Psychodynamic and Relational Therapy

Psychodynamic therapy is interested in what lies beneath the surface of everyday experience: unconscious patterns, early attachment relationships, and the ways we repeat familiar roles without quite meaning to.

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Relational therapy adds another layer: it takes seriously the relationship between therapist and client as part of the treatment. The feelings you have towards me, the feelings I notice in myself, the moments of closeness or distance, irritation, longing or fear all become material we can think about together.

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We explore:

• how you learned to manage closeness and dependence

• the roles you took up in your family or early relationships

• how those patterns are replayed now

• how it feels to be fully seen and not rejected

 

Sometimes people worry this sounds intense. In reality it is simply honest: our relationship will inevitably evoke familiar dynamics, and working with those dynamics directly can be deeply transformative.