PIECE BY PIECE | THERAPY
Counselling & Psychotherapy
with Bert-Jan Zuiderduin 

Counselling and psychotherapy are different names for very similar ways of helping, sometimes also referred to as "talking therapies". Counselling is usually considered to be more short-term, less intensive, perhaps less formal, while psychotherapy is considered more in-depth, taking years rather than months. My training and experience has enabled me to adjust my style to the individual and I prefer to simply call my work "therapy".

Psychodynamic therapy is rooted in psychoanalysis. It has found a wide variety of applications since the early days of Freud, Jung and their contemporaries. Modern contributions such as Attachment Theory and developments in neuroscience have also added a wealth of insight and research.  What most psychodynamic therapies today still have in common is a focus on the unconscious and on interpersonal relationships in the past past and in the present. From a Jungian perspective, I focus also on the unconscious as a helpful force for change.

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In addition to work with the unconscious, external relationships and the influences from the past or deeper unconscious that shape our "internal world", I am particularly interested in the different "parts" (or sub-personalities) that each of us have within ourselves, born from identifications with important figures in our lives or as  responses to powerful life events. In my experience, these parts are mostly protective but they may have unintentionally become stuck.

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Key  to my work is to "listen" with deep empathy to what different parts of you that you are bringing up in our session and to create some coherence, some dialogue between them.