Blane Brazier, MA, LPC

My clients often arrive after they have already tried therapy. They know their histories, can recognize familiar patterns, and have developed ways to cope. Still, the same difficulties return: painful relationships, compulsions, shame, anxiety, grief, or a persistent dissatisfaction that is difficult to explain.

I work with people who want to explore why knowing themselves has not necessarily changed how they live. Psychoanalytic work makes room for the unconscious patterns that shape love, suffering, desire, and relationships—including what has remained difficult to say.

Another way of listening

I offer psychoanalytic psychotherapy and psychoanalysis for difficulties that persist beyond insight and symptom management. Our attention includes recurring experiences, dreams, defenses, grief, shame, and the relationship that develops in the room. Treatment can take place weekly or more frequently, depending on the work we undertake together.

You can begin without a clear explanation of what is wrong. We can start with the experiences that keep returning, the questions that trouble you, or the sense that something in your life has not yet found words.

About my work

I am a Texas Licensed Professional Counselor and Past President of the Dallas Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology. Thirteen years as a hospice chaplain shaped my attention to grief, spiritual conflict, and the ways people live with loss. My practice also includes work with eating disorders, addiction and recovery, sexuality, identity, and relationships.

I write about psychoanalysis and the stories through which people understand their lives. My book, 12 Steps: Do They Go Up or Down?, explores recovery as a movement toward a more true life.

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