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Psychodynamic Psychotherapy How do I practice psychodynamic psychoanalytically focused psychotherapy to promote healing and growth? A person may come to my Tampa practice seeking a psychotherapist because of some crisis, tragedy, or loss that leads to suffering. As a...
by | | A Dunedin Psychologist's Musings RE What Does Psychotherapy Have to Offer Me?
Depression and Feeling Out of Control As posted earlier, we all tend to find the experience of not being in control of our lives as an aversive and painful one. One source of feeling helpless and out of control is when we experience intense emotions. Intuitively, we...
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On a Child’s Healthy Self-esteem In my Tampa psychotherapy practice, I have at times provided education to clients about contemporary understanding of child development and the building of healthy self-esteem. Caretakers can inadvertently communicate to young...
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Why We All Have ‘Control Issues’ We all hate, more than just about anything else, the experience that we are not in control. That we are helpless. That bad things happen to us and to loved ones that we cannot control and cannot prevent. Most...
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Repeating the Past in Relationships In relationships, people tend to be drawn to others with whom we recognize an opportunity to repeat our past and this is especially true in romantic relationships and marriage. However, with this reliving, there often comes a great...
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On the Topic of Self-Esteem Self esteem drives almost everything in our lives. Most actions that we take are done in an attempt to increase our self esteem or that feeling of self satisfaction and well-being that we get when we feel good about ourselves. We also...
