Our therapists work with the full range of human difficulty. This includes and is not limited to depression, anxiety, grief, relational pain, trauma, self-destructive patterns, identity, low self esteem, life transitions, loss, and the feeling of living a life that is not quite one's own.
One-to-one work between a patient and their therapist, conducted in conditions of privacy, regularity, and consistency. The work proceeds at the patient's pace. The patient is invited to speak as freely as possible about what is on their mind, what they have been dreaming, feeling, what they notice themselves not saying.
Sessions are typically 45 minutes, held at the same time each week.
Couples therapy in a psychoanalytic frame is neither mediation nor conflict resolution. It is therapeutic work with both partners together, with a therapist who holds the relationship, rather than either individual, as the patient.
Couples frequently come with a presenting problem such as communication breakdown, infidelity, sexual difficulties, recurring arguments, or one partner's crisis. The work explores not just the surface conflict but the unconscious needs, anxieties, and mutual projections that give the conflict its particular character.
Sessions are typically held weekly, with both partners present.
Psychoanalytic treatment is at higher frequency, three to five times per week, typically conducted on the couch. This is the most intensive form of psychotherapy work, and it is offered by all therapists in our practice, each of whom has undergone full psychoanalytic training for the same.
The heightened frequency allows for going deeper into one's experiences and sense of their own body-mind that is qualitatively different from psychotherapy work.
For early career therapists, who work with depth orientated therapies and who are interested in the psychoanalytical model of the mind, we offer individual and group supervisions. The slots are of limited availability. To explore, write to us on psychotherapist.collective@gmail.com with details of your training and practice and questions you may have.