Psychodynamic Counselling?

Psychodynamic counselling or therapy is based on the principles of psychoanalytic ideas and other advances in psychological understanding. In SPT we hold that as well as conscious experience, there are unconscious processes which can shape our lives in ways that are hard to understand. Psychodynamic therapy/counselling can help to meet challenges creatively. It aims to help us understand how past experiences and current behaviour can affect our lives and come to some more productive resolution of our difficulties.
By providing a confidential and secure setting, psychodynamic practitioners offer an opportunity to become aware of the links between early experiences, current difficulties and frustrations and the way these are revealed in the growing relationship with a counsellor.

As part of their training, psychodynamic practitioners will have undertaken at least two years of psychodynamic counselling/psychotherapy. It is our belief that personal experience of therapy/counselling enhances our ability to establish a helpful therapeutic relationship with our clients. Working with a psychodynamic practitioner usually involves meeting regularly for 50 minutes.