Psychodynamic Therapists in East Town, Milwaukee, WI
Easttown Psychotherapy, L.L.C.
Licensed Professional Counselor, MS, LPC
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
East Town, Milwaukee, WI 53202
My psychodynamic approach considers your current circumstance, past history, feelings and motivations, dreams and disappointments.
A focus I have is working with women who have had unsuccessful/unhealthy or codependent relationships with men. I have assisted women in developing a healthier sense of themselves by developing a greater sense of their own identity and less of an identity defined by their relationships, which leads to a happier and healthier lifestyle. I also work with individuals dealing with compulsive behavior of sex and/or pornography use. Together we work to find the underlying root causes of the behaviors and then to find healthier ways to cope and deal with those urges/desires in the present.
My psychodynamic approach considers your current circumstance, past history, feelings and motivations, dreams and disappointments.
A focus I have is working with women who have had unsuccessful/unhealthy or codependent relationships with men. I have assisted women in developing a healthier sense of themselves by developing a greater sense of their own identity and less of an identity defined by their relationships, which leads to a happier and healthier lifestyle. I also work with individuals dealing with compulsive behavior of sex and/or pornography use. Together we work to find the underlying root causes of the behaviors and then to find healthier ways to cope and deal with those urges/desires in the present.
David Phelps
Psychologist, PhD, LP, MSHR
Verified Verified
3 Endorsed
East Town, Milwaukee, WI 53202
I am influenced by the psychodynamic tradition, focusing on how you relate to yourself and others.
I also work with same- and opposite-sex couples seeking to address a variety of problems and goals, including: relationship difficulties; conflict; lack of intimacy/feeling disconnected; infidelity, separation, divorce; disagreements about values, important life decisions, parenting style; improving communication; building a strong, loving relationship; adjusting to life events (marriage, cohabitation, child birth, etc.).
I am influenced by the psychodynamic tradition, focusing on how you relate to yourself and others.
I also work with same- and opposite-sex couples seeking to address a variety of problems and goals, including: relationship difficulties; conflict; lack of intimacy/feeling disconnected; infidelity, separation, divorce; disagreements about values, important life decisions, parenting style; improving communication; building a strong, loving relationship; adjusting to life events (marriage, cohabitation, child birth, etc.).
I take a trauma-informed, person-centered stance to help you uncover your own goals and collaboratively work with you to meet those goals primarily drawing from humanistic, psychodynamic, attachment, and acceptance and commitment (ACT) perspectives.
Seeking therapy is both an admirable and courageous first step in your journey towards wellness as defined by you. Whether you are facing a difficult life transition, wish to manage distressing mental health symptoms, or would like help identifying and breaking free from patterns that are interfering with your personal growth, you deserve an emotionally safe and judgement-free space to explore any and all facets of your life. Each client has unique needs, therefore there is no one-size-fits-all approach to mental health.
I take a trauma-informed, person-centered stance to help you uncover your own goals and collaboratively work with you to meet those goals primarily drawing from humanistic, psychodynamic, attachment, and acceptance and commitment (ACT) perspectives.
Seeking therapy is both an admirable and courageous first step in your journey towards wellness as defined by you. Whether you are facing a difficult life transition, wish to manage distressing mental health symptoms, or would like help identifying and breaking free from patterns that are interfering with your personal growth, you deserve an emotionally safe and judgement-free space to explore any and all facets of your life. Each client has unique needs, therefore there is no one-size-fits-all approach to mental health.
Lanie Figueroa
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, MSW, LCSW, CCTP
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
East Town, Milwaukee, WI 53202
Do want to gain deeper insight into yourself & your past experiences and start creating new patterns in your life? I am a compassionate and collaborative therapist that utilizes a holistic and integrated approach. As your therapist, I will help you process traumatic memories, learn coping skills, gain new perspective, set goals. I’ll show up as a real person, challenge you when you need it, and be genuinely invested in you and your journey. Schedule your free consultation today by sending your email inquiry.
