Psychoanalytic PsychotherapyPsychotherapy is very much a cooperative venture between psychotherapist and client. The aim of psychotherapy is for the therapist to provide the client with a secure and supportive relationship that enables them to gradually develop a clearer sense of who they are.
People often seek psychoanalytic psychotherapy when they find themselves repeating familiar patterns from the past or getting stuck in relationships or behaviours which are unhelpful to them. Psychotherapy is carried out within secure boundaries and is confidential in order to enable clients to share difficult experiences and feelings.
Psychoanalytic psychotherapy aims to bring into awareness ways of being or relating to others that are unconscious, deeply set or inclined to repetition. From a psychoanalytic perspective the long term healing of commonly experienced mental health problems such as anxiety or depression involves the client gradually getting in touch with the experiences and emotions underlying them.
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy aims to help you understand why you are the way you are, connect you with real and sometimes painful feelings, mourn past losses, and free you up for the possibility of change. At the heart of all psychotherapy is the development of the client/therapist relationship, the gradual understanding of which comes to provide a focus for much of the work.
You don’t have to be ‘ill’ to see a psychotherapist. Many people see a psychotherapist at different periods of difficulty in their lives as they value the support and empowerment that this can provide.My clients are both men and women and come from diverse cultures, backgrounds and age groups.
