Riggs is known for its longstanding tradition of providing intensive psychodynamic psychotherapy in a voluntary, open, and non-coercive community. Patients not helped in other settings can often benefit from deeper, more thorough psychodynamic evaluation and treatment. Riggs offers a continuum of programs and services within a core treatment framework that remains consistent throughout the patient’s stay.

Many individuals struggling with psychiatric problems can find themselves caught up in treatments that are at an impasse, characterized by chronic crisis management and interrupted by frequent short-term hospitalizations. Often, their treatment stirs up such intense feelings that a patient cannot function adequately between sessions, no matter how frequent.

“The consistent trend toward larger effect sizes at follow-up suggests that psychodynamic psychotherapy sets in motion psychological processes that lead to ongoing change, even after therapy has ended."

From The Efficacy of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, American Psychologist, Jonathan Shedler, PhD, University of Colorado Denver.