Psychodynamic Therapy

Psychodynamic therapy is helpful to people that struggle with psychiatric and substance use disorders. By increasing insight into unresolved conflicts and repressed emotions, clients can find freedom from maladaptive behaviors often used to define uncomfortable emotions. Psychodynamic Therapy is an insight-oriented therapy that aims to increase a client’s awareness and understanding of the past influences on present behaviors. It is a form of depth psychology that focuses on the unconscious processes as there are manifested in one’s symptoms and recurring patterns. It aims to address the psychological roots of emotional suffering through activating repressed emotions and memories. Through self-reflection and examinations of one’s deep desires, unresolved conflicts, and unaddressed challenges, the properly trained therapist can facilitate insight and awareness into one’s true self, leading them through a process of healing and transformation. When it comes to addictive disorders, this modality can be helpful can help a recovering addict discover a better understanding of the unconscious thoughts that bring on harmful actions and lead them down a path of freedom from addiction. Through self-reflection and examinations of one’s deep desires, unresolved conflicts, and unaddressed challenges, the properly trained therapist can facilitate insight and awareness into one’s true self, leading them through a process of healing and transformation. When it comes to addictive disorders, this modality can be helpful can help a recovering addict discover a better understanding of the unconscious thoughts that bring on harmful actions and lead them down a path of freedom from addiction. Psychodynamic therapy is helpful to people that struggle with psychiatric and substance use disorders. By increasing insight into unresolved conflicts and repressed emotions, clients can find freedom from maladaptive behaviors often used to define uncomfortable emotions. This is a significant part of recovery since most addictive behaviors are often rooted in compulsive tendencies to re-enact old patterns.