About SLP Counseling
About Stuart
Stuart Palmer, PsyD.
Director of SLP Counseling
Stuart Palmer is a licensed clinical psychologist in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. He completed graduate degrees from Asbury, Wheaton, and Princeton. He was awarded his doctoral degree in clinical psychology from the The Fuller Graduate School of Psychology in Pasadena, California in 1997.
Dr. Palmer has experience in a variety of settings, including: outpatient psychotherapy, director of a hospital inpatient treatment program, professor of counseling in a graduate school, and consultant for businesses and religious organizations.
Dr. Palmer has been a contributor to a number of texts and has co-edited a book. He is married and he and his wife have three adult children.
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What is Psychodynamic Psychotherapy?
Psychodynamic therapy was developed as a simpler, less-lengthy alternative to psychoanalysis. Psychodynamic therapy aims to address the foundational ways people organize and interpret their past and present. A form of therapy oriented to illuminate the formation of psychological processes. In this way, facilitates symptom reduction and supports the flourishing of human life.
In psychodynamic therapy, therapists help people gain insight into their lives and present-day problems by paying close attention to emotions, thoughts, beliefs and early-life experiences. The therapeutic relationship is central to psychodynamic therapy. It can demonstrate how a person interacts with their friends and loved ones. It can reveal recurring patterns used to avoid distress or developed defense mechanisms to cope.
Defense mechanisms may keep painful feelings, memories and experience in the unconscious. In addition, transference in therapy can show how early-life relationships affect a person today. Transference is the transferring one’s feelings for a parent, for example, onto the therapist. This intimate look at interpersonal relationships can help people understand their part in relationship patterns. It may empower them to transform that dynamic. It can facilitate healing, growth and flourishing.
A Word About Covid19
SLP Counseling acknowledges the reality of COVID19.
• If you prefer to wear a mask in session your therapist will accomodate.
• If you prefer using Telehealth instead of an in-person session your therapist will accomodate.