I can only tell you my experience. Last I talked about attachment and it's intensity to my T what I garnered was this: Work through it. My T is a re-parenting T so she will and is working through it with me. There is a time when at first I was attached, just a passing normal "I like you" kind of attachment. For the past several months I've been in a "I'm going to die if I don't speak to you everyday" type. I asked her about this. She explained it as I'm learning things but don't trust myself, I need her help (as much as I hate it) I feel like a baby who needs their mother even for the simplest tasks. Because I never had a mother, and that's T's role for me right now. I don't know if this applies to you at all. T said that we would eventually move forward out of this as long as we work together in it no matter how long it takes one day I'll be ready to fly out of the mama's nest and need her less. So honestly, I think the key is talking about it, working through it, and if you have attachment issues finding a T that will be that kind of T for you.