While often associated with children, adults can also experience a developmentally inappropriate and excessive fear or anxiety concerning separation from important attachment figures. Our providers offer strategies to manage this distress and foster a greater sense of security and independence.

Common Symptoms or Things to Look Out For:

• Recurrent excessive distress when anticipating or experiencing separation
• Persistent and excessive worry about losing attachment figures
• Persistent and excessive worry that an event will lead to separation
• Persistent reluctance or refusal to go out, away from home, to school, or elsewhere
• Persistent and excessive fear of being alone without attachment figures
• Repeated nightmares involving the theme of separation
• Repeated complaints of physical symptoms when separation occurs