Seed Talks: The Science of Attachment Styles

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With Dr Deba Choudhury-Peters

Explore how our attachment style dictates who and how we love, how attachments are formed and much more. Followed by Q+A.

Have you felt anxious or on edge when you've texted someone you're dating but they haven't gotten back to you in a few hours? On the other hand, do you have a tendency to be overly critical and nit-pick at every small imperfection in your partner when in a relationship? Our attachment style can have a big impact on our love life, making it difficult to trust others in close relationships or making us feel overwhelmed and suffocated when people try to get closer to us. Many strong feelings we may experience in our relationship that we think are primarily due to our partner or other external factors, may actually be symptoms of our attachment style. Having insight into your attachment style can help you recognise many of your emotional and behavioural patterns in a relationship.

This talk is designed to help you better understand the different attachment styles, the role childhood upbringing plays and how our attachment style can dictate who we are attracted to and who is attracted to us. Discover the tool of self-awareness and how this enlightenment can improve your relationship with yourself and others.

Dr Deba Choudhury-Peters is a Chartered Clinical Psychologist with over 20 years of clinical experience. She is the founder of DCP Therapy, an independent psychological therapy practice established for almost 10 years based in the City of London and Surrey. Dr Deba takes a tailor-made holistic approach to all cases and uses a range of clinical models including Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy, Experiential Dynamic Therapies and Schema Therapy.

Dr Deba works with a wide range of complex psychological problems and specialises in trauma therapy. She offers treatment for both childhood and adulthood traumas including psychological and physical traumas. In her former NHS position, her specialist role was at the Institute of Psychotrauma and The Royal London Hospital working on an innovative psychological service in the Maxillo-facial Trauma Surgery Team. She has published in this area and presented at both national and international conferences on facial trauma and psychology. Dr Deba has also published articles for the general public and presented on a radio show during the Covid-19 pandemic. She offers training to services/teams to inform management of psychological difficulties as well as clinical supervision to other Clinical Psychologists.