Areas of work
Psychotherapy/counseling is a helpful method for working through many different problems and experiences. Some examples are:
- personal growth, discovering one’s potential, passion or creativity
- dealing with difficult and persistent moods and emotions (anxiety, anger, sadness etc.)
- dreamwork
- searching for ways of coping with somatic symptoms and discovering their psychological meaning
- recurring difficulties in relating to other people, insecurity
- relationship or family conflicts
- harsh criticism (of oneself or others), low self-esteem
- loneliness
- eating disorders (anorexia, bulimia, compulsive eating/binge eating disorder)
- mourning and loss
- coping with stress
- difficult experiences from childhood, abuse, adult children of dysfunctional families (e.g. alcoholic)
- looking for new solutions in one’s professional life, using one’s potential and resources with awareness, issues of status and power
- sexual problems
- mental illnesses and personality disorders, altered states of consciousness
- difficulties with adjusting to new situations and surroundings or new roles in life (e.g. adolescence, starting a career, moving, becoming a parent, midlife crisis, growing old etc.)
- and many others