Dynamic Psychotherapy

My clinical and assessment work emphasizes a comprehensive conceptualization of the client’s presenting problems, but more importantly, the underlying source of how their presenting problems developed and manifested. Brief dynamic, interpersonal and socio-cultural theories have informed my understanding of the manifestation and development of psychopathology across the lifespan. Time-Limited Dynamic Psychotherapy (TLDP) is a brief, integrative dynamic psychotherapy approach focusing on cyclical maladaptive patterns of clients’ interpersonal relations. Grounded in the psychodynamic and object relations framework, TLDP pulls from interpersonal, attachment, cognitive-behavioral and systems theories. While TLDP is broad in its selection criteria and applicable across a variety of presenting concerns, this particular orientation lends itself quite nicely to working as a behavioral change agent and for implementation in interprofessional work environments.

Psychotherapy is an ever evolving process requiring ongoing assessment and feedback from the client to assess the efficacy of treatment and ultimately maximize therapeutic gains. Conceptualizing from the TLDP lens in clinical work underscores the inherent nature that people relate to objects (other people) as a major organizational force in their lives. Similarly, people are innately motivated to seek

My clinical experience working in an interprofessional setting with pharmacists has allowed to me to implement this integrative orientation working from a biopsychosocial model. This exposure to pharmacotherapy augmented my understanding of psychopharmacology as the interplay between psychology and