Depth Psychotherapy
Depth psychotherapy, also known as psychodynamic or analytical psychology, focuses on you as a whole person.
This type of therapy is different from many other forms of therapy as it helps you consider what lies beneath the surface of your conscious thoughts, emotions, behaviours, and relational patterns.
Understanding these unconscious parts of yourself can give greater insight into the motivations beneath the surface, resulting in an increased clarity and capacity to make the changes that feel right for you. Therapists who practice from a depth-oriented approach provide ways to access the unconscious by spending time exploring how you interact with the world, your relationships and yourself and through working with dreams, body awareness, and symbols. Active imagination, expressive arts, and other types of image-oriented work can be incorporated if it resonates with you.
From a Jungian depth psychological understanding, there is an innate inner guidance that exists within each of us that propels us toward greater meaning, fulfillment, and authenticity in our lives. A depth-oriented therapy session is designed to help you identify the beliefs, patterns, characteristics and perspectives that belong to you, and those that do not.
This process of differentiation can help you to remember and reclaim the most authentic parts of yourself. Over time, clarity about decisions, ideas, perspectives, and lived experience emerge, providing you with the confidence to step into a life that feels exactly like your own.
Is depth psychotherapy right for me?
A depth-oriented approach offers you the opportunity to address underlying psychological roots to your symptoms and supports you to learn new coping strategies and techniques for transformation. Depth psychotherapy can be helpful in addressing symptoms of anxiety, depression, trauma, and relational patterns, it also can be helpful in navigating grief and loss, life transitions, and in connecting with a greater sense of meaning and purpose in your life. While it can be difficult to confront some aspects of ourselves, working through them can bring profound and lasting results as well as a sense of self-trust, peace, and inner empowerment.
Depth psychotherapy works from the belief that there are many ways of knowing and that rational thought is just one of them. Depth-oriented therapy may not be as structured, focused on rationality, or direct as other forms of therapy, it is a process that evolves over time.
How long does the process take?
A depth-oriented approach often involves long-term, in-depth therapy, rather than a quick fix or short-term solution, it can involve a commitment to the process in order to experience lasting change. We recommend regular appointments and consistency, especially at first, however, we understand and respect that this may not be realistic for everyone. Ultimately, it is up to you. You do not need to know now, you are always welcome to change the frequency of your sessions, should our schedules be able to accommodate, or discontinue therapy at any time.
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