What can I expect from psychotherapy?
Psychodynamic psychotherapy explores how difficult experiences in the past can affect the way we think and feel in the present day, and can cause recurring problems that bring suffering and distress. The therapeutic relationship between client and the therapist helps gain insight and deeper understanding of themselves and their relationship with others.
Psychodynamic psychotherapy differs from medication and treatments such as CBT, which are largely focused on symptom control. The positive effects of psychodynamic psychotherapy are long-lasting and continue to develop after the therapy has ended as this approach aims to understand the client's emotional experience and their experience of being in the world, thus gaining insight and harnessing and developing one's own resilience.
'...the evidence indicates that the benefits of psychodynamic treatment are long-lasting and not just transitory and appear to extend well beyond symptom remission. For many people, psychodynamic therapy may foster inner resources and capacities that allow richer, freer, and more fulfilling lives'
Jonathan Shedler “The Efficacy of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy” in American Psychology, 2010, vol. 65.
The sessions are private and confidential and allow an exploration of what might be troubling, causing you distress, or otherwise preventing you experience your life fully. Therapy starts with an initial consultation to discuss how therapy could work for you.
