Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
I strive to provide a comforting, educational, and private environment for all my clients. Sessions are devoted to assisting clients in identifying patterns and, in becoming conscious of them, developing the capacity to understand and change them.
I focus on interactive psychological forces that affect personality and underlying motives of behavior by using a psychodynamic, client-centered approach to treat my clients. In addition to being a psychoanalytic psychotherapist, I am a Psychoanalytic Sociologist. Taking the latter into consideration, I incorporate both individualistic and collectivistic approaches in my work with clients. I place emphasis on the psychological hurdles that one had to overcome as a child to become an adult, with an emphasis on the social and cultural environment that informed the individual and the gender roles to which he or she conforms. By means of illuminating one's awareness of their inner and outer world, my aim is to collaboratively help clients with acute psychological disorders through talk therapy.
Trauma Therapy
Trauma is a complex, dynamic experience involving both a shattering experience and efforts at restoration. It is better characterized as ‘a severe shock to the system’, which can be caused by either a bodily injury or a psychical, emotional blow or wound to one’s system. It is the aftermath of the psychical trauma that psychoanalytic psychotherapy can attempt to remedy and work through.
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A lack of resolution or restoration can foster a ‘repetition compulsion’ or a recurring pattern of re-visiting of the trauma through dreams, or an unconscious impulse to put oneself in other, similar, traumatic situations. Psychoanalytic psychotherapy can help clients to advance and develop emotional and behavioral strategies, as well as build on pre-existing strengths, to adequately deal with the trauma.
A traumatic experience is usually beyond words and has never been spoken about by most survivors. In psychoanalytic psychotherapy, a unique form of talk therapy, one can begin to unravel the layers of the experience, slowly and often through speaking about the current symptoms that have manifested as a result, which may include anxiety, substance dependency, self-injurious behavior, psycho-somatic symptoms, depression, etc.
The first step is to make an appointment and get started on getting to know your psychoanalytic psychotherapist through building a therapeutic rapport. Be committed to the process and the rest will follow.
