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Psychotherapy: A Patient Examination of Internal Life

Most people come to therapy carrying feelings they cannot name, anxiety they cannot locate, and defences they did not choose. The work here is to uncover what lies beneath; not to manage symptoms, but to understand them.

The Approach

ISTDP: Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy

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Feeling

Anxiety

Defence

Beneath every symptom - anxiety, depression, numbness, compulsion - there is usually a feeling that cannot be felt. The work begins by finding it.

When a feeling is too threatening, the body signals alarm. We learn to read that signal rather than suppress it, so anxiety becomes a guide, not an obstacle.

Defences are not failures. They were once solutions. The work is to understand what they are protecting and whether that protection is still necessary.