Directions in Practice
Psychotherapy in the gestalt approach
Therapy in the Gestalt approach is a psychological aid in difficult life situations, an opportunity to better understand yourself and the world around you.
The most common reasons to requests for advice:
- constant fatigue
- anxiety, feeling of inner tension
- “Emotional burnout”
- uncontrollable emotions, aggressiveness, irritability
phobias, panic attacks - insomnia
- doubts and difficulties in making an important decision
- difficulties in adaptation when changing lifestyle or living standards
- recurring life problems
- middle age crisis
- family crisis
- conflicts with loved ones
- emotional addiction
- experience of divorce
- building relationships with children after divorce
- parenting problems
Psychological counseling
Psychological counseling is a joint work of a client and a counseling psychologist aimed at identifying, realizing, formulating and achieving the client’s goals, revealing and realizing his personal potential.
What will work with a consultant psychologist give:
clarify goals – prioritize
- solve the problem of professional self-determination – what kind of business to do
- evaluate personal resources for starting or expanding your own business
- determine the degree of one’s own participation in the operational management of the company, develop an optimal regime for delegating authority
- understand your role in a family business, understand how to build a successful business and maintain meaningful relationships
- develop the image of the head and the company
- develop a strategy for positioning yourself in the business community and media space
- develop the ability to withstand external challenges
Why choose individual consultations?
Consulting as one of the forms of work is used quite widely by specialists in various fields – legal, medical, financial consulting and others. Psychological consulting can also be different, for example, career guidance, organizational, consulting of managers or consulting on family and personal relationships.
I believe that all the answers are inside us, and it is better to look for answers outside of universal advice and marathons. The therapist is the person who can help to see several options where a person, due to certain circumstances, does not notice them. The psychologist helps to turn on the light and look around, and the client makes his choice with full responsibility, which allows him to avoid doubts about his choice.
Thus, individual psychological counseling is direct work with a request, aimed at helping to solve various kinds of psychological problems, and the main means of influence is a conversation built in a certain way.
As a rule, work with a psychologist is based on the principles of confidentiality, non-judgmentalism, sympathy and goodwill. During a series of meetings to solve the initial request, the psychologist follows the patient, at the same time offering to pay attention to emerging feelings, thoughts and physical reactions, which contributes to the gradual formation of awareness in actions and leads to a deeper understanding of the motivating motives and choices that a person makes daily.
A friendly and non-judgmental attitude
implies not just following generally accepted norms of behavior, but also the ability to listen carefully, provide the necessary psychological support, not judge, but try to understand and help everyone who asks for help.
Focus on customer norms and values
during session, the psychologist is guided by the client’s life principles and ideals
“No” to advices
no matter what the life and professional experience of a psychologist, it is impossible to give guaranteed advice to another: everyone’s life is unique and unpredictable. “Advice from a guru” does not contribute to the development of the person being consulted and the formation of an adequate attitude towards reality.
Confidentiality
any information communicated by the client to the psychologist cannot be transferred without his consent to any public or state organizations, private individuals, including relatives or friends. There are exceptions to this rule (of which the client is always warned in advance), specifically stipulated by law.
The client accepts responsibility for what is happening to him
during the consultation, the locus of the patient’s “complaint” is transferred from others to himself. Only if a person feels responsible for what is happening, he will really try to come to the most acceptable solution based on his own resource, without relying on the idea of the need to change others and the world.