My Approach
A therapeutic process based on the understanding of inner causes of disorder, old and new. The aim is
1. for deep-seated work with the inner understanding of the self, the world and the relationship between them
2. re-working conflict in order to approach truthful and meaningful conclusions
3. Re visiting personality traits
4. Emotional development
5. Working with trauma
6. Reaching safer inner and external spaces
About Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
Psychoanalytic psychotherapy originates from psychoanalysis and it is guided by the same theories. It is a therapeutic process based on the understanding of inner causes of disorder. It is different from most other therapies in that it aims for deep-seated work with the psychical economy, affecting changes in personality and emotional development.
Unconscious Patterns and Inner Life
Unconscious patterns of understanding ourselves and the world inform our thinking, feeling and relating to others. It is not until we can revisit and decode those patterns that we can intervene and assist ourselves in reaching better, non-pathological ways of being and relating to others.
Emotional and Psychosomatic Distress
Whether discomfort is experienced in the form of stress, depression, anger, phobias, psychosomatic symptoms or chronic lack of pleasure, the individual is helped to work through conflicts and traumas that are otherwise unbearable, and to be freed from symptomatic expressions of distress.​
Physical pain, symptoms or dysfunctions such as eating and sleeping disorders, bowel syndromes, sexual difficulties or recurrent accidents are some of the ways individuals experience the parts of the self that are neglected, repressed, traumatised or in conflict. In that respect physical pain and dysfunction provide one with the unique opportunity of working with the self and facilitating change into health and happiness.
“The relationship with the therapist is a crucial element in the therapy. The therapist offers a confidential and safe setting which facilitates a process where unconscious patterns of the patient’s inner world become reflected in the patient’s relationship with the therapist (transference). This process helps patients to gradually identify these patterns and, in becoming conscious of them, to develop the capacity to understand and change them.”
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— British Psychoanalytic Council
