Counselling & Psychotherapy - If You Experience Life As Monochromatic
Relational Psychodynamic therapy helps you understand how your current feelings and emotional mood-states, impulses and behaviours have been shaped by past experiences.
The relationship with your therapist (also known as the therapeutic alliance) is key to the psychodynamic way of working. I will invite you to talk about your life experience, including your childhood and significant relationships, the process takes times and requires specialised skills, which I have been honing over many years, including being in personal psychoanalytic psychotherapy.
Psychodynamic psychotherapy is derived from psychoanalytic theories of Sigmund Freud, later expanded on by numeous psychoanalysts. Relational psychotherapy can help you understand what you’re feeling, why you behave in a certain way and how this affects your relationships, thus enriching the tapestry of your life. It has the potential to make your life more vibrant, and meaningful by weaving together experiences, relationships, and personal growth.
I follow the British School of Object Relations - What is the ’Object’? In the infant’s world, an “object” is a mental image of the mother (or father, or nanny…essentially, the primary caretaker). Every human infant takes into their mind representations of their mother, and those representations become a part of the infant’s mind, remembering the internal landscapes, I wrote about earlier. Subsequently, these internal parts of the infant’s mind begin to inform or share her experiences of the world and how she (the infant) will engage in relationships. So, relational patterns are created.
