Psychodynamic Therapy

As a psychodynamic therapist, I specialize in uncovering and addressing the unconscious processes and unresolved conflicts that influence your behavior and emotions. My extensive training allows me to skillfully navigate techniques such as free association, dream analysis, and transference examination. This deep understanding enables me to help you gain insight into hidden aspects of your psyche, fostering self-awareness and emotional healing.

Psychodynamic therapy believes that out minds are always in motion. The unresolved issues from the past, usually childhood, operate below the level of everyday awareness but still influence our present day behavior. We will talk a lot about family dynamics, childhood, and past experiences to understand why you are who you are.

In psychodynamic therapy, I help you explore the underlying causes of your emotional struggles by delving into your unconscious mind. We'll uncover hidden patterns and unresolved conflicts from your past that influence your current behavior and feelings. Through this process, you’ll gain deeper self-awareness and understanding, allowing you to address the root of your issues. This approach fosters emotional growth, helping you develop healthier relationships and improve your overall well-being.

My primary training backgrounds are CBT and Psychodynamic counseling. I integrate these approaches to offer both stabilization and exploration of root causes for my clients. Additionally, I stay up-to-date with the latest research and theoretical orientations to offer each client an individual approach to counseling based on their needs.

There is no resolution without understanding the "why" below the surface. This approach is part of a combination of therapeutic interventions that ensure that we examine the root of your systems to make a path forward. Our therapy sessions together will unearth and discuss deep seeded issues that may plague you daily. We can make a plan for improvement together and learn better techniques and ways of coping. Struggling for a long time doesn't mean that you can't find a way forward.

Psychodynamic theory is what you may think of when you imagine "talk therapy." It is a rich and nuanced exploration of who you are and the forces that shaped you. The psychodnymic aspects of our work help bring to light your unspoken, and perhaps unrecognized, assumptions about yourself and the world around you so you can decide if they serve your life now and the life you want going forward.

I invite you to explore the deeper layers of your thoughts and feelings to uncover the roots of your experiences. If you’re feeling empty or struggle with commitments, this is a safe space for you. Together, we’ll address your anxieties about death, health, and important life choices while empowering you to take responsibility for your decisions. This approach is perfect if you feel isolated despite having supportive friends or face chronic health challenges.

Psychodynamic theory explains human behavior and personality by focusing on the interplay of unconscious mental forces, particularly early childhood experiences, that significantly influence our thoughts, feelings, and actions, often without our conscious awareness.

I use psychodynamic therapy to help clients understand how past experiences, unconscious thoughts, and early relationships shape their present behavior and emotions. By exploring these deeper aspects of the self, clients can gain valuable insights into patterns that may be holding them back. This approach fosters self-awareness, healing, and lasting change, helping clients break free from old patterns and move toward healthier, more fulfilling lives.

By illuminating your unconscious process you’ll gain self-awareness, empowering you to identify feelings that lie at the heart of your issues.

With a psychodynamic approach, we help clients explore how past experiences, unconscious thoughts, and internal conflicts shape current behavior and emotions. This approach uncovers patterns that may be limiting personal growth, fostering self-awareness and healing. By addressing these underlying influences, we guide clients in processing unresolved emotions, promoting deeper insight, and creating meaningful change for lasting personal growth.

I trained under psychodynamic clinicians and have a strong developmental trauma focus in my practice. I strongly believe that most people carry the experiences and relationships dynamics they experienced during childhood into their adults. Sometimes we need support in making these connections and developing new patterns.

Psychodynamic therapy involves examining and bringing into awareness our mental and emotional processes. Through our experiences and development, we form patterns and beliefs over time that influence and shape how we think, feel, act, and relate to others. The aim is to gain insight and interpret where some of our psychological processes and defenses come from so we can better understand ourselves and reduce distress or symptoms ailing us to improve our lives.

This looks like us exploring your past and present at a deeper level, taking into account your family and relationship history and seeing ways those early experiences impact your current life.

My approach is rooted in the belief that life experiences and unresolved conflicts can create unconscious patterns that affect our relationships with ourselves and others, including our children. The goal of psychodynamic therapy is to bring these issues into awareness so they can be addressed and healed.