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Psychoanalysis can sound scary. I promise it is not. Really psychoanalysis is no different than other forms of psychotherapy: it is two people sitting in a physical room (or now a days a virtual one) seeking to understand what drives underlying patterns of thought, behavior and feeling. The difference in psychoanalysis is that at its core, analysts believe that our relationships with our patients is what elucidates these patterns of thought, behavior and feeling, and we use the power of this relationship to both uncover and promote change.

At Tanen Psychotherapy we provide individual therapy typically weekly with the goal of helping patients identify underlying patterns that are keeping them stuck, so that they can change them. The traditional psychoanalytic model relies heavily on the frequency of sessions, that said, in the modern world this is typically unachievable; and so instead weekly sessions are the expectation.