What is Therapy?
Psychodynamic therapy is not about quick fixes or advice-giving. It is a sustained, confidential conversation—an opportunity to explore your inner world with depth, honesty, and care. The work invites you to reflect on how you’ve come to be where you are, especially when life feels difficult, stuck, or unclear.
Together, we consider how earlier experiences and relationships may still shape your thoughts, feelings, and behaviours—often outside of awareness. Therapy creates space for fresh insight, emotional clarity, and the possibility of real, lasting change.
People come to therapy for many reasons, including:
- Navigating loss, anxiety, low mood or emotional overwhelm
- Making sense of complex relationships or relational patterns
- Managing transitions, identity shifts, or professional pressures
- Addressing internal conflict, shame, or self-doubt
- Deepening self-awareness and cultivating a more grounded sense of self
This is not surface-level work. It’s a process that unfolds over time, through regular sessions and a consistent therapeutic relationship.
Counselling or Psychotherapy?
There’s no strict hierarchy—only a difference of depth and duration.
- Counselling tends to be short-term (up to 12 sessions) and often focused on a particular issue or life event.
- Psychotherapy is open-ended and longer-term, allowing for more sustained exploration of underlying patterns and structures.
We will decide together what approach is right for you during our initial assessment.
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