COUNSELLING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY
Meetings with a psychologist can be both consultative and therapeutic. Often, clients transition from counseling to therapy.
How do these options for interacting with a psychologist differ?
Consulting typically consists of 3-8 meetings to discuss a specific situation or issue. During the consultation, the causes of the difficulties are explored and solutions for satisfying the client's needs are identified. This short-term format provides targeted support or seeks answers to a specific question.
Therapeutic work involves exploring and transforming deep internal processes; resolving trauma; balancing complex emotional states; analyzing beliefs and attitudes; identifying, tracking, and correcting maladaptive behavior patterns.
During therapy, active engagement with the client's emotional state is undertaken. This helps them understand their needs and work toward meeting them. This type of work is long-term. The duration of the process is influenced by various factors, including the client's individual characteristics and the depth of the issue being addressed.
Working with a psychologist can be short-term, long-term, or periodic (request-by-request). Each session takes the form of a dialogue between the client or couple and the psychologist. If the decision is made to end or suspend therapy, a final session is typically held, during which the client reviews the processes that occurred during the session, updates changes (both external and internal), and identifies progress.
At the beginning of therapy, there's often a sense of upliftment, many insights, and new understandings. Then there may be a plateau, where nothing seems to be happening, but beneath this monotony lies a profound transformation. Or, conversely, there may be unpleasant feelings toward the therapist and/or the entire interaction. During this time, clients often consider ending the sessions, but if they manage to overcome resistance and voice their concerns to the therapist, they can move much further, gain new experience, and use it beyond the sessions.
I specialize in:
Support in emigration;
Going through periods of crisis and changing identity;
Family conflicts, couples counseling;
Working with anxiety states;
Recovery from and recovery from abusive relationships;
Preparation for parenthood and parenthood itself;
Transition from dissatisfaction with life and oneself to a different experience.