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Attachment-Based Therapy in Nashville, TN

For adults unlearning who they had to be and coming back home to themselves.

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Hi, I’m Marlow

Hi, I’m Marlow Mowery, a licensed therapist in East Nashville, Tennessee. I work with deep-feeling, thoughtful adults who’ve spent their lives trying to be good, perfect, or selfless in order to feel loved.

In our work together, we explore the attachment wounds, family-of-origin patterns, and early messages that shaped how you see yourself and what you believe you need to be or do in order to belong.

Through EMDR, schema therapy, and parts work, we gently untangle old narratives and begin reconnecting you to the parts of yourself that got lost along the way.

About me

“I was always ashamed to take. So I gave. It was not a virtue. It was a disguise.”

— Anaïs Nin

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My philosophy

I believe therapy should be a space where you don’t have to perform, fix, or explain away your pain. It should be a space where your story, your softness, and your mess are all welcome.

Whether you’re navigating trauma, grief, religious hurt, chronic illness, or relationship patterns, therapy can offer you space to slow down and listen to what your mind and body have been holding.

Curious about what therapy with me looks like?

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Reflections

This space is a collection of writings on healing, identity, grief, attachment — not shared as advice, but in case something resonates.

If you’ve ever felt too much or not enough, these reflections might help you feel a little more understood.

Read the blog
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Resources

Healing isn’t linear and can take time. It can be helpful to have support between sessions.

This is a curated list of books, podcasts, tools, and crisis support I often share with clients — especially those navigating sensitivity, self-doubt, religious trauma, chronic illness, and early emotional wounds.

Take what resonates, leave what doesn’t.

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Here for you, when you’re ready

You don’t have to have it all figured out.
You don’t have to be healed, or certain, or ready in some perfect way.
Just willing to start.

If something here resonated with you, I’d love to connect.

Let’s see if we might be a good fit.

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