Interpersonal Psychodynamic Therapy

Understand your patterns, transform your relationships.

Interpersonal Psychodynamic Therapy helps you recognize how past experiences shape current relationships and emotional patterns. By bringing unconscious patterns into awareness, you'll gain the insight and tools needed to create healthier, more fulfilling connections with yourself and others.

This approach explores the connection between your inner world and interpersonal experiences. Together, we'll examine…

  • Relationship patterns: Understanding recurring themes in how you connect with others

  • Defense mechanisms: Recognizing protective strategies that may no longer serve you

  • Emotional awareness: Accessing and expressing feelings you've learned to suppress

  • Attachment style: How early relationships influence current connections

  • Transference: Using our therapeutic relationship as a window into your patterns

  • Integration: Connecting past experiences with present-day challenges

How Interpersonal Psychodynamic Therapy Works

The Psychodynamic Lens on Relationships

Your earliest relationships create a blueprint for how you navigate connection. Common patterns include:

  • Repeating familiar but unhelpful relationship dynamics

  • Difficulty trusting or depending on others

  • Fear of abandonment or engulfment

  • Challenges with intimacy or vulnerability

  • Unresolved grief affecting current relationships

  • Self-sabotage in meaningful connections

Rather than just addressing symptoms, we explore the roots of these patterns to create lasting change.

What to expect in interpersonal psychodynamic sessions

Our work together creates a safe relational laboratory where you can:

  • Explore emotions as they arise in the moment

  • Notice patterns between past and present relationships

  • Process experiences that shaped your relational style

  • Practice vulnerability in a supportive environment

  • Develop insight into unconscious motivations

  • Experience corrective emotional experiences

Key therapeutic elements we'll use:

  • The here-and-now: What happens between us in session provides valuable information about your relational patterns

  • Dreams and imagery: Exploring symbolic content from your unconscious

  • Free association: Following thoughts and feelings wherever they lead

  • Interpretation: Gently uncovering connections and meanings together

Key Therapeutic elements we’ll use:

  • What happens between us in session provides valuable information about your relational patterns

  • Exploring symbolic content from your unconscious

  • Following thoughts and feelings wherever they lead

  • Gently uncovering connections and meanings together

What psychodynamic therapy treats effectively

This approach particularly helps with:

Ready to begin?

It's truly a privilege to be a therapist, and I'd be honored to support you in your healing. Schedule a free 15-minute consultation to see if we're a good fit.

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