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Representative Treatment Approaches

Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
Psychodynamic psychotherapy aims to reach a greater understanding of human behavior than currently appreciated. The psychodynamic framework encourages the exploration of personal history and the effect of important relationships on existing ways of perceiving and experiencing yourself and others in your life. These concepts are helpful in allowing connections to be established between past and present, present and future, emotional matters and intellectual understanding.

Dream Analysis and Dream Interpretation
Dreams powerfully and often in veiled ways, shed light on aspects of life that the conscious mind may have overlooked. Dr. Rosen-Bernays uses dreams as an additional source of information and communication. Working with dreams presents an opportunity to open and refine a perspective when life itself seems to carry a strong sense of being meaningless unfathomable or confusing.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
EMDR is a psychotherapy method that has proven to be highly effective in helping people deal with emotional difficulties caused by trauma and other distressing life experiences. The therapist and client work together to identify distressing life events that are seen to be in connection with the reported difficulties. The client is then asked by means of a structured protocol to focus on specific aspects of a particular life event. The therapist elicits bilateral stimulation of the left and right hemisphere offering either tactile, visual or auditory sensations. This bilateral stimulation facilitates an innate information processing mechanism to take place which allows a person to re-experience various aspects of the original life event. By guiding clients to attend to and voice emotions, thoughts and physical sensations, the therapist helps facilitate an experience that will help the client work through the original pain and ultimately move beyond it.