WHAT TO EXPECT

Psychotherapy

• for individuals, couples, families and groups

• for adolescents (from age 12 and up) and adults

• Method of psychotherapy: Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)

• Support in coping with

  • Anxieties and panic attacks

  • Somatoform disorders, typically presenting with persistent physical symptoms of any part or organ-system of the body (e.g., heart, guts, urogenital tract, muscles, or skin), often medically unexplained, but causing psychological distress - these symptoms may include chronic pain, tinnitus, or sleep disorders

  • Burnout and other job-related psychological difficulties

  • Depressive disorders, especially chronic depression (CBASP concept)

  • Dissociative symptoms

  • Eating disorders such as anorexia, bulimia, and binge-eating disorder, including problems with body-image and problems with excessive exercise or an urge to move

  • Nicotine dependence (smoking cessation)

  • Personality disorders, especially if characterized by problems in coping with emotions and states of aversive tension, difficulties with impulse control, problems in interpersonal relationships, problems with self-image and own identity

  • Post-traumatic stress disorder and trauma

  • Self-harming behaviour

  • Sexual dysfunctions and problems
    

  • Social Phobias

  • Grief, mourning or bereavement

  • Obsessive-compulsive disorders with obsessional thoughts and/or compulsive acts

• I offer exposure treatments and home-visits. The latter especially if coming to the surgery poses too much of a hurdle, e.g., for people with special needs, or with severe anxiety or obsessive-compulsive disorders.

• Since the CoVid-19-/Coronavirus pandemic I also offer psychotherapy via videoconferencing.

• Languages: English and German.