Unity Youth & Family Services

If you don’t clear your misunderstandings or heal the hurt, in time this will become the reason for distance forever.

Parents sometimes find themselves struggling to connect with their child. Stress, trauma, and other circumstances can build wedges between parents and their children. To repair this disconnect, specialized attachment programs offer hope through the use of educational and therapeutic tools. 

Circle of Security is an attachment-based program that focuses on the problematic interaction between a child and their parent. Parents are given structured treatment to address their individual defensive responses, improve parenting strategies, and build healthier attachment behavior. The core focus of this program is to help parents and caregivers understand and reflect on their child’s attachment needs in order to develop and maintain a secure attachment bond.

This process rests on the following principles:

  • Childhood attachment problems are directly linked to medical and mental health problems in adulthood.
  • Securely attached children are more likely to develop competence, emotion control, and healthy function of the stress response systems.
  • A quality attached relationship allows for flexibility to change.
  • Learning, in nearly all areas, requires a secure relationship with adults.
  • A securely attached relationship is built off of healthy relationship capacities versus behavior management techniques.
  • Parents and caregivers want what is best for the child.

The Circle of Security attachment model takes adults on a journey of their own attachment style and needs. This focus allows the parent or caregiver to learn how the developmental attachment needs of the child will influence their ability to provide nurturing responses to the child. The nurturing and responsiveness of the parent or caregiver display dependability and trust, which is the foundation for a secure base that allows a child to feel safe to explore the world and return to a welcoming and trusted adult.

Circle of Security is a 9 week program offered to adults in a group format. Corina is a trained and certified therapist for the Circle of Security Parent Educator program, and who is authorized to teach this attachment program. This program has been successful in improving parent-child relationships, foster-parent relationships, and care-giving relationships between children and other adults who provide them love and care.

Circle of Security can also help rebuild the disconnected adult relationships that grown ups have with their parents and other loved ones.

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