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We offer psychodynamic psychotherapy which draws its inspiration from the psychoanalytic and group analytic traditions. However, it also takes account of insights derived from some of the humanistic traditions.
One’s difficulties and symptoms often arise as a response to problematic situations that one has had to cope with in one’s childhood as well as in adulthood. On the one hand these habituated beliefs (e.g. I am no good) and symptoms (e.g. I get very anxious when I speak to my boss) are ways of coping with the original difficulties, and on the other hand these ‘solutions’ make it more difficult to live a more fulfilled life in the present.
The therapy offers a safe place where one can become more aware of the conscious and unconscious processes that are behind many of our beliefs, thoughts and feelings. The therapy process works towards understanding how and why these symptoms and beliefs come to be there by locating them one’s life history and life context.
Particular attention is given to the developing therapeutic relationship, as it becomes a space in which these processes can be explored and engaged with.
Through greater understanding, self-knowledge and a growing acceptance of oneself, change becomes more possible. This ultimately leads to the possibility of living a more fulfilling and fulfilled life.
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