210-596-9142
4940 Broadway, Ste 302
deborah@collaborativecounselingsa.com
Deborah Bergmann, LPC
Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis
Psychotherapy offers a confidential, boundaried, and supportive relationship for personal exploration. That relationship is a unique space to investigate why you feel and act the way you do and to have important emotional experiences. In therapy you may also find a space to grieve, to express yourself, to be seen, and to discover and create new ways of feeling, thinking, and relating to others that enrich your life.
I provide psychodynamic psychotherapy and psychoanalysis for adults and adolescents in San Antonio. My practice includes both once-weekly psychotherapy and more intensive psychoanalysis for those seeking a deeper understanding of longstanding emotional patterns and relationships.
Andrew Wyeth, Wind from the Sea
It's impossible fully to take stock of everything we experience as we live our lives. Impossible to notice, in the moment, the many ways, small and large, that we adapt to what has happened. And yet, in our experiences, and in our adaptation to our experiences, our defenses, our personality, and our character take shape. Sometimes those adaptations serve our lives. But most of us find, at some point, that something about how we take in the world, or how we take up our own desires in the world, isn't working. There is a symptom of some kind, be it anxiety, depression, addiction, PTSD, or something less clinically defined: boredom, cynicism, self-criticism or self-doubt.
We may wonder whether there are other possibilities for how we experience our lives. At those moments, therapy is a uniquely useful space for catching up with ourselves, exploring what we've made of our experiences, and perhaps facing aspects of the past that could not be usefully faced in the past. In this way, we may engage creatively with who we are and where we've been and open up new possibilities. The process of doing this in therapy is many-faceted. It usually involves emotional pain, frustration, laughter, fear, and sometimes joy.