MY APPROACH TO PSYCHODYNAMIC THERAPY

Theory and Modality

FOUNDED IN TRADITION AND RESEARCH

Psychodynamic psychotherapy has a long history of helping clients heal their wounds and change their lives for the better. Perhaps contrary to recent sentiment, research shows psychotherapy can be just as effective as pharmaceutical, antidepressant therapies and Cognitive-Behavioral Treatments.* What is more, recipients of psychotherapy have been shown to continue to improve long after their treatment ends.* Recent decades of neurological research have affirmed many long held psychodynamic traditions surrounding the importance of both emotion and relationship. 

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*Cornelius, J. T. (2018). The case for psychoanalysis: exploring the scientific evidence. In R. E. Barsness (Ed.) Core competencies of relational psychoanalysis: a guide to practice, study, and research (24-42). New York: Routledge.

NARRATIVE THERAPY

Based on the theory and practice of the narrative therapists at The Seattle School and informed by attachment theory, I practice narrative therapy in a way that seeks to make meaning of your life up to this point. Every day we get out of bed we continue a story. Some of it we have written, some of it has been written for us, and some is yet to be seen. Your story, your life, is who you are, and to work on yourself requires you learn to read that story and learn how to take authorship of what happens next.

RELATIONSHIP-FOCUSED THERAPY

Based on meta-analysis of the research on effective counseling and informed by the neurological discoveries of the past two decades, Relationship-Focused Therapy focuses on the relational contexts required for change. When we consider the best and the worst times of our lives, it is almost always our relationship with someone that made our experience mean what it did. RFT works to discover the meaning behind our relationships as well as how to move forward and build new, meaningful relationships in ways we have not before.