Sentences with phrase «adult as a secure base»

During the second year of life, children begin to use the adult as a secure base from which to explore the world and become more independent.

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My therapeutic approach combines Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with other Early Intervention therapeutic approaches, as well as, Relationship - Based Therapies to help families create healthy consistent secure and loving relationship in children and adults.

Achieving secure attachment in our adult relationship — having a partner who fulfills our intrinsic emotional needs and serves as a secure base — is vital to emotional and physical health.

But using the therapy relationship as a secure base from which to explore, clearing away the clutter and loosening a few knots, we often find that out history has prevented us from being who we really are.I especially enjoy working with adult adoptees, and others with early attachment issues.

Since adult attachment is strongly based on attachment experiences earlier in life (e.g., Bowlby, 1969), it might be difficult for young women who were insecurely attached as children and adolescents to use their romantic partners as a «secure base.»