What is psychotherapy?

Psychotherapy is a conversation based on scientific methods, aimed at helping individuals overcome emotional and personal difficulties, as well as psychological symptoms. A psychotherapist establishes a deep personal connection with the client, allowing them to feel freer and more effective in addressing life’s challenges.

The Goal of Psychotherapy

“The goal of psychotherapy is to help the patient feel like something greater and capable of more in their life, having a choice where they once experienced necessity.” – James Bugental

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Therapist's Work Formats

Psychotherapy – a long-term process aimed at deep, transformative changes in one’s personality.
Psychological Counseling – one or a few sessions focused on addressing a specific issue.

Frequency of Sessions

Sessions are held once a week, each lasting one hour. If the client is in a crisis situation and feels the need for additional support, sessions may be scheduled more frequently.

I ensure complete confidentiality of all topics, situations, and concerns shared during our sessions. Your privacy and trust are my top priorities.

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

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When Choosing a Psychologist, I Recommend Considering the Following Important Factors:

• A formal education in psychology
• Additional training in psychotherapy
• Whether the psychologist has undergone personal therapy
• Whether their practice is supervised through professional oversight (supervision)
• Membership in a professional community
• Specialization (e.g., child psychologist, family therapist, etc.)
• Work experience

An equally important factor in choosing a specialist is your intuition. Pay attention to the feelings that arise during your first interaction with the psychologist. This person should inspire trust and a sense of comfort.

The Primary Goal of Psychotherapy

The main goal of psychotherapy is to help clients take responsibility for their own lives, find inner stability, and discover internal resources to navigate challenges independently.

This goal is achieved through the therapeutic relationship established between the therapist and the client. The therapist does not give advice, offer ready-made solutions, or take on the role of a wise mentor or life coach. Maintaining clear therapeutic boundaries and a balanced distribution of responsibility within the relationship protects both the client and the therapist from developing dependency.

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According to the Strasbourg Declaration of 1990, psychotherapy is a separate scientific field of knowledge.

There are numerous therapeutic approaches and schools, each based on its own theory of personality, hypotheses about the formation of mental disorders, and techniques for working with them. The unifying factor of all these approaches is that treatment occurs through conversation, structured according to the core principles of the approach the therapist works with.

A psychologist is a specialist engaged in the scientific study of the human psyche. Psychologists typically work alongside other professionals. Their areas of expertise often include marketing, human resources, professional recruitment, education, and special education.

A psychiatrist is a medical doctor who specializes in the treatment of mental disorders classified as “major psychiatry,” such as schizophrenia, manic-depressive psychosis, and other severe psychological conditions that require medication-based treatment.

Although at first glance there may seem to be some similarities between confession and psychotherapy—both involve a person going to a specialist (a psychologist or a priest) to open up and share something deeply personal—these processes actually have a number of fundamental differences:

Confession is a religious ritual, a sacrament related to the spiritual life of a person. And as with everything concerning the spiritual realm, confession is associated with moral judgment of the thoughts and actions of the one confessing. In contrast, psychotherapy pertains to the emotional or mental sphere and does not aim to evaluate or view the individual from a moral standpoint.

The goal of psychotherapy may be for the client to understand their feelings, eliminate symptoms that hinder their life, find solutions to their concerns, or improve their relationships with loved ones.

The goal of confession is to cleanse the soul of sin. In preparation for this ritual, a believer reviews their actions, thoughts, and feelings, evaluating them according to Christian ethics and morality. In confessing sins, they address not the priest, but God. Confession is an obligatory part of a Christian’s life, prescribed by canon law, while psychotherapy is an option that a person—whether a believer or an atheist—can choose for themselves.

Since confession is always directed toward God, and its goal is to renounce and cleanse oneself of thoughts and actions the believer has recognized as sinful, the priest’s role is to witness this process. The priest is a witness to the confession.

A psychotherapist helps the person explore themselves; in a way, they serve as a guide in the self-exploration that psychotherapy essentially is. The therapist creates the conditions or special space in which the client can search for and find the best solutions to their psychological issues.