What is Psychodynamic counselling?

Psychodynamic therapy focuses on the psychological roots of emotional suffering. It helps to provide an understanding of the influence of the past on present behaviour. It focuses on the fact that many personal troubles in life result from mental processes that are hidden from us. The therapy goals are a client’s self-awareness and help bring the hidden cognitive processes to the fore. It is based on psychoanalytic ways of understanding personal and emotional development. We see and relate to the world through relationships made in infancy, childhood and later life.