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Attachment Based Relationship Tips
Looking to strengthen your relationship? Our blog offers expert relationship tips rooted in attachment theory and Emotionally Focused Therapy. Learn how to identify your attachment style, communicate more effectively, and foster emotional safety with your partner. From overcoming conflict to building deeper trust, our practical advice and tools, created by couples therapist Julie Menanno, are designed to help you move toward a secure and fulfilling connection. Dive in and start transforming your relationships today!
How to Be Emotionally Available – Part Four: Emotional Presence
Emotional presence is the ability to join someone in their feelings without losing yourself in the process. When practiced consistently, it deepens connection and builds trust.
What Is Vulnerability—and Why Does It Matter?
Vulnerability is the foundation of connection—and without it, relationships stay surface-level. But when you've learned to hide, overshare, or shut down, it can feel impossible to get it right. Here’s how to begin.
Are You Emotionally Available?
Emotional availability is the foundation of secure connection. If you're wondering whether you're truly showing up for your partner, here are five ways to deepen emotional presence and intimacy.
Your Partner Doesn’t Want Help With Their Feelings?
When your partner avoids emotional support, it can feel confusing and lonely. But it often stems from shame, fear, or past conditioning—not rejection. Learn five reasons this happens and how to respond with compassion.
Hope: 8 Ways to Grow Secure Attachment in Your Relationship
Secure attachment doesn’t just happen—it’s created moment by moment, through emotional safety, self-awareness, and commitment. Here are 8 hopeful and practical ways to build a stronger, more connected relationship.
What Does Emotional Safety in a Relationship Really Mean?
Emotional safety is just as real and important as physical safety in a relationship. Learn how emotional validation, presence, and commitment create a secure bond between you and your partner.
Validation: The Key to Emotional Connection
Validation is the foundation of emotional safety in relationships. Learn how to practice validation to strengthen connection, improve communication, and create a deeper bond with your partner.
Common Experience of Avoidant Partners: Fear of Conflict
Avoidant partners often struggle with emotions, both within themselves and in relationships. Learn how to reconnect with your emotions and build deeper connections.
Things to Know About Your Relationship And Sex
Sexual intimacy offers numerous physical and psychological benefits, but a healthy emotional connection is the foundation of a fulfilling sex life. Learn how to nurture intimacy and address challenges in your relationship.
Is It Time to Seek Professional Support for Your Relationship?
Are you caught in repetitive arguments, facing trust issues, or feeling distant from your partner? Explore how couples coaching can provide the professional support needed to rebuild trust, connection, and intimacy.
How Do Attachment Wounds Get in the Way of Closeness?
Attachment wounds, caused by breaches of trust and ongoing harmful behaviors, can block vulnerability and connection. Discover how to recognize and heal these wounds to strengthen your relationship.
From the Relationship Therapist: How I Personally Approach My Relationships
Discover how a relationship therapist navigates her own relationships with authenticity, humor, and a commitment to personal growth.
Attachment Needs in Action
Explore how attachment needs show up in relationships and why meeting them fosters emotional safety, connection, and trust between partners and friends.
How Expanding Conversations Can Strengthen Your Relationship and Build Secure Attachment
Learn how to deepen emotional intimacy in your relationship by expanding small conversations into meaningful connections, creating secure attachment and a stronger bond.
Understanding Anxious Attachment Style: A Partner’s Perspective
Understanding the anxious attachment style means recognizing the deep-seated fears and needs that shape behaviors in a relationship. By learning to address these patterns, those with anxious attachment—and their partners—can foster healthier, more supportive connections.
Relationship Challenge from a Couples Therapist
Couples who strengthen their emotional connection often find that many of their problems start to resolve naturally. Try setting aside desired outcomes temporarily, and focus instead on creating emotional safety through open, supportive dialogue.
Confused About Your Attachment Style? Keep the 4 C's of Attachment Styles in Mind....
Understanding your attachment style can help you navigate relationships more effectively. Whether anxious, avoidant, disorganized, or secure, recognizing how you connect, seek comfort, and handle conflict offers valuable insight into building healthier, more fulfilling relationships.
What is "The Negative Cycle?"
Break free from the Negative Cycle in relationships by understanding its roots in attachment needs, vulnerability, and behaviors, and learn how to foster connection.
Julie walks through a framework she uses with couples, illustrating how unresolved emotions, personal wounds, and attachment insecurities impact communication and relationship dynamics. She emphasizes the necessity of emotional awareness, healthy assertion, and processing difficult feelings rather than avoiding or acting out on them.
For those interested in learning how to navigate emotional wounds, assert boundaries, and cultivate healthier relationship dynamics, this session provides valuable insights and practical tools.