Hello
My name is Kristina Wells
I imagine you as you are reading these lines.
You are capable, thoughtful, deeply responsible, outwardly "doing well". It all looks good on paper, I hear it very often. How it feels inside may be a different story, one you’ve been wrestling with on your own.
You can handle a lot. You manage, build, create, carry responsibilities for your family, work, and the people who depend on you. But when your most important relationships start to feel strained, it affects everything else.
Communication breaks down, conflict escalates or you stop talking altogether. You have the same circular arguments that seem to have no resolution.Old hurts resurface. And when there has been a betrayal or breach of trust, finding your way back to each other can feel even more complicated.
I provide specialized therapy for couples and individuals navigating the storm of relationship distress, betrayal, and the impact of prolonged stress and unresolved trauma on their closest relationships.
You already know where it hurts. I’ll help you understand what keeps you stuck and show you how to change it.
“Being the “best you can be” is really only possible when you are deeply connected to another. Splendid isolation is for planets, not people.”
Dr. Sue Johnson
Why does attachment-based therapy work?
Whether a relationship feels secure or strained, attachment is still there. If it didn’t matter, it wouldn’t hurt. And the quality of that attachment - how safe, responsive, and connected it feels - can either soften stress or amplify it across other areas of life.
The way you handle conflict, closeness, distance and stress is not random - there is a strategy (the way you cope) and a pattern.
Attachment-focused therapy helps you:
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Make sense and understand your triggers and relational patterns without shame
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Strengthen your understanding of your own and your partner's emotional world
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Repair disconnection instead of avoiding or pushing through it
This isn’t about “fixing” you or your partner.
It’s about helping you feel safer, closer and more confident in about your ability to handle life storms.
What attachment-based therapy is not
This approach might not be the best match if you are hoping for:
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Quick tools and advice without exploring relational patterns underneath the behavior
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A purely cognitive or technique-driven approach focused on worksheets, tasks, or formulas
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Ways to “fix” one person without a willingness to look at shared patterns and mutual change
Mailing address
1271 NE HWY 99w #126
McMinnville OR 97128
Phone
971-267-2789
