What is psychodynamic psychotherapy?

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Psychodynamic psychotherapy, drawing on theories and practices of psychoanalysis, is a type of talk therapy that helps people understand and work through deep-seated emotional issues. The main aim of psychodynamic psychotherapy is to uncover the hidden causes of emotional difficulties and bring them to light so that you can deal with them more effectively. It helps you explore your inner world and look at how past experiences may influence your current patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving. This type of therapy can help you make lasting changes that improve your emotional wellbeing and your relationships.

Who is this type of therapy for?

Individuals

  • With emotional difficulties, such as feelings of sadness, anxiety, anger, loneliness or emptiness;

  • With relationship problems, whether with family, friends, or partners;

  • Facing life transitions, such as:

    • Decisions about starting, postponing or not having a family

    • Transition to parenthood (perinatal, postnatal)

    • Relationship changes, separation, or divorce

    • Bereavement, grief, and fertility-related loss

    • Illness or health changes, acute or chronic

    • Changes in women’s health, including fertility challenges and peri/menopause

    • Career transitions, e.g. career change, redundancy or retirement

    • Major life changes, relocation, or identity shifts

Emotional healing, self-awareness and personal growth,

 Couples

Apart from all the life transitions mentioned earlier that couples may be navigating together, this type of therapy is also helpful for couples:

  • Who feel stuck and unable to find solutions to their relationship difficulties on their own.

Issues we can work through together in couples therapy include but are not limited to:

·      Communication and conflict issues

·      Intimacy and sexual difficulties

·      Parenting difficulties

·      Infidelity or breaches of trust

·      Conception or fertility struggles

·      Grief and loss

·      Jealousy and trust issues

·      Navigating cultural, racial, or identity differences

·      Non-traditional relationships

·      Identity shifts related to ageing, caregiving or changing life roles

·      Considering separation or ending the relationship

Psychodynamic therapy is not only for people who face difficulties but also people who want to understand themselves better and seek personal growth and a greater sense of fulfilment.