Attachment Style Course for Expats
Yearning for safer and more meaningful relationships – and a stronger sense of self? This online attachment style course is for you!
Through theory and practical exercises designed for expats, you will learn to stand stronger in yourself, calm your nervous system, and move toward a more secure attachment style. For safer and healthier connections – anywhere in the world. ​​
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Attached & Abroad
Ditch your insecure attachment style and embrace emotional safety in relationships and expat life.
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When moving abroad, many expect adventure, opportunity, and new friends from different cultures.
But for many expats, the reality feels far more challenging.
Relationships may be harder to build and maintain, and loneliness, homesickness, and isolation are common. As are depression, stress, and anxiety. Not to mention breakdowns in romantic relationships.
Your sense of self and identity can feel shaken.
When everything familiar disappears, old patterns tend to re-emerge – in your relationships, your emotions, your reactions, and your sense of self.
Attached & Abroad helps you understand those patterns and actively work with them. By working towards a more secure attachment style you will experience:
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A calmer nervous system
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Clearer communication in your close relationships
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A stronger sense of safety in all your relationships and expat life
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A deeper understanding and acceptance of yourself.
This course is for you, if you want to…
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Understand your emotional baggage and how it affects your relationships.
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Break unhealthy relational patterns and achieve a secure attachment style.
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Create and maintain safer, more meaningful friendships in expat life.
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Have a stronger, deeper connection in your romantic relationship.
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Learn to regulate and calm your nervous system in triggered situations.
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Learn how to repair and reestablish safe connection after conflicts.
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Gain a stronger sense of self and stand stronger in your identity.
The course may not be for you, if you want a quick fix or you’re not ready to do the work. Real change requires reflection, emotional work, and practice – and that is exactly why this course creates lasting results.
A little sneak peek
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Attached & Abroad is a self-paced online course. Psychotherapist, couples counsellor, and former expat Henriette Johnsen will guide you through 10 video modules with accompanying exercises and even an audio guide to calm your nervous system.
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All of this for a one-time investment of DKK 2.995 // approx. 400€
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Let’s be honest: 400€ may feel like a lot.
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That amount would typically cover around two sessions of couples therapy or three individual sessions.
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But instead of a few introductory sessions, this course gives you:
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3.5 hours of in-depth video content
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A PDF with 10 guided in-depth exercises
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A 10-minute nervous system regulation audio guide
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Lifetime access, so you can do the work at your own pace and return to the material whenever you need it.
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Still not sure? Try the course for 14 days. If it doesn’t feel right for you, contact me and you’ll receive a full refund.
Want a preview? Watch this 2-minute compilation of some of the course modules for an idea of what to expect:
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Attachment style in relationships
Expat life can put a surprising amount of pressure on a relationship, especially for couples with primarily insecure attachment styles.
Old, unhealed traumas, previous breaches in trust, and general relationship issues can resurface with renewed strength – and emotional safety is easily lost.
Many expat couples find themselves arguing more, drifting apart, and losing their once so strong foundation.
Without your usual support system, these challenges often feel more intense than they would back home.
This is why it is not unusual for expat couples to either break up or terminate their expat contract due to relationship problems.
Gain a healthy attachment style
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This course helps you work toward a secure attachment style and a stronger emotional foundation.
You’ll learn how to navigate conflicts in your relationship, you will experience a deeper connection to yourself and your partner, and you will finally be able to form those longed for friendships in expat life.
What is an attachment style and how does it affect your life?
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Your attachment style is the subconscious way you seek safety, care, and connection.
Founded in childhood, it depends on the level of emotional security that you experienced with your parents or other primary caregiver. In adulthood it influences how you handle intimacy, conflict, vulnerability, and emotional closeness.
Secure vs. insecure attachment style
With a secure attachment style, you generally feel safe in relationships. You’re able to communicate openly, handle emotional challenges constructively, and maintain a stable sense of self – even when life changes.
If your attachment style is insecure or disorganised, things can feel more fragile. Your sense of self may be easily shaken, and you may find it difficult to establish and maintain emotionally safe and meaningful relationships – as well as to regulate yourself in challenging situations.
In expat life, this often shows up as social isolation, loneliness, and homesickness. Stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship difficulties can increase, and old wounds may be triggered more easily when emotional regulation is lacking.
Healing your anxious or avoidant attachment style
The good news is that you can change your attachment style!
In this course, you’ll learn how to move toward a more secure attachment style by working with your core wounds, emotional patterns, and nervous system.
You’ll develop tools to regulate yourself when triggered, repair connection after conflict, and respond more consciously instead of reacting automatically.
This work doesn’t just strengthen your closest relationships – it also makes it easier to form meaningful friendships and to feel more at home in your expat life.
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I have done the work myself!
My attachment style used to be highly insecure and disorganised. And I was struggling – as an expat, as a wife, a mother, and as a person.
Today, I experience the benefits of feeling much more secure in my relationships and life in general.
​And I am so excited to help you on that same journey! My expat experiences combined with years of training and client work as a qualified psychotherapist and couples therapist have allowed me to create this course, to help you feel safer and more connected in your relationships and in yourself.
Attached & Abroad is designed to support real change: healing core wounds and working towards a more secure attachment style, better nervous system regulation, and a stronger sense of self.
The result is not just more insight, but a deeper sense of belonging: to yourself, in your close relationships, and in the life you’re building abroad.
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If you are interested, you are welcome to read more about my expat experiences in some of my blogposts. Also, you can read about my values and how I work here.
Your attachment style guide: Psychotherapist Henriette Johnsen
What my clients say about me
Not only was Henriette respectfully and non-judgmentally curious about our cultural differences, she is also empathic and validating, appropriately challenging, and very knowledgeable of life abroad.
