Psychodynamic therapy aims to increase clients’ self-awareness and understanding of the influence of their past on present behavior. Our team of psychologists is trained to help clients understand their past relationship patterns, traumas, and learned strategies for self-protection, the ways in which these methods of self-protection may interfere with healthy relationships and coping in the present, and strategies for developing healthier relational styles and skills that lead to an increased sense of connection, security, and feeling understood. Psychodynamic therapy has been shown to be effective to:

• Build self-awareness
• Understand and change hurtful relational patterns
• Reduce insecurity and self-criticism
• Increase authentic expression in relationships
• Clarify and healthily assert one’s needs and boundaries
• Improve relational functioning
• Decrease depression and anxiety symptoms

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If you are interested in learning more about psychodynamic treatment at Aviva Psychology Services, please request an appointment.