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The Covid crisis, with its consequent lockdown, has increased the number of online services across numerous sectors. Many psychologists were already working (also) online, but the inability to move led many of them to see clients exclusively online and others to add it to their options. The same applied to clients: many had already triedContinue reading “Online therapy”

We have seen multiple approaches to psychotherapy and the difference between them based on their assumptions and goals. Some are more practical and short-term, some investigate deeper aspects, some provide skills, some have a greater interest in the context, some in the individual, and so on. Then we have seen how the psychotherapist should beContinue reading “Integration in therapy”

After decades of different schools trying to prove they had the best and most effective theories, increasingly more articles are coming up on the effectiveness of other variables than just the approach. And increasingly more schools are integrating rather than separating, because it is clear there are things that work across approaches. One of themContinue reading “The importance of therapeutic relationship”

— Italiano sotto — Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy Assumption: emotions derive from automatic thoughts (cognitions). If I believe that people are generally mean, I will feel scared and defensive.Goal: challenge automatic thoughts by comparing them to more rational ones (people are not all mean) and this will change the emotions.Method: setting goals, practicing techniques, identifying distortions, definingContinue reading “Assumptions, goals and methods of different therapeutic approaches”

The therapeutic process starts with a question, “What brings you here?“, and an answer that is the real question, the complaint. A question that the psychologist can help interpret in a goal-oriented way, or simply deconstruct together to find what implications it holds. In some cases this process happens before therapy, if the client’s awarenessContinue reading “What brings you here?”

What happens when a person seeks psychological support? In some cases, it happens that we see a psychologist for an issue the psychologist cannot solve. For example, it’s not that uncommon that people go to ‘take someone else’, figuratively. They report their issues with this person and ask how they can make this person realiseContinue reading “Type of requests to a psychologist”

Before therapy: what happens when there is an issue, but its psychological root is not recognised? Approximately 50% of requests to general practitioners have a psychological nature, that is not necessarily recognised by the patient who asks for help. The issues are often relational, somatic, existential, and the GP resorts to medications, instead than referringContinue reading “Before therapy”

Therapy What is it? When is a good time to start? Which approaches are there? Which approach works best for you? What prevents beginning therapy? What happens during therapy? Therapy really is the best gift you can give to yourself. Not only to heal your suffering, and learn new coping skills, but to get toContinue reading “May theme”

What is me and what is not me is something we start learning early on. It’s s fundamental part of the process of being alive and being in the world: to distinguish reality from fantasy, and oneself from what’s outside.  This ability is at the core of setting good boundaries, because it helps you discriminateContinue reading “What is me vs. What is not me”

We saw how control is incompatible with love, and how letting it go in relationships means accepting the fact that the other is a stranger, who we will never know – let alone own – completely, and we can approach with curiosity, accepting the vulnerability that comes from standing close to someone else. So, aContinue reading “The perfect distance”