Why?

Individuals dealing with crises or any process of changeare susceptibleto stress and fatigue. In the workplace, concrete symptoms of the individual’s situation may appear in form of reduced performance and in some cases absence due to illness. Impaired productivity, delays, and unnecessary mistakes, possibly leading to financial loss, are other undesirable but common consequences.

To be confronted with a co-worker’s personal problems or crises can be extremely difficult. Management and HR staff may not be fully equipped to handle situations where employees require personal help and attention in order to remain productive and healthy, and may benefit from outside support to keep the organization in balance through challenges and change. 

It pays to have healthy coworkers:

• The individual who is working to bring about change can handle his or her inner insecurities.
• The individual is more cooperative when in touch with his/her reactions and emotions.
• High self esteem creates belief in other’s capacity as well as in one’s own.
• The individual contributes in a positive way to innovative ideas and creativity when he/ she understands and can cope with his/her own crisis.
• The individual can cooperate more easily when he/she has an inner balance.
• Absence due to illness is reduced and the energy level increases when personal problems are illuminated and worked through.

For whom?

For any one who suffers from stress symptoms, insomnia, fatigue, other anxiety related symptoms, substance abuse or addictions.

Course of treatment

Usually we first meet for an assessment. One of the most important factors for therapy to be effective is that the relationship between client and therapist feels safe and trusting. That is why it is advisable to meet a few times in order to give the client the chance to decide whether it feels right for him/her.

Some seek help for a specific, clearly defined problem. Others may be interested in how current problems came to develop and in how they continue to affect their quality of life.
Regardless of the client’s situation it is not always necessary to go into a full psychotherapeutic process where we look for answers in the past. A few sessions can sometimes be enough to get the client back on his/her feet, regardless of what problem he/she is struggling with.

Cognitive therapy

When therapy begins we define the problems at hand and then specify one or several goals for the treatment. Traditional cognitive therapy usually focuses on reducing symptoms and on teaching skills for problem solving. In order to accomplish that, the client is given some form of homework between each session. Cognitive therapy is a team effort between client and therapist.

The process can vary in length of time, but usually we meet for 10-20 sessions.

Schema therapy

Just as in cognitive therapy, we investigate together what problems exist. In addition to conversation and discussion we work with assignments that help us define which “schemas” (see main topic) the client has developed.

The client will gain an intellectual understanding of how these schemas evolved and we go on to working with acquiring an emotional understanding through different alternative techniques such as visualization and role plays. We also work on finding new coping strategies which will help the client in obtaining more satisfactory results.

Schema therapy can also be used to define or elucidate a problem, and the length of the process varies according to need.

Addiction

Initially the problem is mapped out. How does it manifest? What would the client like to achieve? What is the degree of motivation and how much does the client believe in his/her ability?

As in all cognitive therapy the conceptualization or the individual chart is a guideline for the treatment. Together we investigate the connection between the triggering situations, thoughts, feelings, actions and consequences; we go on to evaluate new possible approaches. The client can then decide on a realistic goal for treatment.

Fee/Agreements

A session is 50 minutes long and we usually meet once a week, or every other week.
After one to three sessions we agree on a continuation.

Price per session is 700 SEK, VAT excluded
Payment in cash or a monthly invoice as agreed.

Cancellation of session should be done at least 24 hrs ahead of appointment time.

Please contact me for any questions or consultation or a personal meeting free of charge.