One of the auxiliary benefits of therapy , no matter what you’ve come to discuss, is that it helps you develop healthy attachment. It occurs because therapy is a process that keeps and nourishes clear boundaries , respectful communication, non-judgement, and acceptance, while you explore the freedom to be yourself (because everybody else is taken, remember?).

You do it together with your therapist, in a therapeutic alliance—hand-in-hand mutual work, by building a working relationship with them.

However, people who didn't have the experience of healthy attachment in their early life may experience all of the aforementioned things as something negative, resembling an unhealthy dependency, and feel it is dangerous.

It is especially relevant for people who grew up with narcissistic ,

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