Services
Therapy is a form of personal care. Attending psychotherapy can be beneficial for various reasons, depending on your personal circumstances and mental health needs. Seeking therapy is a pro-active step towards taking care of your mental health and overall well-being. It is a valuable resource for anyone looking to improve their life, whether dealing with specific issues or seeking personal growth. Below are just a few of the services I offer. Please get in touch if you have other needs, as therapeutic sessions can be tailored to any specific need.
Depression and Anxiety
These are among the most prevalent mental health issues. People often seek therapy to manage symptoms of sadness, hopelessness, excessive worry, and panic attacks. Psychotherapists help individuals develop coping strategies, understand the root causes of their feelings, and work towards improving their overall mental health.
Relationship issues
Many people turn to therapy to address difficulties in their relationships, whether with partners, family members, friends, or colleagues. Therapy can help individuals improve communication skills, resolve conflicts, understand and change harmful patterns, and strengthen their relationships.
Stress and Life Transitions
Life events such as job changes, relocations, the loss of loved ones, or major life decisions can cause significant stress. People often seek therapy to navigate these transitions, to manage their stress, and to develop resilience. Psychotherapists provide support and assist in finding strategies to help individuals to cope with changing circumstances and to adapt to these changes effectively.
Bereavement
By providing tailored support and guidance, psychotherapy can assist individuals in processing their grief, working through emotions they might be feeling, numbness, dealing with their daily lives and gradually finding a way to rebuild their lives with meaning and resilience.
Psychotherapy can be helpful with
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Anxiety
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Assimilation, isolation in a new cultural environment
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Attention disorders (ADHD, ADD)
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Attitudes towards the body and sexuality
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Decisions at important junctures
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Depression
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Divorce
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Emotional distress of young people (e.g. related to schooling or examination stress)
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Finding one's own identity (e.g. feelings of dissatisfaction, emptiness, being trapped in a situation)
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Grief (breakup of an intimate relationship, loss of a person)
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Indecisiveness and procrastination)
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Insomnia
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Interpersonal relationships (private, professional)
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Learning difficulties
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Moving to a new environment (e.g. foreign citizens to Slovenia or residents of Slovenia abroad)
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Obsessive compulsive disorders (eg perfectionism, preoccupation with productivity)
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Panic attacks
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Post-traumatic stress disorder
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Psychosomatic disorders, which may or may not be reflected in the form of headaches and migraines, back pain, fibromyalgia, sudden hypersensitivity to certain foods, or respiratory diseases)
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Regulation of own expectations and expectations of significant others
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Resistance to environmental stressors
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Rigidity/stubbornness
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Self-esteem
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Stress and burn-out
These issues often interrelate, with individuals seeking therapy for multiple concerns simultaneously. Psychotherapists use various therapeutic approaches tailored to the specific needs of their clients to address these issues, or advise where to seek help, or even make a professional referral of their clients to other medical practitioners.