| Psychoanalytic Therapy |
| Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy is an approach to working with people who are experiencing emotional difficulties or seeking to further self-understanding. |
| Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy encourages each client to explore beyond the immediate and logically obvious reasons for his or her difficulties. For many, the difficulties may lie in repeating patterns of behaviour or defence mechanisms which although once an essential tool for coping with emotional distress no longer work or even hinder their ability to cope and develop in their current life situations. |
| Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy is a non-judgmental reflective approach to therapy. It enables clients to explore past and present experience and relationships and to consider the possible significance of these experiences on the issues that concern them now. Inevitably part of the work will involve thinking about childhood; formative years and past relationships, and to consider any potentially unresolved issues and emotions that may still, consciously or unconsciously play a part in the difficulties currently being experienced. |
| As with all approaches to therapy, the building of trust between the client and the therapist in a safe, confidential and supportive environment is an essential element of the therapy. The therapy is a collaborative work of exploration in which the role of the therapist is neither to provide answers nor to offer advice, but be an equal partner in the therapeutic process. Over time, having developed an understanding of the client’s unique experience, the therapist is able to offer reflections and possible interpretations of the issues that arise. It is this individual therapeutic interaction that provides the opportunity to enable each client’s potential for emotional understanding, personal insight, growth and resolution. |
| Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy is suitable for a wide range of presenting issues, for example, anxiety; depression; low sense of self-esteem; difficulties in work, family or sexual relationships; addictions; bereavement, grief and loss, and general feelings of inability to cope with life. |
| Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy is rooted in Psychoanalysis and shares many of its core philosophical approaches. However for many Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists there are some differences of style and approach to the therapeutic work with clients that have evolved over many years of practice and a more contemporary understanding of human experience and relationships. It is this approach that is offered by the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists of North West London Psychotherapy Centre. |
| Director of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy |
