How Therapy Might Help:

Psychodynamic therapy is recommended for relationship difficulties, depression, when people have tried other approaches that haven’t worked, better understanding of ourselves, identity, childhood difficulties. Psychodynamic therapy explores those aspects of self that are not fully known, especially as they are manifested and potentially influenced in the therapy relationship.

Engaging in therapy, in the principles above, talking about whatever comes to mind if you feel free to say it, is a meaningful way to get to know your story, to help with the issues bringing you to therapy and to think about, and find, other preferred ways of living.

If you get in touch, we would arrange an initial consultation to discuss what has prompted you to seek therapy and to work out if my approach is right for you. If we both feel we can work together, we would then find a space in the week when we could meet. Usually, the work is open-ended, sometimes it is time-limited.

Finding a way to meet consistently is fundamental to the work. The stability and momentum that weekly sessions provide create a sense of security for a person’s emotional and psychological world.

How I Work:

My therapeutic approach – what you can expect from psychodynamic psychotherapy – can broadly be described as follows:

  • there will be a focus on your emotional world and how feelings are expressed or avoided;
  • over time, we would get to know the recurring themes and patterns in your life;
  • we would pay attention to the experience of the here-and-now and their possible meanings.
  • we would discuss past experience and think about how it relates, and affects, the present.
  • we would get to know your relationships, of all kinds, including the therapy relationship itself, and;
  • we would explore the non-verbal parts of your experience – daydreams, dreams, gestures, sensations and intuitions – the things in our experience that sit closer to unconscious life.