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Services

I am conducting one-to-one sessions for adolescents and adults within the following means:

  • Panic Attacks

  • Depression

  • Phobias and Obsessions

  • Bereavement

  • Difficulties in romantic relationships

  • Difficulties at work

  • Medical problems

  • Abuse in childhood and adulthood

  • Separation from parental family

  • Divorce management

  • Parenthood

  • Low self-esteem

  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

  • Sexuality issues

  • Self Destructive Behaviours

  • Addictions

  • Anger Management

  • Eating disorders

Addictions


Addictive behaviour is often presented as a coping mechanism for difficulties encountered in life. Loneliness, loss, career failures, are just a few that we all encounter in the course of our lives. Unfortunately, addiction often results in further repetition and aggravation of these difficulties. In Existential - integrative psychotherapy we examine this issue by looking for the meaning behind this behaviour, the consequences it has on the personal life and relationships of the person being treated. After the client and the therapist create a close alliance, together they will look for alternative ways to break this vicious cycle. For those who choose to let go of these behaviors, the existential integrative approach recognizes that there is additional mourning and grieving, for those parts of the clients life that they have not been able to live up to now, for the time lost while they were in active addiction. So the psychotherapist creates space and allows time for these feelings to emerge and express themselves.

Mourning


When we grieve we are in pain. And when we hurt we need to work through that pain. Unfortunately, when we live in a world where the priority is satisfaction, consumption, and a positivistic desire for the good functioning of the marketplace, it is difficult to find the space to express our grief. In existential-integrative psychotherapy we recognize that grief is a mental state quite subjective and unique to each individual. Our way of knowing the world dissolves as we lose those we love. The goal in our approach is to follow the rhythms of the person in therapy, with sensitivity and empathy, to accompany him/her to find a new way of making sense of his/her world as he/she adjusts to the loss. The existential therapist will try to help the client acknowledge his/her distress and accept the reality of death. Then they will try together to identify what meaning this person had for the client, and to find out in what other way the grieving person could be placed in the client's life.

Panic attacks and anxiety

Urban life, fast pace, increased working hours, political unrest, lack of collectivity, individualism. Stress is expected and common to all of us. It is a feeling that highlights the common absence of tenderness, security, authenticity, thirst and guidance of a real meaning for life. In its acute phase, the person experiencing anxiety will experience psychosomatic symptoms, most commonly panic attacks. In the existential-integrative approach, we believe that anxiety and panic attacks are an internal call of the self, reminding us that something is bothering us deeply on a psychic level and we are repeatedly ignoring it. Therefore we avoid focusing only on symptom resolution and by focusing on the existential dimensions of these problems, we will try to help the healer stand in the deeper meaning of their anxiety so that they can move toward a deeper, richer, authentic life.

Anger Management

Expressing our emotions is one way to connect with the world, and an angry connection is another way to do it. However, it is also a connection that contains within it the experience of threat, that what is precious to us is being taken away from us, stolen from us. Once we get used to being deprived of many of the things we value, the resentment can become so intense that it becomes impossible to engage in anything else. In the existential-integrative approach, we recognize that people who struggle with existential anger long for recognition, their sense of dignity  has been thwarted, and long to appreciate their ability to participate productively and creatively in the world. Therefore, in the process of psychotherapy, the therapist will actively accompany the client in order to help him/her regain his/her ability to control his/her behavior. At the same time, the therapist will explore the meanings and values that led the client to feel so oppressed and will examine the unrealistic expectations that lead to vicious cycles of persecution, frustration and violence.

Self Esteem


In life there will be several circumstances that will shake the value we have for ourselves. These circumstances may be intense enough to awaken within us beliefs of inadequacy, helplessness and devaluation. In the existential-integrative approach, we try to identify and understand where these voices are coming from, either by looking back into the past or working in the present, in order to help the client feel good about themselves and be able to banish negative automatic thoughts that will prevent them from carving out the life they desire.

Sessions are conducted in the following ways:

Chair

In-Office

Psychotherapeutic sessions are conducted in an appropriately equipped room in our office

Mobile Phone

Online:

Psychotherapy sessions are also conducted online using the following software:
 

  • Skype                                                    
     

  • Zoom
     

  • WhatsApp
     

  • Viber

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