Psycho-dynamic Therapy is a form of Depth Psychology, which has an intention to reveal the unconscious content of a client's thoughts, feelings, and life choices as a tool to relieve distress and dysfuncition.  This type of therapy relies on the interpersonal relationship that forms in the therapy sessions.  Through verbal processing of past experiences, history, family patterns, ideas, thoughts, emotions, and present day life, the client can come to understand in more depth, what is truly, authentically surfacing.  Psychodynamic therapy helps to shed light on a disruptive and unhealthy functioning that is occurring.  Often patterns underlying these functions are unconscious.  This type of therapy helps to bring these patterns to greater consciousness.   The presumed unhealthy pattern may have developed early in life and eventually causes disturbance in day to day present life. These thoughts, behaviors, and lifestyles may have been brought about from a reaction to distress earlier in life or a defense reaction for emotional survival that is not useful or constructive in the present.  Working in this way can help to transform a way one is being into something serving, healing, and satisfying.  This type of therapy intervenes to heal the discomfort associated with the poorly formed function, then helps the client acknowledge the existence of the pattern, while working with the client to develop strategies for change.  Clients can gain tremendous amount of insight and understanding of their past and of their present lives.  Often with just this awareness, relief and hope can surface.  Defense patterns can be broken and new ways of being, communicating, and facing issues can be formed.  Psychodynamic therapy is very useful for conflicts in relationships, habitual reactions to stressful and difficult situations, depression, anxiety, addiction, or a feeling of being lost and having a lack of meaning in one's life.