Attachment-Focused Therapy in Northern Virginia
With Expand Psychology Clinical Team
As a team of specialized clinicians, we focus on insight-oriented therapy that leads to real, tangible change, especially in how you experience and engage in relationships.
Do you find yourself struggling with similar difficult patterns in many of your relationships?
Do you want deeper connection, but find yourself either pulling away or getting stuck in conflict?
Maybe you feel stuck with family, friends, or romantically. Our human drive is for closeness, and yet closeness can be scary.
You might feel caught between yearning for closeness and while not knowing how to find or foster it. Relationships might feel confusing, frustrating, or even exhausting.
When patterns repeat, it’s often not about the present moment. It’s about what shaped you long before. What you have come to expect from yourself and from others. Insight into these patterns allows you to break away from them.
Clients Come To Us When They Experience:
Fear of closeness
Push/pull dynamics with others
Difficulty finding trust
Emotional reactivity
Shutting down in conflict
Avoiding connection
Overgiving in relationships
Intrusive thoughts over how others perceive you
Craving deeper connection
Relationship anxiety
Fears of intimacy
Difficulties with dating
Struggle in marital relationships
Family conflict
If this feels familiar, attachment work can help you make sense of your patterns and help you find a path forward.
How Attachment-Focused Therapy With Us Works
We take the time to really get to know you. Together, we start connecting the patterns, experiences, and relationships that shaped how you relate to others today.
This work is collaborative. We help you understand the repeated patterns in your life – both those that are in and out of your awareness – and then help you use those insights to make tangible shifts that change the trajectory of your story.
Our Approach Integrates:
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Explores early relationships and how they shape current patterns.
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Helps you understand how different internalized parts of yourself interact while working to reduce shame and internal conflict.
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Builds flexibility so you can move toward value aligned goals and meaningful relationships even when discomfort is present.
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Identifies and shifts thought patterns that impact connection.
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Recognizes how past experiences of acute stress impact present safety and trust.
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Help understand the intersections of physical and emotional pain and how they impact your day to day life.
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Focuses directly on how you form and maintain relationships.
“We connect the puzzle pieces so your experiences start to make sense, change becomes possible, and you can begin leading the life you have yearned for”
Your Evolution
Starts Now
As patterns become clearer, your relationships begin to feel different in real, noticeable ways.
After Therapy With Us, Clients Report:
Relational patterns shift
Connections become more secure
Less reactivity to stress
Reduction in perceived rejection
Increase in closeness with others
Increase in emotional awareness
Increase in safety and vulnerability
Stronger relationships
More ease with closeness
Clear direction forward
Improvement in friendships
Stronger ability to engage in romantic or intimate relationships
About Our Practice
We’re a team of therapists who focus on helping people understand and shift relationship patterns at their core.
Our therapy is both supportive and active. We care deeply about building insight, but we also help you move forward so those insights turn into real change in your life.
Together, we’ll look at your experiences, your relationships, and how different pieces of you interact together. Parts that may be working to protect you from past pain, may also be holding you back from moving forward. This work helps you understand how your past shaped you and how to create something different, sustainable, and empowering moving forward.
Availability: We work with clients in person in Northern Virginia and via telehealth in select states.
Meet Our Attachment-Focused Therapists
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![Heather McTaggart Bryan, LPC, RPT]()
Heather McTaggart Bryan, LPC, RPT
Licensed Professional Counselor
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![Katie Scopelliti, Psy.D.]()
Katie Scopelliti, Psy.D.
Licensed Clinical Psychologist
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![Anu Rao, Psy.D.]()
Anu Rao, Psy.D.
Licensed Clinical Psychologist
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![April Simcox, Ph.D.]()
April Simcox, Ph.D.
Licensed Clinical Psychologist
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![Gabriella Iskin, Psy.D.]()
Gabriella Iskin, Psy.D.
Licensed Clinical Psychologist
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![Kirimi Fuller, Psy.D.]()
Kirimi Fuller, Psy.D.
Licensed Clinical Psychologist
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![Bianca Bonds, Ph.D, M.Ed]()
Bianca Bonds, Ph.D, M.Ed
Doctoral Psychology Resident
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![Isabelle Harris, M.Ed., LPC-R]()
Isabelle Harris, M.Ed., LPC-R Item
Professional Counseling Resident
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![Margaret Tucker Cardon, LPC, PMH-C]()
Margaret Tucker Cardon, LPC, PMH-C
Licensed Professional Counselor
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![Ashley French, MSW]()
Ashley French, MSW
Supervisee in Social Work
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![Lindsay Burdette, Psy.D.]()
Lindsay Burdette, Psy.D.
Doctoral Psychology Resident
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![Leslie Coates Burpee, LPC, NCC]()
Leslie Coates Burpee, LPC, NCC
Licensed Professional Counselor, Nationally Certified Counselor
3 Steps
To Get Started
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Fill out the form and we’ll help you get started
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Meet with a therapist to see if it feels like the right fit.
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Begin mapping your relationship patterns and building a path forward.