The Attach Place Reviews 15

I can’t say enough good things about The Attach Place. Working with Ce Eshelman has been truly life-changing. When I first came in, I was struggling with Prolonged Grief Disorder and severe suicidal ideation. I honestly don’t know where I would be today without her support. Ce is remarkably attuned in session—insightful, compassionate, and able to understand things about my experience that I often couldn’t put into words myself. She helped me find my way back to the light.

Our work together has included Internal Family Systems (IFS), ketamine-assisted therapy, neurofeedback, and other approaches, all of which were profoundly helpful. The ketamine-assisted sessions in particular were gentle yet powerful. I highly recommend KAP to anyone she suggests it to.

I also want to mention Jen, who helps run the office and is also a therapist. She’s warm, professional, and creates a welcoming environment from the moment you first connect.

If you’re looking for a therapist who is deeply skilled, intuitive, and genuinely committed to helping people heal, I cannot recommend Ce Eshelman and the team at Attach Place highly enough. Finding the right therapist can change your life. For me, it truly did, and continues to to so.

It's incredibly helpful to receive professional feedback and to share resources and support with other parents. The support from this membership has made a significant impact on our family.

Our family has been using the Attach Place for over 5 years and we could not be happier with the quality of professionals and the services offered. Ce Eshelman is an amazing individual/professional who uses her first hand adoption experience, to help families navigate the uniqueness of adoption. She has been hugely instrumental in helping us parent for the specific reality/dynamic we experience. With her help we have learned to positively navigate difficult situations. Her light and wisdom shine through, and her commitment to her practice and clients is unwavering! With a forest of gratitude
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The Attach Place has been the best support we have found for our family…and we’ve looked everywhere! It is a safe, judgement-free, inclusive, loving place that helps people learn to heal their traumas. Neurofeedback and the Love Matters Parenting Society have been game-changers!

The kindhearted intelligent professionalism, plus the depth of their knowledge when it comes to attachment disorders and their impact upon the whole family, is nothing short of amazing. The Attach Place has literally changed my family's life for the better - so much that I would never have believed that when I first attended their services.

"Before the adoption, I could imagine the deep love I'd feel for my child. I could imagine the joy. I could not imagine how the behaviors would send me almost over the brink. Help!"
The love and joy are real--and so are the inner wounds that can create such pain and disarray in our child's life and in ours. Ce Eshelman, LMT, has been through this big-time, and she shares her heartaches, triumphs, and wisdom with us at The Attach Place and in her book, "Drowning with my Hair on Fire; Insanity Relief for Adoptive Parents." And, if you are a member of Love Matters Parenting, you also get an international Facebook therapeutic-parenting family you can lean on for support and advice. And, an in-depth curriculum on how to help not just your child, but YOU too (that's in reverse order, though, Ce will tell us). And weekly discussion groups with Ce and other parents that guide you through the curriculum. All of this together has made an incredible, deep-down difference for me and my family. Better than anything else I've tried or joined. If you're a struggling adoptive parent, you have found home.

Every adoptive parent should be here! Clearly this is a place where people understand me and my children, they know what we’re walking through, and they have so much wisdom and love to share. Before we joined, we were stressed and having daily battles. Now we understand where our kids are coming from and we have the skills to help them through it rather than battling against them. And attachment has grown so much in the process!

This is where you will get the support and help you need on your foster or adoptive journey. It's been life changing and life saving for our family. There's work involved, and lasting change takes time, so start now. We are three years in with working with the Love Matters Parenting Society and The Attach Place and we have experienced so much growth and healing and HOPE.

It is so helpful to get professional feedback and share resources and support with other parents. The supports from this membership has made a bug impact on our family.

The Attach Place and Loves Matters Parenting Society support and therapeutic parenting class has been life changing. I was struggling as a grandparent who has become the guardian of my granddaughter. We lost her mom to drugs and then suicide in 2020. It was devastating for both of us and we spiraled down to a point where I wasn’t sure I would be able to keep caring for her. Just months before I joined my granddaughter who was 9, was in and out of the hospital, on several kinds of medication with no effect, and I was having to call the police because of extreme aggression or threats of harm to self and others. My friend had recently started the Love Matters Parenting Society and shared the link. Desperate for any kind of support I signed up and from the moment of hearing that first video intro song I knew this was something, there was a glimmer of hope.
I went all in watching the videos, joining the Facebook group, and then coming to the weekly zoom groups. Things started getting better as I focused on connection before correction and built our relationship back. I have to say that with the amazing guidance, support from the groups and the therapeutic parenting material there is no more extreme aggression, destruction, or hopelessness. We are on our way. Has it been or is it now easy? No. But it’s worth it and it is a more effective and long term solution.

I thought I knew a lot about attachment. This membership 1.) Taught me much more; 2.) Reminds me daily to connect with my children, even when it’s hard; 3.) Provides me with an understanding, knowledgeable group of Facebook friends who have all been where I am. Plus, there’s Ce and Andrea, who sincerely care about every family. The membership helps me become the parent I want to be every day.

Our family was blessed to be introduced to The Attach Place as
a means to addressing the mental health issues due to the COVID crisis. Having absolutely no therapeutic resources (in the entire five years since I had adopted my two girls), I jumped at the opportunity. It has been hands down the best decision for our family.

I did have previous suggestions from other resources for how to get my kids in line (as if this was the goal), my own experience as a child, and what I saw mirrored from families who do not have children from difficult beginnings. None of those examples worked for us, which left me feeling alone and fearful of the future. Our situation wasn’t getting better, only worse.

After some time in Theraplay, and completing work in the Love Matters Parenting Society resources, I have a success story almost weekly. I see change in how we communicate, and I am on way to parenting the way I always hoped I could - with some compassion, patience, and as a model of security and stability that my children crave.

I am most thankful for the graciousness of the staff, and the parents in LMP support group. The mottos of #bettertogether and No Blame, No Shame help to create a safe place to learn, heal, and grow as a family.

Ce is amazing. Professional practical and able to be very personal. Even though I'm parent of an adult, the insights and perspective and sense of shared perspective have been very worthwhile. I've learned stuff I would have used decades ago, but I've been able to make it inform my relationship with my now adult child who is now herself a parent. I bring lessons learned about self-regulation, about therapeutic parenting, about being there with love first before you try to do any 'work', So very very valuable.

This program has produced amazing results! Just a few months ago my son, who has Asperger's, suffered from overreacting to various situations and was riddled with anxiety. Thanks to Neurofeedback Solutions he is now able to process information to the degree that he no longer has inappropriate outbursts and his overall demeanor is calmer and more relaxed. We are constantly having people remark at how much he has matured over the last few months. My son and I used to have daily arguments and now we have none. We have the pleasure of conversation without drama. My son and I have noticed what a difference this program has made in our lives and we both couldn't be happier with the results. I highly recommend contacting Ce and utilizing this program for anyone who might be having difficulties with Asperger's and/or anxiety. --S.