Psychological services may often be desired in times when we long for guidance, advice or “tools” to cope with previous and or ongoing life experiences. Psychoanalytic psychotherapy is often misunderstood as a treatment that should offer advice, coping tools, or...

Silences can be awkward and even persecutory. But it can also be agents allowing moments of great insight and realization! In psychotherapy silence can often be misunderstood as a lack of intervention or that “nothing is happening”.

Psychotherapy is often described as a journey towards understanding - an intimate collaboration between therapist and patient, a working together, a working with, that explores patterns of experience - thought, emotion, and behaviour shaping one’s inner life.  In...