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The process of change emerges from the use of traditional and modified techniques to bring awareness to the client and frame current maladaptive behaviors in the context of prior experiences contributing to present circumstances in the client’s life. Currently, the use of psychoanalytic techniques has expanded to include an emphasis on the treatment of serious mental health issues, cross-cultural considerations, and brief applications across contexts. The primary method of psychoanalysis is the identification, analysis, and interpretation of the unconscious conflicts that interfere with the client’s daily functioning. This is done using a variety of traditional strategies and techniques, such as the analysis of dream content, transference, resistance, and defenses, which encourage clients to increase their awareness of the etiology and manifestation of symptoms and how to cope with new experiences in a more healthful, productive manner based on this new awareness. In its brief form, a psychodynamic approach uses direct dialogue and interpretation to examine unresolved conflicts and symptoms that arise from past dysfunctional relationships and manifest themselves in maladaptive symptoms and behaviors (Johnson, 2016).