Do want to gain deeper insight into yourself & your past experiences and start creating new patterns in your life? I am a compassionate and collaborative therapist that utilizes a holistic and integrated approach. As your therapist, I will help you process traumatic memories, learn coping skills, gain new perspective, set goals. I’ll show up as a real person, challenge you when you need it, and be genuinely invested in you and your journey. Schedule your free consultation today by sending your email inquiry.
The core of my work is creating a safe space where clients can feel heard, respected, and understood. A full and satisfying life is unique to each person; I will collaborate with you as you move toward the life you want to live. Understanding each client's culture, identities, and worldview is central to my approach. Not only is it important to deeply understand you as an individual, but also to explore how factors in the wider environment either promote your well being or intensify your distress. A holistic approach to wellness involves the individual, their relationships, and their wider world.
The core of my work is creating a safe space where clients can feel heard, respected, and understood. A full and satisfying life is unique to each person; I will collaborate with you as you move toward the life you want to live. Understanding each client's culture, identities, and worldview is central to my approach. Not only is it important to deeply understand you as an individual, but also to explore how factors in the wider environment either promote your well being or intensify your distress. A holistic approach to wellness involves the individual, their relationships, and their wider world.
Ben Endres
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW, PhD
Verified Verified
East Town, Milwaukee, WI 53202
I am experienced therapist who helps individuals and couples address challenges, enrich relationships and achieve deep insights into their personality and their emotions. My clients find that I offer a pragmatic, intelligent and empathetic response to their concerns. I focus on the immediate challenges that my clients are facing, while helping them to see themselves and their relationships in deeper way.
I am experienced therapist who helps individuals and couples address challenges, enrich relationships and achieve deep insights into their personality and their emotions. My clients find that I offer a pragmatic, intelligent and empathetic response to their concerns. I focus on the immediate challenges that my clients are facing, while helping them to see themselves and their relationships in deeper way.
Radical Change Counseling and Coaching
Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC
Verified Verified
East Town, Milwaukee, WI 53202
Waitlist for new clients
Radical Change Counseling and Coaching is focused on helping people who feel stuck and always needing to control everything make lasting change. If you feel that you are a hamster on a wheel and no matter what you do, you just feel like you are having the same issues over and over again without help, we may have the approach that finally helps to create change. Do you handle stress by trying to control everything, yourself, and even others? If so, we might be able to help!
Radical Change Counseling and Coaching is focused on helping people who feel stuck and always needing to control everything make lasting change. If you feel that you are a hamster on a wheel and no matter what you do, you just feel like you are having the same issues over and over again without help, we may have the approach that finally helps to create change. Do you handle stress by trying to control everything, yourself, and even others? If so, we might be able to help!
Susan Nolte
Marriage & Family Therapist, MS, LMFT
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
East Town, Milwaukee, WI 53202
Whether you are struggling with parenthood, having frequent conflicts with your partner, grieving a loss, trying to establish healthy boundaries with family and friends, or working to understand yourself better — having someone to help support you through that process with empathy, insight, and guidance can be life changing. I have a masters in the field of psychology, am married and a mother of four, and worked in a day treatment clinic for children doing individual, family, and group therapy so I have seen a lot. You are not alone and I have strategies and techniques to start helping you right now.
Whether you are struggling with parenthood, having frequent conflicts with your partner, grieving a loss, trying to establish healthy boundaries with family and friends, or working to understand yourself better — having someone to help support you through that process with empathy, insight, and guidance can be life changing. I have a masters in the field of psychology, am married and a mother of four, and worked in a day treatment clinic for children doing individual, family, and group therapy so I have seen a lot. You are not alone and I have strategies and techniques to start helping you right now.
Beginning therapy can often be difficult and may carry a host of fears, uncertainties, and challenges. I believe that it can also be a life changing journey that can help explore those difficult pieces and peel those layers that have kept us from being our authentic selves. My clients are often young adults, parents, those starting a new phase in their life, or anyone navigating the process of individuation and creating change. My clients are often looking to create healthy boundaries and relationships with themselves and others. Many are healing from past trauma, toxic relationships, or entering a new phase in life.
