Psychodynamic Therapy in Ottawa & Online Across Ontario
Psychodynamic Therapy in Ottawa: Understanding Your Inner World
If you are seeking psychodynamic therapy in Ottawa or virtual psychodynamic psychotherapy in Ontario, I provide an insight-oriented approach to help you uncover how unconscious patterns formed in past experiences continue to shape your present thoughts, emotions, and relationships.
Early relationships, emotional experiences, and attachment dynamics often influence how you see yourself and others — even when you’re not fully aware of them.
In my Ottawa psychotherapy practice, I support adults across Ontario bring these hidden dynamics into awareness so they can be understood and transformed, allowing for deeper and more lasting change.
Identifying Repeating Patterns: Support for Ontario Residents
From a psychodynamic perspective, feeling “stuck” in emotional cycles is a meaningful response shaped by earlier emotional and relational contexts.
In our sessions, we bring these hidden patterns into awareness so they can be understood and transformed. This work is especially effective if you experience:
Familiar Emotional Cycles: Feeling like you are repeating the same mistakes in relationships or career
Unexplained Reactions: Strong emotional responses that feel hard to control or explain
The “Disconnect”: Feeling a lack of emotional depth or a disconnect from your authentic self
Internal Conflict: Struggling with self-criticism, shame, or deep-seated defence mechanisms
How Your History Shapes the Present: Psychodynamic Therapy in Ontario
Psychodynamic therapy understands current struggles within the context of early experiences—such as inconsistent caregiving or a lack of emotional attunement.
These adaptations may have helped you cope, but they can limit your self-trust and connection as an adult.
Through relational psychodynamic therapy in Ottawa, we pay attention to how these past experiences show up in the present moment, creating opportunities for profound growth.
Gal Zohar, Psychodynamic Psychotherapist in Ottawa
As a licensed psychotherapist specializing in psychodynamic work, my role is to help you develop insight into the emotional and relational roots of your struggles, creating space for deeper change.
In session, we can explore what’s happening in your inner world — thoughts, memories, emotions, dreams, and patterns that emerge in daily life (and even within the therapy relationship itself).
Together, we pay attention to how past experiences show up in the present moment, creating opportunities for understanding, repair, and growth.
Our work focuses on:
Unconscious Motivation: Bringing hidden feelings and motivations into awareness
Defence Mechanisms: Understanding the protective strategies that keep you from vulnerability
Meaning-Making: Processing emotional experiences to create a stronger connection to your authentic self
The Therapeutic Relationship: Using our connection as a collaborative process of discovery and repair
Begin Psychodynamic Therapy in Online Across Ontario
Through my work as a psychotherapist passionate about psychodynamic work, the goal is growth through profound insight and awareness.
Greater self-understanding and emotional clarity
Increased self-compassion and resilience
More fulfilling relationships
A stronger connection to your authentic self
Psychodynamic therapy helps you understand not only what you feel, but why, so you can live with greater choice, meaning, and connection.