space to slow down and get curious.
Where Are You Located?
Attachment Lab’s Uptown office is nestled in the heart of Dallas and is a convenient commute from Oak Lawn, Lower Greenville, Highland and University Park, and Preston Hollow.
Not in the Dallas area? I offer secure teletherapy throughout Texas with the same quality of in-person care but in the comfort of your own home!
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Most therapy approaches focus on changing thoughts, modifying behaviors, or teaching coping skills, and those things are helpful when collaboratively tailored to the needs of the client. Attachment-based therapy in Dallas, however, goes a layer deeper, exploring the why behind the those thoughts and behaviors and tracing them back to the relational patterns you learned in childhood. Rather than just teaching you tools to manage a “symptom,” attachment therapy helps you understand the pain driving it and how it helped you survive. Integrated with approaches that honor your body’s wisdom and your nervous system’s cues, this work allows you to get to the root of the issue and experience healing at the core.
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The short answer is no, not at all. I tell my clients that “we don’t have to go hunting for trauma” to explore and heal relational patterns. We will talk about what was impactful to you about the way you grew up, and, if we find something that you hadn’t recognized as unhealthy before, we have the tools to treat that appropriately. Life experiences do not have to be obviously traumatic to affect you, and I am much more interested in your goals and wellbeing than putting you in a labeled category.
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Considering that therapy is an investment on your part in so many ways, this question is so helpful to ask at the beginning and one of the many reasons why free consults are helpful, because the answer is genuinely different for each person. Some clients come in with a specific event to process (a painful breakup or recent traumatic incident) or a concrete goal (preparing for marriage or engagement), and are ready to “graduate” therapy after three to five months. Others with complex trauma or long-standing relationship cycles need deeper work and find that twelve to eighteen months gives them the space to really feel safe, open up, and process effectively. At Attachment Lab, we check in regularly on your goals and ask for feedback so that you're never in therapy longer than is meaningful to you or rushed out before you're ready.
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It’s important that both you and I feel like it is a good fit when we schedule your intake session. 15 minute free consults really help this process and I am happy to offer them on the front end.
After almost a decade in the field, I have noticed that the clients who benefit from my specializations and approach the most are generally:
-Willing to pause during session to reflect and are open to feedback and exploring their issues from a different point of view
-Not expecting direct life advice or quick fixes. I tell clients that therapy is a rewarding slow burn of a process with definite “aha” moments of insight/transformation and concrete strategies as we take an active approach to your concerns, but overnight change is not possible or guaranteed
-Interested in taking charge of their own healing both in an outside of session by communicating needs and goals and committed to doing the work outside of session
-Not in an active mental health emergency or needing treatment for current suicidal intent or self-harming behaviors
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50 minute individual sessions are $160 and 55 minute couples sessions are $190.
Have you ever reached the end of a therapy session and felt like you were JUST getting to the good stuff? 80 minute sessions are available to address this concern and are priced at $220 for individuals and $275 for couples. Extended sessions are available in-person in Uptown Dallas or virtually across Texas.
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I am an out-of-network provider, so payment for sessions is direct and due at the time of service. This allows you more confidentiality, privacy, and freedom of choice in your treatment. Specifically, it avoids both a mental health diagnosis going on your permanent record AND insurance companies having access to your confidential records. It means that I work for you, not the insurance company, so we can customize treatment length and approaches to fit your goals.
However, this doesn’t mean that you can’t use your benefits. Some insurance plans reimburse out-of-network mental health appointment between 50% - 80% of the session cost (the rate of repayment is unique to your plan). I utilize a benefits calculator during our consult call to help you instantly determine your out-of-network coverage. If you have benefits, I will automatically provide you with a superbill which is essentially a detailed receipt for services that contains all the information your insurance needs to reimburse you for appointments.
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