Beginning therapy can often be difficult and may carry a host of fears, uncertainties, and challenges. I believe that it can also be a life changing journey that can help explore those difficult pieces and peel those layers that have kept us from being our authentic selves. My clients are often young adults, parents, those starting a new phase in their life, or anyone navigating the process of individuation and creating change. My clients are often looking to create healthy boundaries and relationships with themselves and others. Many are healing from past trauma, toxic relationships, or entering a new phase in life.
What brings people to therapy varies, but some of the individuals I work with are folks who: are children of parents with mental illness or substance use issues, struggle with interpersonal relationships, tend toward self-criticism and self-sabotage, feel disconnected or separate from others, have intrusive thoughts, feel immobilized in pursuing their goals, have perfectionistic tendencies, want to unlearn unhelpful messages from family or societal systems, or wish to explore their gender or sexuality.
What brings people to therapy varies, but some of the individuals I work with are folks who: are children of parents with mental illness or substance use issues, struggle with interpersonal relationships, tend toward self-criticism and self-sabotage, feel disconnected or separate from others, have intrusive thoughts, feel immobilized in pursuing their goals, have perfectionistic tendencies, want to unlearn unhelpful messages from family or societal systems, or wish to explore their gender or sexuality.
Tired of enduring a difficult life, career or relationship? Looking for practical, out-of-the-box solutions for anxiety, depression, and the life circumstances that cause them? Tried therapy before with disappointing results? For 35 years, I have been augmenting traditional therapeutic methods with a variety of techniques, including EMDR Therapy, CRM Therapy, heart rate variability training (Heartmath), body centered approaches, mindfulness training, hypnosis, and ego-state interventions, to facilitate deep internal changes. These interventions take place within the context of a safe, non-judgmental, and supportive environment. My therapeutic style is interactive, engaging, and collaborative.
Tired of enduring a difficult life, career or relationship? Looking for practical, out-of-the-box solutions for anxiety, depression, and the life circumstances that cause them? Tried therapy before with disappointing results? For 35 years, I have been augmenting traditional therapeutic methods with a variety of techniques, including EMDR Therapy, CRM Therapy, heart rate variability training (Heartmath), body centered approaches, mindfulness training, hypnosis, and ego-state interventions, to facilitate deep internal changes. These interventions take place within the context of a safe, non-judgmental, and supportive environment. My therapeutic style is interactive, engaging, and collaborative.
My approach to psychotherapy is to help my clients understand their conflicts by getting at the roots of their wounds, so they are able to treat themselves with self-compassion and healing. The goal of therapy is to not only unburden the pain one carries, but to help transform inner negative beliefs and cultivate radical self-love.
My approach to psychotherapy is to help my clients understand their conflicts by getting at the roots of their wounds, so they are able to treat themselves with self-compassion and healing. The goal of therapy is to not only unburden the pain one carries, but to help transform inner negative beliefs and cultivate radical self-love.
Vacation Counseling - Couples Retreat by Dr. April
Counselor, LMHC, CST, NCC, LPC
Verified Verified
7 Endorsed
East Town, Milwaukee, WI 53202
Are you wanting a personalized intimate retreat that focuses on your specific needs and goals in your relationship? A retreat that will heal the hurts and traumas in the relationship? Vacation counseling will help you and your relationship find a new perspective on how intimacy can help resolve conflicts in your relationship. We offer many different options to fit your needs, one couple at a time. We can provide you with in-person and online counseling where couples stay in exclusive, luxurious vacation rentals. Vacation Counseling can travel to your Vacation.
Are you wanting a personalized intimate retreat that focuses on your specific needs and goals in your relationship? A retreat that will heal the hurts and traumas in the relationship? Vacation counseling will help you and your relationship find a new perspective on how intimacy can help resolve conflicts in your relationship. We offer many different options to fit your needs, one couple at a time. We can provide you with in-person and online counseling where couples stay in exclusive, luxurious vacation rentals. Vacation Counseling can travel to your Vacation.
