Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
It is through process that psychodynamic psychotherapy accomplishes its goal of helping people to find clarity and thus achieve a greater sense of well-being. Together with your counsellor, you will explore what lies just beneath the layer of awareness and interferes with your life.

You probably have a hunch or perhaps know for sure that something in your past influences your emotional state, your reactions and your actions in the present. Through process - talking with your therapist, who is trained to ask relevant to your process questions and offer interpretations - you will explore the reasons for the present discomfort, bring them to your awareness and lessen their effect on your ability to make choices. This process is highly individual and will rely on your innate potential for healing and growth.

Intuition
When we perceive truth directly, independent of any reasoning process, we call it intuition. It is a quick and ready insight surfacing from the unconscious directly into our awareness, bypassing logical processing.

We often have these intuitive nudges but not always pay attention or give credence to them. As you work with Joseph, you will learn how to recognize these intuitive insights, fully acknowledge them and make sense of the information they provide.

As you process together with your counsellor the unspoken and unseen - the unconscious, you will get a better understanding of yourself, your emotions and your behaviours. With this clearer vision, you will be able to make new, different choices that are more aligned with who are and what you want to create in your life.

As you become more skilled at accessing and processing what's been hiding from your view, you will experience a quickening of this process. You will continue to find more and more clarity in places, where there was perhaps dis-clarity.

Your ability to hear and trust your intuition will also increase. As a result, you will trust yourself more and develop more confidence when choosing the next step or pursuing a certain direction. The more you trust yourself, the more in charge of your life you will feel and the easier it will be to navigate its challenges.

As you unclutter the unconscious and deepen your connection with intuition, the following positive benefits will start emerging:

• Lessening of the inner tension, anxiety and fear
• Lifting of the depressive emotions
• Greater tolerance of uncertainty
• Improved ability to establish genuine connections
• Better coping with stress
• Ability to process difficult emotions on your own
• Greater kindness and compassion towards self and others
  
  

This style of counselling/psychotherapy is appropriate for people, dealing with:

• Internal and external conflicts
• Relationship problems
• Addictions and other unwanted thoughts and behaviours
• Loneliness and isolation
• Past traumas, loss and grieving
• Depression
• Lack of direction and clarity
• Spiritual and existential issues
• Stress, fear, anxiety, tension

Joseph welcomes all adult individuals, including those from diverse backgrounds such as:

• Ethnic minorities, including First Nations people
• People from various religious backgrounds and spiritual beliefs
• GLBT clients
• Clients with disabilities
• People of varied socio-economic standing