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Counselling
Counselling
Love Addiction Therapy in Farmington Hills
Available in-person and virtually across Michigan.
Love addiction develops when closeness becomes the nervous system’s primary way to feel:
- Safe
- Regulated
- Soothed
- Anchored
- Emotionally alive
- Choosen
*Love addiction is about safety, not intensity.*
Not sure this fits?
If you feel stuck in an “on-again/off-again” bond with a specific person, see Relationship Addiction Recovery
If you’re struggling with Love Addiction
- Being alone triggers anxiety or panic
- You need reassurance or closeness to feel okay
- You attach quickly or intensely
- Your sense of self fades in relationships
- You over-function to keep connection
- Distance feels threatening
- You fear abandonment more than mistreatment
- You confuse emotional intensity with intimacy
- Relationships feel regulating — not just meaningful
*These are nervous-system responses, not personality traits.*
- Individuals who fear being alone
- People who lose themselves in relationships
- Those who feel emotionally dependent on connection
- Individuals repeating attachment-driven patterns
- Anyone who loves deeply but feels unsafe without closeness
*If love feels like urgency instead of safety, you’re in the right place.*
What Love Addiction Really Is?
Love addiction is not about romance or desire.
Clinically, it is:
- Trauma-rooted bonding
- An unconscious need to feel safe through another person
- Fear-driven connection
- Emotional dependency as regulation
- A survival strategy formed early in life
- Attachment-based nervous-system dysregulation
Love addiction forms when closeness becomes the only reliable way the body knows how to feel stable.
*Love addiction is about regulation — Not love itself.*
What Love Addiction Is not?
Love addiction is NOT:
- Loving deeply
- Valuing relationships
- Wanting intimacy
- Being relational
- Having strong emotions
- A flaw or weakness in your character
*Depth of feeling is not the issue — Nervous-system safety is.*
Love addiction is often rooted in:
- Emotional neglect
- Inconsistent caregiving
- Abandonment wounds
- Being unseen or invalidated
- Parentification or enmeshment
- Chaotic emotional environments
- Early attachment trauma
- Loss of emotional safety
These experiences teach the body:
“Connection keeps me Safe.”
“Disconnection is Danger.”
*Love addiction begins where secure attachment was never learned.*
At Thrive Beyond Trauma Counseling, Love Addiction recovery includes:
- Attachment-focused trauma therapy
- Somatic therapy for attachment panic
- Parts work and inner-child repair
- Hypnotherapy for subconscious attachment beliefs
- Shame reduction & identity rebuilding
- Boundary development without emotional shutdown
- EMDR for abandonment and relational trauma
*Healing happens when safety comes from within.*
What Recovery Looks Like
Recovery is not about becoming less loving
It often includes:
- Reducing attachment
- Reducing panic
- Reducing emotional flooding
- EMDR
- Somatic work
- Attachment repair
- Restoring self-trust
- Restoring boundaries
- Restoring autonomy
- Connection without collapse
- Connection without urgency
*Recovery means secure attachment — Not emotional distance.*
If connection has become the way your body feels safe
And it no longer feels manageable on your own
Support can help.
You don’t need to stop loving.
You don’t need to harden your heart.
You don’t need to be sure yet.
We offer trauma-informed, non-judgmental care for love addiction and the attachment patterns underneath it.
*You don’t have to do this alone.*