Treatment Preferences
Orientation:
Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysis helps people find relief from persistent ways of living that get in the way of having a full and satisfying life. It helps improve difficulties in relationships, in work, in self esteem and in feeling engaged and fulfilled in life. It is a treatment that focuses on the exploration of aspects of experience with self and others that might not be immediately obvious, that shape how we feel and what we do. These aspects of experience become known, understood and changed in a trusting relationship where they can be explored in the “here and now” of the therapy, and connected to ways in which they are repeated from the past. In psychoanalysis, people often lie on a couch and try to say whatever comes to mind in a way that both allows more to be said, and that focus on how we impede ourselves from expressing freely. Sessions are held with greater frequency, four or five times weekly, because this pulls the work beyond simply recounting life events, and facilitates a deep exploration and engagement. Through this engagement, difficult aspects of living are worked on, lived through and reflected upon in many ways, fostering greater flexibility and resilience, greater breadth and depth of experience that endures after the treatment ends.
Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
Psychodynamic therapy, also known as insight-oriented therapy evolved from psychoanalysis. Like psychoanalysis the focus in on helping people find relief from persistent ways of living that interfere with a full and satisfying life. The focus is on the troubles in an individual’s life, but also on how these troubles are experienced in the “here and now” of the therapy. Although meeting less frequently, often in a comfortable conversation with the therapist, the effort is to make connections between the unreflected upon troubling aspects of experience in the past and how they are repeated in present relationships with self and others. Like in psychoanalysis these aspects of living are worked on, lived through and reflected upon in many ways, fostering greater flexibility and resilience, greater breadth and depth of experience that endures after the treatment ends.
Modality:
Individuals
Couples
