Psychodynamic 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 freely about your earlier life experiences, including your childhood and significant relationships. This process takes times and requires specialised skills, which I have been honing over the last 15 years of my life, including being in personal psychotherapy for many years. So, I just may know what it is like to be in your shoes.
Relational psychotherapy can help you understand what you’re feeling now, why you behave in a certain way and how this affects your relationships. Psychodynamic therapy is derived from psychoanalytic theories of Sigmund Freud, later expanded on by numeous psychoanalysts.
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, remember 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.
