Joann Ponder

Joann Ponder is a Austin, Texas based psychologist who is specialized in Psychoanalysis. Her current practice location is 3660 Stoneridge Rd, Ste. D-102, Austin. Patients can reach her at 512-496-8244. Joann Ponder is PH.D. in Psychoanalysis and her NPI number (Unique professional ID assigned by NPPES) is 1538288295.
Joann Ponder is a practitioner of psychoanalysis which includes methods of eliciting from patients their past emotional experiences and their role in influencing their current mental life, in order to discover the conflicts and mechanisms by which their pathologic mental state has been produced and to furnish hints for psychotherapeutic procedures, the method employs free association, recall and interpretation of dreams and interpretation of transference and resistance phenomena.
Psychoanalysis psychologist is an individual who is educated with a doctorís degree in psychoanalysis or psychology, trained at an established psychoanalytic institute, and practices or adheres to the principles of psychoanalysis. Psychoanalysis is a form of psychotherapy and a system of investigation for determining and understanding mental processes, which was originally conceived by Sigmund Freud. Psychoanalysis involves the analysis and interpretation of dreams, resistances, and transferences, and uses free association and catharsis. Clinical practice requires licensure.