THE INSIDE STORY OF ATTACHMENT: What can Internal Family Systems Therapy offer?
How many of us have seen our own challenges with connection and relationships in our clients and their stories? And how many of us have felt the sharp pang of embarrassment when these relational challenges unexpectedly emerge between the client and ourselves? Throughout the course of my career as a mental health
social worker, attachment theory has intermittently helped me understand and navigate these challenges… up to a point. The commonly understood four
categories of attachment (secure, anxious, avoidant, disorganised) have assisted me in case conceptualisation again, up to a point.