Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis

What are psychotherapy and psychoanalysis?

Psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy are talk treatments premised on the notion of the unconscious, an out-of-awareness part of our minds that significantly influences our behavior and experiences.

By working with this notion, it’s possible to access deeper levels of conflicts and tensions at the heart of our symptoms and suffering.

This work with the unconscious allows for long-lasting changes, healing, and growth.

Ben* was struggling.

He came to his first session in pieces. He felt as though the ground had suddenly disappeared beneath his feet since his recent divorce – when the person he counted on most abandoned him.

During our sessions, we worked to connect bits of singular misplaced words and past events that led him to understand the active role he played in the events leading up to his divorce.

We explored various aspects of his life. Little by little, Ben could recognize conflictual situations and traumatic experiences that shaped him, leading to the painful symptomatic presentation at that moment.

Together, we paved a new path.

Through this process, he could relocate the event ‘divorce,’ giving it the weight it needed to have in his life, allowing space for him to explore other possibilities of singular creative expressions of himself.

Ben no longer believes he needs a wife but is allowing himself the possibility of cultivating a relationship that will not be a repetition of the previous failed one.

He is happily investing in his relationship with his children, which he realized was nonexistent during his marriage. He’s trailing a new path and thriving.

*Name and story are composite narratives and do not reflect an actual client.