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Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Dublin

A space to speak freely, notice repeating patterns, and work towards understanding the root causes of the issues in your history and relationships.

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A deeper understanding

Psychoanalytic psychotherapy is a form of talking therapy for people who want to understand their difficulties more deeply.

It considers how present distress may be connected to earlier experiences, relationships, conflicts and ways of speaking that have shaped your life. Some of these connections are easy to see. Others only become clear over time.

Many people come to therapy knowing what they want to change but not why they keep finding themselves in the same place. You may be experiencing anxiety, depression, panic, grief, shame, relationship difficulties, sexual concerns or a persistent sense of being stuck.

You may not have a diagnosis or a single event that explains how you feel. You can begin with whatever is happening.

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How the work takes place

Sessions are conversations, but not quite like other conversations. You bring what is on your mind and try, as far as you can, not to edit it into a neat story.

There may be thoughts that seem irrelevant, memories you would rather avoid, feelings that do not seem to make sense, or things you have never said aloud. These can all matter.

Your psychotherapist listens closely to the words you use, the themes that return, the moments when you go silent and the ways you describe the people in your life. This is not about fitting you into a type or applying a standard explanation. It is about listening carefully to the particular form your experience takes.

Over time, the work can help you understand why certain situations affect you so intensely, why particular relationships take familiar forms, or why a change you want can remain difficult to make.

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getting to the root

Why psychoanalytic psychotherapy?

At its core, psychoanalysis appreciates each person as completely unique. 

Why is this affecting me so much? Why do I keep doing this? Why is this happening now? How do I stop this? There can be so many questions when it comes to suffering.

Working with a psychoanalytic psychotherapist can help us to work on these questions. Uncovering which events in our lives have changed us and move beyond them. 

There’s a reason why in many countries when therapists are seeking therapy themselves they see a psychoanalyst. Our training, technique and method is considered as in-depth as it gets.

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About Us

We are a therapist led, patient-first professional psychoanalytic clinic.

Psychoanalytically trained. Dublin based.

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Written & clinically reviewed by: Colin McDonnell — MA, MA, BA, APPI, ICP, M.Ps.S.I.
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist & Clinic Director

Last updated: August 2026