Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalytic psychotherapy is a clinical treatment and a long-term exploratory journey. In this therapy, a space is created through the collaboration of therapist and client, allowing the client to express everything that comes to mind in a confidential and non-judgmental environment.
Beyond book-based advice and approaches for relieving clinical symptoms, psychoanalytic treatment focuses on helping you find words to describe your experiences, what is problematic for you, and what challenges you face.
Furthermore, we pay attention to the unconscious. Content such as dreams, slips of the tongue, thoughts, and actions that seem meaningless but actually help you explore important aspects of yourself seeking expression are considered in the psychotherapy.
By carefully following the material you bring to sessions, we can unravel knots that prevent you from experiencing a more fulfilling and richer life.
Why Psychotherapy?
People may begin psychoanalytic sessions for various reasons including relationship problems, feeling unmotivated, anxiety, depression, and interest in deeper self-exploration. Questions about identity or gender, or the feeling that something isn’t quite right are other reasons for starting sessions. The primary condition for sessions is willingness to speak and explore.
Difference in Approaches
Psychotherapy comes in many forms. Short-term approaches like cognitive-behavioral therapy primarily aim to eliminate clinical symptoms through exercises and advice. Often, after some time, these symptoms may reappear in different forms.
Psychoanalysis is the original form of talk therapy and has undergone transformations in the last century. In this approach, we examine your life in greater detail to explore the underlying causes of problems. My preferred Lacanian approach emphasizes the particular way each individual speaks about themselves. This approach is a gradual process that enables clients themselves to form more lasting paths for managing their difficulties.
Psychoanalysts and therapists in this field require intensive and standardized training according to the tripartite model proposed by Max Eitingon, one of the founders of the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute, including theoretical education, personal therapy, and clinical work under supervisor supervision to acquire necessary skills. This treatment method has also been confirmed in empirical studies, and further reading material is available in this section.
Sessions Frequency
Sessions are held once or twice weekly depending on your needs and circumstances, with each session lasting about 40 minutes. Beyond the clock, what matters is the content expressed by the client, which determines when a session ends.
Although you might feel a burden lifted shortly after starting sessions, analytical work generally requires time. The endpoint also differs for each individual and depends on the process.
Session Fees
Overall, it’s important that there’s proportionality between an individual’s income and session costs; my suggested range is £40-60 per session, which will be determined in the first session according to circumstances and individual choice. For students, I can accept a limited number of clients at reduced cost. Sessions not cancelled more than 24 hours in advance will be charged in full.
Session Environment
Currently, I can only accept clients online, and sessions are conducted via video call on Google Meet, Teams, and WhatsApp.