Our former relationships serve as a prototype for our current personal and professional connections. We enter into every new relationship with those expectations and that shapes how others behave with us. Our consultations will give you a better insight of these patterns, expectations, and how they affect your current relationships.

What to expect?

Our joint work is a process in which we usually meet once a week. The first 1-4 occasions consists a psychological assessment and we also determine what could be the purpose of our work, how long would it take, how often could we meet and what methods we would work with. In some cases, we decide in advance how many times (e.g., 4, 10, 20) do we meet. Depending on the nature of the problem, it might not be possible to provide such a number, so we will review the results of our meetings at regular intervals. A session lasts 50 minutes including arrival and departure. If you need to cancel one of our meetings, you should do it as soon as possible: 72 hours in advance, because otherwise an availability fee will be charged. If this latter happens more than once, it hinders our common counseling work, so we will review continuation. Our joint work is not about giving advice. Problems you face aren’t likely to be solved with simple advice – if they were, they could have been solved by suggestions from friends and acquaintances. However, they can be solved by understanding your emotions and recognizing your motives, with the help of which you can make better decisions for yourself. Neither the psychologist nor anyone else knows better than you.

Potential difficulties

You start the sessions and talk about anything that concerns you. Clients are often afraid of having nothing to say and may even rehearse what to say at the next psychological consultation. However, you will soon realize that it is not difficult to talk about what is within yourself. The psychologist helps you to focus on the important things and discover your thoughts, emotions, bodily feelings, relationship patterns, moods that affect your everyday life. During our meetings, strong positive or negative feelings may appear inside you towards me. This is perfectly fine and it is one of the most important parts of our work, as they run in parallel with your usual ways of connecting. You may also want to cancel our next meeting. However, when difficult feelings appear (such as anger, anxiety or shame), it is very important to meet and talk about those feelings. This is what will be really useful for you! We will also talk about the process of ending our meetings and optimally, you will be able to turn the emotions that come with closing to your own advantage.

Competence and boundaries

During psychological counseling the focus of is on your everyday problems – I don’t treat mental disorders (psychopathology). Psychological counseling is a psychological intervention that works with a counseling focus, based on a situational diagnosis and aims to solve your current life situation, improve self-confidence and coping. In case of a problem that exceeds my competence, I will refer you to an appropriate specialist (like a psychiatrist or a clinical psychologist, in the case of a pathology).