Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy
My patients are people like you and me: they have family and friends, hobbies and commitments, joys and sorrows. They work, overcome challenges every day, and lead busy lives. And yet there is this one problem that they cannot solve on their own or even with the support of friends and family, despite all their efforts. For many, this is the moment to seek professional help. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps many people in such situations. In our lives we learn to orient ourselves by rules, and we experience things that influence our thinking, feeling and our behavior. A certain behavior can be very useful for a long time. But a change in situation can make the same behavior less effective in reaching our goals or can even harm our progress. For example: You have learned to drive a car in a country where right-hand traffic is the norm. If you move to a country where the traffic is on the left, you have to change your behavior to avoid endangering yourself and others. You have to relearn this behavior. The good news is, we can all change a learned behavior that no longer serves us and adapt it to new circumstances. This takes time, a protected setting, assistance, and intensive practice. My therapy offers this protected space and individual support for practicing. In addition to the specific problem you want to work on in therapy, my focus is also on what is going well and already succeeding. Together we will (re)discover your strengths, which will help you to deal better with the current target problem. I will guide you by means of cognitive behavioral therapy to self-help and will develop strategies with you to face current and future problems. Therefore, I hope that you will bring curiosity to the therapy sessions and the motivation to try new things.
Coping with chronic illnesses (especially chronic tinnitus and chronic pain)
A chronic illness is an enormous psychological burden for everyone affected and for their relatives. Symptoms of the disease, long-term treatments and their side effects influence everyday life, well-being and social behavior to varying degrees. In the course of chronic illnesses, for the quality of life is crucial how you deal with the illness and its consequences – so called coping. Coping with the disease is not a one-time feat, it involves continuous efforts to master the disease and the resulting changes. Through psychotherapy I work with you on maintaining or restoring your mental health and support you in dealing with physical changes, altered performance due to the chronic illness and clarifying life perspectives.
Adjustment to significant life changes
You’ve probably heard of what’s known as change management. When major corporate change is on the horizon, an entire team works to thoroughly prepare for it, execute it, and monitor the results. While corporate change management is a field of study, we are all change managers in our everyday lives: We optimize, weigh different options and their consequences, plan for change, and adapt to new circumstances.
A move, a new job, becoming a parent or entering retirement age – Such long-awaited and positive changes can bring challenges. An accident or sudden death can also lead to being overwhelmed with symptoms such as sleep problems, depressive moods, anxiety or a feeling of loss of control.
In therapy, I guide and support you in the adjustment process.
Together, we develop strategies tailored to your life situation that help you deal with the unwanted symptoms and find a new life balance.