Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

Psychodynamic Therapy is an evidence-based approach that focuses on helping clients become aware of how current feelings, thoughts, and behaviors are shaped by past experiences. In other words, how do the events and environments from the past shape who you are now? 

Humans develop their personality patterns during their formative years. When you begin to understand why and how you have the patterns that you do now, you develop self-awareness, self-compassion, and an increase in self-esteem.

Psychodynamic therapy also focuses on exploring the unconscious mind in order to develop self-awareness. Therapy helps you become aware of your internal experience so that you can decide how you want to change your experience of the world. Your internal experience consists of feelings and thoughts that you have about yourself. Therapy will help you explore and examine your mind so that you can better understand yourself and develop space to make thoughtful decisions rather than acting impulsively or reactively. These thoughtful decisions are not necessarily big life decisions for example changing careers or moving, but can be the moment to moment every day decisions such as deciding how to respond to your child or your partner in a stressful moment.