Around 40% of Europeans are affected by mental illness. If you feel emotionally burdened, you share this experience with many others. Common concerns are anxiety disorders, depression and psychosomatic complaints. 
 
How can I help?
 
Psychotherapy supports you in alleviating your mental suffering and achieving mental health and well-being. Psychotherapy can also guide you on the path to more personal growth in acute crisis and strengthen a positive relationship with yourself and others in your family, partnership and workplace. 

What’s worrying you?

People who come to my psychotherapeutic practice are mainly concerned with the following problems:
 

• I feel down or depressed.
• I am suffering from work-related stress and exhaustion (burnout).
• I am in a life crisis.
• I have lost an important person or gone through a break-up.
• Anxiety and compulsions accompany my everyday life
• I suffer from panic attacks.
• I have psychosomatic complaints and illnesses.
• I have sleep disorders.
• I wish for more clarity or renewal in my partnership.
• I am confronted with serious, stressful conflicts in my private, professional and/or family environment.
• I feel empty and worthless.

 
There are different types of therapy you can choose from: the classic form of psychotherapy is individual therapy. I also offer couple therapy and group therapy. 
 
An initial consultation
 
Very mixed and contradictory feelings often accompany the decision to start psychotherapy. Therefore, we first meet for an initial consultation, where we get to know each other, and you can get an idea of who I am and how I work. After this first encounter, you can decide whether you want to start psychotherapy.

The setting for individual therapy
 
A therapy session is 50 minutes. Usually, a certain regularity is recommended and sessions take place in person at the practice or online every week. The duration of therapy is variable. During the initial consultation, we will discuss how we can best arrange the setting for you.

My approach
 
I work with Guided Imagery Psychotherapy (GIP). In addition, I use approaches from (hypno)systemic therapy, mentalisation-based therapy (MBT) and body therapy methods. 

A supportive, appreciative and enabling attitude is at the core of my practice as a psychotherapist. 
 
Guided Imagery Psychotherapy (GIP)
 
GIP is a psychodynamic based psychotherapy method. The "Katathyme Bilderleben" was developed in the 1950s by the German psychoanalyst Hanscarl Leuner and formed the basis for this approach. Leuner systematised for the first time the already long known therapeutic use of imagery into a psychotherapeutic procedure. GIP is used in individual settings as well as in group psychotherapy and work with couples.

What is specific about GIP?

GIP uses imagery, as the name suggests, in addition to the therapeutic conversation. 
Imageries are inner ideas, images and scenes. In therapy, I suggest motifs and guide you through the imagery. In GIP, depending on your phase and the current topics in the therapy process, a wide variety of motifs are used, for example: nature-related motifs: meadow, stream, tree, garden, a place to feel good,...; helpful figures or animals; images for emotions; scenes from night dreams; an encounter with important attachment figures or your "inner child".

How imagery works
 
As in all forms of therapy, the quality of the therapeutic relationship and the activation of resources and problem-solving have a relevant influence on the effectiveness of GIP. Through the use of imagery, however, GIP has a unique approach that is a very effective in addition to the therapeutic conversation.

Some therapeutic effects of imagery:

• You can " recharge" - your self-esteem is strengthened, and you experience yourself positively.
• Through bodily relaxation, imagery can have a calming or anxiety-reducing effect on you and help you relax and recover physically.
• Imagery can enable you to experience and overcome inner conflicts that are often difficult for you to "grasp".
• You can have new experiences that were previously impossible or difficult to have in your life. For example, you can experience positive relationship qualities such as "feeling in good hands", "being strengthened and protected", or "doing something for yourself with a good conscience " can be experienced through the imagery.
• You can " experiment " with new experiences and behaviour imaginatively. For example, you can practise a difficult upcoming conversation with a person in rehearsal and activate resources.
• Imagery supports your creativity in the therapeutic process and thus enables new approaches and strengthens your vitality.
•  With imagery, you can activate and connect different sensory qualities and areas of experience such as cognition (thinking), emotion (feeling) and bodily experience. The therapeutic process thus quickly moves from the "cognitive brain" to other dimensions of experience.

For an appointment for an initial consultation or if you would like further information, you can reach me by phone at +43 699 172 376 01 or by e-mail.