Approach

Psychoanalysis is a talking therapy, similar to psychotherapy and counselling, but with a particular focus on the question, what is the unconscious doing?

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The challenges that each of us face are often informed by events, beliefs, and circumstances over which we have little control, especially during our childhoods, and our earliest strategies to deal with those experiences can continue to affect our later lives in ways that operate at both a conscious and unconscious level.

 

At times these strategies might help us to progress, but at times they can also hold us back. 

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People sometimes wonder how speaking is going to change things. Speaking as freely as possible and listening with care, can bring new perspectives. It allows us to explore, work through and come to terms with our unconscious tendencies and what we want to do with them today.

 

In these ways it lets us change our problems and suffering into something else. It might not take away all negative feelings and beliefs, but they can become less mysterious or powerful, allowing us to enlarge our capacity to enjoy who we are, and to connect with those things or people that are important to us.