Life is filled with peaks and valleys and it is my goal to help you navigate life's challenges and aid in your personal growth to become the best and healthiest version of yourself. I view therapy as a collaborative process and believe that you are the expert in your own life. I provide a safe and supportive space for you to start doing the deep and rewarding work of facing your struggles and moving towards a more fulfilling and meaningful life.
Life is filled with peaks and valleys and it is my goal to help you navigate life's challenges and aid in your personal growth to become the best and healthiest version of yourself. I view therapy as a collaborative process and believe that you are the expert in your own life. I provide a safe and supportive space for you to start doing the deep and rewarding work of facing your struggles and moving towards a more fulfilling and meaningful life.
Kathy Abbott, Psy D, PC
Psychologist, Psy, D, BCIA-NF, QEEGDip
Verified Verified
2 Endorsed
Online Only
Not accepting new clients
I believe in your potential to be the best posssible. I believe that you already have many gifts, and that you have information about your self that we can use to help you move in the the direction you want to go with your life.
I believe in your potential to be the best posssible. I believe that you already have many gifts, and that you have information about your self that we can use to help you move in the the direction you want to go with your life.
Nikki Zellner
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW, SAC
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
East Town, Milwaukee, WI 53202
Not accepting new clients
As a therapist, I rely heavily on the power of the therapeutic relationship, viewing this relationship as the foundation for safety in working with individuals and their internal systems. Our work together develops insight into one's own internal landscape and explores the wounds that create difficult emotions, thoughts and patterns in day to day life. Working together, such processing fosters a relationship with oneself in a way that goes beyond their past.
As a therapist, I rely heavily on the power of the therapeutic relationship, viewing this relationship as the foundation for safety in working with individuals and their internal systems. Our work together develops insight into one's own internal landscape and explores the wounds that create difficult emotions, thoughts and patterns in day to day life. Working together, such processing fosters a relationship with oneself in a way that goes beyond their past.
Online Therapists
Resiliency Counseling & Wellness Services LLC
Licensed Professional Counselor, MS, LPC
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
East Town, Milwaukee, WI 53202
My framework is derived from Cognitive Behavioral, Psychodynamic, and Mindfulness Therapy.
I have worked with various clients of various populations and walks of life. The ultimate goal of the client is to be seen and heard and to develop the ability to grow into their best selves. Therapy may allow the client to learn, cope and or heal so that they are able to function in their everyday lives in harmony.
My framework is derived from Cognitive Behavioral, Psychodynamic, and Mindfulness Therapy.
I have worked with various clients of various populations and walks of life. The ultimate goal of the client is to be seen and heard and to develop the ability to grow into their best selves. Therapy may allow the client to learn, cope and or heal so that they are able to function in their everyday lives in harmony.
Some psychological approaches I use in therapy include interpersonal therapy, cultural-relational and feminist theories, psychodynamic approaches, and humanistic therapy.
Hello and welcome! I’m Dr. Kerrin Sendrowitz O’Connor, a licensed psychologist based in New York and Wisconsin. I specialize in helping adults work through interpersonal difficulties, family dynamics, anxiety, depression, trauma, sleep issues, and grief. I also love to work with expecting parents, new parents, and individuals navigating the challenges of fertility and parenthood. In therapy, my goal is to create a space where you feel seen, heard, valued, and empowered. I work collaboratively with my clients to identify patterns that may be preventing you from living the type of life you WANT to live.
Some psychological approaches I use in therapy include interpersonal therapy, cultural-relational and feminist theories, psychodynamic approaches, and humanistic therapy.
Hello and welcome! I’m Dr. Kerrin Sendrowitz O’Connor, a licensed psychologist based in New York and Wisconsin. I specialize in helping adults work through interpersonal difficulties, family dynamics, anxiety, depression, trauma, sleep issues, and grief. I also love to work with expecting parents, new parents, and individuals navigating the challenges of fertility and parenthood. In therapy, my goal is to create a space where you feel seen, heard, valued, and empowered. I work collaboratively with my clients to identify patterns that may be preventing you from living the type of life you WANT to live.
