Psychodynamic Therapy

In psychodynamic therapy, therapists help people review emotions, thoughts, early-life experiences, and beliefs to gain insight into their lives and their present-day problems and to evaluate the patterns they have developed over time. Recognizing recurring patterns helps people see the ways in which they avoid distress or develop defense mechanisms as a method of coping so that they can take steps to change those patterns.

The therapeutic relationship is central to psychodynamic therapy as it can demonstrate the manner in which the client interacts with his or her friends and loved ones. In addition, transference in therapy—the transferring of one’s feelings for a parent, for example, onto the therapist—can also help illuminate the ways that early-life relationships affect a person today. This intimate look at interpersonal relationships can help a person to see his or her part in relationship patterns and empower him or her to transform that dynamic.

Psychodynamic therapy is available to individuals, couples, families, or groups as short-term or long-term therapy. Brief psychodynamic therapy is goal-oriented and can take as many as 25 sessions, whereas long-term psychodynamic therapy may take two years or more.

Psychodynamic Therapy: the psychological interpretation of mental and emotional processes—is rooted in traditional psychoanalysis and draws from object relations, ego psychology, and self psychology. Developed as a simpler, less-lengthy alternative to psychoanalysis, psychodynamic therapy aims to address the foundation and formation of psychological processes in order to alleviate symptoms and improve people’s lives.

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Attachment based/Informed Therapy

TRAUMA THERAPY

FEMINIST THERAPY

COGNITIVE BEHAVRIORAL THERAPY

ACCEPTANCE AND COMMITMENT THERAPY

MIDFULLNESS BASED THERAPY

EMOTIONALLY FOCUSED THERAPY AND COUPLES THERAPY