Psychodynamic Therapy

Using a psychodynamic approach in therapy, I will listen for how your developmental experiences inform the person you are today. We'll explore how this insight can make way for behavioral change, as well as how we can acknowledge your inherent strengths and gifts.

I believe that life experiences and the meaning that we both consciously and unconsciously assign to them can be explored in therapy to help clients live a life that is intentional and grounded. This includes identification and exploration of attachment styles, childhood and adolescent experiences, dreams, fears, and hopes.

Through the therapeutic journey, it offers the space to feel seen and emotionally held. I utilize a psychodynamic approach that is based in Attachment Theory as our childhood impacts our adulthood relationships. Part of the therapeutic journey is building a trust-based relationship. This is achieved through another perspective developed by Irvin Yalom, utilizing the here-and-now within the therapeutic relationship.

I was trained in psychodynamic psychotherapy at the University of Chicago. Psychodynamic therapy, combined with other approaches, such as energy therapy techniques can be very effective in treating a number of conditions. That said, I don't get stuck on one or two approaches. That would be like a medical doctor who only prescibes penicillin. A good therapist needs multiple tools in his or her toolbox.

Psychodynamic therapy draws from aspects of one's upbringing, relational and family dynamics, culture, and past experiences to better understand how someone operates and functions presently. Essentially, it's peeling back the layers of one's past to put meaning to current life challenges, behavioral patterns, as well as symptoms of mental health. This modality often involved reflecting, exploring, and using curiosity to better understand where the origins of one's problems may come from.

I believe it’s important to focus on and address the underlying causes and maintenance factors of mental or emotional struggles, not just on modifying the present behaviors. Compulsive behaviors and disorders arise as a somewhat adaptive response to unmet needs or painful experiences; they help clients survive or cope with something they otherwise could not have.

I received my graduate degree from a university that emphasized how psychodynamic theory can be incorporated into all kinds of counseling. I find that looking at past experiences gives us insight into what is going on for us in the present. Learning more about how our experiences, relationships, and identities impact us helps us identify where we want to grow.

I take a psychodynamic approach that explores life experiences and the meaning we assign to them in order to help client better understand their inner world. This includes identification and exploration attachment styles, childhood, adolescence, and adult experiences, hopes, dreams, and fears. The benefits of exploring and identifying these things is a better understanding one's self and why they move through life as they do. This creates space for one to make informed and healthy life choices.

Psychodynamic therapy is a type of talk therapy that explores how people's current lives are affected by past experiences, unconscious beliefs and fantasies, and "unacceptable" feelings and thoughts. The analyst helps clients talk about all of these things by creating a non-judgmental space and helping people see that any thoughts and feelings are tolerable and acceptable and can be separated from our actions that impact our success in relationship with others and ourselves.

My natural bent when working with clients is psychodynamic. In this premise of talk therapy, we dive into your automatic internal resources that are utilized in dealing with problems; adjust and create stronger, more healthy ways to address issues that arise. Many of our reactions are based in past experiences, positive or negative. We explore what does not work and shift you into what will work for your unique abilities.

I believe many individuals can be a product of their environment and can be helpful to explore their childhood/home environments and impact on their adult life and relationship behaviors/patterns.

I was trained in psychodynamic psychotherapy at the University of Chicago. Psychodynamic therapy, combined with other approaches, such as energy therapy techniques can be very effective in treating a number of conditions. That said, I don't get stuck on one or two approaches. That would be like a medical doctor who only prescibes penicillin. A good therapist needs a lot of tools in his or her toolbox.

I received my doctoral training at an APA accredited school at Immaculata University in Pennsylvania with a primary focus on psychodynamic therapy interventions.

Psychodynamic therapy is a therapeutic treatment that primarily focuses on the interpretation of mental and emotional processes. It shares much in common with psychoanalysis and is often considered a simpler, less time consuming alternative. Psychodynamic therapy seeks to reveal the unconscious content of a client's psyche in an effort to alleviate psychic tension.

I was trained in psychodynamic psychotherapy at the University of Chicago. Psychodynamic therapy, combined with other approaches, such as energy therapy techniques can be very effective in treating a number of conditions. That said, I don't get stuck on one or two approaches. That would be like a medical doctor who only prescibes penicillin. A good therapist needs a lot of tools in his or her toolbox.