Your therapy sessions with me will be a journey to discover who you are, what you want and what has gotten in the way of achieving your goals.
The treatment fosters self- awareness in the context of an empathic, meaningful, ongoing therapy relationship
Psychodynamic therapy is a form of depth-oriented psychotherapy that focuses on understanding how past experiences, unconscious processes, and internal conflicts influence current behaviour, thoughts, and emotions.
Psychodynamic couples therapy helps couples by exploring their unconscious patterns, and emotional dynamics. Past relationship experiences, including childhood, and attachment styles, influence current interactions. The goal is to break negative cycles, and foster stronger emotional bonds.
Explores how unresolved conflicts, defense mechanisms, and attachment patterns, often originating in childhood, affect current family dynamics and relationships. It helps recognize dysfunctional patterns, improve parent-child relationships, and build a more supportive family unit. Including multi-generational exploration: Discussion of family history, dynamics, roles, and alliances.
Psychodynamic therapy for parenting focuses on exploring unconscious processes, past experiences, and attachment patterns. Influence a parent’s current behaviours, emotions, and relationships with their children to improve parenting skills and the parent-child relationship
Emphasis on early relationships is particularly beneficial for patients with addiction, as unresolved attachment issues and relational patterns often drive substance use. Addiction is seen not as the primary problem, but as a symptom of deeper emotional or developmental struggles. Substance use may help manage or mask unconscious pain, shame, or inner conflict.
It highlights the complex interplay between an individual’s past experiences, unconscious desires, and the challenges of adapting to a new culture. Immigration, from this viewpoint, is not just a geographical move but a profound psychological journey involving shifts in identity, relationships, and the experience of loss and mourning.
Attachment styles form when we’re still babies. Attachment theory tells us that the emotional attachments we form with our primary caregivers in infancy can influence our interpersonal relationships later in life.
The parenting style used to rear a child will likely impact that child’s future success in romantic, peer and parenting relationships.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) has become the most popular form of therapy offered by most therapists.
But is it really the most effective? Let’s see what some research studies have to say.