Gain insight and support with compassionate care at J R Garber Psychology Professional Corporation.
Gain insight and support with compassionate care at J R Garber Psychology Professional Corporation.
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I am dedicated to helping you navigate life's challenges. As a registered psychologist, I provide compassionate support and evidence-based strategies to promote mental well-being and personal growth.
Such treatment is designed to help individual clients more fully understand and, thereafter, find ways to reduce the types of psychological difficulties that prevent them from fully experiencing life, opportunity, and relationships. Depression, anxiety, relational and familial diffcuties, work-related struggles and disappointments as well as major mental illness can rob you of much of what life has to offer. It doesn't have to be that way.
I offer psychodynamically oriented psychotherapy. It is a type of talk therapy that focuses on how unconscious thoughts, early life experiences, and internal conflicts influence current emotions, behaviors, and relationships. The basic assumption is that many psychological difficulties come from unresolved emotional conflicts, often rooted in childhood or past relationships which continue to operate outside conscious awareness.
Psychodynamic therapy helps a person bring these patterns into awareness so they can be better identified, understood and ultimately changed.
I help you explore thoughts and feelings that may not be fully conscious but influence your behaviour.
An example of some such difficulties would be:
I provide clients with a supportive, compassionate and safe space to experience, express and begin to understand their feelings and work towards changing those behavioural patterns that contribute to such experiences.
• Fear of abandonment
• Difficulty trusting others
• Strong need for approval
As well as other dynamics that can influence the partner you choose, the relations you develop and the struggles you continue to have.
Psychodynamic therapy often looks at recurring interpersonal patterns, such as:
• Choosing similar partners
• Repeating conflicts
• Avoiding closeness
The goal is insight, but insight is not enough. Insight needs to lead to fundamental changes in behaviour. You can change these patterns if you can see and understand them—a deeper understanding of oneself can lead to emotional and behavioural change.
This includes:
• Recognizing defenses
• Understanding motivations
• Integrating past experiences
Psychodynamically oriented psychotherapy helps people understand how their past and unconscious emotional patterns shape their current life, so they can gain insight and change those patterns.
Modern psychodynamic therapy is essentially a focused exploration of emotional and relational patterns, helping people understand why they react the way they do and change those patterns.
My approach is focused on helping you gain insight using Psychodynamic psychotherapy, and then use tools from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help change habits and reactions.