My psychotherapy practice is rooted in a psychodynamic approach. Psychodynamic therapy can be helpful to people who desire to know themselves better, have the capacity for insight, and who seek to get in touch with deeper aspects of their lives. This long term approach to therapy is about settling into the therapeutic realm and process while seeking personal meaning and growth. It is not a quick fix and holds the space for you to come into.
Often, symptoms of anxiety and depression, for example, are not only problems in and of themselves, but also symptoms of deeper difficulties such as repressed emotions, low self-esteem, and a lack of security in relationships. Through becoming more aware of what lies underneath symptoms one can re-associate with emotions and experiences that one has been in the dark about. This is typically a gradual process and may bring forward difficult emotions and experiences. Often as a result, of accessing emotions, one’s symptoms subside, and one is empowered to make greater conscious decisions.
The process and structure for this includes consistent 1x or 2x weekly 50 minute therapy sessions where your experiences are invited to be expressed and explored. This may include your dreams, imagination, and your feelings and thoughts that directly come up in response to the therapist.
Psychodynamic therapy includes bringing attention to how one's earlier experiences and relationships may be impacting the individual in their current relationships and experiences. Our earliest experiences as children have profound impact on our development. Therefore, this approach is interested in one's early experiences of mother, father and family.
Often adults engage in behaviors that were adaptive in the past to a difficult circumstance. However, those adaptations may no longer be serving you well. In this process you can seek to gain insight into what your adaptations are and to pay attention to how they may be helping or hurting you now.
If you are motivated to grow and know yourself better then you may want to consider such an opportunity. It is also important to know that many approaches to therapy exist and therefore, I suggest learning about a few before deciding where you would like to begin.
Although I have dedicated much of my professional life to the education, training and practice of psychotherapy, I am not one who believes that it is the solution to everything. One's physical health needs care and attention - what we eat and exercise have significant influence on one's sense of wellbeing.
Moreover, I believe that as human beings we have a spiritual dimension and therefore need spiritual engagement and community. Therapy is not a substitute for the care and attention these aspects of life require however, it can contribute to one's psychological health and growth and therefore play a part in one's whole life. Feel free to contact me.
Often, symptoms of anxiety and depression, for example, are not only problems in and of themselves, but also symptoms of deeper difficulties such as repressed emotions, low self-esteem, and a lack of security in relationships. Through becoming more aware of what lies underneath symptoms one can re-associate with emotions and experiences that one has been in the dark about. This is typically a gradual process and may bring forward difficult emotions and experiences. Often as a result, of accessing emotions, one’s symptoms subside, and one is empowered to make greater conscious decisions.
The process and structure for this includes consistent 1x or 2x weekly 50 minute therapy sessions where your experiences are invited to be expressed and explored. This may include your dreams, imagination, and your feelings and thoughts that directly come up in response to the therapist.
Psychodynamic therapy includes bringing attention to how one's earlier experiences and relationships may be impacting the individual in their current relationships and experiences. Our earliest experiences as children have profound impact on our development. Therefore, this approach is interested in one's early experiences of mother, father and family.
Often adults engage in behaviors that were adaptive in the past to a difficult circumstance. However, those adaptations may no longer be serving you well. In this process you can seek to gain insight into what your adaptations are and to pay attention to how they may be helping or hurting you now.
If you are motivated to grow and know yourself better then you may want to consider such an opportunity. It is also important to know that many approaches to therapy exist and therefore, I suggest learning about a few before deciding where you would like to begin.
Although I have dedicated much of my professional life to the education, training and practice of psychotherapy, I am not one who believes that it is the solution to everything. One's physical health needs care and attention - what we eat and exercise have significant influence on one's sense of wellbeing.
Moreover, I believe that as human beings we have a spiritual dimension and therefore need spiritual engagement and community. Therapy is not a substitute for the care and attention these aspects of life require however, it can contribute to one's psychological health and growth and therefore play a part in one's whole life. Feel free to contact me.