Our marriage started falling apart after the birth of our twin boys. With Henriette's extensive knowledge of the pressure nomad life puts on a relationship and her eye for recognizing the dysfunctional patterns we had created between us over the years, she helped us gain more emotional contact to ourselves and each other as well as a greater understanding of how to help each other with the twins. Today, we are grateful for being able to solve our conflicts in a more respectful manner and for having regained our intimacy.
Henriette has helped me gain more empathy for myself and others, and I strongly recommend her services.
What to expect from the attachment style course
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First, an introduction to and overview of what you will gain from the attachment style course.
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Understand the connection between belonging, identity, authenticity, and attachment style.
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How identity relates to attachment style and expat life influences identity crisis. Build further awareness of your sense of self and identity.
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An introduction to attachment theory and the different attachment styles.
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What fosters attachment styles, and how they manifest in adulthood and relationships. Plus, find your own attachment style!
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Core wounds, beliefs, and confirmation biases: What they are and how they relate to your attachment style. Begin to heal core wounds and stop your tendency for confirmation bias.
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Introduction to the nervous system – in particular, the autonomic nervous system and its connection to attachment style.
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Stress responses: How fight, flight, and freeze are connected to the various attachment styles. Build more capacity in your nervous system and learn to regulate your stress responses.
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How your attachment style, your core wounds, and your nervous system play out in your closest relationships.
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In this wrap-up-module, you will begin to put things together to learn how to take charge of your emotional life and empower yourself in your relationships
All of this for a one-time investment of
DKK 2.995 // approx. 400€
Extra bonus: attachment worksheets & nervous system audio guide
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The 10 modules of the attachment style course are available as both video and audio, giving you the freedom to listen on the go – whether you’re walking, commuting, or doing everyday tasks. Or you can sit down and watch the accompanying slideshow.
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Most modules include guided exercises to help you work actively with your attachment patterns and strengthen your sense of self. With these, you will be able to answer questions like “What is my attachment style?”.
You’ll also receive a downloadable attachment style workbook, so you can revisit the material and continue your personal growth journey.
As a final bonus, the course includes a short audio guide for calming and regulating your nervous system, which you can use anytime you feel overwhelmed or dysregulated.
FAQ about attachment styles and the attachment style course
What is an attachment style?
Attachment style is a set of relational resources, skills, and competences that we subconsciously use in an attempt to have our emotional needs for safety, care, and connection met.
Are attachment styles real?
Yes, attachment styles are real! They have been and continue to be highly researched within the field of psychology.
How many attachment styles are there?
Within attachment style theory, we operate with 4 types of attachment style: secure attachment, the insecure attachment styles avoidant and anxious-ambivalent, and the disorganised attachment style.
What is my attachment style?
The course will provide you with the knowledge and tools to figure out your own attachment style which likely consists of a combination of the different attachment styles.
When do attachment styles develop?
Attachment styles are formed in our childhood, but can develop and change throughout our lives – also, it’s not uncommon to have different ways of attaching to different people in our lives.
Where do attachment issues come from?
Attachment styles are founded in our early years and depend on the level of emotional safety that you have experienced with your parents or other primary caregiver.
Can attachment style change?
Yes, attachment style can change. Due to plasticity, you can work towards gaining a more secure attachment style.
How to fix an anxious attachment style?
By working on your core wounds and confirmation biases, learning to regulate and building capacity in your nervous system, as well as acquiring certain relational skills/tools, it’s possible to work towards a more secure attachment style. It’s not an easy fix; and though it’s perfectly possible to make significant and sustainable changes, for some, it’s an ongoing task.
How to heal avoidant attachment style?
You can work towards a more secure attachment style by building certain relational skills and tools, learning to regulate your nervous system and working with your core wounds and confirmation biases. It is not an easy fix, but it is possible to heal and make changes. It’s an ongoing task that this course will help you with.
How long does this course take?
The course contains about 3.5 hours of video material, a 10 minute audio guide, and 10 exercises in total - but how long you spend on it is up to you. I strongly recommend that you take your time, let the learnings sink in, and don't rush the exercises. There's no time limit to the course, and you can watch the videos again and again! By coming back to the modules and exercises over time and continuously working with your nervous system regulation, core wounds, and confirmation bias, you will experience the healing and changing of your attachment style that you seek.
Can I take this course at my own pace?
Yes, you can work at your own pace as well as revisit the modules that you may want to work with again.
Will my access to the course expire?
No, once you purchase the course, you’ll have ongoing access to all materials, including videos, downloads, and any future updates.
What is the price of the course
The attachment style course is priced at DKK 2.995 which is approximately 400€ or 470$ (depending on the current exchange rate).
Will doing this course make me overwhelmed by my past?
What will be overwhelming for one person might not be for the next, so it’s difficult to say how you will react to the learning and the exercises. If you notice an increased level of anxiety, severe mood swings, or feel overwhelmed with old trauma whilst working through the course, I suggest you go at a slower pace – and perhaps seek the support of a good counsellor or therapist to help you process your learning further.
Can the course be considered a substitute for personal therapy?
No, the course is not intended to be or to replace therapy. It can have therapeutic effects and help you create a more secure attachment style, a stronger sense of self and identity, as well as better your relationships. On its own – or alongside therapy.
Can anybody take this course?
If you suffer from addiction, substance abuse, have a diagnosed severe and longstanding psychiatric disorder, or experience suicidal ideation or have attempted to take your own life, this course may not be appropriate for you – I suggest that you drop me an email on henriette@thegoodexpatlife.com or talk with your current therapist to discuss its appropriateness before enrolment.
Is this course only for expats?
Although developed for expats, the learning and personal development are universal and can be useful for everybody, as well as applied to all relationships.