My work is based on the psychoanalytic approach of the Swiss psychiatrist C.G. Jung, as well as on other classical and contemporary psychoanalytic schools of thought.

Psychoanalysis, the first established method of psychotherapy, in simplest terms, means analysis of psyche, including the human mind. The process of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis aims to understand and subsequently change the dynamic of dysfunctional psychological patterns. The therapeutic process will include:

1. Focus on emotion: helping the patient to articulate and enter into emotional life.

2.* Study of avoidance: Identifying resistances to look at oneself in a truthful way.

3. Identification of themes and recurring patterns in the patient’s life.

4. Focus on development: Understanding the impact of the past onto the present.

5. Focus on relationships: Psychological patterns always play out in our relationships.

6.* Focus on the therapeutic relationship itself: What arises between therapist and patient is helpful in working through the patient's cognitive and emotional patterns that have developed over the course of their life.

7.* Interest and analysis of dreams, daydreams, and fantasy life.

* This point (2, 6 and 7) is in particular grounded in the psychoanalytic body of thought and practice.