Samantha Terriss (she/her)

Our attachment styles develop when we are young. These patterns affect the way we relate in relationships during both easy and challenging moments. Experiential and practical exercises will help you know your own attachment style and find tools to support you to lean into relationships that are healthy as well as learn to ask for what you need and set appropriate boundaries. The capacity to lean into someone, to trust someone and let them trust you, is a great gift.

Children’s behaviors show us if their needs are met or unmet. It may be the need to be heard, to be seen, to be held more, or to be given more space to grow. Play, movement, art, and visualization can be very helpful for children. Samantha is very adept at creative interventions. She will also give your child, kid friendly mind-body-energy tools, that are supportive at various stages of development.

Is your relationship failing or is it simply being put to the test with life’s trials and tribulations? Have you or your partner been staying aloof, or distancing, or being quick to react or fight? Is your relationship asking you to deepen your own ability to hold onto yourself as well as lean into your partner enough for connection to grow. Clear up the miscommunications, come together with clarity and compassion, and move forward with forgiveness, new skills and understanding

Our attachment styles develop when we are young. These patterns affect the way we relate in relationships during both easy and challenging moments. Experiential and practical exercises will help you know your own attachment style. You will find tools to support you to lean into relationships that are healthy as well as learn to ask for what you need and set appropriate boundaries. The capacity to lean into someone, to trust someone and let them trust you, is a great gift.

Our attachment styles develop when we are young. These patterns affect the way we relate in relationships during both easy and challenging moments. Experiential and practical exercises will help you know your own attachment style. You will find tools to support you to lean into relationships that are healthy as well as learn to ask for what you need and set appropriate boundaries. The capacity to lean into someone, to trust someone and let them trust you, is a great gift.

Children’s behaviors show us if their needs are met or unmet. It may be the need to be heard, to be seen, to be held more, or to be given more space to grow. Play, movement, art, and visualization can be very helpful for children. Samantha is very adept at creative interventions. She will also give your child, kid friendly mind-body-energy tools, that are supportive at various stages of development.

Is your relationship failing or is it simply being put to the test with life’s trials and tribulations? Have you or your partner been staying aloof, or distancing, or being quick to react or fight? Is your relationship asking you to deepen your own ability to hold onto yourself as well as lean into your partner enough for connection to grow. Clear up the miscommunications, come together with clarity and compassion, and move forward with forgiveness, new skills and understanding

Our brains are neuroplastic, meaning they can change. When the brain is fed resonance and empathy, a person becomes more resourceful and resilient. Our brains are not wired to do it all alone. We are wired for connecting and bonding and belonging. The prefrontal cortex (the thinking, planning part of our brain) and the amygdala (the part of the brain supporting emotional self regulation, sense of security and belonging) become connected with resonance ! Attachment happens when we feel safe

The choice to love another can be a powerful transformative and rewarding choice, but sometimes even the best relationships need some perspective and new patterning over time. The capacity to lean into someone, to trust someone and let them trust you, is one of the most difficult things to learn to do, especially if it is not what you have grown up with or know. Relationships give an opportunity to maintain your own personal integrity, and hold onto yourself while leaning in to intimacy.

I work with families dealing with communication challenges, attachment difficulties, issues of self esteem, school and social difficulties, anxiety and depression, grief and loss, traumatic experiences, family dynamics and changes in family structures. My job is to learn about the dynamics and about the goals you have. From there, we will together find a way that gives you the best results.