Psychoanalytic psychotherapy is a collaborative, necessarily inventive form of conversation. It takes place in the relationship between someone who talks and someone who listens and that talking and listening involves being approached by feelings, experiences, thoughts, memories that neither party was necessarily expecting.

These unexpected elementscan help us together approach and reflect on present tangles, complicated traces of past experience and troublesome inner conflicts.

Sessions take place at least once a week and last 50 minutes. The number of sessions per week may vary between individuals and at different stages of treatment. Twice or three times a week is not unusual.

Psychoanalytic psychotherapists accept and encourage therapeutic engagement with

…an unconscious mental life which is alive, active, and often full of conflicts, and which constantly influences our thinking and behaviour. — Nina Coltart

Psychoanalytic work explores the effects of this unconscious life as it interacts with the life you know. Psychoanalysis offers a free-flowing talk therapy that takes on difficult thoughts and feelings in order to help you think deeply about the causes of your unhappiness and invent your own unique solutions.