Wellbeing Counselling

What is it?

Psychodynamic Counselling tries to help clients understand long-standing conflicts from the past which helps the client become more self-aware and bring what is unconscious into consciousness. It focuses on the fact that many of the personal troubles in life are the result of mental processes that are hidden from us.

How does it work?

Psychodynamic therapy focuses on the psychological roots of emotional suffering. Its hallmarks are self-reflection and self-examination, and the use of the relationship between therapist and patient as a window into problematic relationship patterns in the patient’s life. In the counselling, there is no homework or specific goal other than the attempt to try to speak openly when you are in your counselling sessions.  So, you might bring your dreams, your daydreams and chance ideas.  Psychodynamic counselling sees these things as an important part of you.

You won’t solve your problems repeating the things that create your problems in the first place.  Psychodynamic counselling is concerned with helping people to identify and find a way out of making the same mistakes again. Psychodynamic counselling offers the chance to break the destructive ways of relating that can dominate our lives without us realising it.

Who is it for?

Psychodynamic counselling is a modern version of counselling developed from psychoanalysis.  It is a form of counselling that enables you to understand the way you relate to people, to the world, and to yourself, and so develop a more satisfying, constructive and sustainable way of living. Psychodynamic therapy can help those suffering from anxiety, depression, eating disorders, interpersonal problems, psychological distress, social anxiety disorder and substance use disorders.