Psychodynamic
Psychodynamic Therapy
Psychodynamic Therapy can be undertaken for clients who have lost meaning in their lives and have difficulty forming or maintaining personal relationships. This therapy helps you understand how your behaviours , feelings and thoughts are shaped from your childhood and past experiences. The aim of this therapy is getting to the root of the issue and enabling understanding and crating longer lasting change for the better for that individual.
Psychodynamic Therapy is a psychological approach enabling you to explore how the subconscious mind, the past life early childhood and past relationships inform current behaviours thoughts feelings and relationships.
Psychodynamic therapy aims to help those who are aware or unaware of of their social difficulties and need therapy to overcome problems on their own. Clients are enabled and learn to analyse, explore and resolve their difficulties and change their behaviour feelings and thought patterns in current relationships through deep exploration and analysis of earlier life experiences and emotions which maybe suppressed.
Psychodynamic Therapy is used to treat conditions :
- Depression
- Anxiety / Panic / Social Anxiety
- Relationship Issues
- Post Traumatic Stress Disorder/ Complex Trauma
- Addictions
- Border Line Personality Disorders
Benefits of Psychodynamic Therapy:
- Improve relationships and understanding yourself
- Longer term change by exploring root causes of the emotional distress
- Self awareness by understanding why you feel think and act in a certain way.
There are 5 parts to Psychodynamic Therapy:
- Transference and Counter Transference – Redirecting your feelings onto the therapist – Where you explore your feelings thoughts behaviours and then learn to resolve them
- The therapeutic relationship between client and Psychodynamic Therapist
- Exploring the unconscious mind
- Analysing and exploring defence mechanisms
- How the past relationships and early childhood shape and impact upon your life
At Simply Therapy – Psychodynamic Therapist will enable you to talk freely about current issues, problems and fears, emotional distress, negative feelings ; openly without being judged and at your own pace . The Psychodynamic Therapist will help the patient understand how emotions from the past affect current lives , behaviours, and relationships. The aim is to reduce manage symptoms and enhance self worth understanding and developing as an individual to reach desired aims, goals, dreams and aspirations. The Psychodynamic Therapists role is to interact with you and works through unravelling conscious and subconscious thoughts from the past so they reach a clearly understanding of there present state and unable to make changes to improve their lives and relationships.