What Can You Come to Therapy For?

There is no single reason or "correct problem" for seeking therapy. People come with questions, emotions, conflicts, transitions, losses, longings, and uncertainties; often in forms that are unknown or difficult to name clearly. Below are some of the areas that psychoanalytically-oriented psychotherapy can help you explore. These conditions often involve deep emotional patterns and relational histories, which benefit from depth-oriented approaches.

The categories below reflect a non-comprehensive list of how human difficulties often cluster in emotionally complex ways, often called symptoms in the classical language of mental health; for which psychoanalytically-oriented psychotherapy may be useful.