Barbara Leon

Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy aims to help people understand and change complex, deep-seated and often unconsciously based emotional and relationship problems; thereby reducing symptoms and alleviating distress. It is a means by which patients understand and can resolve their problems by increasing awareness of their inner world and its influence over relationships both past and present. The relationship with the therapist is a crucial element in the therapy. The therapist offers a confidential setting which facilitates a process where unconscious patterns of the patient’s inner world become reflected in his or her relationship with the therapist (transference). This process helps patients gradually to identify these patterns and, in becoming conscious of them, to develop the capacity to understand and change them.
Also consulting in central Brighton, East Sussex.