Branch Counseling, Rebekah Sorkin MA LCSW

06/04/2026

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05/20/2026

What would you add?

05/11/2026

Branch Counseling LLC

04/12/2026

Sometimes healing starts by noticing which voice was never really yours.

04/06/2026

04/05/2026

11/06/2025

At Branch Counseling, comfort and connection help remind us that healing and growth can hold both light and depth. 🌿

08/28/2025

The gift of secure attachment is what we offer our little ones when we welcome them into a world grounded in love and connection, a foundation first nurtured in the bond between partners.

As an attachment-focused psychotherapist, a mom, and a Gottman-Certified Bringing Baby Home Educator, I have the joy of supporting new and expecting parents who want to feel more connected, less stressed, and more grounded in their partnership as they navigate this tender and transformative season.

For many, this means creating a new kind of family story, one built on safety, connection, and belonging. A story that may look and feel different than what they experienced growing up.

The Bringing Baby Home program is grounded in decades of research and offers couples practical, proven tools to strengthen their bond, ease conflict, and grow together as they navigate the shifts and challenges of parenthood. At its heart, it’s about finding safety in each other, deepening your connection, and traveling through this beautiful and exhausting parenting journey side by side.

Whether you’re preparing to welcome your little one, navigating the toddler years, or adjusting to new stages of parenting, I’d love to walk alongside you.

08/22/2025

One of the most sacred roles we play as parents and caregivers
is becoming our child’s first inner voice.

When a child is told that they are inherently “sinful” and untrustworthy,
that their mistakes deserve punishment and pain,
that love must be earned through obedience and self-abandonment,

that tender little one grows up with an inner world defined by fear rather than safety.

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In adulthood, these early teachings echo as an inner critic.
They erode self-trust
and make it hard to feel worthy of love.

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James Dobson built an entire empire on these distortions of love and manipulations of fear and control.

What attachment science and trauma research recognize as relational betrayal and abuse,
Dobson, and the millions of homes and churches that embraced his teachings, called “discipline.”

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The result? Generations of children grew up in homes where:
• Safety was tied to obedience
• Physical violence was normalized
• Emotional expression was punished
• Love was made conditional
• Core attachment needs for trust, comfort, and belonging were shamed as “sinful” and deserving of punishment

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If you’re feeling something about Dobson’s death,
anger, grief, sadness, rage, or even numbness,
it’s valid. Every bit of it.

Dobson, and so many like him, taught us that emotions were dangerous.
That was a lie.

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Feeling is not weakness.
Feeling is resistance.

Every tear, every tremor of anger, every pang of grief, every spark of rage
is a reclamation of your humanity,
your attachment needs,
and your right to love and be loved without fear.

Feel on.

08/13/2025

It’s easy to parent the way we were parented.
To love the way we were loved.
To respond the way we were responded to.

What’s not easy is untangling ourselves from the sticky threads of shame, fear, and control that shaped the rules we were raised with, the script we were given, and choosing to create

something new.
Something gentler.
Something safer.
Something rooted in connection and love instead of fear and control.

It takes courage.
It takes repetition.

But it’s so worth it.

You’re allowed to write a story where safety, love, and connection are the norm.

For you, and for them.