Discover How Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis Can Foster

Healing and Balance

In Your Life

Located in Wayne, Pennsylvania, Integrative Psychotherapy is dedicated to fostering healing and balance in the lives of clients. As a psychotherapist and psychoanalyst, I provide compassionate, evidence-based treatment, which is uniquely personalized to the needs of each patient. The intention for this work is to help you better understand your mind, which includes recognizing your strengths and the gifts you bring to the world, as well as understanding past traumas and deep disappointments so you may heal from them. Trauma has the capacity to distort the way we see ourselves in the world and the way we see others in relationship to us. Early relational trauma may lead to a difficulty with trust in later relationships and a lack of self-confidence and self-worth. Alternatively, it can lead to pressures of over-achievement or feeling too responsible for others. All this can create inner turmoil that can leave you exhausted and unfulfilled. Trauma prevents you from seeing and appreciating yourself clearly and our job together is to remove that veil.

If you struggle with never feeling good enough or valued, if you are left feeling unfulfilled with work, friendships or family, then  therapy with me could be the next step toward improving your life and relationships. Through therapy, individuals can achieve a more balanced sense of well-being and self-satisfaction, they better navigate emotional challenges, and their relationships with themselves and others become more satisfying.

Meet Dr. Jacquelynn Cunliffe, MSN, PhD

Dr. Cunliffe brings a unique blend of science, therapeutic techniques, and a compassionate and intuitive spirit to her work as a psychotherapist and psychoanalyst. With advanced training in child and adult psychotherapy and analysis, she specializes in helping clients achieve emotional balance and personal growth.

Credentials: 

  • PhD in Psychology of Human Development, University of Pennsylvania 
  • Board-Certified Psychiatric and Mental Health Nurse (PMH-BC)
  • Psychoanalytic training in both Child and Adult Psychoanalysis from the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia

A Wide Range Of Emotional And Psychological Services

Our services are designed to help individuals address a variety of emotional and psychological challenges. We work with clients to explore the root causes of their struggles, building resilience and empowering them to achieve meaningful change.

Childhood developmental trauma and relationship issues
Anxiety and Depression
Low self-esteem and life transitions

Through a collaborative therapeutic alliance, we empower you to overcome obstacles and create lasting change. 

Why Choose Therapy?

Childhood experiences shape us deeply. Painful emotions like repetitive disappointments, loss, and shame can get buried, existing below our consciousness. However, they still exert a powerful impact on our perceptions of ourselves and others. Intrusive feelings such as self-hatred, distrust, and low self-esteem are generated by these misperceptions, fostering relationship issues, dissatisfaction with life, anxiety, and depression. 

Psychotherapy offers a safe space to explore troubling feelings and perceptions. We can re-examine past events and identify their influences, leading us to a deeper level of acceptance, understanding, and healing. Therapy helps us to rethink and reframe past experiences, discovering insights into what might have been going on in the larger family dynamic and relational world that would have led to these self-perceptions. 

I believe in the mind’s ability to heal. Transformation is not only possible, it is the primary intention. Together, we’ll work towards balance and peace of mind. This is a glimpse into my approach to psychoanalytic psychotherapy.

Psychoanalysis requires a significant commitment (3-4 sessions/week). While it is a time and financial investment, this intensive therapy offers invaluable rewards. As your analyst, I will explore with you your personal history, your feelings and moods, and the challenges and struggles that motivated you to seek treatment. This therapy helps you address problematic behaviors, attitudes, and relationships, particularly the relationship that you have with yourself.  I will also pay attention to how you relate to me. Sometimes, deep feelings, both positive and negative, are directed towards the analyst. Interpersonal dynamics between us often reflect your relationships outside of therapy. This is an important component of the work as we interpret, understand, and work through these feelings. The work of analysis is to help you understand how repetitive thought patterns and relational dynamics originally came to be, how they may have been necessary developments (defenses) to help you through childhood and adolescent experiences. More importantly, analysis will strengthen your sense of self so that you can let go of the patterns that no longer serve you and you can move forward to create a life that is more satisfying. That is my sincere commitment to my patients. 

Take the First Step
Toward Healing