Specialized Attachment-Based Therapy for Healthier Relationships In Zionsville, Carmel & Fishers, Indiana.

Individual, couples, and family therapy  focused on improving communication, rebuilding trust, and creating secure attachment and deeper connection.

Virtual therapy across Indiana, and Relationship Support online.

Welcome

If you’re here, something in your relationship feels painful.

Maybe you keep having the same communication and mistrust issues. Maybe you feel lonely even when you’re together and you don’t understand why you react the way you do. Maybe the busyness of life stole you from your family and you do know how to reconnect.

When connection feels hard, it’s often because old attachment patterns and wounds are being activated — ways you learned to protect yourself when closeness didn’t feel safe. What once helped you survive may now be standing in the way of the intimacy you want.

You don’t have to keep repeating the same cycle.

Attachment-based therapy, including individual therapy, couples therapy, and family therapy, is a place to slow down, understand what’s happening beneath the conflict, and begin creating a relationship that feels secure, attuned, and deeply connected — whether you come on your own or together.

Whether you are a busy professional, a parent navigating adoption or foster care, or someone ready to break repeating patterns in your relationships, this space is for you.

Sigmund Freud

One day, in retrospective, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

Every challenge in your relationships, whether with yourself, your partner, or your family, is an opportunity to understand, heal, and create deeper connections.

What to Expect When Working With Me

Understanding your attachment style

We’ll explore how your attachment patterns shape your relationships, helping you see the “why” behind your reactions and connection challenges.

Looking beyond the behavior

Instead of focusing only on what happens in the moment, we’ll uncover the deeper experiences and triggers that drive your patterns.

Support with intimacy and sexual struggles

We address difficulties with sexual connection and intimacy as part of the relationship, helping you feel understood and build closeness safely.

Learning to be vulnerable and feel seen

You’ll practice opening up safely, being understood, and connecting more authentically with yourself and others.

Making sense of your trauma

Together, we’ll explore past experiences that influence your present relationships — whether individually, in couples therapy, or as a family — so you can heal and respond differently.

Support for adoptive, kinship and foster parents

You’ll learn how to build trust and connection with your child, focusing on understanding behaviors, meeting needs, and creating safety before correction. 

My Approach

My work is trauma-informed, attachment-based, and person-centered. Using systemic and psychoanalytic insight, I explore the patterns that shape your relationships, from family dynamics and cultural influences to the deeper emotional processes driving behaviors today.

Through an Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) lens, I focus on the vulnerability behind behaviors, helping individuals, couples, and families communicate more clearly, deepen connection, and build secure, attuned relationships.

Using a trust-based relational lense, I also support parents navigating adoption or foster care. By looking behind behaviors and focusing on connection before correction, families can strengthen bonds, create safety, and foster lasting trust.

By uncovering the “why” behind recurring conflicts, communication struggles, or emotional withdrawal, we create strategies that support lasting change, stronger bonds, and a greater sense of understanding within your relationships.

Couple sitting close together and looking into each other’s eyes during a couples therapy session.

Your Journey

Individual
Therapy

If you’re carrying relational patterns or past wounds that quietly affect your life — whether it shows up as anxiety, feeling overwhelmed, difficulty in relationships, low self-worth, emotional numbness, or repeating patterns you don’t fully understand — individual therapy offers a safe, one-on-one space to explore and heal at your own pace.
Together, we develop new ways of responding to yourself and others that feel more secure, authentic, and freeing.

Couple sitting close together and looking into each other’s eyes during a couples therapy session.

Couples
Therapy

If patterns from your past are showing up in your partnership — arguments that loop, emotional distance, difficulty feeling truly safe together, or challenges such as a physical/emotional affair, the arrival of a new baby, external stress or more — couples therapy offers a gentle, structured space to rebuild trust and intimacy.
Together, we explore attachment patterns, improve communication, and develop new ways to navigate both long-standing dynamics and current stressors as a team.

Family embracing each other during a supportive family therapy session.

Family
Therapy

When family dynamics feel tense, stuck, or out of balance — whether it’s parent-child conflicts, sibling issues, blended family challenges or more— family therapy helps everyone feel heard and understood.
Drawing on attachment and systems perspectives, we work to improve communication, resolve conflicts, and foster stronger, more supportive connections across the family.

Relationship
Support

Virtual psychoeducational support for adults anywhere inside and outside the U.S. Focused purely on understanding your relational patterns, attachment style, and how past experiences influence your current relationships today.
Ideal for pre-marital/pre-engagement prep, co-parenting guidance, divorce guidance or more.

Adoptive/Foster/Kinship family hugging their child during a foster and adoption consultation session.

Foster/Adoptive/
Kinship Support

Foster and adoptive children often come from backgrounds that cause escalated or unpredictable behaviors. Parents may feel unsure how to manage them or connect emotionally — that’s normal with trauma history.
Together, we learn practical steps using TBRI and attachment principles: building trust, responding with connection first, then correcting the behavior with evidence-based tools.

Young woman smiling during an attachment-style interview therapy session

Discover Your Attachment Style

Curious about how your attachment style shapes your relationships today? This focused, one-time session is a gentle interview-style exploration to identify your style (secure, anxious, avoidant, disorganized), understand its origins, and gain practical insights into patterns and growth opportunities. It’s a great starting point or standalone tool for self-awareness.

What Others are Saying

“I am truly grateful for the support and guidance she gave me while working with the children. When I first began, I didn’t fully understand their backgrounds or know how to build trust with children who had experienced so much. She helped me learn how to create safety, build healthy relationships, and most importantly, lead with love.

There was one child in particular who was very challenging, he was aggressive, withdrawn, and often hurt others. Through the steps and approach I learned from her, I began responding with consistency, safety, and compassion instead of frustration. Over time, I saw real change. He began to trust, to soften, and to feel secure.

Because of her guidance, I grew not only as a caregiver but as a person. Today, I feel confident building strong, loving bonds with the children in my care. I truly believe that love, expressed with structure and safety, changes everything, and that is something she taught me.”

– Neyrouz Nassan, Caregiver

“Lea brings warmth, integrity, and deep care into her work. With attentive listening and a calm, balanced presence, she creates a space where people feel truly heard and respected. Her thoughtfulness and strong sense of responsibility reflect both her professionalism and her genuine commitment to those she supports.”

– Hanady Sawaya, Clinical Psychologist

“Working with Lea has changed my life. I used to feel lost in this storm inside me, like I couldn’t make sense of anything! My feelings, my past, my relationships. But she helped me face the pain I had been running from, understand myself, and see my patterns with compassion. Now, I’m starting to connect with the people in my life in a way I never could before, and the chaos I felt inside me feels more like a path forward than something that controls me.”

– Patient

“I’ve never felt what I’m feeling now before. I can’t quite put into words the impact of this journey, but it has truly been life-changing. I’m understanding myself more, noticing the patterns in my relationships, and becoming more aware of how I act and react.”

– Patient

“You can tell this isn’t just a job for her, it’s a calling!”

– Maria A., Educator

“Lea has a way of making you feel comfortable from the very first conversation. She listens deeply, without judgment, and somehow helps you make sense of things that once felt overwhelming. She truly cares, keeps growing in her work, and creates a space where you can show up as you are. If you’re looking for someone genuine who will walk alongside you, Lea is that person.”

– Grace Nakhoul, Clinical Psychologist