Tailoring Treatment to Attachment Patterns

Healing Trauma in Relationship

By: Karen Pando-Mars, Diana Fosha

Narrated by: Daniela Acitelli

Harnessing the power of attachment to transform psychotherapy.

Research shows that attachment patterns—our patterns of relating to others, which develop in early childhood—affect far more aspects of our lives than was previously thought. Given how crucial these patterns are to how every patient relates to the world and to their own selves, how can therapists harness attachment to provide more effective therapy?

Using accelerated experiential dynamic psychotherapy AEDP® theory and methodology as a foundation, the authors present an innovative psychotherapeutic approach that tailors treatment to attachment patterns, allowing psychotherapists to help patients heal relational trauma. Here, listeners will find attachment pattern-specific clinical interventions to help them translate attachment theory into transformative clinical practice.

Case examples are used throughout to illustrate how to handle the unique challenges that psychotherapists encounter with each attachment pattern, while engaging commentary discusses how the attachment-informed experiential/relational process leads to healing attachment trauma and facilitating security, resilience, and well-being.

©2025 Karen Pando-Mars and Diana Fosha (P)2025 Tantor Media

Ripples of healing

This book has been life changing for me as a trauma therapist with my own history of attachment trauma. It provides very scientific but also practical advice on how to heal from the worst kind of wounds. This book provides a brilliant framework and very tailored maps to working with clients with each type of attachment patterning. I’ve read it, listened to it, annotated it, and made many copies of the grids to use in my clinical therapy practice. I feel like I have a guide and map now to help my clients heal. I love this book and have found a home in the AEDP therapy community. Pando-Mars and Fosha are exceptional and brilliant and I am grateful for this gift of a book! Cannot recommend enough for anyone who is a therapist or works with folks on healing.

Excellent information

The narration is perfect. The writing clear and understandable. The subject is thoroughly and well explained. Clinical writing that is also enjoyable and immediately useful.