Todd Junkins,
LCSW
Psychodynamic Therapist practicing in Chicago, Illinois and Stockholm, Sweden, with a genuine curiosity about how people become who they are — and how they might become more fully themselves.
How I think about therapy
I try to create a space that's open, accepting, and a little creative — room for exploring things that don't yet have a clear shape. With clients, that often means looking at the roles they've stepped into, the patterns they keep returning to, the sense of self they've built without quite meaning to. Once that becomes visible, it becomes something they can actually choose — not just carry.
My approach is grounded in psychoanalytic and psychodynamic thinking — ways of understanding that take seriously the depth and complexity of a person’s inner life, and the ways that life has been shaped by experience, relationship, and time. I work with each person as someone specific, not as a set of symptoms to be managed, and I am as curious about what has gone unnoticed in someone as I am about what has been difficult.
Where I’m coming from
I spent years building my practice and a life there in Chicago, and a few years ago, my partner and I made the decision to leave — to build something new in Stockholm, in a country and a culture neither of us had grown up in. That experience of leaving one home to construct another, of discovering that identity is more portable and more fragile than you thought, has shaped how I understand the people I work with in ways I couldn’t have anticipated. I'm now also a parent, which has its own particular way of returning you to questions you thought you'd already settled.
I work with people in English, and see clients in Sweden and Illinois, USA, as well as remotely across Europe.
If you’d like to talk
I offer an initial consultation to see if working together might be a good fit.
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