Our Approach

Psychotherapy is…

For the most part, the mental processes that underpin our sense of self and drive our behaviour are unconscious. This means that they are shaped by our experience, present and past, without us being aware of it. And even though we constantly learn and change, it is our earliest, often forgotten, experiences that have the greatest influence on our mental life.

The task of the psychodynamic practitioner is to bring these experiences into consciousness, so that the person may increase their self-awareness and, in time, change the way they live. 

What does a psychotherapist treat?

Psychodynamic psychotherapy is an effective treatment for anxiety and depression, whether it appears to have been triggered by an event (or a series of events) or not. It consists in an open-ended series of weekly or twice-weekly sessions with a psychotherapist.

The psychotherapist will give the person coming to them for help a safe and confidential space to think and feel. 

Our Approach to Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

We aim to help people establish a healthy relationship with their unconscious processes so as to help them to lessen their symptoms and eventually grow out of the causes of their current problems.

In our experience, this task is best undertaken with the deepest awareness of how we are shaped by to language, identity and culture. That is: how we come to language as children and relate to our verbal world as adults, who we think and feel we are and belong, and how we are with others.