My approach

I am an integrative psychotherapist, primarily guided by psychodynamic thinking while also utilizing humanistic and cognitive-behavioral tools. Integrating various psychotherapeutic approaches can be challenging due to their reliance on different, sometimes seemingly contradictory, assumptions about the human psyche. Therefore I place utmost importance on being aware of how the employed healing factors from different traditions may interact or counteract each other’s effectiveness.

Here is a brief overview of the main types of therapy that I incorporate into my practice:

• Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: This approach posits that human behavior is influenced by unconscious motivations shaped by childhood experiences with love, loss, and aggression. Rooted in the work of Sigmund Freud and enriched by decades of research on child development, psychodynamic psychotherapy encompasses various theories, sometimes in debate with each other.

• Humanistic Psychotherapy: Humanistic psychotherapies emphasize the importance of a warm, affirming therapist attitude as a therapeutic factor. They also focus on facilitating the experiencing and expression of withheld or denied emotions.

• Cognitive-Behavioral Psychotherapy (CBT): CBT therapies provide clients with a logical conceptualization of their difficulties and involve active collaboration between therapist and client to address automatic, depressive, or anxious thoughts.

• Schema Therapy: This modern approach combines elements of CBT and humanistic tools, incorporating psychodynamic insights to understand the nature and origin of mental health problems.

• Transactional Analysis: Rooted in humanistic and psychoanalytic theory, Transactional Analysis focuses on interpersonal communication and introduces unique concepts such as the ‘inner child,’ ‘inner critic,’ and ‘games people play.’ ”