Do you have unhelpful patterns in your life that keep repeating? Relationships that feel stuck? Choices you’ve outgrown? Our Psychodynamic Psychotherapist Dervla Shannahan works with you to unlock these for a better future.

 

Dervla Shannahan

Thursdays 1.00pm – 9.00pm

Initial Consultations also available Saturday mornings

How does Psychodynamic Psychotherapy work?

  • Psychodynamic Psychotherapy traces how the past shapes your present in order to better define the future you want.
  • It helps by bringing unconscious patterns into awareness.
  • Rather than managing symptoms, it addresses the root causes.

 

All of this helps you to relate more authentically in the present and to break intergenerational patterns passed down through your family.

By understanding how the past shapes your present, you are freer to define your own future.

 

 

 

What Can it Help With?

 

Psychodynamic Psychotherapy can help with a whole range of conditions. These include:

  • Relationship difficulties
  • Attachment issues
  • Intimacy problems
  • Life transitions (divorce, career shifts, relocation, diagnoses)
  • Processing childhood experiences
  • Anxiety, depression, OCD
  • Personality disorders
  • Low self-esteem, self-worth
  • Grief and loss
  • Trauma
  • Identity questions
  • Conflict resolution

 

 

How many sessions will I need?


Psychodynamic Psychotherapy works best when sessions become part of your weekly rhythm, something you can rely on and plan around.

They are usually once or twice weekly.

How many sessions you need will be based on your treatment plan and how deeply you want to go. You can work this out with your therapist.

If you are curious about how therapy may help you, Dervla always recommends an initial consultation to explore whether her approach resonates with you.

 

Find Out More

 


 

To book an appointment with Dervla Shannahan call 0117 3771186 or email [email protected]

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