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 THE RELATIONAL SPACE
RELATIONSHIP-CENTERED THERAPY FOR PEOPLE WHO LEAD WITH HEART 
BURNOUT | COMMUNICATION | CONFLICT | BETRAYAL | WORK & RELATIONAL STRESS
Emotionally Focused Therapy in Oregon in person or online

Hello

My name is Kristina Wells

I imagine you as you are reading these lines: I picture you and what has been going on while you manage all the day to day hurdles. 

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You are capable, thoughtful, deeply responsible, outwardly "doing well". You also feel a lot of pressure. You can handle a lot: you manage, build, create, juggle, hold responsibilities for your people, family, community, team. But when your most important relationships start to feel strained, it impacts many areas of life. Work stress comes home. Home becomes less of a refuge. Communication breaks down, conflict escalates or shuts everything down. Burnout builds up and past traumatic stress resurfaces again. If there was a betrayal, it makes everything even more complicated. And the ways and patterns you manage stress and conflict shows up everywhere - at home and at work.

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I provide specialized therapy for couples and individuals when life and work stress spills into relationship (it eventually always does), supporting you in finding clarity, strengthening connection, and building a life that feels more supported. You want to lead, love, and live from a secure place.

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“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

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Why does attachment-based therapy work?


When people matter to us, emotions get involved, and when we enter a relationship, we let people and motions matter to us deeply. 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, responsibility, closeness, distance, feedback, and stress is not random - there is a strategy (the way you cope) and a pattern.
 
Attachment-focused therapy helps you:
 
  • Make sense and understand your triggers and relational patterns without shame
  • Strengthen your understanding of your own and your partner's emotional world 
  • 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.
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What attachment-based therapy is not
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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
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CONTACT ME

Mailing adress:

1271 NE HWY 99w #126, McMinnville, OR 97128, USA

971-267-2789

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