PsychoanalyticPsychotherapy

General information

Psychoanalytic psychotherapy is developed out of the field of psychoanalysis. It is also referred to as psychodynamic psychotherapy, long-term, intensive, in-depth psychotherapy. One important propulsion for its development was to widen the availability of psychoanalytic practice that had evolved over 100 plus years to a larger number of individuals from all segments of society. Below are the four key points of this treatment model.
1. Psychoanalytic psychotherapy helps you embrace your desires and feel them wholeheartedly: Ultimately, the treatment is meant to help you better understand any unconscious motives that have an impact on your current thoughts, emotions, beliefs, behaviors, and relationship patterns.
2. Psychoanalytic psychotherapy will encourage you to face your limitations and complexities, but also find greater strength to know and bear who they are: The therapist will be on the lookout for what kinds of topics you avoid until you manage to put words to your contradictory feelings that are taboo.
3. Psychoanalytic psychotherapy helps you develop the capacity to endure ordinary everyday sadness: Treatment will draw you deeper and deeper into a confrontation with the parts of your sense of self in order to help you overcome repressions, doubts, and denials. In the end, you will feel prepared to face from which you have been hiding.
4. The outcome of the therapy is also dependent on the hard-to-define chemistry that takes place between you and the therapist: You will be assisted to identify your own needs and unique feelings through your new relationship with the therapist during the treatment process.
In summary, during treatment, the emphasis is places on the unconscious and the centrality of the patient-therapist relationship.

Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Facilitator

April Nisan Ilkmen, Ph. D., LMFT is a Clinical Training Director and Assistant Professor at Northern Illinois University. She is currently affiliated with the Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute and in ongoing psychoanalytic supervision. 

How to Register

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Cost

$130 per sessionBCBS PPO and Aetna PPO Insurance Accepted