Therapeutic Modalities

Psychodynamic psychotherapy is a depth psychology, as it assumes human experience has layers, and that not all of them are in view all the time. In order to bring about change, it is not enough to stay on the surface: you need to explore the thoughts, memories, emotions, and motivations that you are ordinarily not aware of, which are influencing your choices and ways of experiencing life. Unconscious experience is an out-of-view but highly influential part of us, like a “blind spot” that we rely on others to help us see. It is also often based on adaptations that we made in the past, without realizing it, in order to cope with difficult situations. The focus of this work includes trying to bring into view the maladaptive patterns in your particular emotional experience, thinking, and relating. 

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Psychodynamic psychotherapy relies on the empathic dialogue and connection between therapist and client as a key activator of personal change. This therapeutic approach identifies deeper causes of psychological symptoms and issues that affect many aspects of your life. Early childhood experience and the legacy of your particular family of origin are regarded as important influences on present-day experience.

Somatic psychotherapy explores how the body expresses deeply felt experiences. This exploration requires gentle curiosity and a slow pace to allow for trauma recovery in a safe and integrative way.

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This therapeutic approach places importance on what we experience both in the mind and the body as well as the connection between the two.

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Somatic focused therapy can help you develop an awareness of your bodily sensations and an experience of safety in your body while recalling certain thoughts, experiences and emotions. 

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Somatic work can give you a unique perspective on your emotions, where they are coming from, and provide you with new ways of responding to them. 

This is such an immense time of discovery; discovering who you are now as an individual, as a parent, as a partner, and as a sexual being.

 

Bringing new life into the world is a completely transformative experience, but it can also be accompanied by emotional, physical, hormonal, and relational challenges. 

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Therapy can help you to strengthen your ability to be tender with yourself, and help you gain a sense of balance while navigating this new and exciting phase in your life.