Attachment Style Therapy
Specialist Support for Better Relationships
Professional, caring online psychotherapy for adults to help make sense of attachment styles and relationship patterns, develop more secure attachment, and to create healthier relationships.
Welcome to your New Chapter
Hi, my name is Corene Crossin. I’m glad you are here. I am an Australian registered psychotherapist, researcher and author who works with adults seeking fulfilling, stable relationships.
My work is grounded mainly in Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy, with attachment-focused, neurodivergence-affirming, trauma-informed and integrative support tailored to you.
Alongside IFS, I also daw on attachment-focused psychotherapy, somatic awareness and nervous system regulation, mindfulness, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and Emotion Focused Therapy to help you understand your relationship patterns, and create secure, healthy relationships with yourself and others.
Attachment Styles
Most people lean toward one of the following four patterns. You may see yourself clearly in one, or in a mix.
Secure attachment
You feel at ease with closeness and with being your own person. You can trust, ask for what you need, and tolerate some conflict. You are able to regulate your own emotions with relative ease.
Anxious Attachment
You long for closeness and fear losing it. You ca be overly-focused on the other person's mood, seek reassurance, or overthink messages. You may feel deeply unsettled when the other person pulls away.
Avoidant Attachment
You value your independence and find too much closeness uncomfortable. You feel crowded when relationships become too close. You might minimise your needs, and pull away when things get too intense. You may take pride in not needing anyone.
Disorganised Attachment
You want closeness and fear it at the same time. Relationships can feel confusing, intense or destabilising, with a push-pull dynamic. You may experience closeness as scary, and either try to get your needs met by chasing the other person or withdrawing.
Why Attachment Patterns Repeat
Many people blame themselves for relationship struggles. But attachment patterns are rarely a sign that you are needy, difficult, or cold.
Instead, attachment styles are usually protective and emerged as blueprints for closeness in your early life.
Attachment therapy helps you understand the logic of the pattern, so you can begin to change it with compassion rather than shame.
For example, therapy can help you see how an anxious part of you may scan for signs of rejection because closeness once felt inconsistent.
An avoidant part may create distance because vulnerability once felt risky, disappointing or overwhelming.
Or a disorganised attachment system may both reach and retreat because connection and danger became tangled together early on.
Therapy to support more secure attachment
You may not have grown up with a secure template for closeness. But it is possible to build one.
This is called earned secure attachment: becoming more secure because you have done the work of understanding, healing and relating differently.
How Attachment Therapy Helps
In therapy together, we slow things down and look at what actually happens inside you in relationships.
We explore:
your repeating relationship dynamics
what happens when you feel close, uncertain, rejected or overwhelmed
the fears, beliefs and protective strategies underneath the pattern
the earlier experiences that shaped those responses
how to build a more secure relationship with yourself and others
Over time, attachment therapy can help you feel less reactive, less driven by fear, and more able to stay present in connection. It can help you set boundaries without shutting down, ask for reassurance without panic, and tolerate intimacy without losing yourself.
The aim is greater security, flexibility and freedom in the way you relate.
Why work with me?
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Compassionate Presence
I believe healing happens in safe relationship, and I show up with real warmth and empathy. I've had done extensive therapy and deep inner work myself, and know what it's like to sit where you are. That lived experience, professional training and seeing positive results from over 8 years of work with clients shapes how I work.
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Specialist Training
I'm a registered psychotherapist with specialist training in Internal Family Systems therapy and postgraduate degrees in psychology and counselling. When you work with someone who knows how to integrate IFS and other evidence-based approaches with care, patterns that felt stuck for years start to make sense.
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Flexible Collaboration
I am collaborative and we work as a team. Your goals are my priority, and I see you as the expert in your own life. I will work to learn about you, and adapt my approach to what you need. This flexibility means therapy fits you, not the other way around.
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Lifelong Learner
I'm a proud psychology and neuroscience nerd. I love learning about how the mind works, about neuroscience, what genuinely helps people heal, and why we are the way we are. I read research, attend training, and stay curious to continually provide the best possible care to all my clients.
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Committed to Your Growth
I take my responsibility in therapy seriously, and I expect you to take yours seriously too. I'm here to walk alongside you, to help you see what you can't see on your own, and to believe in your capacity for change even when you don't. This partnership approach empowers you to create lasting change yourself.
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Authenticity and Passion
I love what I do, and working with people who want to change and grow is a privilege. My commitment to you is to be as clear as possible, and to be present and grounded. I am authentic and care deeply about supporting you in the way that works best for you.
How Therapy at A New Chapter Works
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I invite all new clients to a no-pressure 20-minute conversation to connect. We’ll talk about what’s on your mind, what kind of support you’re looking for, and whether working with me feels like the right support for you.
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I recommend that our first session is 90 minutes to give you and I plenty of time to explore your story, what you are finding difficult, and to create a plan to help you feel better.
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I meet with most clients weekly for either 60 minutes or 90 minutes. After an initial 6 weeks of weekly sessions, we will reassess and see how you are feeling.
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To support you between-sessions I will provide resources, tools, and practices to help integration and change.
How Therapy Helps Attachment Issues
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✓ Understand and Change Relationship Patterns
Therapy helps you make sense of why they keep ending up in the same dynamics, and begin consciously shifting them to healthier patterns.
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✓ Feel More Secure in Connection
Therapy helps to move from anxiety, shutdown or push-pull dynamics toward steadier, safer relationships.
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✓ Build a Secure Relationship with Yourself
Develop more self-trust, self-compassion and an inner sense of safety that changes how you relate to others.
FAQs
How is therapy for expats different from regular counselling?
Therapy for expats, immigrants, and global nomads addresses the specific challenges of living across cultures. As a therapist with lived experience as an expat, I understand third culture experience, visa stress, identity shifts, relationship issues, and the guilt and grief that comes with leaving your home country. Regular therapy often misses these nuances.
Do you work with people who are still planning their move?
Yes. Many clients start therapy before relocating to prepare mentally, work through fears about the move, or process leaving their home country. This applies whether you're moving for the first time or the tenth time.
Who do you work with?
I work with a wide range of clients from different countries and cultural backgrounds across Australia, Southeast Asia, China, Japan, the Middle East, Europe, the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada (and beyond). Some of these clients are expatriates, global nomads, long-term travellers and immigrants needing support with issues related to living abroad. Others are clients who were looking for support with self-sabotage, relationship patterns and self-esteem.
What are your fees?
90 minute sessions are AUD$190 per session (approx. USD130/EUR110). 60 minute sessions are AUD$150 per session (approx. USD105/EUR90). No doctor referral is required, and if you are in Australia there is no gap fee.
Do you work with immigrants as well as expats?
Yes. Whether you moved by choice or necessity, for work or family, temporarily or permanently, the psychological impact is real. Immigrants face unique challenges around belonging, discrimination, language barriers, and cultural identity that deserve specialised support..
How long does therapy typically take?
This depends on what you're working through. Some clients need 6-10 sessions for specific issues. Other clients benefit from longer support, especially if processing complex decisions about where to live or dealing with repeated relocations. We'll discuss your goals in the first session.