Services

First consultation

 

An interview where we get to know each other and discuss your motivation to begin psychotherapy. I may ask you questions about your background, family, relationships, and work during this time. We also explore your reasons for seeking therapy, including the specific issues or challenges you are facing. By understanding your concerns and expectations, this helps me suggest a therapy model tailored to your unique needs. We proceed to decide together on the therapy setting, including the frequency of the sessions, scheduling, and appropriate fee. 

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Psychoanalytic psychotherapy

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Psychoanalytic psychotherapy is a talking therapy based on you saying whatever comes to your mind (thoughts, feelings, ideas, dreams and daydreams, body sensations.) Such a method helps us uncover and bring to awareness the patterns in your behaviour, emotions and relationships and understand how they influence one another. Many people come to therapy feeling their past has a painful hold on their lives, or they feel lost in their present or uneasy about the future. 

 

This type of therapy offers a safe space where you can:

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- Share your feelings and worries;

- understand yourself better;

- explore how your past and present experiences are connected;  

- recognize and cope with things that you cannot change; 

- have an outlet and find relief.

 

The psychoanalytic psychotherapy approach derives from theories of psychoanalysis.

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Psychoanalysis

 

A therapeutic approach developed by Sigmund Freud in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It aims to explore the unconscious mind, understand human behavior, and relieve psychological suffering by bringing unconscious thoughts and conflicts into conscious awareness.

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Imagine the unconscious mind as your inner hidden storage room. It can contain repressed or forgotten life experiences, unpleasant memories, and forbidden or unacceptable desires or wishes. These hidden aspects of the mind can influence our thoughts, emotions, and behaviours, often showing themselves through dreams, slips of the tongue (when you say something different or opposite of what you intended to say), or psychological symptoms.

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In psychoanalysis, techniques like free association and dream analysis are used to uncover and understand such aspects. Free association involves you speaking freely without censorship, and in dream analysis, we focus on the symbols and hidden meanings in your dreams which serve as a window into the unconscious mind.

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Psychoanalysis aims to help you achieve greater freedom and authenticity and enable you to relate to your desires, conflicts, and complexities more openly and creatively. This process allows for a more nuanced understanding of your life, potential, and yourself. It encourages you to be curious, to question your personal inhibitions, beliefs, cultural expectations, and the world you live in.

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Psychoanalysis involves a higher frequency setting (2 - 5 sessions weekly.) Sessions can occur in two ways: lying on a couch or seated in a chair.

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Crisis intervention

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A specific approach used to provide immediate support and assistance if you are facing a crisis situation. Crisis situations can occur unexpectedly in anyone's life. They come from a wide range of events or experiences, such as the sudden death of a loved one, a traumatic incident, or a personal or relationship breakdown. This can result in overwhelming feelings of hopelessness and sadness, states of anxiety, or suicidal thoughts. 

 

Crisis intervention is typically brief and time-limited, focusing on your immediate needs and stabilisation. This is not a substitute for long-term therapy, and if one is needed, we proceed to discuss the possibilities for an appropriate therapy model.

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Online or telephone psychotherapy
 

Also known as e-therapy or teletherapy, it refers to psychotherapy conducted through digital platforms and communication technologies. It allows you to receive therapy remotely, which offers an accessible alternative to in-person therapy sessions if you live in a remote area, have limited mobility, or have difficulty accessing mental health services due to various barriers.

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I use video platforms such as Skype, Google Meet, or FaceTime. I also offer online therapy through the international counselling platform Complicated Life. Click here to access my profile.