Psychodynamic therapy is all about gaining insight into your life. Therapists who use a psychodynamic approach will help you to identify patterns and themes in your life and will be able to draw connections about your life experiences. Using a psychodynamic approach means that you will be guided in exploring your early life experiences, beliefs, thoughts, and emotions. Therapists using this approach will be able to help you identify how the various parts of your life interact and inform the way you move in the world. 

Psychodynamic therapy aims to reduce your symptoms and stress by helping you understand the “why” and the “how” of it all. This modality provides clients with the understanding of how their psychological processes were formed. This type of therapy helps a client assess the unconscious and subconscious mind and can help the client develop awareness about their inner workings and their behavior. The therapist and client relationship is of central value to psychodynamic therapy as this relationship provides further context for how one interacts with the world. A psychodynamic approach values the client’s free expression of emotions and thoughts, as this process can help one make meaning of their life and gain a greater understanding of the workings of their mind.