My approach to psychotherapy is primarily psychodynamic and relational.
Are you or your child struggling with focus, learning difficulties, or emotional overwhelm? It can be frustrating to face these challenges without clear answers. I provide comprehensive psychological evaluations for ages 6+ to assess ADHD, autism, learning disorders (like dyslexia and dyscalculia), and emotional concerns. Testing offers clarity and personalized recommendations to support growth at school, work, and home. For adults, I offer therapy to explore identity, relationships, and past wounds. I also help couples improve communication and deepen their connection in couples counseling.
My approach to psychotherapy is primarily psychodynamic and relational.
Are you or your child struggling with focus, learning difficulties, or emotional overwhelm? It can be frustrating to face these challenges without clear answers. I provide comprehensive psychological evaluations for ages 6+ to assess ADHD, autism, learning disorders (like dyslexia and dyscalculia), and emotional concerns. Testing offers clarity and personalized recommendations to support growth at school, work, and home. For adults, I offer therapy to explore identity, relationships, and past wounds. I also help couples improve communication and deepen their connection in couples counseling.
Each person is unique, so I use a variety of techniques including, but not limited to, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Psychodynamic Therapy and Person-Centered Therapy.
Are you feeling stuck, overwhelmed and frustrated? Are you ready to stop engaging in the same unhelpful coping mechanisms? I aim to support my clients in making realistic and sustainable changes in their lives. I am especially drawn to people experiencing mood disorders, life transitions, grief, trauma and prenatal and/or postpartum depression and anxiety. Above all, I aim to meet my clients where they are, so together we can work towards their goals and make a lasting change.
Each person is unique, so I use a variety of techniques including, but not limited to, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Psychodynamic Therapy and Person-Centered Therapy.
Are you feeling stuck, overwhelmed and frustrated? Are you ready to stop engaging in the same unhelpful coping mechanisms? I aim to support my clients in making realistic and sustainable changes in their lives. I am especially drawn to people experiencing mood disorders, life transitions, grief, trauma and prenatal and/or postpartum depression and anxiety. Above all, I aim to meet my clients where they are, so together we can work towards their goals and make a lasting change.
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Psychodynamic Therapists
Is psychodynamic therapy evidence-based?
Studies have found psychodynamic therapy to be effective in treating conditions like social anxiety, eating disorders, chronic pain, some personality disorders, and depression; indeed, some studies have found it to be just as effective as CBT or medication. What’s more, several studies have found that the benefits of psychodynamic therapy tend to endure—even grow—long after treatment has ended.
How long does psychodynamic therapy last?
Unlike CBT and other more structured forms of therapy, psychodynamic therapy tends to be open-ended and may not be limited to a set number of sessions. It is common for clients to be in therapy for a year or longer and to see their therapist one to three times a week, though the exact schedule and timeline may vary depending on a client’s challenges and progress. However, brief psychodynamic therapy is available, which tends to be more goal-oriented and typically unfolds over 16 to 30 sessions.
Does psychodynamic therapy work?
Research finds that psychodynamic therapy can help someone manage or reduce symptoms of diagnosable mental health conditions like depression or anxiety. The modality may also offer a range of benefits that are harder to measure but just as valuable—such as increased self-worth or healthier relationships. While no therapy type will work for everyone, research and anecdotal evidence suggest that psychodynamic therapy can be highly effective.
What are the limitations of psychodynamic therapy?
Some meta-analyses have concluded that there is little evidence to suggest that psychodynamic therapy can effectively treat certain mental health conditions such as PTSD, OCD, or psychosis, though it is sometimes used to do so. More broadly, the open-ended, free-association structure of psychodynamic therapy may be frustrating for clients who prefer a more structured, time-limited, or goal-oriented approach.