As a Jungian psychotherapist, I see psychotherapy as an encounter between two people in which both are changed. Psychotherapy is a safe, contained space in which to attend to one’s own distress, to work on it and process it through words, in order to foster a fuller encounter with oneself and with others.
Anxiety, depression, addictions, paranoia, disorientation, insomnia, somatisation… there are times when psychological distress invades our identity and our life. Systematically neglecting psychological distress makes it chronic. The dialogue that psychotherapy opens up, welcomes pain by making the past present, repairing what one takes responsibility for and releasing one’s own potential to move towards the future.
Jung called this process of becoming oneself the individuation process. It is a task that is unique to each person, and therapy seeks to respond to it by taking into account the needs, the context and the particular characteristics of the person seeking help.
The first sessions
In the initial sessions, the request of the person is welcomed and the problem is explored, in order then to propose a treatment plan in which patient and therapist work through the distress together and draw on the resources to integrate and resolve it.
The therapeutic work
It is carried out through words, reflection, understanding and fully active listening, accompanying the processes.
The contributions of the unconscious, through dream images, can be integrated into conscious contents. At times I use creative therapy techniques, depending on the patient’s willingness and the nature of their distress.
We cannot change anything unless we accept it. [ Carl Gustav Jung ]