David Kelly is a psychodynamic psychotherapist-counsellor, researcher and speaker.

Psychodynamic Psychotherapy is an evidence-based treatment for a wide range of mental health concerns, comparable to cognitive-behavioural therapy and antidepressant medication.

In addition to addressing symptoms, in psychodynamic psychotherapy, we collaborate to identify and change the psychological processes and patterns underlying such symptoms, which evidences indicates leads to changes that persist and grow after therapy ends.

Such changes include:

• Greater attachment security and sense of safety

• A more coherent, integrated experience of self and others

• An increased sense of personal agency,

• More realistic and reliable self-esteem

• Greater resilience and improve affect regulation

• Greater capacity for self-reflection and understanding of others’ experience

• Increased comfort in functioning independently and communality

• More robust sense of vitality

• Improved capacity for acceptance, forgiveness, and gratitude

• Movement toward more mature and flexible defenses