Psychotherapy.

I offer psychotherapy with a focus on cognitive behavioral therapy. One session lasts 50 minutes and usually takes place weekly. A wide variety of topics and problem areas can be treated, such as relationship problems, emotional turbulence, persistent sadness, social insecurity, self-esteem issues, fears, difficult everyday situations, addictive behavior, etc. In an initial interview, the topics that someone brings with them are discussed and then the main focus and therapeutic approach are determined together.

Generally speaking, psychotherapy is about the treatment of the mind; of thinking and feeling. The reasons for a therapy can be quite different, but mostly emotional patterns, (partly) unconscious thought structures or interaction styles are at the root of it, which lead again and again to a certain problem, to finding oneself in the same unpleasant situations or to being exposed again and again to the same feelings, which are difficult to bear. If somebody then can't find his way out of such a state or situation or it takes too much effort and the feelings just won't stop, it may be that a mental disorder is present, for which psychotherapy usually offers the best way out.

The model of "Cognitive Behavioral Therapy" assumes that in the course of our biography we have developed a very unique way of thinking, feeling, and acting, which has proven to be very useful at earlier points in our lives, but which can contribute in the here and now to us being stuck in our own structures. These patterns lead to the fact that we have certain problems, thoughts, feelings, or behaviour patterns again and again, although we do not want to. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy offers an approach to identify, recognize and manage these mostly unconscious patterns. It can either be important to make concrete changes in the current situation, to change certain persistent patterns or habits, or to establish a connection to earlier unprocessed experiences in order to better cope with today's problems. The exact procedure depends strongly on the topic or problem to be worked on.

The treatment of depression can therefore be very different from that of an anxiety problem, eating disorder, addiction, psychosomatic symptoms, or sexual problems. However, they can also contain the same elements, be very similar or very different. Because every therapy is as individual as the person who goes into therapy. Since every problem arises from the unique life story and situation of a person, every treatment is also unique and individual. Because the design and the course of a therapy are determined by the person who goes through this process for himself. The concern, the wishes, and needs, the own way of seeing and experiencing the world, the emotional life, the personal biography, and the personality; this all determines how exactly the therapeutic process is designed.