The London Therapist

If you are struggling, don’t lose hope. Psychoanalytic psychotherapy can help with a variety of situations, from depression, trauma, anxiety, suicidal feelings, and much more.

It can be hard to know how to cope when you’re struggling with depression, anxiety, suicidal feelings and more.

If you tell someone that you are depressed or suicidal, many people can jump straight into providing you with advice. This is probably because they are worried, and providing advice gives them a sense of control over a situation that might feel overwhelming to them.

Sometimes advice might be welcome to you. However, sometimes when someone gives advice, it can feel as though they are judging you – it’s as though they are telling you that you are doing something wrong in feeling the way you do.

This feeling of judgement can make you feel even worse than you already do – you may feel guilt or shame for feeling how you do – which can make feelings of depression, anxiety and suicide even worse.

Psychoanalytic psychotherapy provides a space into which you can bring these overwhelming feelings. By speaking about these feelings, that other people don’t know how to cope with, we can try to untangle your situation so that we can understand what is happening, and ultimately to help you cope with your feelings – whether they are depression, anxiety, trauma or suicide.

As the famous psychoanalyst and psychiatrist Carl Jung said: “The shoe that fits one person pinches the other; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.”

Psychoanalytic psychotherapy is not a one-size fits all approach – I have a completely different conversation with every single patient I have. Everyone’s lives are unique, everyone’s situation is different.

We will all need a different way to cope with our individual situation, and this is what psychoanalytic psychotherapy provides.