Psychoanalysis, the grandfather of all “talking cures”, works through establishing an open, questioning conversation between the therapist and the client. In that dialogue, you are invited to speak about yourself and your difficulties, at your own pace and in your own way. Psychoanalysis addresses the client and their situation in their particularity and absolute uniqueness. It is not the therapist's job to offer glib solutions nor to impose their view of things, but through the back and forth of conversational exchange to facilitate a new thinking about your behaviours and motivations; a knowledge that enables you to make free choices in your life about how you want to be for yourself.

New studies and research offer evidence that it can provide for a change that endures, and it does so without providing the assurances of the quick-fix or the painless option, but through a close and attentive listening and analysis of the nuances of your ties to others, the crucial relationships that might form (or undo) us.