As a psychodynamically-oriented practitioner, I believe that the objective of depth work is for the working alliance to jointly challenge, excavate, reveal, and confront the persistent and chronic distortions that obscure reality and undermine personal progress, maturation, happiness, freedom, and purpose.

From my working perspective, this is most effectively accomplished through revelatory insight paired with affective (emotional) resonance, or, awareness and catharsis; the intersection of understanding and feeling.