How can Psychotherapy help?
Whatever brings you here, psychodynamic psychotherapy offers you a confidential, non-judgemental and consistent space to explore the things that are troubling you.
It may be that life feels unbearable or that you have a sense that things need to change but you don’t know how to make the first step.
At the heart of psychodynamic psychotherapy is the belief that to talk about difficult feelings in a non-judgemental environment, whilst often difficult at first, can provide you with real relief from your suffering. You may be in a lot of pain and need an opportunity to speak of experiences that it is not possible to share with other people in your life.
As a psychodynamic psychotherapist, it is not my place to give you advice or tell you what to do but rather to help you reflect on your experience. This can feel hard as there may be thoughts and feelings that you have needed to put out of your mind for a long time. Getting to know yourself better in this way may be daunting but it can also enable you to feel more alive, able to fully function and sustain deeper and more meaningful relationships.
The way we relate is often at the core of our difficulties and this can be dictated by our early experiences in life.
Sometimes, without consciously knowing it, we develop patterns which may be unhelpful to us or contribute to our suffering. By discovering more about these unconscious processes within the context of the therapeutic relationship, you can start to know yourself better and work through your pain.
As we bring our habitual ways of relating into therapy with us, there may be times when I will invite you to explore feelings that arise in the context of your relationship with me. This can provide us with helpful insight into difficulties you encounter elsewhere and give you an opportunity to understand more about your difficulties.