Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
Psychodynamic psychotherapy focuses on unconscious thoughts and feelings that determine behavior and various mood states. Relational therapy explores the impact of early and current relationships on a persons sense of self and wellbeing and uses the interection between client and therapist to help the client understand patterns in all of her relationships.
Psychotherapy is recommended when problems include depression, issues in relationships, confusion of identity, the experience of loss, addictions, and difficulties in one’s family of origin. Long-standing issues that never reach a comfortable resolve are often best addressed in psychodynamic work. A psychodynamic/psychoanalytic approach is preferable when the problems one is experiencing are long-standing, repetitive, and significantly interfere with life. Examples of this would include getting into one unsatisfying relationship after another, chronic failure to achieve goals and reach one's potential, a long history of vague anxiety and depression, or a feeling that one cannot "be oneself" or act spontaneously. While there are many types of therapy that address specific behavior problems, crises, or trauma, psychodynamic work is often better able to alter more pervasive general dissatisfaction, or a better fit for people who wish for a more expansive experience of their psychic life.
Psychodynamic therapy is conducted by professionals with extensive education and training.
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The process
The therapeutic process depends on the establishment of a safe, confidential, and collaborative therapeutic relationship. Client and therapist feel and work together in a deep exploration of your internal world and how your body feels to make sense of emotional reactions, and patterns of behaviour.
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The aim
To bring about integration of our different parts. To alleviate personal suffering and expand the capacity for work, love, creativity. To be able to manage and fully experience the ups and downs, the joy and pain involved in living.
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The model
Together we explore the way you relate to yourself and others. Lisa’s work is informed by research into attachment bonds, the influence of our family and how we grew up, along with culture and the social environment, combined with each of our own temperaments. Sometimes trauma and patterns we learned become habitual without our awareness. They can be stored in our bodies and affect the way our nervous system operates. We work with body and mind to help unlock old patterns and move toward wellbeing.
