Welcome to
the NeedsConnection!
™
resources for faith-based caregivers, counselors, educators, and pastors
Development Doesn't Happen Automatically.
It Happens Through Connection.
The Needs Connection Model™ is an emerging developmental theory that explains how human beings grow through sequential relational experiences and what happens when those experiences are interrupted.
Drawing from attachment research, developmental psychology, interpersonal neurobiology, trauma science, and the Sequential Developmental Attachment Theory (SDAT), the model provides a practical framework for understanding behavior—not as a problem to eliminate—but as information about where development has been interrupted.
Whether working with children, adolescents, adults, couples, or families, the Needs Connection Model helps professionals identify the point of developmental disruption and restore connection in the sequence the brain was designed to develop.
