Therapy Approach

Psychodynamic Therapy

Psychodynamic therapy is a therapeutic approach that helps people understand how their unconscious thoughts, emotions, and past experiences shape their present behaviour and relationships. Through free association, clients are encouraged to speak openly, allowing hidden feelings and recurring patterns to emerge. The therapeutic relationship itself becomes meaningful, as transference reveals unresolved emotions from earlier relationships that are replayed in the present. Dream analysis offers another pathway into the unconscious, helping explore symbolic meanings linked to fears, wishes, and inner conflicts. Through careful interpretation, the therapist supports clients in making sense of emotions, behaviours, and relational patterns, while the exploration of defence mechanisms helps identify ways the mind protects itself from pain or anxiety. Rather than offering quick solutions, psychodynamic therapy focuses on developing insight, self-awareness, and emotional understanding, enabling lasting psychological change.