Services

Psychoanalysis

Psychoanalysis focuses on a patient’s self-awareness and the ways the past continues to shape present behavior. This form of treatment seeks to increase the individual’s capacity to tolerate emotionally conflictual situations that are partially or completely outside of conscious awareness and is considered optimal for patients suffering from internal conflict. Typically originating in the past, these conflicts are not accessible to conscious awareness or traditional problem-solving efforts.

Reunification Therapy

Reunification therapy is a specialized intervention aimed at rebuilding damaged relationships between estranged parents and children, often necessitated by family conflict, abuse, or alienation. Frequently utilized as a court-mandated measure, reunification therapy employs tailored techniques and approaches to address unique challenges in parent-child relationships. Its primary goals include reducing conflict, enhancing positive interactions, and strengthening emotional bonds, thereby fostering a stable and empathic family environment. This therapy is essential for resolving deep-rooted issues and reestablishing healthy familial dynamics.

Marital / Couple Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
 

Marital/Couple Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, specifically Object Relations Couple Therapy, is the treatment of choice for relationship conflict and communication problems. Relationship breakdown often occurs when the conscious—and, more critically, unconscious—needs of both partners are not being met. Dysfunction typically arises from the internal conflicts each partner brings into the relationship, which commonly stem from issues within their families of origin.

The goal of object relations couple therapy is not merely symptom resolution but also:

• A return to an appropriate developmental phase of family life, with an improved capacity to master developmental stress;

• An enhanced ability to work together as partners;

• An improved capacity to differentiate one’s own needs from those of the partner, while meeting the needs of both; and

• An increased capacity for mutual gratification when relating intimately and sexually.

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Psychoanalytic Family Psychotherapy

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This approach applies the insights of psychoanalysis and object relations to the family as a whole, through active listening, responding to unconscious material, interpretation, and the development of insight. Parents play a pivotal role in establishing healthy or pathological family dynamics. Dysfunctional families are hindered by significant unconscious, unresolved conflict or loss, which manifests as symptoms arising from spouses’ or parents’ unconscious attempts to reenact, externalize, or master the conflicts originating in their families of origin. The goal of therapy is for family members to confront and address issues directly so they can work through unresolved conflicts.