Each person will come because of their own very personal reason, or set of reasons, experienced as a dis-ordering of the smooth running of life. Talking can produce both relief and insight, which is why this process came to be known as the ‘talking cure’. Talking about lived distress requires wondering about the details of life that have become disturbing. The very process of drawing such disturbances into the light through language can have a transformative power to produce psychological change in daily life.
Psychoanalysis does not offer off the peg solutions or advice. Rather it offers a space for you to make a solution of your own out of your own history by linking the tangles from the past and the present to contemplate a different future.