by Terry Levy | Dec 20, 2021 | Uncategorized
How you typically bond in relationships with others is known as your attachment style or pattern. Do you feel safe and confident in relationships and trust your partner? Or, do you feel insecure and needy? Afraid of commitment and smothered when you get too close? Or,...
by Terry Levy | Oct 21, 2021 | Uncategorized
As we’ve discussed in a previous blog, the ability to regulate and control impulses, emotions, and level of arousal is usually learned in the context of the secure attachment relationship during the first three years of life. A child with an attachment disorder, who...
by Terry Levy | Feb 24, 2020 | Corrective Attachment Parenting, Foster care, Uncategorized
In recent weeks, we have discussed the special challenges and needs of children who go through the foster care system. An overwhelming number of these kids have been victims of abuse, trauma or neglect and are struggling with both physical and mental health issues as...
by Terry Levy | Feb 7, 2020 | Attachment, Foster care, Uncategorized
When children with unresolved grief and loss enter a foster home, they bring their pain with them. Their main priority is self-protection against future loss and vulnerability. These children avoid intimacy, closeness and dependence at all costs. They are fearful of...
by Terry Levy | Dec 10, 2019 | Attachment, Evergreen Psychotherapy Team, Uncategorized
Over more than 30 years of building Evergreen Psychotherapy Center to be an internationally recognized practice with expertise in the treatment of attachment and trauma issues, we have worked with thousands of children and adults. We have also collaborated with many...
by Evelyne Girardet | Jul 5, 2019 | Uncategorized
Since late June, Evergreen Psychotherapy co-founder Dr. Terry Levy has been on a whirlwind tour of Japan, sharing his expertise on attachment and trauma through a series of seminars and workshops with mental health professionals, child welfare workers and foster...
