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People with unhappy attachment histories recreate their insecure, anxious, avoidant, or disorganised patterns (Ainsworth et al., 1978; Main & Solomon, 1986), with abandonments, privation, abuse, and neglect threatening basic survival, and setting up painfully re-enacted relational templates. However, depth energy psychotherapy (energy psychology integrated within attachment-based psychotherapy) can gradually transform such seemingly intransigent patterns. Neurobiology and vagal nerve theory identify the need to transcend the body/mind dichotomy of “psychological” talking therapies, to address the triggering, dysregulation, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and visceral symptoms arising from attachment trauma. Energy psychotherapy addresses a wide range of complex issues, working with the synergy of bodymindenergy to incorporate somatic components, assisting clients with emotional self-regulation and the releases of traumatic stress. These gentle, self-applied, and empowering methods have a significant evidence base and help clients establish autonomy and better connections with self and other. This work is naturally conducive to connecting with transformative “source” energy whose “flow” assists in releasing the low, dense frequencies of trauma. Clients report feeling “lighter” as they experience the embodied regulation of peace, calm, and well-being which supports happier ways of living and relating.