APPROACH
I follow a psychoanalytic approach. The primary objective of my work with patients lies in the identification of nodes of suffering that permeates one’s daily life. Such suffering impedes us from enjoying our full potential, living our lives to the fullest, and from coming into contact with our desires. Personal suffering is the bearer of much information: my task is to help my patients decipher and unravel the knots of pain and meaning.
To help formulate a request for intervention, however, it is important to make clear what kind of work can be undertaken in this space. I offer a counseling service (in German: “Psychologische Beratung”), which differs from psychotherapy in its therapeutic goals, timing and costs. I am in my second year of postgraduate training in Lacanian psychoanalytic psychotherapy, so I am a clinical psychologist and not yet a psychotherapist. Accordingly, I am authorized to treat cases up to a certain level of severity. Whether your suffering falls within my current range of intervention can be determined during an initial consultation. However, if this is not the case, I can help patients to establish contact with a licensed psychotherapist.
SERVICES
Psychoanalytic listening is different from cognitive-behavioral listening. In this space, strategies are not proposed to eliminate discomfort, but rather to question it and understand the hidden meanings it carries. Untying these knots will lead to an increase in well-being at a deeper level.
Because of the peculiarity of this approach, I am open to investigating suffering in all the forms it can transitory take, even when it does not have a name that fits into the palette of diagnostic labels. The focus point of our work together is the patient, with his or her unique story and personal way to find a temporary balance between unseen or unresolved pain and challenges of every day’s life, because this balance can often carry existential costs. It is again important to reiterate here the difference between counseling and psychotherapy, as the intervention I propose is aimed at people who, despite their suffering, are nonetheless able to proceed with their daily lives.
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I have accumulated more experience in several macro-areas, like the ones here below.
This space is also designed for people in moments of acute crisis, who need urgent support while waiting to eventually engage in psychotherapy. Similarly, I offer a brief counseling service for those who are considering undertaking work on themselves with a psychotherapist, but have not yet focused on their demand for treatment.