Hope+Wellness
Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy
Kind, effective and high quality treatment
ISTDP in northern virginia, maryland, and dc
ISTDP is an evidence-based psychotherapy that is effective for a wide range of concerns including depression, anxiety, and trauma. It was also found to be effective for people who experience somatic pain that is linked to emotion or trauma.
ISTDP helps patients experience core emotions from the past and present. With this therapy, you will be supported in working through any resistance to experiencing and releasing emotion. ISTP emphasizes this because its view is that allowing yourself to feel your emotions as they are is the transformative vehicle of change.
You will be supported in:
exploring defenses that contribute to your symptoms,
feeling your emotions,
and facing things you may have been avoiding.
The roots of your emotional difficulties will be explored, along with how they activated defenses or maladaptive ways you’ve used to cope with unresolved emotions. By developing insight into your use of maladaptive defenses, you will decrease your use of them, allowing yourself to feel your emotions and channeling them into adaptive, healthy actions instead — thus alleviating emotional pain and suffering.
“In therapy we discover that we heal through relating, for the wounds that occurred in relationships must be healed in a relationship, a relationship where the therapist doesn’t talk at us but with us.”
You are not alone. we’re here to help.
At hope+wellness, we provide exceptional psychotherapy services to empower people to live happier, healthier lives. Our services are grounded in evidence-based treatments that suggest an important interconnectedness between mind, body, life experience, and wellness, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), psychodynamic, and mindfulness-based therapies. Our offices serve the greater Washington DC region, including Maryland, Virginia, and Washington DC. We will work together to help you heal and develop the skills to live fully aware, fully resilient, fully peaceful, mindful, and alive.