Attachment-based Psychotherapy has at its core an understanding of the importance of relationships to human growth and development throughout life. Secure and supportive relationships enable us to develop a sense of who we are. When we feel alone, or relationships go wrong in childhood or adulthood, our ability to manage our lives may be disrupted or even thrown into crisis.
Attachment-based therapy gives people the opportunity to experience, perhaps for the first time in their lives, a relationship where it feels safe enough to explore their fears and mourn past losses.
Attachment-based therapy gives people the opportunity to experience, perhaps for the first time in their lives, a relationship where it feels safe enough to explore their fears and mourn past losses.
A psychoanalytic approach is a way of communicating which helps to make people more consciously aware of why they feel a certain way and how, in the past and present, important people in their lives have affected them.
As the therapy progresses and the client develops a trusting relationship with their therapist, they will be able more easily to explore their fears and find ways of understanding them perhaps for the first time in their lives. This understanding, in turn, can make it easier for people to form healthier relationships and help them feel more secure and in control of their lives.
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy draws on theories and practices of analytical psychology and psychoanalysis. It is a therapeutic process which helps patients understand and resolve their problems by increasing awareness of their inner world and its influence over relationships both past and present.
Psychoanalytic psychotherapy aims to help people with serious psychological disorders to understand and change complex, deep-seated and often unconsciously based emotional and relationship problems, thereby reducing symptoms and alleviating distress. However, it is not limited only to those with severe mental health problems. Many people who experience a loss of meaning in their lives or who are seeking a greater sense of fulfilment may be helped by psychoanalytic psychotherapy.
The relationship with the therapist is a crucial element in the therapy. The therapist offers a confidential and private setting which facilitates a process where unconscious patterns of the patient's inner world become reflected in the patient's relationship with the therapist. This process helps patients gradually to identify these patterns and, in becoming conscious of them, to develop the capacity to understand and change them.
As the therapy progresses and the client develops a trusting relationship with their therapist, they will be able more easily to explore their fears and find ways of understanding them perhaps for the first time in their lives. This understanding, in turn, can make it easier for people to form healthier relationships and help them feel more secure and in control of their lives.
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy draws on theories and practices of analytical psychology and psychoanalysis. It is a therapeutic process which helps patients understand and resolve their problems by increasing awareness of their inner world and its influence over relationships both past and present.
Psychoanalytic psychotherapy aims to help people with serious psychological disorders to understand and change complex, deep-seated and often unconsciously based emotional and relationship problems, thereby reducing symptoms and alleviating distress. However, it is not limited only to those with severe mental health problems. Many people who experience a loss of meaning in their lives or who are seeking a greater sense of fulfilment may be helped by psychoanalytic psychotherapy.
The relationship with the therapist is a crucial element in the therapy. The therapist offers a confidential and private setting which facilitates a process where unconscious patterns of the patient's inner world become reflected in the patient's relationship with the therapist. This process helps patients gradually to identify these patterns and, in becoming conscious of them, to develop the capacity to understand and change them.
