Category Archives: Psychotherapy

What If You Didn’t Have to Do It Alone?

The quiet strength of open, interpersonal group therapy Sometimes, healing begins in the presence of others — not because they offer advice, but because they stay present, curious, and human. Open interpersonal group therapy is a space for people who want to explore themselves through real, honest connection with others. This isn’t a structured program.…

Covid-19: Containment in an uncontained time

Hello everyone. I wanted to send a brief message out today, to let you all know that I will be working full-time, my usual hours, and will be offering online psychotherapeutic support through this time as well as face-to-face therapy. For my part, and yes, I feel nervous too, I would like to be able…

Psychotherapy for the family: Many hands make light work

I absolutely love working with families. This is a new aspect of my work as a therapist, and I have been working with families for about 2 years now. I value working with individuals as a thoroughgoing and intensive therapeutic approach. Sometimes, however, the best way to address a struggle is to acknowledge that it…

Psychotherapy for people who have survived interpersonal trauma – part 2

Part 2 – The intergenerational transmission of trauma This subject is particularly close to my heart. I have researched the intergenerational transmission of trauma, and have spent a lot of time with victims and their adult children. My aim has been to try and understand how it is that the children of parents who have…

Psychotherapy for people who have survived interpersonal trauma

Part 1 - Early attachment trauma One of the central aspects of my work as a psychotherapist relates to working with people who have survived interpersonal trauma. By interpersonal trauma, I mean the various types of experiences that people may have, in which they are treated by others in any way that leads to their…

The importance of dreams and the process of psychotherapy

The role of dreams, and the importance of the analysis of dreams, is given greater or lesser attention in any given psychotherapy process, depending on the school, or schools, of thought, that influence how a particular psychotherapist works. Added to this, it is not everyone’s natural inclination to bring dreams into the therapy session, and…

What works for you?: A general description of the psychoanalytic approach to psychotherapy

One of the strengths of a practice such as this one is that it consists of six psychotherapists who each have a unique way of thinking about and approaching the work that we do. Psychotherapeutic practice has many many faces, even though there are certain grounding principles which unite the efforts of psychotherapists. But the…

Being a man in the 21st century – Depression and masculinity

For men of today the pressure is mounting. The call has been sounded for the rising up of a new kind of man, labeled variously as sensitive, new age, emotionally intelligent, in touch with his feminine side, articulate of feelings and emotionally attuned. This shift has been a growing trend in contemporary cultural and social…

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Category Archives: Psychotherapy

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