Curative Counseling
Online Counseling
Here to Heal
Attachment-Based Therapy for High-Achieving Individuals & Couples
✔ Break recurring conflict cycles
✔ Strengthen emotional safety and trust
✔ Stop overfunctioning and start connecting
If you feel stuck in the same arguments, emotionally distant from the people you love, or exhausted from carrying more than your share — you’re not alone.
I help men, women, and couples break recurring conflict cycles, strengthen emotional safety and trust, and move from overfunctioning or shutdown toward secure, meaningful connection.
Whether you come alone or together, we focus on healing the relational pattern not just managing the symptoms.
Attachment-Based Therapy for Individuals & Couples
Relationships shape how we experience ourselves. When they feel tense, unbalanced, or disconnected, the impact runs deep.
I specialize in helping men, women, and couples:
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Break repeating conflict cycles
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Repair emotional injuries
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Rebuild safety and trust
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Shift from overfunctioning and emotional withdrawal to secure connection
Individual therapy and couples therapy share the same focus: healing the pattern beneath the surface.
Relationships shape how we experience ourselves.
When connection feels strained, distant, or unbalanced, it doesn’t just stay in the relationship. It shows up in anxiety, resentment, overfunctioning, shutdown, and self-doubt. Most people try to fix these patterns through better communication or more effort. But if the root is attachment, effort alone will not solve it.
I’m Dr. Phaecia Ward, a licensed clinical social worker specializing in attachment-based therapy for individuals and couples. My work focuses on helping people identify and shift the relational patterns beneath recurring conflict, emotional disconnection, and imbalance.
Whether you’re navigating these dynamics on your own or within a partnership, we work at the level where change actually happens: emotional safety.
About Dr. Ward
My Approach
My clinical foundation is rooted in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), Attachment Theory, Trauma-Informed Care, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and Social Work Ethics and Systems Thinking.
Rather than offering surface-level coping strategies, I help clients understand how early relational experiences shape present-day conflict cycles, emotional withdrawal, over functioning, and fears of rejection or abandonment.
In couples work, we focus on repairing emotional injuries and breaking pursue-withdraw dynamics. In individual therapy, we examine how those same patterns show up internally and across relationships.
Different entry points. The same underlying framework.
What Clients Often Struggle With
Clients often come in feeling:
• Stuck in repeating arguments without resolution
• Unseen or emotionally alone in a relationship
• Responsible for more than feels fair
• Shut down or withdrawn during conflict
• Afraid of being “too much” or “not enough”
• Anxious in ways that trace back to relational instability
If this sounds familiar, you’re not broken. You are likely operating from a protective attachment strategy that once made sense.
Our work is about shifting those strategies toward secure connection
Why Attachment-Based Work Matters
Communication tools can help temporarily. Sustainable change happens when emotional safety is restored.
Attachment-based therapy focuses on identifying relational patterns, accessing the primary emotions beneath conflict, repairing attachment injuries, strengthening trust and responsiveness, and building secure, resilient bonds.
Whether you’re here individually or as a couple, the goal is the same: connection that feels steady, mutual, and safe.
Virtual Attachment-Based Therapy Across Six States
Curative Counseling — Here to Heal. Therapy made for your life, your identity, and your emotional evolution.
I provide secure, confidential online therapy for individuals and couples in:
Attachment-Based Therapy in Indiana
Providing virtual therapy for individuals and couples across Indiana who are ready to break conflict cycles and build secure connection.
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Online Therapy for Individuals & Couples in Ohio
Attachment-focused virtual therapy in Ohio for those navigating anxiety and relational strain.
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Virtual Attachment-Based Therapy in Texas
Secure online therapy for individuals and couples throughout Texas seeking to repair trust, shift over functioning patterns, and build healthier emotional bonds.
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Online Therapy Services in Arkansas
Attachment-based therapy for individuals and couples in Arkansas who want to understand relational patterns, reduce conflict, and reconnect with confidence.
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Virtual Therapy for Individuals & Couples in Massachusetts
Specialized attachment-focused therapy in Massachusetts designed to strengthen trust, repair emotional injuries, and support meaningful connection.
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Online Attachment-Based Therapy in Pennsylvania
Confidential virtual therapy for individuals and couples in Pennsylvania working to break repeating relationship cycles and rebuild emotional safety.
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All sessions are conducted via secure telehealth, allowing you to access specialized attachment-based care from the privacy of your own space.
Schedule a consultation to see if we’re a good fit.