Attachment Style Therapy
Specialist Support for Better Relationships
Specialist psychotherapy to help you make sense of attachment, develop more secure ways of relating, and create healthier relationships.
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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.
About 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 Works
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.
I work online by secure video with adults across Australia and internationally where time zones align with Australian Eastern time.
Online therapy can work especially well for attachment-focused inner work. Many clients find it easier to explore vulnerable material from the privacy and familiarity of their own space.
About me
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.
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 Attachment 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 in relationships, and to create a plan to create new responses to old patterns.
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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.
FAQs
Do I need a GP referral to work with you?
No, no GP and no referral is required to book into see me. Psychotherapy sits outside the Medicare system, and so there is also no gap fee.
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).
Who do you work with?
I work with a wide range of clients with different attachment styles across Australia, Southeast Asia, China, Japan, the Middle East, Europe, the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada (and beyond).
Can I really change my attachment style?
Yes. Attachment patterns are learned, and they can shift. With steady therapeutic work, many people move toward greater security in how they relate to themselves and others.
How does IFS help with attachment?
IFS helps by understanding attachment behaviours as protective parts rather than flaws. Instead of simply trying to act differently, we work with the parts that fear rejection, closeness, dependence, vulnerability or loss. As those parts feel safer, your external relationship patterns often begin to change.
What attachment styles do you work with?
I work with anxious attachment, avoidant attachment, disorganised attachment, mixed attachment patterns, and people who simply know they struggle in relationships but are not sure what label fits.
What if I am not sure about my attachment style?
That is very common. Many people are a blend, and labels only tell part of the story. We work it out together through what actually happens in your relationships, emotions and nervous system, rather than forcing you into a category.
Do you offer couples therapy?
At the moment my work is focused on individual therapy. This page is for one-to-one attachment style therapy focused on your own relational patterns and healing.