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.