Psychodynamic therapy and psychoanalysis

Deepen your self-awareness, self-understanding and your capacity for growth

Dr. Lynn Friedman, Psychoanalyst in Washington DC

DR. LYNN FRIEDMAN

Dr. Lynn Friedman, Ph.D., FABP, is a Clinical Psychologist, a Supervising and Training Analyst, and a Clinical Supervisor in full-time, private practice. She provides evaluation, psychotherapy and psychoanalysis as well as supervision to psychoanalysts-in-training and other mental health professionals. Beyond this, she is a board certified, psychoanalyst who teaches at Johns Hopkins University and the Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis. Also, she serves as a trustee at the McLean School of Maryland.

Why Seek Psychodynamic Psychotherapy?

Psychodynamic psychotherapy can help you to overcome anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties, low self-esteem, fears of abandonment, career challenges and related concerns. It can help you to develop increased self-awareness which, in turn, can lead to the mastery of painful feelings and increased self-esteem and self confidence.

My Services

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Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

Psychodynamic psychotherapy may help you to deepen your self-awareness. Anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties, low self-esteem and other challenges are viewed as signs of inner conflict to be understood and mastered.

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Psychoanalysis

Psychoanalysis is an intensive psychotherapy. Meeting with your analyst several times a week over a period of years, allows you to deepen your self-understanding; and to overcome longstanding, pervasive, patterns that have led to unhappiness. A successful psychoanalysis is transformative.

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Clinical Supervision

I offer clinical supervision and consultation to those seeking to deepen their psychoanalytic skills in case conceptualization and clinical technique. As a Supervising and Training Analyst, I work with psychoanalysts-in-training as well as licensed, psychologists, psychiatrists, counselors & social workers.

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This post, "The Psychotherapy frame" was originally published in , Psychotherapist's, Dr. Lynn Friedman's, Johns Hopkins blog. "The...
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Psychoanalysts in the popular media

This article, Psychoanalysts in the popular media, was previously published in the Newsletter of the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute....
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