Psychodynamic Therapy

Psychodynamic Therapy helps uncover feelings that nag us from outside of our awareness. Then, via an exploration of your experience, we can name the emotion to tame the issue.

Modern Psychodynamic approaches take in the developmental history and context of each person's life up to this moment. Understanding the self can lend information about conscious and unconscious motivations for thoughts, feelings, and behaviors manifested in the present. This approach can help you understand your patterns, develop awareness, and set the course for change in your life.

Psychodynamic therapy can help you learn to spot patterns in your feelings, behavior, and relationships and become aware of aspects of yourself that you may not have understood before. Once you have more insight and awareness into connections between past and present, you can work toward resolving repressed emotions and changing your behavior in the present.

Psychodynamic therapy focuses on unconscious processes as they are manifested in a person's present behavior. The goals of this type of therapy are client self-awareness and an understanding of the influence of the past on their present behavior. The goals of psychodynamic therapy are, acknowledgment of emotions, identifying patterns, improving interpersonal relationships and recognizing and addressing avoidance.

In psychodynamic therapy, I emphasize self-reflection: when you get to know and understand yourself with insight and compassion, you can better change the patterns that you want to and set yourself up for the life you want. There's an exciting freedom in therapy: we can talk about what's going on for you in therapy, in real time. By examining your relationship with me, we can learn about your "real" life as well, and bring the changes you make in therapy to your every day life.

I help clients explore how past experiences, including childhood, trauma, and relationships, are influencing their current functioning.

My graduate school specializes in a focus on relational psychodynamic therapy. I have helped facilitate and teach courses that focus on psychodynamic processes such as countertransference and the subconscious. I believe our subconscious narratives play key roles in how we experience the world and our relationships, and I am skilled at helping others get to the root issues.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Early experiences shape the people we become. Increasing our awareness of how our past influences our present allows us to make more conscious choices in the future.

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 therapy throughout my masters program. Understanding a client's history, background, and family is essential to knowing how they are impacted by the world in the present.

In my clinical work with co-occurring disorder populations, I have drawn from a psychodynamic framework to great success. This simply means exploring one's struggles and how they tend to repeat or consistently present in a variety of contexts. It is often deeply rooted patterns that one is not even aware of that may be the cause of struggles and dissatisfaction in life. In my work, I seek to deconstruct these repetitive experiences and replace them with healthy patterns of behavior and coping.

I will help you explore the depths of your emotions, thoughts, and experiences. Rooted in the belief that our past experiences and unconscious processes shape our present behaviors and feelings, psychodynamic therapy offers a powerful means of self-discovery and personal growth. We will work to uncover unconscious patterns, unresolved conflicts, and past traumas that may be influencing your current challenges and emotional struggles.