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This paper discusses attachment research and practice. The literature on the links between the Strange Situation Procedure and the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) inform practice and research by commenting on relationship processes. The attachment literature provides reliable information on childhood and adult intimate relating with partners, family and friends. There is also a literature on the qualitative analysis of adult attachment in individual therapy. Given that working with the relationship is the medium for the delivery of care in any brand name type of practice, then attachment findings explain specific phenomena in various types of practice. This paper summarises findings about repeating attachment processes (Owen, 2017). The paper comments on the evidence-based practice proposed by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, (NICE), and argues for the utility of attachment research because it focuses on relational processes. The paper explains what attachment processes indicate and notes a number of allied research questions.