Catherine de Mare

Psychoanalytic psychotherapist (adult) has now completed training as a time-limited adolescent psychodynamic psychotherapist specializing in this developmentally focused psychotherapy for YP and adolescents providing brief psychodynamic psychotherapy with a psychosocial understanding of adolescent difficulties. I place the emphasis on the therapeutic alliance and work with a developmental focus to effect change and growth and increased self agency. I help YP to navigate and overcome such complex issues as childhood trauma, gender identity, and low self esteem, and chronic depression. I firmly believe that present day symptoms symbolize past events that for whatever reason could not be processed at the time. With care, in the therapeutic alliance, the aim of TAPP is to explore the unconscious and unlock the meaning behind the original symptom.