What types of issues does psychoanalytic psychotherapy address

Psychoanalytic psychotherapy can help with many things.

Some of the reasons people ask to speak with a psychotherapist would be:

• An experience of significant loss such as a bereavement or a separation
• Addressing life changes such as becoming a parent or retiring from work
• Uncomfortable feelings about oneself; for example, feeling of emptiness or lack of self-esteem
• For help with complex decisions about relationships, parenting or work
• Difficulty with anger or conflicts with family or colleagues
• Wishing to explore social experiences such as bullying or racism and their impacts
• Anxiety and panic related conditions or depressive experiences
• Trauma
• Other psychological states: depersonalisation, dissociation, addictive patterns, etc.

If you would like to understand more about whether psychoanalytic psychotherapy is right for you, please get in touch with one of the Guild’s referral coordinators.