Psychotherapy

Psychotherapy offers a vast array of different methods. I work with Traumatherapy Somatic Experiencing® (in short: SE) as well as Gestalt therapy (founded by Fritz Perls).
Below you will find a short description of reasons that lead to choosing Gestalt- and/or Trauma therapy.

Indications to enter Trauma therapy SE (Somatic Experiencing):

• You have experienced something (life-)threatening which keeps coming back in flashbacks, nightmares or otherwise impedes your life. This might be an accident, an operation or an act of violence. And it can either be a one off experience or something that kept going on; it may have happened recently or years ago.
• You want to regain your inner peace, you want to stop avaoiding certain places and be free of anxieties.

How it works

SE (Somatic Experiencing) is a gentle and profound short-term approach to discharging surplus energies held in the body from trauma. Although its medium is mainly converstion, SE is not psychotherapy in the accustomed sense. It is a therapy that centers on the reduction of tension in the nervous system, thus operating on a physical level (while its main mode is conversation). The decrease in tension will affect thoughts, feelings, attitudes and behaviour even if they are not directly linked to the trauma.

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Indications to enter Gestalt therapy:

• You have the feeling that certain undesireable patterns in your life are recurrent (For example: Relationships don´t last long; you stick with relationships long after their expiration date; you are not being taken seriously by others; you can´t seem to get your feelings across to others; you feel defenceless)
• You might feel empty, without drive or emotionally numb (You may have the feeling your life is grey)
• You may have the feeling that you are not making the best out of who you are, you don´t “live” enough (You might think: Well, this can´t have been it!?)
• You might face limiting anxieties (You might even have problems leaving your flat).
• You might find yourself in the middle of a crisis (Triggered for example by a break-up of a relationship, the death of someone dear, being out of work or a severe illness).

How it works

Gestalt therapy is a psychotherapy that uses the means of conversation as well as acting and artistic expression. Changing inadequate patterns of behaviour and experience, ones that produce more suffering than satisfaction, is the aim. Gestalttherapy assumes that you already have everything you need to master difficulties and to be satisfied. It helps to uncover the many facetts a human personality contains and thus enhances its growth. You start to confront what you have been avoiding. You let those parts gently mature that have been underfed and crippled. You gain new strength and a more blazing feeling of life, as well as new insights and convictions. You let your wounds heal, acknowledge the scars and move on with renewed energy.

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