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Psychotherapy Services

Individual Psychotherapy

Marital/Couples Psychotherapy

Family Psychotherapy


Individual Psychotherapy

Psychodynamic therapy, also known as insight-oriented therapy, focuses on unconscious processes as they are manifested in a person's present behavior. The goals of psychodynamic therapy are a client's self-awareness and understanding of the influence of the past on present behavior. This treatment seeks to increase the individual's capacity to tolerate emotionally conflictual situations that are partially or completely blocked from awareness, and is the optimal intervention for clients suffering internal conflict that is producing chaos and trauma. This conflict, usually originating in the past, is not accessible to conscious awareness and problem solving efforts. Termination is based on having reached a series of life goals that allows the client to continue on a normal developmental path.

Marital/Couples Psychotherapy

Object relations couple therapy is the treatment of choice for serious relationship conflict and communication problems. Relationships begin to break down when the conscious, and especially unconscious, needs of both partners are not being met. The dysfunction often arises from internal conflicts that both partners bring into the relationship, and these conflicts primarily originate from family of origin issues. The therapist's use of self plays a key role in creating a caring and empathic environment as he helps the couple gain insight into their underlying anxieties, motivations, and conflicts.

Family Psychotherapy

A psychodynamic approach that focuses on the family by listening, responding to unconscious material, interpreting, and developing insight. The parents are essential in determining healthy or pathological family functioning. Dysfunctional families are blocked by a significant degree of unconscious unresolved conflict or loss, and as such, symptoms result primarily from unconscious attempts by spouses or parents to reenact, externalize, or master in present relationships the internal conflicts originating in one's family of origin. The goal of therapy is for family members to confront and deal with one another directly in order to work through unresolved conflicts.

Contact Information

2734 Chancellor Drive
Suite 202
Crestview Hills, Kentucky 41017

(859)-957-1100

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Central Medical Plaza
2101 Nicholasville Road
Suite 207
Lexington, KY 40503

(859)-276-0951

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