Ronan Wolfsdorf (he/him)

Psychodynamically oriented therapy offers patients a way of seeing their internal and interpersonal dynamics from an historical and relationship based perspective. I consider it one of the most insightful and precise ways of understanding human emotion, experience, distress, and the avenues for personal and collaborative change.

Many individuals have lived through one or more traumatic experience that can be inform their experience of self and others in ways that are constraining yet out of view for the individual. For those patients where traumatic experience is relevant, I believe it is invaluable to help a patient gradually come to appreciate the various ways in which trauma may inform their ways of functioning. Patients have found this to be critical and transformative in their personal change.

I find that most patients are seeking to find satisfaction in terms of their key relationships. I consider the opportunity to collaborate in terms of their exploration of issues, areas that require understanding, historical patterns, and ongoing developments to be extremely meaningful. Within the context of this exploration, a supportive and respectful therapeutic relationship can be invaluable in motivating and sustaining change.

To be a person is to contend with anxiety, but when an individual is not able to understand one's experience as a person, then anxiety can derail one's striving and thriving. A measure of wellness is both how it is understood and how it informs one's existence versus to what extent anxiety limits and constrains one's pursuit of purpose in satisfaction in areas of work, relationships, and activities.

Individuals contending with depression (which comes in many forms and specificities) can find relief and achieve transformation in a supportive, insight-oriented therapy, a consistent professional relationship that helps them gain understanding of the roots of their distress, a sense of agency that affords confidence, the solidification of identity, and a positive sense of self.