10 Week Recovering from Abusive Relationships (Psychodynamic Psychotherapy) Session Plan

Recovering from Abusive Relationships – 10-Week Psychodynamic Therapy Plan (PDF)

This 10-week psychodynamic psychotherapy plan offers a relational and insight-oriented framework to support clients recovering from emotionally or psychologically abusive relationships. Each session is structured around core psychodynamic themes including transference, defence mechanisms, attachment patterns, internalised object relations, and the therapeutic frame.

Designed for therapists trained in or integrating psychodynamic work, this plan supports deep emotional processing, identity reconstruction, and relational repair. It offers clear goals for each session alongside optional resources and prompts for reflection.

What’s Inside?

• 10-week therapy plan based on psychodynamic principles

• 3 weekly goals per session, each with a therapeutic description

• Themes include:

  • Establishing the frame and alliance

  • Attachment and dependency

  • Transference and fear of need

  • Defences and emotional survival

  • Internalised objects and introjection

  • Trauma narrative and symbolic meaning

  • Grief, mourning, and psychic integration

  • Strengthening ego functions

  • Rebuilding trust and relational capacity

  • Ending and internalisation

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