Nonlinear dynamic systems theory has provided the contemporary psychoanalyst with inspiring metaphors with which to contemplate developmental theory and how we understand the nature of health and pathogenesis as demonstrated by a host of researchers and thinkers in the field. From the vantage point of this model, the mind is parsed through a perspective that envisages a series of complex, heterogeneous systems in continuous mutually interactive flow, and always influenced by the environmental surround. Mental non-conscious systems that arise in development, such as symbolization, cognition, or attachment undergo many transformations—often idiosyncratic, novel, and unpredictable—on nonlinear pathways. Slips and glitches on these pathways are more frequent than not, and may contribute to psychological disturbance. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how the dynamic systems paradigm opens up fresh possibilities for conceptualizing ways to re-think our therapeutic activities in a way that may be intuitive for some clinicians, but not yet formally formulated and theorized about. I will show how the application of the relevant principles of this model to an adult patient helps to delineate treatment issues that can be brought into a broad tent, as regards clinical theory.