Therapy that Responds to your Singularity
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Dundalk, Co. Louth ~ Anxiety Counselling~Relationship Counselling ~Phobia Counselling.
Individual Therapy Sessions for Adults
Psychoanalytic psychotherapy is particularly well-suited for complex, persistent, or not easily explained challenges.
Many people seek a psychotherapist in Dundalk for many different reasons: anxiety, feeling stuck, relationship difficulties, or emotional patterns that seem to repeat. But what often emerges over time is something more singular: a question or concern unique to you, trying to find expression not only through your words and reflections, but also through your symptoms, repetitions, and ways of living.
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy – Moving Beyond Repeating Patterns
People come to psychotherapy in dundalk for many reasons. Sometimes they name anxiety or low mood. Just as often, they speak about feeling stuck, disconnected, or caught in the same situations again and again, even when, on the surface, life appears to be going well.
You might notice that certain patterns repeat: in relationships, in work, or in how you relate to yourself and others. Perhaps there’s a sense that something doesn’t quite add up, or that you keep getting in your own way, particularly when things are starting to improve.
Working with a psychoanalytic psychotherapist in Dundalk, offers a space to reflect on these experiences in a gradual way. The work is not about forcing insight or “digging up” the past. Instead, it involves listening closely to what emerges naturally in speech, the phrases you return to, the hesitations, contradictions, or slips of the tongue that often carry meaning without needing to be pushed.
Over time, this process can loosen the hold of familiar patterns and open up new ways of relating to yourself and to others.
A Different Way of Listening
Psychoanalytic psychotherapy is a particular way of listening. It pays close attention to language, not just what is said, but how it is said, and what might be implied, repeated, or left unsaid.
Words often carry more than one meaning. What we say can point in different directions at once. For instance, a person might say someone in their life is ‘like a rock.’ On one level, it could mean that person is steady and reliable. But it can also suggest they are hard, unyielding, or difficult to reach. Psychoanalytic work listens to these multiple layers of meaning, privileging the fact that there is no universal interpretation, meaning is always specific to you and your experience.
Symptoms
In this work, symptoms are not treated as defects or malfunctions to be corrected, but as meaningful expressions, signals that something is asking to be heard.
Rather than fitting your experience into a predefined category or label, the work allows space for your own way of speaking about what you’re living through. This can gradually lead to a shift in how symptoms are experienced, and in how tightly they organise your life.
What Brings People to This Work
While every person’s experience is unique, people often come to psychoanalytic psychotherapy in dundalk with concerns such as:
Anxiety or persistent worry
Low mood or a sense of flatness or unease
Relationship difficulties or repeating relational patterns
Questions around sexuality or desire
Phobias or fears that limit daily life
Experiences of loss, change, or disconnection
A feeling that something important is missing or unresolved
Often, what first brings someone to therapy opens onto broader questions about identity, relationships, or one’s place in the world that may not have been clear at the outset. This work is particularly well suited to difficulties that feel complex, long-standing, or hard to explain.
Anxiety
Anxiety is a natural part of being human, but sometimes it can feel overwhelming or persistent. In this work, the aim isn’t to suppress or simply manage anxiety, as that often pushes it to emerge elsewhere. Instead, we explore what the anxiety is trying to communicate, in other words, that something is speaking through it. By approaching anxiety gradually and at your pace, the work aims to reduce its grip by allowing something new to be understood and articulated. Over time, this can ease distress and open up a freer way of moving through the world.
Depression & Loss
Depression and loss can show up in many ways, not always as sadness, but as flatness, a sense of going through the motions, or feeling disconnected from life. Loss can take many forms, from bereavement to the ending of relationships, imagined futures or roles, or lost pregnancies. Often these experiences are unspoken and hard to articulate. Psychoanalytic psychotherapy offers a space where these experiences can come into language, in their own time. Through speaking and being listened to differently, a new relationship to what has been lost and to what remains possible can begin to take shape.
Relationships & Sexuality
Difficulties in relationships around communication, trust, or repeated patterns of conflict can point to underlying emotional dynamics that shape how you relate to others. Questions around sexuality, desire, and connection can also reflect how you relate to yourself and what has gone unspoken or unacknowledged. Psychoanalytic work listens to these experiences as expressions of deeper, often singular questions, helping you uncover what may be driving patterns in your relationships and desires. This isn’t about becoming someone different; it’s about becoming who you were always meant to be. Life weaves layers of experiences, expectations, and patterns around us, and over time these can obscure the way you relate to yourself and others.
“At the heart of psychoanalysis is a space where speaking freely allows something new to emerge and with it, new ways of living”
What Working Together Looks Like
“A unique space where something new can take shape”
Psychoanalytic work is distinct because it follows the natural movement of the mind and its own sense of time, rather than the time on the clock. The mind does not operate according to chronological time and anyone who has felt the effects of an event long after it has occurred can recognise this. The aim of this kind of work is to move with the mind, not against it.
Sessions are of variable length, allowing patterns, memories, and ways of being and thinking to unfold as we stay close to what arises in the moment. This creates space for something new to take shape. The approach supports lasting change without becoming diluted or exhausting. For this reason, session length and frequency may vary. It is best to begin with regular weekly sessions, and depending on what emerges in the work, twice-weekly sessions can become more beneficial as the work evolves over time.
Weekly Sessions
Session Length: Approximately 40 minutes
Weekly sessions create a rhythm that allows the work to take root.
We look to find a time that fits well into your week so the work has a place in your life so that it can create a movement in your life.
Investment: €80 per session
Twice-Weekly Sessions
Session Length: Approximately 20 minutes per session.
Meeting more frequently as the work deepens allows us to return to what arises with less distance in between.
This is especially valuable when you want deeper movement and lasting change, and for it to appear more in your everyday life.
Investment: €60 per session
Let’s work together.
You can give me a call on 0871515349 or fill in the form below to make an appointment.
If you feel ready to invest in yourself and experience change I welcome your call or email.
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