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Psychodynamic psychotherapy can help you understand how your mind and sense of self develops and processes experiences. It can help you understand feelings, relationships and behaviour by uncovering hidden aspects of the mind which may be affecting you and your relationships which could otherwise be confusing, within the safety of a trusting professional relationship.  ​Sometimes it is difficult to understand why we do the things we do or repeat situations that are harmful to us. Traumatic, painful or confusing experiences from the past may be shaping your feelings and behaviour and how you relate in the present. We can explore your childhood, memories, fantasies and dreams to help make sense of how aspects of your past may be affecting you. By bringing these aspects into conscious awareness, it can help you understand deep-seated beliefs and behaviours and slowly start to change how you relate to yourself and others. This includes your relationship with me as your therapist, as one of the key aspects of psychodynamic psychotherapy is the understanding that a client’s relationship with the therapist is one of the key therapeutic agents of change. The psychodynamic approach also considers the social and cultural pressures put on you by society, which can exert a powerful but sometimes hidden influence on your life. Over time, psychodynamic psychotherapy can help you build the emotional resilience to deal with life’s challenges and to find ways of living more authentically as yourself.